Graffiti-covered truck, Union Square

The best Sicilian pizza ever...

...next to a picture from the shooting of The Godfather.

—Astoria, Queens, NY

Jekyll and Hyde club, New York

Julie Trotter at our high school reunion

Her dad, my junior high math teacher, also inspired me with his piano playing and the musicals he composed. I played piano/flute duets with Julie in high school. Our repertoire consisted of "Fire and Rain" and "Stairway to Heaven."

Backward-pedaling bike

Richard Wagner has many bikes, including this one which he customized so you pedal forward for low gear and backward for high gear.

A sculpture in my brother's gallery

We went to see Rachel's friend Julia in an Andrews Sisters show

Joan's Thanksgiving pies

Plaque at Tower Theatre

A spinet that looks like the front half of a grand

Turkey-shaped dog treat?

A great turnout at last night's Peace Corps dinner

An actual clavichord!

The first day of airport tunings!

Tract home with Astroturf!

I had to follow these guys at a birthday party

Great new mural at Jack's Urban Eats

New York Times interactive puzzle to close the deficit

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/11/13/weekinreview/deficits-graphic.html?choices=0397d5k0

A little Venetian touch at Corti Brothers

Customer's electric car.

The new dog biscuit: Is it a pumpkin or a dialogue balloon?

I am so jealous

I can never get my skulls to grow this well.

In the old days, tuners wrote inside the piano

This records two tunings from 1956 and 1959.

The symbol of Davis...

...in the new Trader Joe's in Davis.

You can't see it, but...

... this car says I HIT THINGS on the back.

Pretty print

Great costumes in Old Sacramento