three-starred Jean-Georges. A young-- I'm probably mispronouncing it-- rising star chef, Hong is currently Executive Chef of the smash hit, Kang Ho Dong-- Baekjong. Thank you. In Manhattan's Koreatown. He's recently been recognized as an Eater young gun and named to the "Zagat" 30 under 30 list.
So then, we have this project. And then, we are also together publishers of a small -- we have a small publishing company together with a third colleague called Claude Baechtold, and we produce small travel guidebooks and images to expected destinations like this one. So, it's guidebooks just composed of images. This one was to Afghanistan.
Chris is an author and a journalist whose work has appeared in the "New York Times," "Wired," and "McSweeney's," and he lives in SF. Rob Baedeker is a performer and a co-founder of Kasper Hauser comedy troupe, famed for many things, including "Obama's BlackBerry" and "SkyMaul," and also famed for not much of anything.
a ghostly pale pallor. Joan Baez said he looked like an underfed angel. He rare--, for the first time his solo shows felt formulaic as if he were singing the lines of someone else.
Thank you for having us today. My name is Angelita Baeyens. And I am the firm director of program at Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights.
The other kicker is, I'd been with Bantam books at that point for a grand total of six weeks. We had just left Baen Books, because they couldn't afford what my agent was going to ask. And actually, Russ and I had a couple of conversations.
'Me?' the cartoonist asked. His name was Jens Baedrup. He'd worked at the paper for nine years.
So we threw back and forth a bunch of layout sketches. The Great Sept of Baelor got completely redesigned as well, and the dragon pit stayed exactly the same because there was still no reference that anybody could
I'm curious about the transition from that into a very social role. He and Joan Baez got married.
was to track down that rumor and see if it was true. And I contacted Joan Baez's manager, he said, "No, she never really lived there, she just spent a lot of time in there, but I can put you in touch with her friend, Colleen Creedon." And that's how my friendship with Colleen started. And it's just been a very beautiful thing for, for all of us. I think-I know Scott enjoyed meeting her. Everybody who's been
Accessible to women, yes. I met Joan Baez recently. I nearly died.
And Dave was pretty much like, yeah, I think that is good. I wrote "Horse Girl" with Jeff Baena.
So we threw back and forth a bunch of layout sketches. You can see the Sept of Baelor.
So we threw back and forth a bunch of layout sketches. You've got the Sept of Baelor on the bottom left.
to host parties in the carousel to support the plight of Daniel Ellsberg and Cesar Chavez. She was very good friends with Joan Baez, who we'll hear a little bit more about in a minute, but the, the Pier was, was filled with those kind of people, and it was just a really interesting community to hang around. A lot of people considered it seedy. Seedy, artistic -- I think they kinda go hand in hand sometimes in a very positive way. But
- It's almost like you and I attend two separate schools. - I have to unpack my best friend having a secret bae . Secret white-- - We met in the comment section of that "Medium" article you wrote, "Don't Fall in Love with Your Oppressor."
These framing elements and the overall shape of the poem are quite important to it. "The car. Tat to baed. The bure. Hoke no tosh.
So we threw back and forth a bunch of layout sketches. And it also has the Great Sept of Baelor in the back.
Hi, everybody. Thanks again for coming to another Authors at Google event at the San Francisco office. We're very psyched today to welcome Rob Baedeker and Chris Colin, both of whom are local Bay-Areans, if that's a word. Chris is an author and a journalist whose work has appeared in the "New York Times," "Wired," and "McSweeney's," and he lives in SF.
Every studio in town turned it down until we got to Paramount. And Michael Eisner was having dinner with a woman named Susan Baerwald, who was a reader at United Artists. And he said "What have you read recently that you like?" And she said "Well, there's this one script, 'Airplane'."
And it went on a collage that accompanied David Harris and Joan Baez on a speaking tour around the country.
