A woman approached me in a department store this afternoon. She: "Can you tell me where is cashmere for men? Me: "I'm sorry, I don't know". She: "YOU DON'T KNOW!?" Me: "No, I don't work here." She: "YOU DON'T WORK HERE!?" Me: "No." And she walked away. #BlackFriday

The correct response to "Quiet, piggy".

Just pausing to note that Rock Hudson was born a century ago today. #filmsky #lgbtq

A man was just arrested outside my apartment, and I looked to make sure it wasn't some ICE action. It was city police. In the chase and take-down, the man lost both his shoes, after which a cop kindly knelt down and put the shoes back on the man he'd just arrested. Definitely not ICE. #SanFrancisco

Attending my first Pride Parade in 1989, I was so surprised to see my Congresswoman in the parade, taking what I assumed to be the personal and professional risk of participating, that I wrote her a letter to thank her. I received this letter in reply. #NancyPelosi #LGBTQ #SanFrancisco

How nice for a change to glance at the news and not cringe.

Call me old-fashioned, but I still find it satisfying to show up to my polling place on Election Day to cast my ballot. #YesOn50 #California

Today's Halloween potluck contribution: Almond Roca candies on a bed of chopped peanuts. #Halloween 🍽️

Antifa radicals across from my office today. Radicals, I say! #SanFrancisco

My favorite Prunella Scales trivia is that when she played QEII in "Single Spies" in 1988, it broke an unspoken protocol by being the first time a reigning monarch had been portrayed on the London stage. The strength it must have taken to do that was evident in all her work. I was a fan. #RIP

Do you suppose Trump checked with Melania first to see if it was okay to tear her office down?

For today's book group: pumpkin cake with a maple/olive oil glaze. #baking 💙📚🍽️

Today's protest sign. #NoKings #SanFrancisco

I'm still getting this year's Halloween party food sorted out, but here was my contribution last year: bread sticks dipped in white chocolate and colored sugar. 🙂 #Halloween 🍽️

With the Blue Angels sidelined by the government shutdown, the Canadian Snowbirds stepped up to take their place during today's Fleet Week Air Show. I'm not sure how much we deserve it these days, but thanks for the love, Canada! #SanFrancisco

To me, Diane Keaton wasn't always the obvious choice going into a movie, but she always felt like the right choice by the end. She brought talent and beauty, of course, but she infused her performances with a humanity that I can't believe was just acting. #filmsky #RIP

A co-worker just asked ChatGPT to do something, and it told her the assignment sounded "tedious".

The combination of Alan Bennett's writing and Patricia Routledge's acting could be sublime. (RIP Dame Patricia.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJ6F...

Five years ago today, Trump announced that he'd contracted Covid. Among other things, I hoped it might alter his approach to Covid safety, or help him sympathize with essential workers, or soften his opposition to universal healthcare. None of the hoped-for outcomes of that situation came to pass.

In my early struggling-actor days, I twice found myself performing for an audience of one. And yet both times, I got more applause than Hegseth did today from an audience of 800.

Seen on my walk today. (Union Street between Pierce and Baker.) #bloomscrolling #SanFrancisco

Seen on my walk today. #bloomscrolling #SanFrancisco

To all those getting raptured today, may I please have your books? #booksky 💙📚

Seen on my walk today: beautiful flowers and beautiful lowriders. #bloomscrolling #SanFrancisco

Two years ago today, I completed one of my favorite projects, exploring California by visiting all 58 counties, all in under a year and without flying. It's a huge, beautiful, diverse place, and I was honestly unprepared for what an amazing experience it would be. #travel #California

Sorry for the occasion, but it's a relief to see my feed go from pictures of Charlie Kirk to pictures of Robert Redford.

"This has got to stop" is starting to sound like "thoughts and prayers".

For today's book group: peanut butter cake with caramel frosting. #baking 💙📚🍽️

I recently learned that Sylvester gave a concert in 1979 that filled San Francisco's opera house. I'm sometimes embarrassed to learn things I feel I should've known, but I'm happy that life still has treasures to discover. Sylvester, born this day in 1947. #lgbtq www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsUt...

Seen on my walk today. #bloomscrolling #SanFrancisco

Today at sunny Stanford. #tourism #California

Today in sunny Petaluma. #travel #California

A wildfire is raging in Washington State. On Wednesday, ICE agents showed up and started arresting the firefighters. Feel safer now? (photo from Seattle Times) #resist

Seen on my walk today, little blooms in the dunes (plus birds and bees). #bloomscrolling #SanFrancisco

As I try to wrap my mind around our current times, I've been reading a lot of non-fiction for context, including books about people who divisively seize power for themselves, laws be damned. I just finished this monumental Pulitzer-winning bio of J. Edgar Hoover. Highly recommended. #booksky 💙📚 💡📚

Studying abroad in 1986, I was so shocked to see a guard with an automatic weapon at the American Express office in Vienna that I snapped his picture. Looking back, I shake my head at how I pitied Europeans for living with such an armed presence. #resist

Were the Epstein files at John Bolton's house?

The Bonsai Garden at Lake Merritt this afternoon. #bloomscrolling #Oakland

Gift card of the resistance. #resist

At the Chase Center this evening to see Heart. (I guess I was a little early.) #SanFrancisco #Heart

Today I visited a brass disc installed in a sidewalk by the Department of Public Works to mark the geographic center of the city. A quirky little novelty, but a nice hike. #SanFrancisco

Seen on my walk today. #bloomscrolling #SanFrancisco

Today I hiked out to Fort Point to take pictures for the Save Our Signs project, documenting National Park signage that is threatened with being altered or removed by Trump's new "anti-woke", anti-history policies. sites.google.com/umn.edu/save... #SaveOurSigns #Resist #SanFrancisco

Seen on my walk today. #bloomscrolling #SanFrancisco

Happy birthday to the author of “Wuthering Heights,” and also to Emily Brontë!

Discovering Tom Lehrer's songbook in my teens was a revelation, a window into what felt like an adult world both naughty and sophisticated, a world I couldn't wait to join. Though he stepped away from that part of his career decades ago, I still felt a twinge of sadness today that he'd died. 💙📚

Coconut-lime cake for today's book group. #baking 💙📚🍽️

One of my little window ledge succulents has decided to go exploring. #plants #succulents

Years ago, my hobby was writing to celebrities for their autographs. Not only did Cleo Laine reply, she bothered to write a kind note apologizing for the delay, which I've come to treasure even more than the separate signature card. RIP