Well, looks like this rube's been grifted again: it appears, from a comment left on the previous entry from a Cliff House Project staffer, that the stormy cliff house photograph was actually a fake. Unless, the commentor was posing as a staffer, and is really only pretending the photo's a fake.......trying to figure out what to believe on the interweb can be an exhausting game.
At least it is good to know that folks have been attempting to either a) defraud an unsuspecting public; or, b) unleash their creativity in their artistic medium of choice, for longer than green-screens and CGI have been messing with the media.
The same goes for fundamentalists blaming `sinners' on disaster, both natural and unnatural. Check out the text and photograph, here. Seems that one of the only buildings left standing after the SF `quake and fire of aught-six was a whiskey distiller. Sure, it took the US Navy running a hose over a mile from the Bay to save it (how many other buildings that could have been saved did this band of drunken sailors hurry past with their hose in order to get to the whiskey factory?). Regardless, I love imagining that quote on their business card - a nice, tight reply to those who co-opt the finger of God to point out blame, but abandon it when asked to lend a hand to the weak.
p.s. I finally was able to get my digital photos off the old computer's hard-drive, on which I thought they'd be trapped forever. A visit to my own personal Crystal Mountain has resulted in a resolution to the last of my worries about that old clunker, which means I'll be back to posting more photographs.
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