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Wednesday, May 11th, 2011
The most unusual feature film Walt Disney ever made will be featured the weekend of May 21-22, 2011 at our Walt Disney Family Museum in the Presidio.
All the deets, below.
The animation looks fresh after all these years:
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Saturday May 21
World War II: Fighting the War with Ink and Paint
3:00pm | Theater ($)
Join noted Walt Disney Family Museum historian and author Paul F. Anderson as he chronicles Walt’s contributions towards the War effort. World War II became the most critical event of the twentieth century, and its effect on the Disney Studios was profound. Relive this pivotal time through never-before-seen images, rare video clips, and moving stories – and through this narrative discover how Walt Disney whole-heartedly devoted himself and his organization to winning the war. Paul’s presentation is sometimes funny, often emotional, and thoroughly uplifting.
Sunday May 22
Screening – Victory Through Air Power + Conversation
2:00pm | Theater ($)
Walt Disney Family Museum historian Paul F. Anderson will offer a visual presentation on the making of the film, and the resulting impact the film had on Allied war strategy. This brief presentation will be followed by a screening of Walt Disney’s Victory Through Air Power (1944), after which we will open up the floor to any questions.
See you there!
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Thursday, April 21st, 2011
Finally, the Yelpers agree – the 76 Marin Headlands rulez!
Check it, Per Helen L:
“I hate that this bus ONLY runs on Sundays and certain holidays.
I hate that this bus ONLY runs once an hour.
I hate that this bus stops running in the evening.
However, this is still the bestest MUNI route EVER!!!”
Here it is, in action near the Golden Gate Bridge:
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See you on the 76!
All the deets after the jump
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Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
Here’s some fresh video from YouTubes’s doghousefm. It seems that the famous incident started when Epic Beard Guy Thomas Alexander Bruso boarded an AC Transit bus so he could go “to Frisco to get some weed.” His original plan for his mother’s funeral:
“I’m going to wear a powder blue fucking suit, and a white shirt and a red tie and a fucking breast cancer pin…”
Comes now the fight loser “Michael” (who appears to be on a first-name-only basis with DJ “JV“):
“First of all, I’d like to aPOlogize to AC Transit…”
It goes on and on, Black History Month, 5150, bygones, veterans, arthritis, murder, parole, apologies, brothers, stolen money, leaking, ass kicking, Strike Force(?) Showtime TV, 10,000 kids, cocaine - it goes on and on.
Can’t remember which morning-zoo / dawg-pound joint this screengrab came from. Oh yes, it was from WILD 94.9 FM:
And here’s more information about the now-cancelled plans for a rematch.
We’re approaching endgame on this one…
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Sunday, April 19th, 2009
The fantastic Artistic Luxury exhibit at the Legion of Honor Museum continues. Read all about it here and here.
But what about the Faberge Eggs? Here’s one from 1899: The Green Eggs and Ham. Oops, how about the Pansy Egg (aka the Spinach Jade)? It’s your stereotypical Fab Egg, just begging to be opened:
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The heart surprise inside is made of varicolored gold, diamonds, rose-cut diamonds, pearls, strawberry enamel, white enamel and mother of pearl. It is a gold tripod on which is located an heart lined in diamonds and surmounted by the imperial crown with eleven scarlet medallions decorated with monograms. By pressing a button the tiny medallions are all opened, and portraits of each member of imperial family become visible.
And here it is - lots of little portraits:
Don’t look for Anastasia, as she was born a few years later in 1901.
Reading vertically, those in the front row are: Tsarevich George Alexandrovich, younger brother of the Tsar, and Grand Duke Alexander Michailovich, husband of the Grand duchess Xenia Alexandrovna, the Tsar’s sister. In the second row are: Tsar Nicholas II and Princess Irina, daughter of Grand Duke Alexander Michailovich and Grand Duchess Xenia. In the third row are: Grand Duchess Olga Nicolaievna, the first daughter of the Tsar and Tsarina, Grand Duchess Tatiana Nicolaievna, their second daughter, and Grand duke Michael Alexandrovich, the youngest brother of the Tsar. In the fourth row are: The Tsarina and Prince Andrew Alexandrovich, brother of Princess Irina. And in the fifth row are the Grand Duchesses Olga and Xenia Alexandrovna, sisters of the Tsar.
Whew!
Eggs, precious eggs!
Tags: 1899, alexander, egg, eggs, Fabergé, green, green eggs and ham, Imperial, jade, legion of honor, museum, pansy, park, precious, San Francisco, spinach
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Saturday, April 18th, 2009
The fantastic Artistic Luxury exhibit at the Legion of Honor Museum continues. Read all about it here and here.
But what about the Faberge Eggs? Here’s one from 1915, the time of the Great War: The Red Cross Triptych:
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“When World War I broke out in 1914, the trouble that had loomed at the edge of the Romanov’s awareness began to penetrate the protective shell of imperial privilege. In response to the suffering of their people, and in an attempt to present an image of patriotism and concerned involvement, Alexandra enrolled herself and her older daughters in nurses’ training and had the palaces converted into provisional hospitals to care for the increasing number of wounded.”
Needless to say, there weren’t too many Imperial Faberge eggs delivered after this one, what with the Feb Rev just a couple of years away.
Nevertheless, eggs, precious eggs!
Tags: alexander, egg, eggs, Fabergé, Imperial, legion of honor, museum, park, precious, red cross, San Francisco, triptych
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Saturday, April 11th, 2009
The fantastic Artistic Luxury exhibit at the Legion of Honor Museum continues. Read all about it here and here.
But what about the Faberge Eggs? Here’s one from 1903: The Kelch Bonbonnière Egg:
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It looks as if it could be an Imperial Egg, the likes of which were given to royal family members back in the day, but it’s a Kelch Egg. The unseen initials B.K. (no, not Blood Killas, nor British Knights, nor Berkelium, nor Burger King) tell the story – they stand for Barbara (aka Varvara) Kelch:
“Every year from 1898 until 1904 Alexander Kelch ordered an Easter egg from Fabergé, modeled on the Imperial series, as a present for his wife, who no doubt also paid for them. No doubt, too, that the Kelch eggs cost them considerably more than those made for the Imperial family, given the parsimony of the Romanovs and the generosity of the nouveaux riches. The seven Kelch eggs are as fine, if not even more sumptuous, than those in the Imperial series.”
Mmmmm… sumptuous.
Eggs, precious eggs!
Tags: alexander, barbara, bk, Bonbonnière, Bonbonnière bk, egg, eggs, Fabergé, grace, Imperial, kelch, legion of honor, monaco, museum, park, precious, San Francisco, varvara
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Tuesday, March 24th, 2009
The three youths here sleeping through mid-morning rain in the Upper Haight area typify some of the homeless of San Francisco. These Alexander Supertramps carry backpacks and sleeping bags, just like campers at a national park.
Three teens at Clayton and Page, just two blocks away from the landmark Ben and Jerry’s: Click to expand:
And here’s the remnants of a campground kitchen in the nearby Golden Gate Park Panhandle:
And here are your facilities (trucked in all the way from Kentucky) – it’s the Panhandle bathroom near Ashbury Street. It looks just like what some Yosemite Park campers get.
So that’s Urban Camping as practiced by the youths of Hashbury.
Tags: alexander, ashbury, backpack, bag, camper, camping, clayton, cooking, fell, gas, golden gate park, haight, happy, hashbury, kids, oak, panhandle, propane, runaway, San Francisco, sleeping, stove, street, supertramp, urban
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