Posts Tagged ‘Blue’
Monday, February 8th, 2010
Check out this SFPD prowler parked in the Funset District – groove on that funky, aerodynamic light bar on top.
Almost thought it was a fake from the filming of NBC’s horrible Trauma action/dramedy at first, but no, if you count the points on the big blue door star it comes up seven (and not eight) every time.
Fake Michael Schumacher will have even less of a chance of evading Park Station the next time he drives his Ferrari F355 Spyder to Haight Ashbury for a pint or five.
Maybe our City is just trying out something new…
Tags: 1275, 355, aerodynamic, ashbury, Blue, car, convertible, crown vic, crown victoria, cruiser, department, dept., detention, district, f355, ferrari, fly yellow, ford, Giallo, golden gate park, haight, light bar, lights, Michael Schumacher, middle, Modena, Park station, police, prowler, radio car, roof, San Francisco, san francisco police department, Schumi, SFPD, spider, spyder, sunset
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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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Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
As here, on Grove betwixt Divisidero and Scott.
Would you call this block a part of Alamo Square (after all, you can see the wide, wide steps of A.S. right there), or the Western Addition(literally, this block was added as part of the western addtion to San Francisco, which used to have its north-south border on Larkin in the Tenderloin) or the North of Panhandle (NOPA) District (the grass-fed burgers of NOPA restaurant are just a block away!), or something else? No matter.
The point is that this block is right near where conspiracy theorist Crazy Rob Anderson (go ahead, ask him about the truth behind the death of JFK) lives. Check it:
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(Man, I’ve seen people freak out over just one truck working a block. Can you imagine how the NIMBYs felt about this disruption to their day?)
I was going to try to get on my HAM radio to see if I could warn Rob about this overt operation, tell him about how undercover agents from the FBI, CIA, NSA, ETC could be laying in their own cables right along with friendly PGE.
But then I thought, well, that’s just what THEY would want me to do, probably triangulate on my broadcast equipment in a New York minute. Then they’d find my chemtrails videos and everything. So, I didn’t do nothing.
But remember, The Truth Is Out There. We’re through the looking glass, people!
Tags: "Crazy Rob" Anderson, alamo square, area, Blue, chemtrails, conspiracy, crazy, district, divisidero, electricty, grove, jfk, light, NOPA, north of panhandle, oliver stone, pacific gas and electric, pg&e, rob anderson, San Francisco, scott, street, theory, trucks, truth is out there, utlilty, western addition
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Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
At first, I thought this aging Datsun* pick-em-up was affiliated with San Francisco’s famous Laughing Squid enterprise but, upon further review, these squid don’t look particularly jocular.
This vehicle shall remain a mystery.
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*It’s what we used to call Nissans, kids – it means the “son” the DAT car from Mssrs. Den, Aoyama, and Takeuchi)
Tags: 3y17514, Aoyama, Blue, california, DAT, Datsun, Den, laughing squid, license, nissan, orange, pickup, plate, San Francisco, son, squid, Takeuchi, twin peaks
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Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
New San Francisco Police Chief George Gascón is becoming known for donning a suit more often than a uniform, per this bit from CW Nevius. Now the last time we had a chief like that was from 1975-1980, when “outsider” Charles Gain ran the SFPD.
Did Chief Gain really have all of San Francisco’s police cars painted soft pale blue and did he really replace the seven-pointed SFPD stars on the doors with the San Francisco Seal avec an encircling ”POLICE SERVICES” motif?
Yes, yes he did. How friendly!
Can you imagine?
Looks like the seven-pointed star made it onto the trunks, though. As seen in Milk:
Now what do you think the union thought about that? Not much.
Mayor Dianne Feinstein asked for his resignation in 1979 after the White Night Riots and he was replaced in 1980.
And now San Francisco’s “black-and-whites” are black and white again, with stars and everything.
Don’t expect that to change anytime soon.
Tags: 1975, 1980, arizona, association, black, Blue, cars, charles, chuck, department, dept., gain, gascon, George, George Gascón, jacket, new, Oakland, officers, pale, police, Police Chief, prowlers, radio, San Francisco, services, SFPD, star, suit, tie, uniform, union, white
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Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
I says, “Don’t eat that little blue pill, squirrelly!” But s/he went up a tree and away from view with a quickness.
What was in the capsule and whether squirrelly had no reaction, some reaction with humourous antics, or a massive OD resulting in death – that info is lost to History.
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People, try not to drop too many doses when you’re popping your pills at Golden Gate Park’s Strybing Arboretum, mkay?
