The sidewalk on Market Street, for example:
Try putting a “for sale” in the window of your old clunker and park it on any sidewalk in San Francisco. If you do that, your car will get cited and towed with extreme prejudice.
No, it’s not an INVISABUL CATTY, it’s an electric golf caddy complete with handheld remote control. It looked like an R2D2 robot zooming all over the Lincoln Park Golf Club in San Francisco. This is lazy, but less lazy than getting a golf cart.
Those golfers love their gizmos, non?
California High Speed Rail Authority Chairman Quentin Kopp joined Senator Carole Migden and San Francisco Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin on the steps of City Hall yesterday to welcome some college kids to town. They are giving up their spring break holidays to go on a statewide bike tour to promote high speed rail.
Hey, you know what would be nice? Flying you and eight of your friends on a medium sized corporate jet, say a Challenger 604, from California to Princess Juliana International Airport on the Dutch part of the island of Saint Martin.
How much would it cost? Well, just make an offer on a Virgin Charter empty leg flight. Somebody’s already offered about $11 a person. You can beat that, can’t you? Remember to tell your friends that they’re on their own when they want to go back to California. Just avoid those turboprop planes, and you’ll be styling.
You can’t win if you don’t play!
Hello Kittehs!
The world’s smallest tigers produce the world’s smallest tiger cubs. But they are growing fast over at the San Francisco Zoo. Check it out.
Well it’s here, “San Francisco’s first dessert lounge”, candybar, at 1335 Fulton near Divisidero.
This place should be getting busy pretty soon in the hopping NOPA district on the western side of the Western Addition. Read all about it, after the jump.
News comes from Dave Eggers in the New York Times.
“In 418,000 copies of the April 4 edition of The San Francisco Chronicle, subscribers will get a placard that on one side explains the connections between China and the genocide in Sudan, and on the other side says, “China: Extinguish the Flames of Genocide in Darfur.” How’s that for an early morning jolt?”
These placards are going to look a little something like this:
Will people need to register in advance in order to hold up these signs along the torch route? Will people need to be herded into “free speech zones,” like these pens used in Boston a while back, before they are allowed to hold up these signs?
Only time will tell.
The 1st Amendment has been getting a workout lately in San Francisco.
Round 2 plus a partially NSFW photo from this protest here.
Yesterday’s “flash raid” at the hotel where a birthday celebration was being held for L. Ron Hubbard had an appearance from L. Ron’s great-grandson, Jamie DeWolf (nee Jamie Kennedy).
Scientology is currently classified as a religion by the I.R.S., so it enjoys the right to “free exercise,” and Anonymous has the right to free speech and to assemble peaceably. Fair enough.
Yesterday’s birthday celebration/protest was ably handled at the sargent level by the SFPD. Hurray for them. Next month will see more protests in front of Scientology HQ at the foot of Columbus Street. When will this end?
A birfday party at the Hilton:
The anime-inspired icon of Chanology:
Lots of CD’s of L.Ron’s words are for sale:
Is this masked individual a menace? Depends on your point of view. So far, everything has been pretty mellow in San Francisco.
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Routine stop on Market Street in San Francisco, March 20, 2008. Click to enlarge.
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