OK. "Two years later, as Jens Baedrup was in one city-- it was in Berlin, to which he'd already run, preparing to run somewhere else-- Jens asked the agent guarding him where she would run if she were him.
I'm a big baseball fan, so Larry Baer was really fun to interview, who's the CEO of the Giants.
sources that drones made by two British companies, one of them BAE Systems, the other one hasn't been named because of
I call them midstrike drones, the non drone supplied by a company owned by BAE Systems. They've been doing it for
If you feel comfortable with the word bitch, you can call it a boast bae , whatever.
Like if Indians play the flute the snake dances. And on TV nowadays they say Baek Jongwon Magic. Something like snakes having some kind of magical power.
So this was an archaic script, and we made up words like "baev" and "fig" and "zug," and gave them meanings.
So in this top left corner, we've got "baev." So that first symbol is "buh-a-vuh." And then the last symbol indicates
I found myself in folk guitar lessons, learning kind of old time Joan Baez type folk
That it's very much a home-oriented cuisine. And to your credit, when you go to Kang Ho Dong Baekjeong, his restaurant in New York, you're having doenjang jigae, which is
In '95, many of us were doing this work in response to the killing of Anthony Baez who was murdered Christmas
We have a very special root that's just for clipper ships, "baelil." Presumably, "belil" is somebody who sails a clipper ship or something.
So we threw back and forth a bunch of layout sketches. It'll be fine. There's the Great Sept of Baelor.
of the famous Thursday night concerts. And the Thursday night Twilight Dance Series concerts have been going on, this will be their 26th year. Last year, we were so lucky to have Joan Baez, who's been a long time friend of the Pier. And, and I mentioned her because she and Robert Redford were the honorary co-chairs of our centennial committee for our centennial celebration last year. Each has had a very, very active
And this is a country with no energy, and I developed a tremendous sense of sadness for Kenneth Bae who is the gentleman, one
GOV. Well, on that trip, I was trying to do three things, one was Kenneth Bae , the American, detained unfairly,
And I think also, watching you guys together, I was like, oh, I need a partner maybe, because I don't even know where to start. And maybe I don't have the discipline, and so that's why I reached out to our friend Jeff Baena, and then we end up writing that together. So it was kind of this cool process, though, where everything with "The Rental" and "Horse Girl," we were, like, two months behind "The Rental" in everything.
But then last year, thankfully, I got invited to the Baeksang Arts Awards and MBC Awards Frankly, those invitations felt very strange
It was headed by David Harris, who promulgated this, and he was married to Joan Baez during the course of this.
But now there's a point that the world is being re-enchanted once again, and Morris Berman said that from Descartes to Baetuso the world is being re-
There was Al's Kitchen, which I mentioned; did I mention Al's Kitchen? Al's Kitchen was where the Save the Pier movement, that's where one of the groups met. Al's Kitchen was where a lot of activists would hang out. Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden, one of their favorite places, Joan Baez, too. That was really the activist artist hangout for a lot of years. Out at the end there was The Porthole Cafe, which was open all night and really, primarily to serve the fishermen who would fish overnight. They were supposed to have excellent coffee.
Accessible to women, yes. Oh absolutely. But I also -- in the 60s it was a big thing about folk music. And Joni Mitchell and Joan Baez.
and suddenly, it's anybody's game. The top female ultra marathoners can beat any guy on the planet in a head-to-head contest. Emily Baer, back in 2008, was in the Hard
Then Pam comes back the next year when the crosshairs are on her back -- everyone's out to get her -- She wins it again. In 2006, a woman named Emily Baer turns up
you." And this is-this is Robert Redford's first memory. Everybody knows Robert Redford was in The Sting, too. I'm sorry, The Sting also. And he has had a long, long history of, of just being on or near the Pier and, and of course, one of his most famous films on the Pier, in the carousel building. Joan Baez, I mentioned Colleen Creedon earlier, the activist that lived above the carousel. Joan was a regular visitor. She was around for the 1973 Save the Pier movement and was very involved