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Monday, October 26th, 2009
Leave us travel back in time to October 21st, 2009, when we last heard from NBC Universal Television Entertainment Chairman Jeff Gaspin and NBC Entertainment chief Angela Bromstad:
“Gaspin and Bromstad are expected to make their next key moves to boost NBC’s fortunes within the next few days, when the network will decide the short-term fates of newcomers such as ‘Mercy,’ ‘Community,’ ‘Parks and Recreation’ and ‘Trauma.’”
Trauma? Don’t they film that in our little town, (the fourth-largest in the whole state, I’m proud to say)? Yes they do! Maybe NBC could commit to nine more episodes (the “back nine”) so we could have a full season of on-location shoots?
Well, here’s the news from last Saturday (the Day Without Wind, incidentally):
“NBC has picked up full seasons of Thursday night comedies “Community” and “Parks and Recreation,” as well as its Wednesday night medical drama “‘Mercy.’”
Well, what about Trauma? Hello-oooo, NBC? Hello-ooooooooo?
Uh oh.
No matter, twirlypopper pilot Aimee Garcia will still maintain her official website regardless of when Trauma gets cancelled. (You all seem to just love her.)
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In light of recent developments, the unofficial NBC Trauma Deathwatch™ over-under date has been officially moved up to: November 30, 2009.
Adjust your wagers accordingly.
Enjoy it while it lasts – a new show (the Halloween one?) is on tonight at 9:00 PM.
[UPDATE: News tonight from the Hollywood Reporter is that Trauma is history as of today, October 28th, 2009. Oh well.]
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Friday, October 23rd, 2009
Get up to speed on the slow-motion car crash that is Trauma here. Finished? Bon, je vous laisse continuer.
Here’s the latest – turns out that the flight nurses are even more pissed off about this show than pilots, paramedics, EMTs and doctors. So, the nurses have invited the Trauma crew down to San Hoser for the 2009 Air Medical Transport Conference to learn a few things about portraying emergency response.
Read all about it, after the jump.
Now let’s hear from an extra on the set. A sample from what Allie Pape of 7×7 magazine had to say about her recent experience making cold hard off of the production of the show – her opinion of Trauma?
“…on life support in the ratings, vapid, seems doomed to a quick and painful death, truly terrible show, headache-inducing, the dialogue painfully bad, the characters pre-packaged, it makes me want to claw out my own eyeballs…”
Ooh, harsh. Harsh but fair.
All right, let’s see here, we got to have a photo – how about pilot Aimee Garcia’s preflight checklist:
Giant chopper? Check
Giant Rabbit? Check
Giant helmet that’s way too big for her melon? Check
Let’s roll:
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As promised, another spanking for NBC, after the jump.
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Tags: $28, (AMTC), 2009, 22, 28th, Aimee Garcia, Air Medical Transport Conference, Air Medical Transport Conference (AMTC), all's fair, alley, amy chozick, Anastasia Griffith, angela bromstad, backlash, bad day at work, beaucoup explosions, big bang, Billy Lush, blogger, Boone, bowl, broadway, cancelled, Cast, casting, choppers, Cliff Curtis, commission, concourse, craigslist, Credits, Dario Scardapane, death watch, deathwatch, debut, Derek Luke, district, divisidero, doctors, Dr. Joe, drinking, dunnes, earthquake, emt, emts, episode, executive, Executive Producer, extras, filbert, film, Film 44, filming, financial, fresno, Friday Night Lights, gala, game, gigs, golden gate park, green, helicopters, hollywood, horrible, hospital, hulu, idiot box, idiot panel, Jamey Sheridan, jay leno, Jeff Reiner, july, just horrible, justin herman, Kevin Rankin, LLC, Marissa, music concourse, nancy, nbc, north beach, open 4 business, open 4 business productions, open for business, open4business, pacific, pacific heights, party, Peter Berg, pilot, plaza, plot, police, police department, Polk, Producers, Productions, rabbit, ratings, sam, San Francisco, san jose, Sarah Aubrey, scenes, september, set, SFPD, street, stuck, studio, suck. ems, sucks, taping, technology, television show, trauma, TV, twirlypopper, Tyler, union, Universal Media Studios, viewing, wall street journal, watching, Writer
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Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
I can tell you that one thing that the specific whites of Pacific Heights don’t like is commotion. But that’s what they’re going to get come tomorrow based upon this photo taken by San Franciscan Jeffrey Baker of the tow-away signs that are up there right now.
