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busman's holiday

I was thinking I might lighten things up a bit by posting a few of the shots I took while tooling around with the b1-boys in the Bay Area the weekend before everything went to hell.

And then I remembered they were mostly of graveyards. Which pretty much makes it a busman’s holiday for our purposes.

It was one graveyard, actually: The one behind the Mission Dolores in San Francisco where a scene from Vertigo was shot.

The goal of the day was to go on a filmgrammage and shoot at most of the locations for that film. But it didn’t happen, because a lot of other stuff did.

But anyway: here’s what some of it looked like »

les nuits de paris

les nuits de paris massage and sauna
Originally uploaded by suttonhoo.

I stay in the classiest neighborhoods.

Sign out front (the door is in the alley) next to the red velvet curtain says: "Please ring the bell."

One block up from my hotel on the edge of San Francisco's Tenderloin District.

(It's surprisingly nice, actually. And this trip I scored a suite.)

Posting by cameraphone from San Francisco, CA