Posts Tagged ‘13’
Monday, December 14th, 2009
This is how the Holiday Tree in front of San Francisco City Hall was lit at night last year:
Via Steve Rhodes, who, like Visa, is Everywhere You Want To Be.
But all that color in Civic Center offended certain WASP-y type people. People like Thurston Howell III et ux Lovey:
So here are the expensive new lights for 2009, or some of them anyway. These colorless lights cost $13,500, per City Insder Rachel Gordon.
That ought to placate the richers for a while.
But couldn’t Rec and Park have put this matter to a vote, maybe online using that social media and whatnot? A penniless blogger could throw up a voting system in about five minutes – can’t Rec and Park do the same? This isn’t a matter of health or safety, right? So it seems appropriate that the Gilligans, Professors and the Mary Anns should have a say as well. Why do we seem to only listen to the Howells?
Oh well.
For 2009 anyway, enjoy your boring, WASPy-white, star-free Christmas Tree, San Francisco. But don’t give up Hope for Change (is that a “traditional” train ’round the tree R&P?) next year.
Tags: 13, 2008, 2009, 500, Blue, christmas tree, chronicle, City Hall, city insider, civic center, colored, department, dept., general manager, green, haze, holiday, led, lights, newspaper, parks, Phil Ginsburg, plaza, purple, rachel gordon, rec, recreation, Recreation and Park Department, red, San Francisco, sfgate, strand, tree christmas, trees, wasp, waspy, white, white anglo saxon protestant, white house
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
Of course we hates the Hyatt Regency Embarcadero, we hates it forever, ’cause of the forever nonrevolving restaurant they have up on the roof, oh, how it mocks us, but leaving that aside, isn’t it funny how it lacks a 13th Floor…
… but the name of the bar in the lobby is/was called 13 Views?
So, when you want to be safe at night, well, 13 is just too much bad juju for us to deal with, but when we tire of safeness, when we want to cut loose, put on our pretty shoes, and meet an exciting, dangerous stranger at a hotel bar, well, 13, that sounds… intriguing.
That’s the way it used to be, anyway, before the lobby bar closed down. Oh well.
Triskaidekaphobia – Catch It!
Tags: 13, 13 views, 13th, bar, closed, danger, Embarcadero, floor, friggatriskaidekaphobia, hyatt, hyatt regency, paraskevidekatriaphobia, regency, San Francisco, Triskaidekaphobia, unlucky
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Saturday, July 11th, 2009
Is this the FBI undercover? Probably not, so this must be a genuine Muzak vehicle. Can you believe that they’re still operating after all these years?
There was that BK business (in industry parlance “BK” means bankruptcy, for some odd reason) earlier in the year, but obviously that hasn’t kept the rolling stock from rolling.
They’ve got ladders and everything. As seen recently on San Francisco’s Geary Boulevard:
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Now this is what rocker Ted Nugent had to say about Muzak a while back:
“It’s an evil force in today’s society, causing people to lapse into uncontrollable fits of blandness. It’s been responsible for ruining some of the best minds of our generation.”
In fact, the Motor City Madman actually offered to buy the company for the sole purpose of shutting it down. Harsh.
But let’s hear from the Muzakians themselves:
“Music is art, but Muzak is science. And when you employ the science of Muzak: in an office, workers tend to get more done, more efficiently, and feel happier. In an industrial plant, people feel better and, with less fatigue and tension, their jobs seem less monotonous. In a store, people seem to shop in a more relaxed and leisurely manner. In a bank, customers are generally more calm, tellers and other personnel are more efficient. In general, people feel better about where they are; whether it’s during work or leisure time. Muzak is all this and more. That’s why we say Muzak is much more than music.”
O.K. fine. This incomprehensible MUZAK STIMULUS PROGRESSION CHART proves something, just not sure what that is:
Don’t stop believing, Muzak. Never stop believing.
All the Muzak channels, after the jump.
(more…)
Tags: 13, 800, 800 331-3340, 9, 9th, avenue, bankruptcy, bk, Chapter, district, e250, elevator, elevator music, ford, holdings, inc, incorporated, inner, ladders, lift, music, muzak, muzak.com, ninth, Oakland, piped, richmond, San Francisco, street, ted nugent, truck, van, white
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
First of all, why does San Francisco even have a 13th Street? That’s some bad juju right there. This road pictured below is “covered by the Central Skyway making it one of the darkest and ugliest streets in San Francisco.”
And actually, we’ve got two entirely different 13th Streets in town - the proper one in the SOMA (illustrated below) plus that other one on Treasure Island. We’re just asking for trouble, aren’t we?
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Second of all, MUNI will probably get this 60-foot, articulated ETI Skoda 21Tr-SF TrolleyBus back on the road (eventually), but these Skodas seem to hitch a lot of rides on this ginourmous tow truck. Good thing that these bendy-left-and-right buses are also bendy up and down - it makes towing lots easier.
MUNI fever – catch it!
Tags: 13, 13th, 7106, artic, articulated, bus, driver, mta, Muni, municipal, railway, San Francisco, skoda, soma, street, thirteenth, TI, tow, towing, transit, treasure island, truck
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Here’s how it went today for voters opting for the touch screen system. Bright, easy-to-read graphics on your screen – what could be nicer?
Here’s what you’re thinking - what about the paper trail, dude? Well, San Francisco’s got you covered as they print it all out - you can check for yourself. No hanging chads and no butterfly ballots in the 415 this year. Is City Attorney Dennis Herrera still working on this issue? Think so.
Welcome to the future!
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