The colors of the Orange and Black are, officially, in PANTONE-speak:
PANTONE 19-1102 TCX – “Licorice” [Black]
PANTONE 17-1462 TCX – “Flame” [Orange]
PANTONE 11-0601 TCX – “Bright White”
PANTONE 17-1044 TCX – “Chipmunk”
PANTONE 13-0917 TCX – “Italian Straw”
PANTONE 11-0701 TCX – “Whisper White”
PANTONE 15-4003 TCX – “Storm Gray”
Did not know that…
You see, my new moral compass app will crawl through the website of SPUR (San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association) to find out its election endorsements. Then it will advise you to vote the opposite.
So, in regards to the the recent Prop A, SPUR told you to vote against ending San Francisco’s archaic and wasteful garbage monopoly.
And on the recent Prop B. SPUR told you to vote for the RPD.
My moral compass app would have advised you to favor both props. See how that works?
D’Accord? D’Accord.
Hey SPUR! Maybe everything our City Family wants isn’t “good?”
Hey SPUR! Maybe you have nothing at all to do with promoting “Good Government.” Maybe you just like promoting the government we have.
How wrong you are, University of San Francisco bus ad:
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All right, what aboot the next election coming up, mmmm. Hey SPUR? Why not let’s fix the mistake our City Family forefathers made with Hetch Hetchy? How does that grab you?
Oh, here’s the answer:
“Why We Need Hetch Hetchy More Than Ever“
Now, realize, SPUR, I’m not saying that it would be easy or cheap for San Francisco to change things at the Hetchy Hetch, I’m just saying, you know, maybe, at least as a goal for the far off future, maybe we could think about taking a look at what we did to the Yosemite area. Yes, we were able to bully other municipalities a century ago, but was that fair? You know, cause the New York Times and the Sacramento Bee and the LA Times and a bunch of others favor looking into changing things at Hetch Hetchy, right?
So don’t you want to think about this? You know, use your own in-built moral compass?
God damn, SPUR, you don’t have any moral compass at all.
Who the Hell put you in charge of Good Government in the 415?
Oh well.
In closing:
SPUR, you suck!
Anyway, here’s some more on Hetch Hetchy, Dear Reader. Leaving you with this:
Drain the Dam!
San Francisco Examiner
February 16, 2012
Will San Francisco Vote to Drain Hetch Hetchy?
Sacramento Bee
February 15, 2012
San Francisco Water Ethos Goes Only so Far
Sacramento Bee
January 25, 2012
Los Angeles Times – Editorial on Hetch Hetchy
Los Angeles Times
January 15,2012
Historical New York Times Articles:
Another Great Capture from Whole Wheat Toast.
It goes cherry, white lemon, blue raspberry:
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Just like a Popsicle Firecracker, non?
Did you know that the first popsicle was made in San Francisco by 11-year-old on a freezing night in 1905?
Frank W. Epperson invented the Popsicle on an extraordinarily cold night in San Francisco
No sir, did not know that. Thanks Wiki!
This atypical view of San Francisico with Sausalito in the background makes the 415 look a little like a village – evidence of Manhattanization is all to the left, so all you see is basically the same as what you would have seen in the 1930′s.
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Finally got SFCitizenShip One flying again after that whole thing with the F.A.A. and after replacing those troublesome port and starboard oblique overlockers, so check out these Euros who paid five Euro each to make it atop world-famous Coit Tower.
Can’t tell if Gunther has a juice box or not. And Babette, well, she looks like a Babette, anyway:
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Welcome back to town, Euros! It’s going to be a great 2011 season, non?
(Our entire economy depends on your annual six-week vacays…)
First up is the Ferry Building Tower from 1898. It’s a straight-up, four-faced clock tower, the likes of which they’ve been building in Europe for 700 years.
Next up is Coit Tower from 1933. It’s from a woman who had a “special relationship” with firefighters, she had a thing for firefighters. It’s a little different.
Last up is the Raygun Gothic Rocketship from 2009. It’s very different.
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What kind of new iconic (and ironic, that seems to be the trend) tower will we erect in the 22nd century?
Boy, somebody spent some time making sure that the painted tiles on the side of our Masonic Trader Joe’s got done right – there are a lot of details to notice while you’re idling in line on the slow lane of Masonic southbound.
(But come to think of it, the great line of idling cars isn’t as great as it used to be, for some reason. Wonder why…)
And oh, looks like grocery projects in the future will require shoppers to pay for parking – anyway, that’s the trend, my friend.
The vibrant mural of Trader Joe’s San Francisco, aka Trader Joe’s Store #100. It’s new, or newish at least:
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Happy shopping.
It’s hard to tell why this Ferris wheel was on Treasure Island recently – it was either for the Treasure Island Music Festival or Oracle OpenWorld 2009.
Or maybe it was for both.
T.I. in the foreground and distant Berkeley in the background:
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Tonight’s Fourth of July fireworks show had a fairly high fog ceiling, so it would have to rate as better than average. Better than last year anyway, but not as good as 2007.
Here’s an excellent eight-second exposure of the northern waterfront show from Lafayette Park in Specific Whites Pacific Heights. Click to expand:
And here’s a real-time shot of the same show from Twin Peaks:
Everything is done double – that’s the way they do it. Here’s a double double:
But this is what happens when the fireworks get too high – you can only see the bottom halves sometimes due to the fog:
Let’s look across the Bay over at Sausalito. That’s USF in the foreground:
Now here are some illegal explosions in San Francisco. This was an impressive burst above the northern Mission district:
And here’s Mission Bay / Dogpatch with Alameda / Oakland in the background – very nice:
The Mission and points south all had lots of illegal fireworks booming:
Oh noes, it’s a flare, shooting high above Twin Peaks…
…and then landing somewhere in the Castro District:
And there you have it.
