This poor critter didn’t know what to do out on the sidewalks of high-rent McAllister Street the other day:
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Eventually, this little feller/gal made it back into the big apartment building at McAllister and Steiner. You know, where s/he belongs.
This one:
Hurray!
Fin.
Like this:
And then the rest:
Those little rascals!
At the very least, you owe it to yourself to read the Yelp and ApartmentRatings reviews before you move in.
Oh look, they have a shuttle bus – it’s a like a private MUNI #38 Geary just for you and your fellow victims:
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But even so, Whatever You Do, DON’T Move Into the Fillmore Center Apartment Homes at 1475 Fillmore in the Western Addition.
In closing, Whatever You Do, DON’T Move Into the Fillmore Center Apartment Homes at 1475 Fillmore in the Western Addition.
PS: Whatever You Do, DON’T Move Into the Fillmore Center Apartment Homes at 1475 Fillmore in the Western Addition
From Bauhaus to our house:
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“At Yale the students generally began to notice that everything they designed, everything the faculty members designed, everything the visiting critics (who gave critiques of the students) designed…started to look the same. Everyone designed the same box…of glass…and steel and concrete, with tiny beige bricks substituted occasionally. This came to be known as the Yale Box.”
Here’s a look at some background and then find a fresh release below.
“Ed Lee backers said to fill in ballots for others“
“More Fraud Accusations for Lee Supporters“
“The Ed Lee Story: An Expected Ballot Tampering“
“Latest Ed Lee Voter Fraud Just the Tip of the Iceberg - Volunteers witness many instances of potential voter fraud and election violations by Ed Lee campaign
SAN FRANCISCO – Volunteers for Leland Yee’s campaign for mayor are hearing about and witnessing many instances of potential voter fraud and election violations conducted by Ed Lee’s campaign. Over the past several days, Yee’s volunteers have witnessed or heard from voters about at least six different incidents of voter fraud or intimidation.
“I am deeply concerned that the voting rights of individuals are being abused, seniors in subsidized housing are being taken advantage of, and laws that are meant to protect the integrity of the voting process are being ignored and circumvented,” said Yee.
Yesterday, the Bay Citizen and the San Francisco Chronicle reported on workers of an independent expenditure campaign for Ed Lee filling out ballots for voters and in some cases using a stencil which only allowed voters to cast their vote for Lee and no other candidate. The Ed Lee workers also collected dozens of vote-by-mail ballots from voters at the make-shift station.
“What we are hearing from the field is deeply concerning, not just for our campaign but for the integrity of this election and our democracy,” said Jim Stearns, Yee’s campaign manager. “We are encouraging individuals to report potential violations to the Department of Elections; unfortunately, our volunteers are witnessing that many voters are reluctant to speak out, because they are afraid of potential retaliation such as losing their housing.”
These incidents appear to be just the tip of the iceberg as Yee’s campaign volunteers and workers have also witnessed the following voter and election fraud:
At a number of Chinatown Community Development Center (CCDC) run housing complexes, residents told Yee workers that they turned their ballots over to their apartment managers. Volunteer Tommy Lin said, “Many residents told me they didn’t even know who they voted for, because their ballots were turned over before they were filled out.”
According to Yee worker Andy Li, at the federally-funded Senior Housing Complex on 441 Ellis St, residents were invited to the common room for help on how to fill out their absentee ballots, but were first treated to a projector video of commercials and videos of Ed Lee. Residents then were “assisted” by Ed Lee volunteers in filling out their absentee ballots.
In clear violation of election law, Bayview volunteers told Yee’s Field Director Anthony Thomas that they were paid $150 cash to walk precincts and do other voter contact in the neighborhood.
In a number of Filipino housing complexes, absentee ballots still have not arrived at residents’ homes, raising concerns that they may have been removed by apartment management. Yee is widely considered to be heavily favored in the Filipino American community.
A number of Ed Lee volunteers have attested that they were assigned to work on both Ed Lee’s official mayoral campaign as well as his various independent expenditure campaigns, raising serious issues of illegal coordination between the campaigns.
“It is imperative that the Elections Office, Ethics Commission, Secretary of State, District Attorney, Attorney General, and the US Attorney immediately investigate these various illegalities,” said Stearns. “Ed Lee and his comrades are already under investigation by the DA and US Attorney; it is now time for him to come clean for the good of San Francisco.”
