Please enjoy this Flickr gallery of snapshots I took in and around San Francisco and Monterey a few weeks ago. They include photos of things like creepy modern art, Mission District murals, annoying alarm clocks that roll off nightstands, a post-modern pirate-shop/after-school writing center, a dog in a coffee shop, bars of Alcatraz-brand soap, a Golden Gate Bridge-themed GEICO ad, a cigar chomping, talking-cat fortune teller machine and a painting in the bathroom at a Bubba Gump Shrimp Company restaurant (see above).

If you ever find yourself at one I recommend the fish and chips. Also included: photos of that gigantic, garish mansion where, if I remember correctly from the tour, Citizen Kane hung out with Charlie Chaplin and Bob Hope (that's the one up top there).

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