Posts Tagged ‘california’

Your SFMTA in Action – Hard at Work or Hardly Working? Watching the Ricki Lake at 4G Speed

Thursday, June 20th, 2013

I’ll tell you, I’ve never not paid MUNI for a ride.

OTOH, MUNI’s never asked for me for proof of fare.

I’m missing out.

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Someday…

 

 

Here’s How the Residents of Masonic Street Typically Park Their Cars on Weekends – They Feel They Own the Sidewalk

Wednesday, June 19th, 2013

Should Masonic Avenue be designed for travelers or residents?

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IMO, it should be designed for travelers.

JMO.

Ah, the 351 California Building: Erupting Office-Worker Poo onto the Sidewalk of Sansome on a Daily Basis

Wednesday, June 19th, 2013

Here’s some background and now let’s have an update.

San Francisco’s Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea of poo:

Stepping over and on raw sewage, on a daily basis:

Is this rainwater? You wish. It’s the accumulated sewage from the previous eruption. Most of the time this area is wet:

Oh well.

If Willie Brown Wants Us to Start Naming Monuments After Him, Why Not Let’s Start With This 17 Foot Tall Monolith on Bush?

Wednesday, June 19th, 2013

This street billboard / newsstand is unused and obsolete these days so why don’t we name it after shadow-Mayor Willie Brown?

You know, instead of SFO or the Golden Bridge or Market Street or whatever else he can cook up.

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And I think it was WB who engineered this poorly-negotiated ad deal in the first place….

Seventh Street Update: Donut, Donut, COMMUNITY AMBASSADOR, Donut, Donut, COMMUNITY AMBASSADOR, Donut, Donut, Donut

Tuesday, June 18th, 2013

Official San Francisco COMMUNITY AMBASSADORS:

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One time I was almost a COMMUNITY AMBASSADOR. Well actually, I was a COMMUNITY ASSISTANT CONSUL GENERAL, you know, making moves, on my way up. But then at the ANNUAL COMMUNITY GALA I upchucked on the silk dress of the COMMUNITY SECRETARY GENERAL. Later on my CCG said, due to that “unfortunate incident,” I would never ever become a COMMUNITY AMBASSADOR no  matter what.

So  I said  screw it, street diplomacy just isn’t the life for me.

Fin.

Western Addition Update: “The Third Baptist Church CDF Freedom School 2013″ – “No Child Left Behind” IRL

Tuesday, June 18th, 2013

This taxpayer-subsidized religious summer school program started up yesterday, looks like:

2013 Summer Session 
June 17 – July 29, 2013

8:00 AM – 3:00 PM

Site Location

Ida B. Wells School

1099 Hayes Street

San Francisco, CA 94115

CDF’s Black Community Crusade for Children (BCCC) led to the creation of the CDF Freedom Schools program in 1995, offering children enrichment through a reading curriculum that seeks to foster a love of learning and to empower children to make a difference in their families, communities and the nation. In the summer of 2007, CDF Freedom Schools sponsor partners served over 8,300 children in 61 cities and 25 states (and D.C.), including over 1,750 children in the Gulf Coast Region (AL,LA,MS,TX). Since 1995, over 64,000 children and families have been reached through the CDF Freedom Schools program experience.”

Finally, an SFMTA Meter Maid Cart WIth Flava! – The Candy-Apple Flaked Streamlined Baby – Oh It’s for Sale, Just $5000

Tuesday, June 18th, 2013

Our horrible SFMTA, a national laughingstock ala our similarly-horrible PG&E, let this Interceptor fall into private hands and just look what happened to it:

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Actually, it’s for sale.

Just $5000!

Srsly.

Last seen on Fulton in what the pilot of this ride would almost certainly call the NoPA area.

Look for it there if you want to add this golf cart to your life.

Look Who’s Enjoying the New Oak Street Bike Lanes Now: It’s Brocephus on His Remote Controlled Electric Skateboard

Tuesday, June 18th, 2013

Left hand in your pocket and the right on the trigger of the hand throttle:

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Go Bro, Go!

Uh Oh: Businesses on 3rd Avenue Still Unaware of the Weekly Clement Street Farmers Market – Starts June 23rd

Monday, June 17th, 2013

Here’s what you need to know about the forthcoming Clement Street Farmers Market.

Oh look, from District One Supe Eric Mar:

“Thank you to Peter Lauterborn from my office, the Clement Street Merchants Assn, Argonne Community Garden, Peabody elementary school PTA, Argonne elementary school PTO and many others for working with the great folks from Marin Agricultural Institute to organize our community farmer’s market! We are working hard to make it family friendly, and thanks to Foggy Notion, Seed Store, ParkLife, Green Apple, Cumaica Coffee House and Giorgio’s Pizzeria and other businesses too for helping to make this successful! [Signed] Eric Mar, District 1 SupervisorIf you have any suggestions or questions – contact Peter at 415-554-7411 or email him at peter.lauterborn@sfgov.org

And “youthful” (I mean, his relatively short Wiki entry uses the term 14 times, right?) aide Peter Lauterborn speaks his piece here.

The thing is is that some businesses on 3rd Avenue, where a couple block will get shut down weekly, don’t seem to be aware of the CSFM.

The Sloat Garden Center for one:

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I myself have no particular beef with the new farmer’s market* but I cry foul at the SFMTA-type, everybody’s-a-winner, everybody-supports-this-new-thing, just-wait-until-you-see-the-transformation-of-the-Inner-Richmond  style of  campaign behind it.

Anyway, Lord knows that Sundays at that part of Clement can be a bit depressing, what with infrequent bus service, a number of empty parking spaces, and  lots and lots of closed storefronts abutting a handful of thriving businesses.

(One assumes that most customers of the 3rd Avenue Burger King and Sloat Gardens will figure another way of getting to and fro asides from approaching from the north.)

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*Indeed, I just might visit.  Actually, I was out yesterday taking King and Messiah for a walk to a bakery on 3rd very near Clement.

 

Nevius Nightmare! – MORE Coyotes in Golden Gate Park – Meet One of the Adorable New Pups of 2013

Monday, June 17th, 2013

OMG, they’re breeding again. It’s just like Jurassic Park.

All the deets:

David Cruz is a San Francisco wildlife film maker and founder of Natures Lantern. He is currently working on a SF Bay Area Black Bear documentary and a local awareness media campaign for Bay Area Mountain Lion street crossing safety.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/alchemicalnature/9045514097/in/photostream/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/alchemicalnature/9047748672/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/alchemicalnature/9045514647/in/photostream/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/alchemicalnature/9045479247/in/photostream/

Cruz has followed this group of coyotes for 3 years. This is the second year he provides breaking unique news photographs that prove these coyotes have reproduced in San Francisco, Golden Gate Park. Historic photographs and  background of pups and park coyotes of past years also available.

Taken today Friday June 14,

Natures Lantern

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I’ll tell you, San Francisco Chronicle writer CW Nevius has been fretting about these critters for a while now. And yet it’s always dogs that be biting and killing people, not no coyotes.