{"id":65,"date":"2006-06-27T08:13:41","date_gmt":"2006-06-27T16:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/wordpress\/?p=65"},"modified":"2006-06-27T08:13:41","modified_gmt":"2006-06-27T16:13:41","slug":"thuy-on-valencia-st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/27\/thuy-on-valencia-st\/","title":{"rendered":"Thuy on Valencia St."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/thhideout.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I was on Valencia St. in San Francisco yesterday, thinking about my next scene with Thuy Nguyen for <i>Postsingular<\/i>.  She&rsquo;s over in the alternate brane &#8212; I&rsquo;m calling it the &ldquo;Highbrane&rdquo; now instead of the &ldquo;Mirrorbrane.&rdquo;  And she&rsquo;s hiding out from the universal telepathy by emanating the vibes of, I think, a dog.  But where?  I&rsquo;m thinking upstairs at the auto shop next to the storefront church I photographed <a href=\".\/?m=20060402\" target=\"_blank\"> before.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/thmural.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Later she&rsquo;ll deliberately drop her mindblock so as to be captured by Gladax &#8212; as a way to get inside Gladax&rsquo;s house to steal her magic harp.  This amazing mural is on I think 16th St. between Mission and Valencia.  An image of the mindscape.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/thpool.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Thuy will go out with her dog-vibe turned off, walk by this nice Mission pool and tennis court.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/thdeadend.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>And then Gladax corners her in this dead end.  Gladax is jamming Thuy&rsquo;s teleport abilities by strumming her magic harp and disturbing the eighth dimension.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/thscanner.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I saw some posters for <i>Scanner Darkly<\/i>.  That&rsquo;s a movie I&rsquo;m eager to see.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/thwash.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Does this sign seem spelled wrong?  Isn&rsquo;t it a bad idea to have the letters &ldquo;shat&rdquo; inside any business name?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/thzoot.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>They&rsquo;re still selling zoot suits on Mission St.  Red?  Of course!  Comes in large sizes too.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/lgelvis.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile back in Los Gatos, the <i> ne plus ultra<\/i> of public entertainment is, sob, an Elvis imitator.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/thtree.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Could we live in San Francisco?  Maybe it would be a bit more work, like you&#039;re out on a sidewalk as soon as you go outside.  More room down here in Gatos.  Whatever.  Time to get back into the Highbrane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was on Valencia St. in San Francisco yesterday, thinking about my next scene with Thuy Nguyen for Postsingular. She&rsquo;s over in the alternate brane &#8212; I&rsquo;m calling it the &ldquo;Highbrane&rdquo; now instead of the &ldquo;Mirrorbrane.&rdquo; And she&rsquo;s hiding out from the universal telepathy by emanating the vibes of, I think, a dog. But where? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}