OMG, Trauma is coming! Will the circling choppers play Wagner ala Apocalypse Now? We Can Only Hope. (Does the digital trickery used by the makers of Trauma look better than Francis Ford Coppola’s analog efforts from three+ decades ago? Discuss.)
The horror, the horror of inconvenience for the sake of Art:
Local punter Professor Z offers some advice today to the Traumatics:
“The only thing this show has going for it is the San Francisco scenery. Why the decision to exclude compelling characters, story arcs, or central conflicts? This show didn’t have to follow the ER model or the House model, but it should try to adhere to some basic storytelling model.
“I vote for bringing back the Zodiac killer in a three-story arc that offs every character not called Rabbit, then rebooting the show with at least a few C-list actors.”
How wude! Oh well. The good professor is tough, tough but fair.
And oh, check out San Francisco’s Newest Blogger - ebullient, radiant Aimee Garcia:
(She knows her choppers, anyway.)
Lastly, a message for Pac Heights: “Brace, Brace, Heads Down, Stay Down!”
You don’t want to have your car towed. But if that happens, just call DPT at (415) 701-5400 to get your ride back. Ask for the Trauma discount! Obviously, you don’t want to end up like this Craigslister. Oh well
Unfairly towed for Nike Womens Marathon on Sunday? (marina / cow hollow)
Me too! $417 out of the tow yard + another $53 ticket is WAY TOO MUCH. Not to mention I saw no sign of the event on Polk street near Aquatic Park besides the metal fences on the sidewalk ready for deployment at 3am. In addition, the street was completely full of cars at 1:30am, and towing began at 3am….if there were signs, were all these people idiots like me to ignore them? I doubt it. If your car was towed anywhere along the route, and you want to team up to appeal the tow and ticket fines, let me know – dammit. Thanks!
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Tuesday, October 13th, 2009
Hey, are you a journalist, Blogger, New Media Content Provider and/or a person who reports on the business of courts? If so, you are in luck - word comes today from Kimo Crossman about a FREE half-day conference is coming up at San Francisco’s Old Federal Building (Big Blue) in the Tenderloin / Civic Center area on November 4, 2009. And to butter up all you ink-stained wretches beforehand, the 9th Circuit Office of the Circuit Executive is going on about how “old media” is “imploding.” Quelle surprise!
Anyway, it’s called, “How Blogs, Twitter and Social Media are Changing Legal Reporting - A half-day conference focusing on the changing nature of the news media and its coverage of the federal courts.” Whew.
See?
And best of all, San Francisco City Hall Examiner Sweet Melissa Griffin will be on one of the panels. OMG! U got 2 go 4 sure!!!
SMG adressing the City Club earlier this year:
In short, it’s going to be on. But space is limited, so register today!
When: Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009
1 to 5 p.m., reception to follow
Where: Phillip Burton Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse
450 Golden Gate Ave.
San Francisco, California
Sponsors: U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California and the U.S. Ninth Circuit Public Information and Community Outreach Committee.
To Attend: Journalists, bloggers, new media content providers and others reporting on the business of the courts are encouraged to attend. The event is free but space is limited.
Conference Program
How Blogs, Twitter and Social Media are Changing Legal Reporting – A half-day conference focusing on the changing nature of the news media and its coverage of the federal courts
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
1:00 p.m. Welcome
Hon. Judge Vaughn R. Walker, Chief District Judge
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
Hon. Marilyn L. Huff, District Judge, PICO Committee Chair
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California
1:15 p.m. Media Mania and the Courts
With “old media” imploding and the “new media” exploding, just who is reporting on the courts these days and how are they doing it? What should judges and courts expect from the new media? Join a distinguished panel in discussing how court coverage is changing and what that means for accuracy and access.
