Posts Tagged ‘consulate’
Monday, January 28th, 2013
I don’t know.
I mean, her luxury condo south of Market was only partly subsidized, right? And she doesn’t really have a job job. And I don’t think the Chinese consulate has ever 1099′ed her for the “consulting” work she does / did for it.
So lookie here to see what those gambling houses in Reno and Las Vegas have to pay to participate in the 2013 event:
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So Rose Pak is a guaranteed winner and the “Chinese community” she claims to represent is a guaranteed loser, assuming that advertising works and assuming that The House Always Wins, which is does.
Couldn’t somebody else “organize” this parade?
And maybe not do the drunk mafia grandma routine every year?
Tags: 2013, annual, asian, bay area, california, channel 2, China, chinatown, chinese, Chinese New Year Parade, condo, consulate, ktvu, pak, parade, poak, rose, Rose Pak, San Francisco
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2012
Thusly, right at the entrance to International Arrivals:
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And thusly:
I should add that it would help if you had a Rolls Royce, and if your license plate had no letters* on it, and if you had a chauffeur to keep an eye on the car…
Oh, to hail from Mother Russia!
*See? ‘Cause it’s “special.”
**Someday, I’ll be special. (I’m a driver, I’m a winner. Things are gonna change, I can feel it.) In the meantime I’ll just have to circle around powered by my straight-outta-Toyota-City 2UZ-FE V-8 with hypereutectic pistons, you know, an engine from this century. The one what will surely outlive whichever visiting comrade happened to be coming in from Moscow on this particular day…
*** Someday.
Tags: 054, 2012, airport, bay area, california, car, coat of arms, consulate, illegal, license, parking, plae, rolls, royce, russia, russian, San Francisco, SFO, yellow
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Wednesday, August 29th, 2012
San Francisco has Neighborhood Courts? News to me.
Anyway, if you go down to Chinatown, I don’t know, maybe around Grant Ave. and Washington, and you start punching the Falun types, well, you just end up in Community Court and then be forced to write insincere apology notes, and to attend Anger Management courses, and to keep away from Grant Ave. and Washington.
So says the house organ for area Falun Gong, the Epoch Times Newspaper.
Check it:
“Yongyao Wu (right) assaults Falun Gong practitioner Derek Wang in San Francisco’s Chinatown on June 10. Wu was found guilty by a Neighborhood Court on Aug. 13. (Courtesy of anonymous bystander)”
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So, I sort of knew about this sitch, but I didn’t know how things turned out.
Tags: 2012, American, anger management, apology, asian, Aug. 13, bay area, california, China, chinatown, chinese, Community Court, consulate, Derek Wang, Epoch Times, falun dafa, falun gong, Grant, Jingjun Chin, June 10, Neighborhood Court, newspaper, religion, Rose Pak, San Francisco, Washington, Yongyao Wu
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Thursday, August 16th, 2012
Tags: 2790 Green, Amnesty International, cathedral, consulate, day, Ekaterina Samucevich, February, free, global, GLOBAL FREE PUSSY RIOT DAY, Justin Herman Plaza, Maria Alekhina, musician, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, protest, punk, PUSSY, Pussy Riot, Putin, riot, russia, russian, Russian Consulate, street, Vladimir, Women
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Friday, July 6th, 2012
I don’t know, which would you rather see when you look outside in the morning? Would you rather see freaky Blair Witch evidence or bunch of Falun Gong holding this pose?
Geary at Laguna:
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I could go either way.
But, attention cultists, achtung baby: Signals intelligence officers are inside this consulate, sniffing your cell phone data packets, so to speak. Like a giant Google Maps car.
So, Falun Gongers, take your cell phone batteries out of your mobiles, if you know what’s good for you, whenever you protest over there.
Just saying…
Tags: 2012, 3g, 4g, bay area, blair, california, cell, cellualr, China, chinese, consulate, cult, cultist, cultists, Edge, embassy, engineers, espionage, exercise, Falun, falun dafa, falun gong, freaked out, freaky, geary, Gong, Intelligence, laguna, network, officers, packet sniffing, phone, pose, prc, protest, radio, San Francisco, signals, spies, spy, spying, street, witch
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Thursday, January 5th, 2012
Not that I care all that much about it, but you know, it’s back for 2012, baby.
