The reigning winner of the Miss San Francisco scholarship pageant / beauty contest hung out with her friends the other day while waiting for yet another parade to begin. Miss San Francisco leads to Miss California leads to Miss America so who knows where these gals will end up.
You got to pay for graduate school somehow.
It seems there’s a little black spot on the sun today. It’s the same old thing as yesterday.
That’s very disconcerting to San Francisco resident Phil Chapman, a geophysicist who was the first Australian to become a NASA astronaut. You see, we need more of those little spots on El Sol so things don’t get too frosty. He actually wants you to pray for more sunspots.
That’s right, forget global warming - an ice age is coming and the only question is when it will get here.
Hang in there little doggy, there’s a chance Philip K Chapman is wrong.
Do you buy all that?
People, people, people. You read something on the Drudge Report about an area rice shortage and then you make it come true by buying 200 pounds at a time.
Until the government issues you ration cards, you can’t call it “rationing,” so don’t go there, girlfriends. If you want to talk about salmon, well then go ahead, as you might very well have a case about recent losses in salmon.
But, there is no rice shortage. Don’t stock up. Don’t buy stuff for your neighbors.
This will sort itself out, and then we’ll all look back and laugh.
A local Costco back during a happier time when there was so much rice stacked up that even the pigeons could get their fair share. Yes that is John Grisham looking down on us from above - his visage adorns the gaylord of books on the left. Larger photo in all its glory here on SFist.com.
Sighted on the streets of San Francisco.
These certainly are very long eyelashes, but you make the call if they’re the longest in the world:
[Update: Apparently, National Pancake Day spokesmodel Kirsten Haglund has the honor of being Miss America's Outstanding Teen 2008. So it appears the sash is awarded for being a competitor in said competition.]
News of the day:
Chinese torch officials have been warned their paramilitary “flame attendants” will be arrested and hauled away if they touch an Australian during the torch relay.
So that’s clear. There’ll be no manhandling Down Under in the name of “protecting the sacred flame” or whatever job description these Men in Blue have.
But check out this scene on the streets of San Francisco a few weeks back - at least one member of the Chinese People’s Armed Police Force (PAP) in a physical altercation with an American citizen, Majora Carter.
Apparently, the handler (a Chinese woman who sits in a car and issues commands via radio) of these so-called “goons“ didn’t get the message they weren’t to assault Americans during the visit to San Francisco. Wonder why.
Desmond Tutu, Richard Gere, and Majora Carter all happy as clams under the watchful eyes of Fake Bono during a pre torch-relay shindig in San Francisco
Anyway, Coke now takes a dim view of the activist they recruited for the torch relay:
A Coca-Cola spokesman, Kelly Brooks, said, “It’s unfortunate that Ms. Carter used an invitation to participate in the torch relay as a platform to make a personal political statement. We firmly believe the Olympics are a force for good that celebrates the best in sports, and we are proud to support the Beijing 2008 Olympics.”
Were the 1936 Olympics “a force for good” also? It seems Coke might have had hand in that fiasco as well. We’ll all just have to ponder that one.
But it turns out that Majora signed a “code of conduct” that prohibited torchbearers from displaying political or religious signs. So what’s Coke’s next move? Extradition to Atlanta, Georgia? Rendition to Beijing? How are they going to make Majora pay for speaking out, because after all, you know, she signed a piece of paper.
The world wonders.
Google Transit has come to the Bay Area, finally. Watch the video here.
What about getting down over to San Hoser? You’ve been away so long, you may go wrong and lose your way.
Check it out. Now, do you know the way to San Jose?
Thank you India/ thank you providence/ thank you disillusionment/ thank you nothingness/ thank you clarity/ thank you GOOGLE!
When you’re selling your Japanese sword on the streets of San Francisco, always demand cash payment.
It’s better all around.
This salesman shilling subscriptions to the actual dead tree paper version of the New York Times didn’t seem to get much traction during an otherwise bustling street fair in San Francisco over the weekend.
Something like 75% off and free New York Mets swag wasn’t enough to tempt the typical passerby. Perhaps if he could promise that a fetching scooter rider, such as this one, would deliver the paper each day, things would be different…
Cue tumbleweeds.
Who is to blame for the decline of newspapers? Is it San Francisco’s very own Craig Newmark and his feisty CEO buddy Jim Buckmaster? Well, you old-school newsies should be tickled pink to hear that the people behind craigslist are now worried about being taken over by eBay.
Not much consolation, but there it is.
Oh my. Hundreds of volunteers came through the huge San Francisco Headquarters of Senator Carole Migden this past weekend. On hand to cheer her on were former Senate President John Burton and future Senate Pesident Darrell Steinberg.
A couple of termed-out Assemblymen are ganging up on her to turn her out of office. Read on:
It’s a wide-open race involving the incumbent senator, Carole Migden, and her two challengers, Assemblyman Mark Leno and former North Bay Assemblyman Joe Nation. Each has a decent shot at winning the primary that is tantamount to victory in the overwhelming Democratic Third Senate District.
As much as this race is about anything, it’s about a struggle between the Democratic members of the (ironically-named) upper and lower houses of the Legislature in Sacramento. Senate leadership appears to be making a stand on behalf of Carole.
She’s got seven figures to burn through and lots of enthusiastic volunteers, so things should get interesting pretty soon. The Battle for Minis Tirith will look like a cakewalk compared to this election season.
This shot shows about half of the largest room at HQ - the Great Hall of Ninth Street.
The original Spanish of the phrase…
…Barack Obama is borrowing:
Round One of the Defense of Carole Migden has begun.
Ding Ding!
Of course, a few adjustments were necessary…