Tags: arboretum, Blue, capsule, drugs, golden gate park, light, O.D., pill, reaction, San Francisco, sqirel, sqirell, squirrel, strybing, tree
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Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
The Baldessari exhibit at the Legion of Honor museum continues on through November 8th, 2009. It’s called ”John Baldessari: A Print Retrospective from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation.”
Tags: (Two Things), A Print Retrospective, baldessari, Baldessari of the Day, Blue, Collections, Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation, exhibition, Family Foundation, green, His, John, John Baldessari, John Baldessari: A Print Retrospective, jordan, Jordan Schnitzer, Jordan D. Schnitzer, legion of honor, orange, oregon, portland, print retrospective, purple, red, Schnitzer, show, stoenhenge, with two persons, yellow, Your Baldessari of the Day
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Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
Does this look like San Francisco? It must, because that’s what it is, or at least this is how SoMA looked last night when the Harvest Moon* started rising in the sky around sunset.
Can you spot the full moon? And what’s behind Door 17? Click to expand:
That’s from a fish-eye lens. Here’s the same moon a little later with a zoom lens.
Has it been 40 years since Whitey first set foot on the silv’ry orb?
Use the new Google Moon to keep track of the High Rollers who’ve made it up there.
*Or Fruit Moon, if you want to play it safe
Tags: 100-400, 11, 17, 2009, 5.6, 7th, 8th, apollo, area, Blue, brannan, canon, chrystal method, d60, door, full, harvest, high roller, midwestern, mm, moon, pink, pwn, rei, Sea, sky, soma, sout of market, street, sunset, townsend, tranquility
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Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009
Here’s the thing – you gotta have rules. One rule in San Francisco is that you gotta move your car out of many parking spaces by 3:00 PM in the Financial District, or else you’re going to get a hefty ticket and a memorable tow job. Why? Cause rush hour is coming and the Spice Must Flow.
But what if you come back to your car while the tow truck is hooking you up? I’ve seen cases where the tow truck operator will release the vehicle under the assumption that the driver immediately leave. All right. You still have to pay the parking ticket, but all right. But what if the truck makes it a block away and you, the car’s owner, hop on the tow truck to halt its progress?
As here. It’s well after 3:00 PM on Drumm Street between California and Sacramento, so you get a ticket and a tow. Just another day in paradise.
But what’s this? The owner grabbing onto the passenger door handle and hopping up on the tow truck’s running board after chasing it down for a block to Market Street? Yes!
Let’s everybody call the SFPD to clear things up. And let’s conversate about the situation.
Here’s the thing. The government has an interest in keeping the streets clear for traffic, so it can’t be Mr. Nice Guy. It’s got to enforce the rules or we’ll have chaos. (Although in this case, leaving the car there in that particular case wouldn’t have affected traffic a whit, in all probability) Conversely, the tow truck company has an interest in making money. (That’s why whenever I hear the phrase “public private partnership” the first thing I think is the potential for corruption.) The tow truck driver here has pretty much done all the work already, so what does he gain from releasing the vehicle? Nothing. In fact, he loses.
So, the tow truck operator focuses on the fact that it’s after 3:00 PM and the vehicle owner focuses on the fact that he’ll drive his offending vehicle out of the way just as soon as the truck driver lets him. The public interest would be satisfied by releasing the vehicle at the scene, but not the private.
Note the 101 California security officer monitoring the scene from the background. In his six years on the job, he’s never seen the cops tell a tow truck driver to let the driver and vehicle go. Also note the old-school, Oscar-the-Grouch-style mini trash can on the truck. What’s up with that?
Let’s leave this scene now as I left it, all involved waiting for the SFPD to show up.
On it goes…
Tags: 3:00 PM, Berkeley, Blue, california, department, dept., DPT, drumm, fee, financial district, flex, ford, man, market, mta, partnership, police, public private, sacramento, San Francisco, SFMTA, SFPD, street, suv, tow, towing, traffic, truck, UC
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Saturday, August 15th, 2009
Read all about the way these Obama as The Joker posters have been glued up all over the Financial District and the SoMA.
Or better yet, see the culprit, Joe or Kris, one of them, in action for yourself. (In this particular case, a woman is NOT the culprit. How refreshing!)
As seen on Mission Street:
I’d expect them to be all torn down by now…
Tags: 555 california, area, barack, Blue, brush, bucket, building, california, district, fed, financial, glued, got, grafitti, healthcare, info wars, inforwars, infowars.com, Joe, joker, kris, obama, pasted, placard, police, posted, poster, president, red, San Francisco, SFPD, signs, socialism, soma, south of market, United States, vandalism, Video, walls, white, youtube
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