Fool as Tool: I'm living on the wrong coast because "Strange Travel Suggestions" at The Marsh in Berkeley as described in the The Daily Planet sounds fun.

Travel writer Jeff Greenwald, primed to be the raconteur of stories from his books, improvised on the spot in answer to Strange Travel Suggestions, climbs the stage at The Marsh-Berkeley, and begins to explain his props: a gameshow-like wheel, the rim covered with odd symbols ... and a huge Tarot card, featuring the romanticized image of The Fool from the Rider Pack, carrying a bindle on a stick and proceeding trippingly over a cliff while dandling a rose, as a little dog prances by his side. "The Fool’s dressed as if he’s going to Burning Man, wearing Dr. Seuss boots," Greenwald quips, and then states that the esoteric card is the perfect image of the traveler beginning the trip ... the little dog, who some see as warning The Fool, being to Greenwald that impulse we all have that says "take me along!"

I wanna go ... but I guess I'll have to be content with reading the article ...or maybe I'll buy the CD ... and I guess I can plan to catch some of the other nonsense at The Marsh on my next trip west.