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Leland Yee is endorsed by the United Educators of San Francisco, California Nurses Association, Sierra Club, San Francisco Firefighters, AFSCME, SEIU, San Francisco Labor Council, and the San Francisco Building and Construction Trades Council. Yee immigrated to San Francisco at the age of 3. His father, a veteran, served in the US Army and the Merchant Marine, and his mother was a local seamstress. Yee graduated from the University of California – Berkeley, then earned a Ph.D. in Child Psychology, and later served in various mental health and school settings. He and his wife, Maxine, have raised four children who all attended San Francisco public schools. Yee has served in the State Legislature, Board of Supervisors and Board of Education.”
Well, it’s not much yet, but this is the biggest reaction I’ve seen so far to the relatively new Whole Foods outlet at the end of Haight Street near Stanyan.
Do you see this Kramer-esque sign hanging off the back of 1965 Page? It’s new.
See?
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Cf. Cosmo Kramer vs. Kenny Rogers Roasters, Inc.
Now I don’t know what these NIMBYs paid for that sign but I’d imagine something like hundreds of dollars. Most passersby weren’t aware of it, cause of how and where it’s hung. But go to the northeast corner of the parking lot and then look northeast and you’ll be sure to find it. (WF employees were doing just that yesterday afternoon, having a laugh.)
MisssAnthrope49 has the details on YouTube.
And I guess that this is the FaceBook page?
“Whole Foods Inc Bad Neighbor 
” “This page is for those who have unresolved neighborhood noise issues with Whole Foods Markets, Inc. Please share your experience, links, pictures, videos. Invite others, anywhere in the universe. Support your local markets.”
(You don’t have a website yet, NIMBYs?)
Now, I’ll tell you, the parking lot at this Whole Foods fills up with regularity, cause it’s too small. (And that’s just the way “the neighbors” or the Planning Department or somebody wanted it to be. By design.) So I don’t know how the people who wanted a small parking lot have the right to complain about a small parking lot. Anyway, the way Trader Joes Masonic handled the parking issue was to take over parking spaces on the right side of southbound Masonic in partnership with the City. (I mean, first you’ve got to exist, and then you can address the issues what pop up, that’s how you’ve got to do it.)
The parking lot attendants at this particular WF will direct shoppers into non-existent spots in front of the store, you know, in order to pack the largest number of cars into the lot. Of course there are signs telling drivers not to block Stanyan, but nobody pays attention to them.
We’ll just have to wait to see how this one turns out.
In the meantime, meet your new NIMBY neighbors, so far:
Susan Leas Latham
Leda Nevin Aguirre
Holly Edson
Soumyaa Kapil Behrens
Johnson Hor
Ted DeLong
Vanessa Picton
Gabriel Haaland
Kenneth Heikkila
Fran Gentry
Loraine Cruz Cummings
Darlene Polanka
Michelle
Elizabet
Richard Ivanhoe
Dickie Clark
Oh, and here’s something that people actually noticed, back in the day, on Stanyan:
This building on Stanyan can be seen from all over, so it would be a better location to launch an anti-grocery store campaign, IMO.
Oh well.
And nascent NIMBY’s, the time to attack Progress is before the gro sto goes in. I mean, did you expect the parking lot to be empty all the time? Did you expect the food to be teleported in via Wonka-Vision?
Oh well.
To close, here are some palliative cliches from Whole Foods itself:
“Sent: Thu, August 25, 2011 7:02:26 PM
Subject: RE: HVAC at 690 Stanyan Street
Susan,
Whole Foods Market Haight Street store has received your concerns regarding HVAC noise. We take all our neighbors’ concerns and questions seriously and work to accommodate requests whenever and wherever possible. The neighborhood we serve is extremely important to us and we want to be a good community member. We had our HVAC service company come to double check that all the adjustments that we have made the past few months were still up to par . There were only two minor adjustments needed.