Panelists:
James R. Bettinger, Director
Knight Fellowships Program Stanford University
Melissa Griffin, Blogger
TheSweetMelissa.com
Hon. Susan Y. Illston
U.S. District Judge, Northern District of California
Kelli L. Sager, Esq.
Davis, Wright, Tremaine
Ninth Circuit PICO Committee
Peter Scheer
Executive Director
First Amendment Coalition
2:45 p.m. Break
3:00 p.m. Blogging, Tweeting: New Media in the Courtroom
Who qualifies as a journalist and does it really matter anymore? Are bloggers the new court reporters? How have courts responded to the challenge of instant reporting via wireless communications devices? Join a judge, a working journalist, legal blogger and Internet law expert in a discussion of new media in the courtroom.
Panelists:
Hon. Jeremy Fogel
U.S. District Judge
Northern District of California
Eric Goldman
Associate Professor & Blogger
Santa Clara University Law School
Jennifer Granick
Civil Liberties Director
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Howard Mintz
Legal Affairs Writer
San Jose Mercury News
4:30 p.m. Round Up
5:00 p.m. Reception in the Lawyers Lounge, 18th Floor
| The Conference is sponsored by the United States District Court for the District of Northern California and the Ninth Circuit Public Information and Community Outreach Committee. The program will take place at the Phillip Burton Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in San Francisco. |
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Parking
The courthouse does not have a public parking lot.Public parking lots are available on 735 Van Ness between Turk & Eddy streets (open until 5:30 p.m.), and at the corner of Golden Gate and Larkin streets. The Civic Center Garage is also available on McAllister Street between Polk and Larkin streets. |
See you there!
All the attendees with bios, after the jump.
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Sunday, May 31st, 2009
UCSF‘s Mission Bay campus was all filled up yesterday with attentive youths, Genius Bar geniuses, and Laughing Squid’s Scott Beale, so that can mean only one thing – it must have been yet another one-day WordCamp from WordPress.
As always, the focus is “on how to be a better blogger, on the development and future of WordPress, and other topics of interest.” Just read the WordCamp Report for the deets:
But, What Does WordPress Mean To You? That’s something to ponder as you…
Get free help from WP geniuses, such as Brian Colinger, for instance.
Or peruse the Job Board:
Or proactively look for work with your name card.
Or nosh on Southern BBQ complete with ham-hocked collard greens
And steer clear of the WordPress bully boys, with their tattoos and their flashing gang signs. There was lots of stuff to do.
Plus, attendees got American Apparel T-shirts. All this could have been yours for just $25. What a bargain.
See you next year!
Tags: 2009, blog, blogger, blogging, camp, campus, conference, developer, may 30, may 30th, meeting, mission bay, photos, press, report, San Francisco, software, ucsf, word, word camp, word press, wordcamp, wordpress
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Thursday, April 30th, 2009
Per writer Matthew S. Bajko, the SFPD is pointing to photos from famous Berkeley-based zombietime website as evidence that things got a little out of hand at last year’s Up Your Alley Fair in the SoMA area. From today’s copy of the Bay Area Reporter:
“The fair promoters are the ones who have to take charge; this is their event. If they don’t run it properly, they will not be having it again,” said SFPD Lieutenant Nicole M. Greely, who oversees street closure issues for the police department’s Southern Station. “If this event doesn’t go well, we can’t continue to approve their permit unless it is safe for everyone involved.”
So it looks like this event will be on double secret public probation for 2009 at least.
A photo from ZT (ID’ed incorrectly as ZombieReport.com in the B.A.R.) used to show that Miller Beer / MillerCoors/ SABMiller advertising last year was subdued compared to prior years:
Here’s a link to the somewhat-NSFW, somewhat censored version of Zombie’s report on UYAF ’08. How this all will shake out in 2009 Remains To Be Seen.
