Posts Tagged ‘Bud’
Saturday, February 6th, 2016
This is as close as I’ll get to Super Bowl L:

What could be more inappropriate?
At least I understood that one. This one was illegible to all concerned. Using my camera I could figure it out mostly, but I read it (from the wrong side) as JOIN US AT UNION 20 or JOIN US AT UNION 50, which I imagined to be a new (or pop-up) eatery or bar. I just couldn’t make out the squiggly on the big “Q,” oh well:

This is the best I can do here. (Is this effective advertising?)

Oh, here we go – some of these ads are kind of surreal, huh?

Wondering if Bud Light ads in Canada say, “BUD LIGHT … FOR CANADA!”
Gp
Tags:ad, aerial, airplanes, banner, bay area, beer, Bud, bud light, california, San Francisco, sb50, super bowl, tow
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Friday, September 25th, 2015
Here you go, as seen in the Great Central Valley near the I-80:

All the deets.
And here’s another view of Fairfield – windmills, light poles, flagpoles and a giant inflatable bald eagle draped in an ‘Merican flag.

God Bless America.
Tags:2015, American, bay area, beer, Bud, bud light, Budweiser, building, california, county, Eagle, electricity, factory, flag, freeway, generate, giant, i80, San Francisco, Solano, turbines, windmills
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Wednesday, June 10th, 2015
Sort of.
The cardboard looks a little low to me:

Is this a good thing or a bad thing? IDK
Is this a legal thing or an illegal thing? IDK.
Le mise-en-scene:


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Friday, January 2nd, 2015
These things are huge.

First there was just one giant billboard extolling the virtues of Budweiser, and now there are two.
Well played, Budweiser.
Tags:2015, bay area, beer, Bud, bud light, Budweiser, building, california, county, electricity, factory, freeway, generate, i80, San Francisco, Solano, turbines, windmills
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Sunday, June 9th, 2013
Well it’s the morning of the second Sunday of June, so that means it’s almost time for the Haight Ashbury Street Festival.
Lets take a look at some photos from recent years.
Look up…

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…and down…

…and all around:

From Bluoz: Upper Haight is for Lovers:

Let your freak flag fly, baby. From the Eastern Stage:

From famous David Yu:





From Brian Brooks

And here’s one from Chris Witte:

There’s a feeling I get/
when I look to the West…

…and the East…

…on Haight Street on the Second Sunday in June.

At least the Yelpers like Frank:

This ganga guy in purple will sue you for $1000 if you take his photo, or something:

via Carnesuarus
And Obama in a Giants cap, just the way they had it at the recent Union Street Festival:

via Carnesaurus
You know who loves the Haight Street Fair? Parole agents

A mass of humanity:

Hookahs! Get your hookahs! It’s Hookahs.com

A dancing baby grooving on Haight Street:

Can you see the superfluity of nuns in white approaching the Fair? Also note the F430 Ferrari supercar (sans license plates), one of many exoticars that made the journey to the Upper Haight today. Also note the sign: “No Open Containers of Alcohol.” Too bad.

Of course, all you need to get around the alcohol ban is a gallon jug of overproofed white rum and a giveaway “water” bottle. As seen on Ashbury.

Former District Five Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi on the scene

Poorbot looking for handouts:

“SHOW US YOUR BOOBS… please.” “FABULOUS PRIZES.” “DON’T WORRY (WE’RE GAY)” These inebriates residing above the Ben & Jerry’s at the corner of Ashbury were true to their word, tossing down trinkets to all flashers male and female.

You kmow why this San Francisco Native baby is better than you? Cause he had the foresight to be born in San Francisco, that’s why. He won the lottery/ when he was born.

Bong Hits 4 Jesus

And There You Have It.
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Sunday, June 9th, 2013
He told me he’s hoping for a big turnout this year at the 2013 Haight Ashbury Street Fair.
Srsly.
And if that’s not enough of an invite for you, then consider this, from Amy Stephenson of uppercasing, the UPPER HAIGHT BLOG:

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And here’s Frank on Haight Street IRL, sort of:

In context:

And close up:

And, in closing, here’s what Frank had to say back in the day:
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Thursday, May 2nd, 2013
Back in the day, we only had little wind turbines.

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“Anheuser-Busch and Foundation Windpower assembled a white wind turbine with a tower some 320 feet tall at the Budweiser brewery along Interstate 80. Hundreds of such mammoth turbines are in place 10 miles to the east in rural Montezuma Hills pastureland, but this one is in Fairfield city limits. Brewing beer at Budweiser should soon be a breeze. Plant General Manager Kevin Finger estimated the turbine could provide 20 percent of the electricity for the brewery.”
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013
Most of the time, when there’s a delivery truck double-parked on lower Sixth Street or on neighboring blocks of Market Street, it’s delivering alcohol.
Like this:

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Tuesday, May 29th, 2012
Look closer, you’ll see it.
You think it’s just a coincidence that the old 420 rolls through the Upper Haight?
I don’t.*
We’re on our way to The Vapor Room!**

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And hey, speaking of bud and Giants baseball, back in the 1990’s, people, just regular people, not just baseball players, would hang out in the crib of star pitcher William Joseph Van Landingham and smoke weed all day. So much so that other Giants called him Van Bongingham. I’m srsly.
All right, GO GIANTS!
*Check out what’s on the side of area fire trucks, for example.
**Indeed. 607A Haight is about ten blocks down the road, in the Lower Haight.
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Tuesday, September 6th, 2011
So Oakland officials didn’t want the MSM or anybody else taking photos of Hemp Expo participants toking up with Oakland City Hall in the background over this weekend’s Hemp Expo 2011?
Seems that way:
KTVU-TV showed what appeared to be an Oakland official instructing the media not to take photos of people smoking in front of City Hall. The official was not identified, but Arturo Sanchez, an assistant to the city administrator told the station, “it’s not that we don’t want the picture, we try to keep this area of City Hall, (and) this public park free of smoke.”
Check it out here at 1:40:
“Do not take a photo of somebody directly in front of City Hall”
Well, some of these people here are lighting up – see?

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I don’t know, maybe this edict worked, ’cause I haven’t seen any photos online of people smoking bud in front of City Hall.
Seems funny to have this kind of rule.
All right, Oakland, see you next year…
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