{"id":184,"date":"2005-09-04T08:48:14","date_gmt":"2005-09-04T16:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/wordpress\/?p=184"},"modified":"2005-09-04T08:48:14","modified_gmt":"2005-09-04T16:48:14","slug":"visiting-rudy-in-oakland-merritt-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/04\/visiting-rudy-in-oakland-merritt-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"Visiting Rudy in Oakland. Merritt Lake."},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ll get back to Geneva-Budapest next week.<\/p>\n

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Yesterday we went to visit Rudy, Jr., in Oakland. He’s settling into a new place that has some nice built-in cupboards suitable for displaying such treasures as a (functional) rocket that he built.<\/p>\n

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We walked over to a farmer’s market near Grand Street. The Grand Lake movie theater marquee bore a telling comment about the Chimp’s inept response to the hurricaine in New Orleans. A lot of people in Oakland have relatives in New Orleans. Here's on on-the-spot blog about NO<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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A guy in the farmer’s market was in fact selling crawfish, impressively lively and red, $5 a pound. So many lives to be bought so cheaply.<\/p>\n

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We saw a funny graffito in the alley behind the movie theater. Good coffee shop, good bookstore, seems like a good place to live.<\/p>\n

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We regrouped, then walked all the way around Merrit Lake, which is actually a dammed slough, with a free flow of ocean tide coming through.<\/p>\n

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Lots of wild geese around the lake.<\/p>\n

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All kinds of birds there.<\/p>\n

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The only ones inside<\/i> the bird dome were some chickens.<\/p>\n

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It's risky being a chicken.<\/p>\n

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Nice reflection of a rectilinear building grid in the water, the squares turning into circles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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