The Up Your Alley Fair will be held on Sunday, July 26, 2009 from 11AM to 6PM. The fair is located in San Francisco’s South of Market district on Dore Alley between Folsom and Howard Streets. We expanded to the adjoining block of Folsom Street between 9th and Juniper Streets and on to Tenth St. in 2008 to give the crowds some breathing room.
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Friday, April 3rd, 2009
Not too long ago Mars, Incorporated introduced a new “women’s candy bar” with an interesting, somewhat patronizing marketing campaign - read all about it here in a post from January 2009. But now that Fling’s available in stores, you can try it for yourself. And guess what, I’ve tried it myself, but I’ve got to be careful what I say because the United States Federal Trade Commission is working on new rules that would hold bloggers liable for the statements they make about products. Oh noes! This is no April Fools joke – it was written up on CBS5 Eye on Blogs, so it must be true.
Now it just so happens that a few weeks back, Mars, Inc. sent a dump truck full of Fling Bars over here and filled up three of my spare garbage cans (yes I put new liners in first) full of these Twix-like ”chocolate fingers.” Wow. First of all, they’re surprisingly good – lightweight and a little pricey for what you get but very tasty. Second of all, these Fling bars cure the skin disease excema! Cleared it right up – it was all gone by April 1st, can you believe it?!?
Mmmmmm…..fingers. Nothing wrong with the hazelnut version. Dee-lish:
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So, leave no doubt, I endorse Fling chocolate bars because they taste great (as well they should since they’re six times smaller than a regular chocobar) and also because they cure excema.
I must say, this encounter with viral marketing worked out much better than last time, when those phonies at Butler, Shine & Stern up in Marin County pulled their fake giant Indiana Jones Lego ball routine. Now let’s all hope I don’t get sued by the FTC.
I’ll keep you all posted!
“Advertisers in the US are bracing themselves for regulatory changes that they fear will curtail their efforts to tap into the fast-growing online social media phenomenon.
Revised guidelines on endorsements and testimonials by the Federal Trade Commission, now under review and expected to be adopted, would hold companies liable for untruthful statements made by bloggers and users of social networking sites who receive samples of their products.
The guidelines would also hold bloggers liable for the statements they make about products.
If a blogger received a free sample of skin lotion and then incorrectly claimed the product cured eczema, the FTC could sue the company for making false or unsubstantiated statements. The blogger could be sued for making false representations.
“This impacts every industry and almost every single brand in our economy, and that trickles down into social media,” said Anthony DiResta, an attorney representing several advertising associations.
Advertisers have significantly increased spending on social media and word-of-mouth campaigns, even during the recession. Through blogs and services such as Facebook and Twitter, companies are able to communicate more directly with consumers. Spending on social media marketing reached $1.35bn in 2007 and is expected to reach $3.7bn by 2011, according to the Word of Mouth Marketing Association.”
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Thursday, March 26th, 2009
Boy it sure looks like Wall Street Journal cover boy and San Francisco District 5 Diarist Rob Anderson has taken to answering comments that he himself writes. It’s either that or somebody’s putting him on, pulling his leg.
But first things first, RA complains other bloggers in the 415 ignore him “as much as possible,” which doesn’t make a whole bunch of sense. That’d be like saying lovely Vélib Bike-riding Dark Angel Jessica Alba…
Rob Anderson’s nightmare – shouldn’t she be in a car? Click to expand:
…ignores SFCitizen as much as possible, as if she makes calendar entries like ”Ignore SFCitizen.com” to remind her to do so on a regular basis. It’s a piece of cake for her to ignore the masses, just as it’s not hard for the average bay area blogger to ignore District Five Diary. There’s no conscious effort to ignore D5D, one of the millions of web logs in the world, right? Moving on…
Bob’s latest missive concerns the following, ostensibly written to RA by “Anonymous”
Anonymous writes:
Just discovered your blog and I have to say it’s a breath of fresh air. I enjoy reading about SF and its various development projects, but feel blogs like sfist, curbed, sfcitizen don’t really present much of a balanced view. While I don’t agree with everything I’ve read here either, I’m glad there’s someone like you on the intertubes and I look forward to becoming a regular reader.
