Topic: City of Saint Francis

Today I missed the street­car and went down to the under­ground trains to try to catch up. The under­ground trains don’t go near my office, but they do go up Mar­ket and are faster than the “His­toric F‑Line” street­cars, so I hoped I’d get up to Embar­cadero before the street­car I’d just missed.

On the Mis­sion Bay train I saw a fas­ci­nat­ing woman talk­ing to the man she was next to. Both were stand­ing on this crowd­ed train near a … Read the rest

I was over at 23^rd and Mis­sion again today. Some­one has kicked a hole in the recent­ly repaired and repaint­ed image of Rachel Cor­rie. It was heart­break­ing the first time, and heart­warm­ing when it was repaired and repaint­ed. Now it’s been defaced in the same man­ner as before and any sus­pi­cion that it might have been a ran­dom act of drunk­en­ness has dissolved.

Jeezus Christ. This is Lib­er­al-Left-Coast San Fran­cis­co for cryin’ out loud! If this is the kind … Read the rest

Yeah, I mean all the ones who were say­ing the sky was gonna fall if that fas­cist moth­er­fuck­er Gavin New­som were elect­ed may­or of San Francisco.

Well, I hope he’s done a good enough job of prov­ing him­self to be just anoth­er stooge of the Repub­li­cans. Right on, man.

I hon­est­ly don’t believe Gon­za­les would have had the balls. I liked Gon­za­les a lot, but I don’t think he could have pulled it off.

Seri­ous­ly, I’m so filled with civic pride, I … Read the rest

I’m hap­py to report that Rachel Cor­rie’s image on the mur­al on the front of the Lati­no News­pa­per offices at 23^rd and Mis­sion has been restored. Some van­dal had kicked a hole in the image of her face, and the hole remained unre­paired for sev­er­al months. Last night I was in the neigh­bor­hood and saw that not only has the hole been repaired, but Rachel’s image has been repaint­ed in its orig­i­nal place next to the image of Ché … Read the rest

Deputy Tay­mur went for him. “Fine, and so you who are not angry, tell me the secret of San Fran­cis­co! Quick, now, imme­di­ate­ly, at the dou­ble! My sixth sense tells me that the key to this com­pli­cat­ed crim­i­nal enig­ma lies in this very San Fran­cis­co! Answer!”

“It so hap­pens that’s exact­ly right. But would you allow me to whis­per in your ear?”

“Silence! In the ear is forbidden!”

Asadol­lah Mirza was hav­ing great dif­fi­cul­ty hold­ing back his laugh­ter; scratch­ing the back

The lat­est death toll from this morn­ing’s earth­quake in Bam, Iran is over 20,000 with 50,000 addi­tion­al injured. The quake was mea­sured at 6.5 on the Richter scale, the same mag­ni­tude as Mon­day’s Paso Rob­les quake which killed two. Just yes­ter­day I was say­ing how «only two» can’t seem for­tu­nate to the fam­i­lies of those two women, but today I’m left only with a chill com­bin­ing grat­i­tude for mod­ern seis­mi­cal­ly-sound archi­tec­ture in the place … Read the rest

Wow. I just watched about a half hour of what appeared to be a cheap­ly-pro­duced ad for a strip club on SF pub­lic access TV. Um. Yeah. It offend­ed me so much I had to sit and watch the whole thing. LOL

Seri­ous­ly, I’m not par­tic­u­lar­ly offend­ed, but I am sur­prised to turn on the pub­lic access chan­nel and instead of see­ing some preach­er rant­i­ng about the Bush admin­is­tra­tion, see naked girls cov­er­ing each oth­er in whipped cream &c.

Late … Read the rest

OK, some­times I watch as much as three hours of TV in a week. Since anten­na recep­tion in San Fran­cis­co is so abysmal that it makes North­ern Ver­mont look good, I shell out $16 per month for basic cable so that I can see the occa­sion­al show I want to watch.

But some mar­ket­ing genius has pushed my but­tons by re-mak­ing Bat­tlestar Galac­ti­ca, a series I have fond child­hood mem­o­ries of, in a SCI-FI Chan­nel minis­eries that starts on Mon­day. … Read the rest

I just peeked in to look at the menu of a restau­rant near where I work. It had a num­ber of items:

This: $18.00
That: $22.00
The Oth­er: $30.00

and notably:

Lob­ster: $54.00

Which means I final­ly get the joke from Mys­tery Men:

We’ve got a blind date with Destiny—and it looks like she’s ordered the lobster

Yeah, I’m pret­ty slow.… Read the rest

The 15 year old boy who was shot on the bus a block from my apart­ment Thurs­day died on Sat­ur­day. There are can­dles and flow­ers in the bus shel­ter at Mis­sion and Onandaga.… Read the rest