Here’s your backgrounder right here. And here’s Civic Center Mike’s take.
Oh, this popped up in one of my shots – I recognized it immediately.* SY spends a lot of money advertising itself, of course:
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The annual return of the Shen Yu upsets the occupants of the Chinese Consulate in the Western Addition like nobody’s business. Oh well.
The current government of China hates Shen Yu and vice versa. These two have got a whole dramaturgical dyad going on.
Choose or lose.
Cause, you know, one side is a cult, and the other is a shadowy religious group.
Get your tickets here, if you want.
*Oh, and last month, the Shen Yu repeatedly subscribed and unsubscribed to my Twitter on like a daily basis. Why? I don’t know. Oh well.
Tags: 2012, bay area, california, China, chinese, civic center, consulate, cult, falun gong, government, mike, new year, Opera House, religion, San Francisco, Shen Yu, show, tickets
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Thursday, November 17th, 2011
Well here it is:
“The British Consul General, Ms Priya Guha, requests the pleasure of your company at a reception prior to a screening of “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” November 16, 6:00-7:15pm”
O.K. then. And that’s not at all a typical kind of thing for San Francisco’s consular community, really, but our British Consulate-General is out there in the Bay Area promoting the heck out of Britain. (Cool Britannia they used to call it.) And actually that’s not a hard job when you have Kate Middleton’s Royal Wedding this year (and her recent California visit, dropping by just to say “hi”) and the upcoming 2012 Summer Olympics and whathaveyou.
Add to that list the start of a movie series that could rival James Bond and Harry Potter, who knows. It’s Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (that’s a nice trailer, huh?) featuring Mr. Gary Oldman (H.P.’s godfather!) and, already, it has an obscenely-high 97% positive rating at Rotten Tomatoes. Check it:
“Based on the classic novel of the same name, the international thriller is set at the height of the Cold War years of the mid-20th Century. George Smiley (Gary Oldman), a disgraced British spy, is rehired in secret by his government – which fears that the British Secret Intelligence Service, a.k.a. MI-6, has been compromised by a double agent working for the Soviets.”
So last night, San Francisco’s first female British Consul General, Ms. Priya Guha, introduced this film at the Century 9 in Westfield’s San Francisco Centre. She pointed out that Britain is quite big in the movie biz, having over 100 film studios and 2500 post-production companies.
And then it was on with the show.
And then, who popped up as the curtain dropped but Gary Oldman and Director Tomas Alfredson. (Or so I’m told.) This very same crew was up in San Rafael two days ago and who knows where they’ll be tonight:
“OH MY GOD, Gary Oldman is coming to the Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy screening tonight?!!”
Anway, I don’t have a shot for you, so:
INSERT PHOTO OF MSSRS. OLDMAN AND ALFREDSON WITH CONSUL GENERAL HERE
But I do have shots from last night of people who may or may not have wanted their photos taken, so I’ll leave them caption-free. (I’ll note that CBS Channel 5 was def. in the house with famous Liam Mayclem and Beth Spotswood (she’s earned a page on Wiki now? Wow) on hand.)
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So, Enter the Circus yourself, why not, starting December 9th, 2011.
See you there!
Tags: 2012, 2012 Summer Olympics, 888 howard, Ambassador, bay area, britain, british, British Consul General, British Consulate, Century 9, community, Consul General, consular, consulate, Consulate-General, Cool Britannia, Deputy, england, film, Gary Oldman, George Smiley, Harry Potter, hotel, intercontinental, james bond, john le carre, London, mall, moive, November 16, Olympics, Rotten Tomatoes, San Francisco Centre, screening, summer, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Tomas Alfredson, trailer, twitter, United Kingdom, westfield, Writer
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Thursday, September 1st, 2011
Well, here it is, the 2200 block of Octavia Street betwixt Washington and Jackson in San Francisco’s tony Specific Whites District right near writer Danielle Steel’s large white mansion and just up the hill from our 3.5-star Yelp-rated German Consulate.*
See? It’s got a brick surface and it’s curvy, sort of:
There it is on the left. (How many of the cars you can see are owned by Ms. Steel? She used to have 26(!) residential parking permits, you know…)
Fake Lombard Street is a big FAIL, IMO.
