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BobHorowitz

@BobHorowitz@sfba.social

San Franciscan. Gay. Happy. Married. Snarky.

Retired IT manager.
Mouthy, unprofessional photographer.

Disclaimer: Mr. Horowitz regularly enjoys his martini hour between 5 and 9 pm. Posts originating during this period may contain flagrant errors and injudicious comments ranging from the amusing to the quite frankly libelous. Neither Mastodon, nor sadly Mr. Horowitz himself, will accept any liability for any consequences, real or imagined, from any of Mr. Horowitz's posts.

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BobHorowitz, to random
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Actual shot from the operating room: the doc and anesthesiologist working on my butt.

So far okay... fissure, fistula, infection. Biopsy will be back next week. I am currently doped up and happy.

BobHorowitz, to photography
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Golden Gate Park.

I have insomnia - worried about Thursday's operation - so I don't know what to do except post here instead of tossing and turning. Good morning, everyone.

BobHorowitz, to photography
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Love Among The Ruins...

DemocracySpot, to random
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Sometimes I want to offer a word of encouragement or comfort, usually to a mutual, but sometimes not.

I compose a few words in my head and they seem cliched or presumptuous (do we know each other *that well), and in the end, I move on, feeling guilty.

Sometimes, I'll 💙 or 🙏 but except for LOLs, emojis feel weird and inadequate or wrong. Too often.

Long way of saying, I see and care about so much and so many people here, and that may not always be evident.

May peace be with you. x ❤️

BobHorowitz,
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@DemocracySpot Any exchange matters. Even likes and emojiis... they send acknowledgment that you saw and paid attention. Words are even better. And that is something I think you do well.

BobHorowitz, to photography
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The infamous Burrito Rail Gun.

(See @burritojustice's post...
https://mastodon.social/@burritojustice/112114593878378345
The man knows things.)

BobHorowitz, to photography
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Bridge over troubled freeway.

BobHorowitz,
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@sysop408 Yes, by hospital curve... connecting the Mission to Portrero Hill.

DemocracySpot, (edited ) to photography
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📷

BobHorowitz,
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@DemocracySpot Mood!
Nicely done, Eddie.

BobHorowitz, to photography
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Christ. The sporophytes are having a bloody riot in my backyard right now.

BobHorowitz, to photography
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Roadside Carnaval
Cherokee, North Carolina, 2009

DemocracySpot, to random
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Missing Mom. ❤️

It's been two years today. COVID. She was 85.

BobHorowitz,
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@DemocracySpot There are so many things I could say but none adequately sum up the grief that comes from the loss of a mother. I feel for you, Eddie. Mother's are complicated, but they still are our mothers.

BobHorowitz, to photography
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Oncoming traffic, Market and Valenica. There's a lovely cocktail bar there, Martuni's, where the pianists used to play show tunes.

My gayness is showing, isn't it.

BobHorowitz,
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Earlier that evening, inside Martuni's...

BobHorowitz,
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@stevenray Thanks, Steven.
I thought your name was familiar... Been following your b&w pixelfed feed. Lovely pictures.

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BobHorowitz, to photography
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sigh

In hindsight, it was probably a mistake to let them use my teleporter before I worked out all the kinks.

BobHorowitz,
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@tippitiwichet Ha!

Add: you are spot on, identifying this. The mannequin head came from the San Francisco Institute of Cosmetology and Esthetics. Jim works there as thie IT manager... and I've done some shooting there.

BobHorowitz, to photography
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And in other news, we have a firm date and location for my upcoming butt surgery: March 21st, in the surgical center at 450 Sutter.

450 Fucking Sutter!!! As magnificent as my butt is, 450 Sutter is even more so. Designed by architect Timothy Pflueger, the circa-1929 downtown medical office tower is famous for its streamlined exterior and Neo-Mayan Art Deco ornamentation on the entrance and in the interior lobby (shown below).

Anyway, things are moving along. I feel good some days, achy and tired on others (side-effects from past cancer treatments linger). But I'm getting by, cooking, occasionally hiking... and once a week I have enough energy to get to the gym. With luck, by the end of April, normal life awaits us as long as the biopsies come back clean👍

BobHorowitz, to photography
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For some reason this one reminds me of one of my mother's stories about the night she and a group of other residents in Independent Living snuck into the main kitchen and raided the freezer for ice cream because that night's dinner was so bad none of them could eat it.

"We got the ice cream but the director heard us from all the way out in the lobby because Judy in 4420 wouldn't stop talking... and when the director flipped on the kitchen lights EVERYONE SCATTERED LIKE COCKROACHES IN EVERY FUCKING DIRECTION."

BobHorowitz, to SanFrancisco
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Officers' housing, The Presidio, through a windshield during a sudden downpour on an otherwise clear day.

BobHorowitz,
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@DemocracySpot also a bit homesick?

BobHorowitz,
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@DemocracySpot Classy old building there. I love that stretch of Dolores.

BobHorowitz,
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@DemocracySpot That landmarked school at Notre Dame plaza was converted into affordable senior housing in the late 90's. I remember them hollowing out the building. They did a nice job with the conversion.

https://www.vmwp.com/projects/notre-dame-plaza/

BobHorowitz, to photography
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The organ player at St. Mary's.

BobHorowitz,
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While I am on the subject, here is the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption from the outside.

This was a a 27 second exposure, taken at the end of the evening blue hour, when it was actually fairly dark outside. The length of the exposure turned the almost-black night into day.

/Editorial: the brutalist structure is quite striking... lovely, actually... while the Archdiocese that is homed here is less so. Headed by an anti-gay archbishop and mired in Chapter 11 protection following 500+ lawsuits alleging decades of child abuse and coverup, let's just say I am not a fan of the organization.

/End editorial

BobHorowitz,
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Ok, at the prompting of @saint_monkey, I found this in my Lightroom catalog.

This is Saint Mary's Tit: a shadow created on sunny days around 2 or 3pm. The shadow provides amusement for all the teenage boys in the neighborhood.

It's miraculous. And silly.

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