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Eaten A Pastrami Sandwich From Katz's Delicatessen
December 22, 2011
"I'll have what she's having."
--Katz's Deli patron played by Estelle Reiner in When Harry Met Sally...
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Watched A Broadway Musical
December 21, 2011
Gone To The Empire State Building's Observation Deck
December 20, 2011
"The Empire State Building is the closest thing to heaven in this city."
--Terry McKay as played by Deborah Kerr in An Affair to Remember
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Visited The Statue Of Liberty And Ellis Island
December 19, 2011
"Colossal statuary does not consist simply in making an enormous statue. It ought to produce an emotion in the breast of the spectator, not because of its volume, but because its size is in keeping with the idea it represents and with the place which it ought to occupy."
--Auguste Bartholdi, sculptor of the Statue of Liberty
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Visited the 9/11 Memorial
December 18, 2011
"Even the smallest act of service, the simplest act of kindness, is a way to honor those we lost, a way to reclaim that spirit of unity that followed 9/11."
--President Barack Obama
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Eaten An Authentic New York Slice
December 17, 2011
"...But then, in New York, I discovered pizza. It blew my mind wide f---ing open. I would buy ten or twenty slices a day. And then, when I realized you could buy a great big pizza all for yourself, I started ordering them wherever we went."
--Ozzy Osbourne talking about food in the 70's
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Gone To The Museum Of Modern Art
December 16, 2011
"As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed."
--Vincent Van Gogh
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Gone To The Metropolitan Museum Of Art
December 15, 2011
"A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires."
--Hedy Lamarr
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Gone To The International Spy Museum
December 14, 2011
Taken A Tour Of The White House
December 13, 2011
Visited The Monuments Of The National Mall
December 12, 2011
"I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday."
--Abraham Lincoln
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Seen The World's Largest, Most Well-Preserved Tyrannasaurus Rex Fossil
December 11, 2011
"The dinosaur's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good, an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better."
--Eric Johnston
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Visited Frank Lloyd Wright's Home And Studio
December 10, 2011
"The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization."
--Frank Lloyd Wright
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Been To The Skydeck Of Willis Tower (Formerly Sears Tower)
December 09, 2011
"The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man."
--Roland Barthes
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Eaten Chicago Deep Dish Pizza
December 08, 2011
"It's one of the greatest cities on the planet. My heart beats differently when I'm in Chicago. It slows down and I feel more at ease."
--Jeremy Piven
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Traveled Through The Colorado Rocky Mountains
December 07, 2011
"In fact, just about all the major natural attractions you find in the West- the Grand Canyon, the Badlands, the Goodlands, the Mediocrelands, the Rocky Mountains and Robert Redford- were caused by erosion."
--Dave Barry
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Ridden An Amtrak Train
December 06, 2011
"A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car, but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad."
--Theodore Roosevelt
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Gone To The Wax Museum
November 13, 2011
"We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one."
--Aristotle
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Gone To The De Young Museum
November 04, 2011
Gone On A Duck Tour
October 30, 2011
"If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands."
--Douglas Adams
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Ridden A Double Decker Bus
October 15, 2011
Seen The Footprints At Grauman's Chinese Theatre
July 31, 2011
"Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul."
--Marilyn Monroe
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Walked The Shopping Blocks Of Rodeo Drive
July 30, 2011
“In Beverly Hills... they don't throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows.”
--Woody Allen
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Checked Out The Bellagio Conservatory And Botanical Gardens
June 18, 2011
“Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.”
--Gian Carlo Menotti
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Eaten The Buffet Of Buffets (All Seven In 24 Hours)
June 15, 2011
“Know how to behave at a buffet. Take a clean plate for a second helping.”
--Marilyn vos Savant
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Seen The Grand Canyon
June 14, 2011
“It's like trying to describe what you feel when you're standing on the rim of the Grand Canyon or remembering your first love or the birth of your child. You have to be there to really know what it's like.”
--Jack Schmitt, American Astronaut
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Gone To The Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Factory
June 12, 2011
Yogurt: “You're welcome, and here. (throws a fortune cookie at Lone Starr) Just in case you get hungry.”
Lone Starr: “A fortune cookie?”
Yogurt: “Yes. Remember, open it before you eat it.”
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Ridden A Cable Car
February 06, 2011
J and I were born in San Francisco. Because the cable car is such an icon of the city, it’s kind of strange that I had never ridden one before.
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Biked Across The Golden Gate Bridge
January 14, 2011
One of the benefits of working in the Presidio is that you are very close to some of San Francisco’s awesome views and landmarks. A splendid view of the Palace of Fine Arts (recently re-opened, by the way) is not far, and Crissy Field is a short walk away.
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Driven San Francisco's 49 Mile Scenic Drive
January 09, 2011
The 49 Mile Scenic Drive is a tour of San Francisco, and even though I was born here, I’ve never driven it, but it’s something that I’ve always wanted to do since I first noticed the blue and white seagull signs (designed by an artist named Rex May for a 1955 contest).
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