The BART station I most frequently use is El Cerrito Plaza.

Huh. Friends of mine used to live in El Cerrito, so we'd use this BART station when we'd visit.

They rented a house, and had a pool!

Sparky lived in Berkeley, I don't know if she ever lived in EC.

I never lived in EC, because I had a rent controlled apartment in Berkeley in the Gourmet Ghetto (that I still mourn the loss of to this day).

Okay pools are not the norm here lest anyone one get the impression EC is fancy. We're not.

I went to elementary school with Suhaila Salimpour, the belly dancer. In grade six she did a sword dance for the class. I still remember it today.

It's very cozy talking about my home town, but probably in the interest of more new lurkers I should stop.

I wasn't expecting to like EC so much when I moved up here. Porn, Thai food, and no tell motel, not bad in any order. JZ, I attended Mission, class of '77, although I went to Mac one year for summer school. Actually, we were at the old Poly High site while I was in high school, as Mission was being retrofitted. It was sooo much fun, walking around outside through wood plank walkways, and hoping that a major earthquake wouldn't hit for three years.

I've never heard of "I Know Where I'm Going," will have to check it out. I also like another of Forsythe's movies, "That Sinking Feeling," which seriously needs to come out on DVD.

Actually, we were at the old Poly High site

The Polytechnic High School on Frederick Street, across from Kezar Stadium?

(aka, now the circus school on our block that Matilda occasionally attends)

I also like another of Forsythe's movies, "That Sinking Feeling," which seriously needs to come out on DVD.

I'm a huge Forsythe fan and saw "That Sinking Feeling" in a theater in Boston. He shot that as a TV movie when he ran out of money (temporarily) for Gregory's Girl, which is why both movies sport the same cast.

EC! When we first moved to the Bay Area, I caught the train at EC del Norte. Boy, was that a...special...time. I would listen to the crime reports in the morning and recognize the street names where the shootings had been as being on my route to the train station. I can vouch that Sparky's Berkeley apartment was lovely, esp. as it was always filled with awesome book-reading women when I was there. That's my only buffista F2F, sadly. Which reminds me, from ages of posts ago, Kristen, I'd be up to meet for coffee.

(that I still mourn the loss of to this day)

As do I. Still wish I could have just taken it over, somehow.

I went to elementary school with Suhaila Salimpour, the belly dancer.

She would be the aforementioned reason I've been to EC.

Mmmm....thai. Dana and I are meeting at a Thai place tonight!

feels like one of the in crowd now

Thanks to planned Parenthood, it's hard not to read "EC" as "Emergency Contraception" Sorry...

it was always filled with awesome book-reading women

::weeps and weeps for the book club since I've never found one I like here in DC::

And they were just awesome women who happened to read books. Yo.

eta: Speaking of which, Solange, do you have a current email address for our mutual friend D, whose birthday is coming up?