The Power of Good

Last night I indulged in all manner of goodness. I started the evening off with Dave at farmerbrowns, a new neo-soul restaurant in the 'Loin. We split an order of fried chicken and a Carolina pulled pork sandwich. I had several cool and refreshing watermelon margaritas while Dave drank beer from a mason jar. Clearly the goodness started early. Next we headed over to Yerba Buena Center for the Arts to catch the opening of Sampling Oakland. We were each inspired to promise to put crayola to canvas as soon as possible.

Now here's where it gets really good. We left YBCA and walked around the corner to 111 Minna to the launch party for GOOD Magazine. Now I was already excited about this because for a $20 subscription to the magazine, I get 6 issues of GOOD which fits perfectly into my monosyllabic magazine strategy (Dwell, Wired, Seed, Make, and now, GOOD!) But that's not all folks! GOOD used the new math to pass along that same $20 to the charitable org of my choice. I chose Creative Commons. And the magic didn't stop there. I also gained admission to the magazine's launch party which had an open bar! How great is that? I know you're already overwhelmed with goodness, but you'll never believe who was saddled up to said open bar. None other than Al and Tipper Gore. That's right. I partied with the vice president. We chatted for a bit, and I told him about my zealot-like prophesying. He was amused and I got the sense that he'd definitely heard it all before. Good!