May 2009
39 posts
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Continuing Adventures in Badly Presented...
Starring the Chron. Obvs. I hate to even link back to this piece of crap article for fear of driving any traffic to it, but here it is for basic reference, and I’ll clip the relevant bullshit for you. In fact, we can pretty much just go down by paragraph, so here goes:
“But critics say Peskin, who still has plenty of clout from his days in office, is using his influence to ramrod...
Julie is running a pretty impressive guerrilla... →
I think this excerpt is pretty indicative of what women victims of domestic violence have to deal with, and they are in precisely the worst position to deal with shit like this:
“Thanks to the beauty of the new cell phone that YOU purchased for K, I was able to listen in on the two calls she had yesterday via speaker phone. Please read this carefully.
The first call was from Mr. Kayhan,...
April 2009
43 posts
“The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly...”
– Tom Robbins (via kinnaree)
WatchI know when Sound of Silver came out it was like HOLY SHIT A WHOLE NEW LEVEL OF GENIUS and that’s all you’ve listened to since 2007 but if it’s been a while since you’ve appreciated the original LCD Soundsystem album, I suggest you do yourself a favor and give it another listen. It is so full of win.
The Declining Demographics of Suburbanism
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I am too hungover today to incorporate this into anything resembling a cogent post with a light argumentative flavor. Just read it and imagine me being all, “yeah.”
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My mom has tickets to opening night of the SF...
Mom: It's some movie called The Mission. It's very cool. The party is somewhere in the Mission, too. Somewhere with a B, one word.
Me: Beretta?
Mom: No, hmm let me look... wait what is that cool bar on Mission with the roofdeck called?
Me: Medjool, but it's not cool.
Mom: What? Of course it's cool, I loved it there!
Me: Uh huh.
Mom: Well I had a great time. That roofdeck, so cool! Oh okay it's called Bruno's.
Me: Oh you'll love it. It's just like Harry's Bar. Actually it is Harry's Bar.
Mom: Cool.
Community Dispatch from the '117
The lady driver of the 6-Parnassus (the one that arrives almost every weekday morning at Haight & Masonic at 9:14am) always greets me with the kindest “Good morning.”
She seems to know we’ve all been waiting in the frustrating gap between the end of “rush hour” around 8:55 and the pity courtesy shuttles that come around 9:15 to pick up the stragglers, and...
“It’s not a moral imperative to buy a commodity that offers meager protection in...”
– Streetsblog » Moralism vs. Utopianism–of Red Lights, Helmets, Bike Lanes and…
Thank you for perfectly articulating what rankles about the helmet imperative; it’s a forest/trees issue. This is an excellent article worth a read of the whole thing.
Loving you, Kitchenette. →
Using her powers for good. →
Julie is someone whose genuine care for other people is reflected in an ability to capture them honestly and beautifully in pictures. Here, she’s using local blogging for something other than the collective stitch & bitch the rest of us do, and here’s hoping the new forms of information sharing can actually be leveraged into something tangible and helpful. (The comments are...
The sound of last summer, of hot weather and...
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“When on July 9, 1894, the Fair closed, 2,255,551 visitors had passed through the...”
– Cora Older in Magic City, 1961, which is a primary source.
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Why do you live here? →
I dig this new blog.
ATTENTION INTERNET: this guy needs our help!
mrpenguino:
I was walking Hazel just now and I saw this sign posted at 24th st & Capp st. I looked around and saw that the same sign is posted all over my neighborhood (Mission, SF).
Please re-blog in hopes that John from Amnesia Sat night (last band) will find ROBIN from Boston so they can have an awkward coffee date and then never see each other again! OR have a magical coffee date and...
On missing the point entirely.
So I just got this Twitter direct message from @GavinNewsom:
Confused.. My personal car is electric— city car is a hybrid— I take this quite seriously.
I think this is in response to one of my many snarktastic tweets from last night’s Long Now Foundation presentation on “Cities and Time.” But I can’t direct message him back because he doesn’t follow...
Gratuitous Civic Issue I Feel Strongly About...
So today I was perusing the information-age-flavored populism on MuniDiaries.com, and I came upon this observational and well-intentioned post that unintentionally hit upon something that is actually a real problem. Like so many other peccadillos of civic life, here is a window into a public management issue that is crying out for reform.
The post basically describes a limousine driver who is...
See you at the Red Vic Moviehouse, April 25th at... →
Newsflash
Arizmendi Bakery on 9th Ave is making wheat-free macaroons this week for passover. They are OUT OF CONTROL. Get one or be sorry.
Today's SFBG does 1268 Lombard some posthumous... →
This is loveliest kind of journalism: investigative, cogent, comprehensive, and crisp.
An injustice was perpetrated by privileged insiders perceiving themselves to be above regulation (but really just subverting it, like common people who get on the back of the bus without paying), and the case for reform is clear.
Also, love the mention of Vanguard James threatening to call the police. We...