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Recently my neighbor had a major blow out on the throughway. Both the back tires made this grenade explosion and caused him to pirouette his car across three lanes of traffic where it stopped just shy of the ledge where that small strip of cement protects drivers from swerving off the black tar veins that intersect cities throughout the United States. He left cursive lines of where the wheels snaked and squealed on the blacktop . It was kind of beautiful and I was kind of out of my head after that Coney Island Wonder Wheel ride on four tires so I took a bunch of photographs. He told me I was weird, but I think car catastrophes make you weird.

He needed to buy tires after that. We searched a bunch of different places from small independent automotive shops and corporate locations. You know, the Bulk Club places where you can buy a hundred rolls of toilet paper and leave the cash register wondering about your stomach health. There were actually a lot of cool things to photograph in there, but my friend told me not to whip out my camera: he was still recovering from my latest shot at his tire blow out ride. I loved the stacks of tires, the automotive equivalent of huge Roman columns holding up on high places of political and religious importance that were now just crumbs. They were lined up in neat rows. It reminded me of those Chinese statue soldiers guarding that dead empower.

There were really weird stains on the floor too. Gum, oil, rubber had all made their mark throughout the years there. I thought that the marks were like some sort of secret code for the rubber tire soldiers, so started to traipse around them and making up a story from them because my fried had already taken an hour to get tires. He still did not have them in an hour, and I was bored enough to make a story from Bubble Yum and old Castrol oil. I work at a library where I read to children: it just sort of got into me to start telling stories at any hour or minute of the day after working there about a month. My friend likes to listen to them though he does dislike my photos. He says the stories told in the photos are not as good as the stories I make up from tires and other things.

San Francisco, California is full of amazing cultural attractions, beautiful architecture and of course amazing views. At least two of the bridges that span the Bay, the Golden Gate and the Bay Bridge are major city icons and tourists frequently find a thrill in crossing them. There is such a diverse assortment of cultural elements and events that occur year round that the hotels San Francisco are full of people from all over the world and who are frequently there for very different reasons. A couple of the current exciting events taking place in this great American city are the 75th Anniversary Celebration at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Noir City, SF Film Noir Festival.

The SFMOMA Anniversary Celebration will include three days of free special programs. Some of these include seventy five gallery talks and installations by artists Allison Smith and Bill Fontana. There will be a special musical presentation on Saturday night with performances by Matmos, Loop!Station and cellist Zoe Keating. Keating composed some music for two works in the museum’s permanent collection and it will be included in the launching of a multimedia tour of the collection. Sunday a the museum is family day and their will be plenty of entertainment and activities for everyone. There will also be film screenings among other special events. The museum is located at 151 Third St.

The Film Noir Festival will take place at the Castro Theater from January 22 to the 31st. It is intended to celebrate and examine the philosophy of noir in various mediums. The festival proves to be the largest of its kind in the entire United States and celebrates the spirit, attitude and style of noir in books, music and art. The festival will include some very special and as of now secret guests as well as some of the most rare noir films in the world. The theatre is located at 429 Castro Street.