While we are within the legal limits for noise required by the city, Whole Foods Market Haight has made many adjustments in response to HVAC inquiries, including:
o We reprogrammed the HVAC system to shut down between 8PM and 8AM to reduce noise when people are home
o We also changed our thermostat settings two degrees lower so the heat would kick on later in the morning
o We installed sound dampening devices on all our rooftop condensing fans
o We had our own acoustic, electric and HVAC engineers come out to test and fine tune our system for noise reduction and ensure we were within our legal limits
o Additionally, we had the Department of Public Health Environmental Services come back out to re-test and ensure we were operating within the legal limits
While the adjustment to any new neighbor may take some time, we truly hope we can peacefully co-exist with our neighbors in the Haight”
(IMO, poorly-rated ParkMerced (The Mistake By The Lake) should be razed to the ground and replaced with more normal and higher density housing, and that’s pretty much what’s going to happen, sooner or later, so that’s good.)
Don’t get me started about the basements of the high-rise apartments at ParkMerced, and the people living down there (granted, this was a few years back) on mattresses and stealing electricity, and stealing your panties (just panties, thank you, nothing else) from the driers, and stealing bikes, bike parts, etc.*
Storing your bikes in the catacombs of PM, well that’s like crossing the river Styx and entering Bicycle Hell, or at least that’s my impression. As stated, IMO, the buildings of ParkMerced, well, They Should All Be Destroyed.
But what’s this, there’s a dedicated Bike Room at the Presidio Landmark Apartments and here’s what it looks like ?
OMG, it’s Bicycle Heaven!
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(Put this setup in the basement of Park Merced and then the Park handtools would be gone in an hour and the expensive tool chest would be on craigslist the next day.)
So this is where your money goes, on stuff like this, when you pay rent at the PLA.
Hurray!
*Uh, Legal, can we get a an approved stamp, you know, on possible defamation issues?
YES, “APPROVED.” LEGAL.
kthx.
All the details:
San Francisco Police Request Public’s Assistance in Identifying a Person of Interest in a Homicide Investigation.
Police investigators are requesting assistance from the public in identifying a suspect who has been accessing the bank account information of a homicide victim.
On 5/12/2011 at 5:00pm, San Francisco Police responded to a residence on the 2900 block of Folsom Street. A family member found the victim, Joseph Williams age 74, deceased in his apartment. The death has been ruled a homicide by the San Francisco Medical Examiner’s Office.
The suspect in the associated photos and video has been accessing the victim’s bank account information in various locations in San Francisco and the Bay Area. The suspect has been described as a male, black, approximately 50-60 years old, 5’03” – 5’05”, thin build, medium complexion. He has been seen driving a gold or beige sedan (possibly a Mercedes “E” Class) with a sun roof.
Anyone recognizing the suspect or having information regarding his whereabouts should contact the San Francisco Police Department:
Inspectors: Pam Hofsass, Kevin Jones or Valerie Matthews of the SFPD Homicide Detail through: SFPD-BRICC: (415) 553-1071, The SFPD Anonymous Tip Line: (415) 575-4444, or Text a Tip: “TIP411”
SFPD Case Number: 110-383-998
Well, lookie at what stretches 50 feet above the top of the residential tower at 1250 Clay Street at Talor in Nob Hill – it’s WNEQ991!
This structure combines the paint scheme of Sutro Tower with the build of the Eiffel Tower. Check it:
STATION, 1250 Jones St (Lat: 37.793250 Lon: -122.414111), Structure height: 94.5 m, Overall height: 109.1 m, Call Sign: WNEQ991
Assigned Frequencies: 21825.0 MHz, 23125.0 MHz, 23375.0 MHz
Grant Date: 08/07/2008, Expiration Date: 08/06/2018, Certifier: Deborah A Mcdermott
Registrant: Brooks, Pierce, Et. Al., Raleigh, NC 27602
The view from California Street near the western terminus of the cable car line:
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Is this where former NBC affiliate KRON Channel 4 transmits? Mmmm, could be. Maybe it’s a back-up or something.
Irregardless, it’s quite a handsome tower.
(Can you imagine what the anti-PG&E SmartMeter people would think if they had this monster humming just above their noggins? Man, they’d freak out.)
Try to spot it the next time you’re in the Specific Whites neighborhood – it will be the red-and-white tower obstructing your view of the Transamerica Pyramid.
Look to the Skies for Signs and Wonders
This formerly-plain building certainly looks more lively after the paint job, non?
And this way there’s no worry about passers by stealing your potted flora
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