I’d had a good time last year hanging out with Amy and Tom at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and I hadn’t yet set foot inside the Oakland Museum of California since their renovation (not counting an hour or so in their courtyard on a Friday night earlier this year or late last year watching a turfing exhibition). Getting to combine hanging out and exploring the building with these guys on a low-traffic day was a brilliant idea.

Afterward, I met up with Ankita and we went up to Berkeley’s Shattuck Theater for the Steve McQueen-directed “Shame,” starring Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan. We’re on a bit of a Fassbender tear, I guess, after seeing David Cronenberg’s “A Dangerous Method” last Sunday at the Embarcadero Cinema.