With or without U2

Going to the GR restaurant is like going to the Cheers bar or something. Okay, maybe not everyone knows my name, but today my friend Doug and I bumped into the jet-setting Eugenia (Shanghai and HK) and ex-GR softball ringer Rodfather (Watsonville). Nice. In the middle is Eric's mom, Margie. (She, Nelson, and the crew don't even count as sightings anymore.)


Doug is moving to NYC in a couple weeks, so I wanted to catch up with him before he bails. I'll miss his photography gig stories--remember the Talladega photo essay or the piece on Chinese orphanages? Totally great. But honestly, I hardly see him anyway since he's always on the road. Recently, he was in Dublin. There's been a lot of talk about Dublin...