Ken Cheetham

Ken Cheetham is an animal residing on a tiny planet hurtling through space. He has existed for the last 51 of the universe's several billion years. Ken's current goals are to work to increase corporate profits for another decade or two, see the important movies on the weekends, and then be dead forever.

Ken also maintains A Bay Area Progressive Directory on this web site, and is the author of The Nose Cover and other random cruft.

email:        ken.cheetham@comcast.net (personal stuff)
              bapd@comcast.net         (activist stuff)
postal mail:  POBox 11232, Berkeley CA 94712 USA
voice:        (510) 847-2241 (New as of January 2009)

Strawberry Canyon / Hamilton Gulch / Claremont Canyon Photos

If you like to escape to where you're not surrounded by cars, without using a car to do so, then you may want to check out the open space in Strawberry Canyon, Hamilton Gulch, and Claremont Canyon in Berkeley. It's only a little over a mile east of downtown, within walking distance from much of Berkeley and BART. Here's my shorter sequence of favorite photos, a longer sequence that covers most of the trip, and even (for any extreme canyonheads) a ridiculously complete sequence of nearly all of the Strawberry Canyon photos that I've kept.

And here are some photos from the June 18, 2009 Uptown Unveiled street party in Oakland. And ten shots from the San Francisco LGBT Pride Festival (June 28, 2009).

One product makes you stylish And one product makes you score But the ones that we keep buying Quickly turn into a bore Go ask Darwin Why we thirst for More And if you go chasing status Well you know you're going to fail Cause a cigar-smoking corporate feller Is holding a phantom grail Call Darwin Or send him e-mail When the men in the boardroom Get up and tell you what you need And you've just been watching television And the Joneses look in the lead Go ask Darwin I think he'll know When your genes only want to pass themselves on After you've fallen sloppy dead And they've tricked you into an endless rat race Though like the Red Queen you can't get ahead Remember What your gut once said Ease your dread Ease your dread

And here's the obligatory Net Cop Filter Clog page.

Cheetham's rule-of-thumb on beer: If the beer has the word "red" in the name or has a red label, then it is probably quite good. If, on the other hand, it has the word "gold" or "golden" in the name or has a yellow label, then it probably sucks huge donkey noses.

It's later than it's ever been!