Oh well.
Why is it here? Who built it? I know not.
*”Gee honey, do you think we should go to the consulate after getting those deportation notices?” “I don’t know, Cupcake. Let’s check Yelp first…”
Tags: 1960 jackson, 2011, bay area, brick, california, cars, consulate, crookedest, curve, curvy, danielle, district, german, Germany, heights, lombard, lombard street, mansion, octavia, octavia street, pacific, pacific heights, parking, permit, places, red, residential, San Francisco, specific whites, steel, street, tourists, Washington, white, world, Writer
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Wednesday, April 27th, 2011
Well it’s here, it’s BritWeek in the 415:
“BritWeek 2011 will run from April 26th to May 11th in Los Angeles and Orange Counties, and until May 12th in San Francisco. As usual, it will highlight the many British links with California, including art and design, literature, music, film and television, technology, business, sport, food and fashion. The program ranges from star-studded red carpet events, to concerts and exhibits, to conferences and symposiums.”
OK then.
Now it just so happens that the British are having a royal wedding during this Fifth Annual BritWeek. So why don’t you be a sport and head over to 1 Sansome #850 in the Financh and sign the royal wedding book? You can use the elocution what you learned by watching The King’s Speech:
“HRH Prince William of Wales and Miss Catherine Middleton will be married on 29 April 2011, at Westminster Abbey in London. The British Consulate General in San Francisco will be celebrating by engaging the Bay Area community in all of the excitement. The following activities are planned: ~A royal guest book will be available at the Consulate for the public to sign from April 26-28th (9am-4pm)…”
This is exactly what it’ll look like when you’re penning your best wishes:
Via Zillapix
All right, all the deets:
Throughout BritWeek
BritWalk SF:
Fashion • Retail • Hospitality • Restaurants • Offers
Fri Apr 29
Royal Ceremonial Ball Celebrating the Birthday of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Royal Wedding. (This Event Is Sold Out)
Fri Apr 29
Celebrate the Royal Wedding with British Invasion Music at Cameron’s Pub in Half Moon Bay
Sat Apr 30
San Francisco Conservatory of Music Performs Elgar
Tues May 3
BritWeek SF is proud to support the Red Cross with an invitation-only VIP reception in the Penthouse of the Fairmont Hotel honoring sponsors and supporters of the Bay Area chapter.
Through May 5
54th San Francisco International Film Festival, featuring British films and coproductions
May 5 – Jun 5
An original Magna Carta on Display at the Legion of Honor. Exhibition organized by the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, made possible by Qualcomm, Irwin & Joan Jacobs, and John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Thurs May 12
Business Innovation Awards
See you there!
Tags: 1 Sansome, 2011, 850, April 26th, bay area, birthday, book, british, British Invasion, BritWalk SF, BritWeek, Business Innovation Awards, california, Cameron's Pub, Catherine Middleton, Conservatory of Music, consulate, county, Elgar, Fairmont, financh, general, guest book, half moon bay, hotel, legion of honor, los angeles, Magna Carta, May 12th, museum, orange, penthouse, Prince William, Queen Elizabeth, red cross, royal, Royal Ceremonial Bal, royal wedding, royal wedding book, San Francisco, San Francisco International Film Festiva
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Tuesday, March 15th, 2011
Or consulate, that’s what we’d call it these days, but back in the day, people tended to call these buildings embassies.
Anyway, it’s in there, somewhere in Specific Whites.
Word is that on December 7th, 1941 people in the nabe saw chimney smoke coming up, you know, from the burning of diplomatic papers…
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Anyway, some lady owns it now, AFAIK.
Bon Courage, Japan.
Tags: 2011, bay area, buidling, california, consulate, embassy, Japanese, park, San Francisco, specific whites
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