Got that? “Anonymous” just happens to cite two veritable online communities, two large, custom-built, paid-editor blogs that probably attract well over 10,000 people each every day (feel free to check out any website you want over at Alexa.com) and conflates them with SFCitizen, a tiny bone stock WordPress effort that gets about 2000 unique visitors a day. Who else in the world would do that but Rob Anderson?
You see, this little blog looms large in Bob’s cerebral cortex due to it labeling (labeling, not libeling, oh no) him “Crazy” Rob Anderson and/or “Don’t call him crazy” Rob Anderson. Perhaps Bob would like to shoot the messenger, but that’s how he’s referred to by people around town and even on his own blog - “Crazy Rob Anderson.” (That’s what the quote marks are for.) Sorry. (Some people are irritated by RA’s Bike Plan victory in Superior Court so that’s what they call him.)
The other clue is that “Anonymous” feels that SFCitizen writes about “various development projects” like the Market/Octavia Plan or the UC extension. This blog never comments about those kinds of development projects - why would “Anonymous” think that? Why would “Anonymous” think that nonexistent presentations about development projects here aren’t presented in a balanced fashion? Mmmmm…
So, check out this bad-ass, slightly modified Wall Street Journal stipple drawing of RA and then read his response to “Anonymous” below.
Rob writes:
Welcome aboard, Anon. I bet you didn’t learn about this blog from other bloggers in the city, since they ignore me as much as possible. It’s good that you mention development, since I often write about subjects other than the bike fantasy. You’ll notice that I get a lot of comments from people on my bike posts but rarely get any on my posts about, say, the Market/Octavia Plan or UC’s ripoff of the old extension property, two big projects that will completely remake the heart of the city for the worse. Back when I was a young radical, we grappled with some serious issues, like the war in Vietnam and civil rights. Here in the political theme park I call Progressive Land the young rads mostly get excited about relatively trivial issues, like graffiti, bicycles and defending their right to misbehave in public during the Bay to Breakers race.
You see? RA was a “radical” in his younger days. But don’t quote him on that, ’cause if you quote something from his blog, like the fact that he’s a self-confessed JFK conspiracy “crank,” he gets cranky. Oh well.
So there you have it. Tempest, get in your teacup.
Tags: bicycle plan, bike plan, blogger, district 5 diary, district five diary, rob anderson, San Francisco
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Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
Reports are still coming in, and of course it’s still only February, but writer and Culture Blogger Beth Spotswood‘s recent birthday soiree in the Mission district must now be considered San Francisco’s Affair of the Year for 2009.
CBS 5 KPIX news anchor Joe Vazquez was unafraid to pose for photos:
To all you other party hosts, Better Luck Next Year.
Tags: 2009, Beth Spotswood, birthday, blogger, chronicle, culture blog, flip you, for real, I'll, mission, party, San Francisco, sfgate, soiree, Writer
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Monday, August 18th, 2008
As promised, there was a huge turnout for WordCamp from WordPress last Saturday. Check out an insanely detailed account here and some nice photos from Adam Tow here.
Perhaps the best part of WordCamp is the Apple-inspired Genius Bar, where everybody knows your name.
Making your way in the world today takes everything you’ve got.
Taking a break from all your worries, sure would help a lot.
Wouldn’t you like to get away?
Sometimes you want to go
Where everybody knows your name,
and they’re always glad you came.
You wanna be where you can see,
our troubles are all the same
You wanna be where everybody knows
Your name.
Tags: 08, 2008, august 16, bar, blog, blogger, genius, open-source, San Francisco, wordcamp, wordpress
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