Posts Tagged ‘green’
Tuesday, December 4th, 2012
See what I mean?
SFGov celebrates the birth of baby Jesus:

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Thanks for the Bible lecture, SFGov!
Merry Christmas part.
Modern Christian Symbolism:
- Red – Christ’s blood shed for our sin on the cross. (John 19:34)
- Green – Eternal life in Christ. (John 3:16-17)
Tags: 2012, baby jesus, bay area, blood, california, christ, christian, christmas, City Hall, eternal life, green, holiday, John 19:34, law, lights colors, orange pink, polk street, reason, red, religion, San Francisco, tree, why
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Monday, December 3rd, 2012
It’s the sense of entitlement.
It’s the sense that anytime a pedestrian gets hit, it’s not the pedestrian’s fault.
Do peds have the right to cross Market Street whenever they want?
Apparently:

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Hey SFPD, how about issuing 100 or so jaywalking tickets each day on Market?
You know, for their own good?
Tags: 2012, bay area, bikes, california, cars, citation, cops, deaths, failure, green, illegal, jaywalking, light, officer, ped, pedestrian, red, San Francisco, SFPD, ticket, yeild
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Monday, November 19th, 2012
[Oops, dolphin not porpoise, corrected, thx.]
Yowzer.
San Francisco photographer David Cruz does it again.
Dancing in the waters of Fort Funston:

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Yowzer
Tags: 2012, Blue, Bottlenose, california, dolphin, dolphins, flickr, fort funston, green, jump, jumping, juvenile, Lantern, NATURE’S, ocean, ocean beach, Photographer, porpoise, porpoises, San Francisco, Sea, surf, surfing, water, waves
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Thursday, November 1st, 2012
Remember this guy from a little while back, this Stephen Fowler asshole?
Here’s the notorious video. (Man that planning commish hearing about a certain place in Noe Valley just went on and on, huh? And hey, I wonder who ratted out that long-time Asian American dude* who lost his rental in NV owing to the lack of an Occupancy Permit? Mmmm… Anyway, Mr. Fowler is still reviled in Noe Valley.)
And before that, there was this one. Whew, good times.
And now there’s this, a new allegation that Stephen Fowler had something to do with these Marin County trees getting hacked (to death?) up in Mill Valley.

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As always, We Report, You Decide.
I mean, maybe this tale is completely made up, you know, the way people would make up stories about Mussolini having a devil’s tail, you know, sometimes people decide to not like you and then they’ll just start making stuff up.
Here they are, the allegations:
“Just wanted to pass along another example of Wife-Swapping Stephen Fowler’s example of hypocrisy. He purchased a home this spring in Mill Valley, 317 Hillside for $800,000, tore it down and is now building a 3.5 million $$ spec house to flip. When the bank foreclosed on his neighbor at 300 Hillside across the street this spring, Stephen approached the owner, a general contractor at the time, a few days before the bank took the house away and paid the home owner to have a few of his employees illegally climb 10 Heritage Redwood trees, cut 20-30 feet off the tops of them thus freeing up the view of San Francisco for Stephens new house project. For a self proclaimed tree hugger, he has balls. See the photo’s of just a few of the trees…”
Now, didn’t S. Fowler go on the TV to promote environmental awareness? I think so.
And didn’t he have all these kinds of shirts on – who made them, one wonders. Who forced poor Mr. Fowler into doing things he didn’t want to and saying things he didn’t want to say?

Anyway, somebody up Marin way might want to look into these tree allegations.
But remember, S Fowler makes more in one week than you do in one year!
*Robert Hanamura – whatever happened to that guy?
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Friday, October 5th, 2012
This is it:

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This is all of it.
Tags: 1051 market, 1053 market, 2012, all-seeing, all-seeing eye, bay area, cafe, caffe verde, california, central market, coffee, eye, eyes, green, hair, hipsters, mid market, narrow, narroweest, Narrowest, overpriced, para bellum verde, parabellum, red, San Francisco, small, store, street, twitterloin
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Monday, October 1st, 2012
How would you like to volunteer as a docent helping out with the new-school / old-school E-line on October 6-7, 2012?
First, some background about how busy the 415 will be this weekend:
“Looking at what’s scheduled for that weekend, there might not be room in the city for many more people, much less cars. First, there’s the free Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in Golden Gate Park, a three-day event that drew about 800,000 people last year. That Sunday afternoon, the 49ers play the Buffalo Bills at Candlestick Park, while the Giants are hoping for weekend playoff games at AT&T Park, all guaranteed sellouts. About 60,000 people typically attend the Castro Street Fair, scheduled for that Sunday, while thousands more will jam North Beach for the annual Italian Heritage Parade at 12:30 on the same day. A different crowd will probably be at the Burning Man Decompression street fair, also that Sunday afternoon. To add to the fun, two mega cruise ships are expected to dock at Pier 35 over the weekend, disgorging thousands more tourists. Then, of course, there’s Fleet Week, which brings thousands of sailors and as many as a million visitors to the waterfront for the weekend.”
So you’ll be needed to help out all the visitors moving around on the Twin Torpedos, streetcars 1006 and 1008:
“We need several more docents to work the stops along the E-line on October 6 and 7, helping riders find the right platform and providing information about the service. We have docent books prepared by Paul Lucas, so it’s easy to learn what to do. If you’re interested, send us an email and we’ll get back to you.”

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Wednesday, September 26th, 2012
Meaning that I’ve never seen the dude in a car except during a parade.
No no, he’s always getting around on his feet, or on MUNI, or on a bike.
Like this. This week in front of City Hall, on a very green Public Bike:

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Tags: 2012, bay area, bike, board, board of supervisors, Board of Supervisors President David Chiu, bus, california, City Hall, David Chiu, district 3, green, Mayor, Muni, president, President David Chiu, public, public bikes, San Francisco, Supervisor, supervisors, talk, talks, walk, walking, walks, walks walk
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Thursday, September 13th, 2012
Back in the day down there betwixt San Francisco’s Financial District and the Golden Gateway Apartments, tourists would come along and just hold their hands out, with astonishing results.
Wild parrots looking for a handout – via Gwen in a great capture from 2007, before The Law:

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Ah mem’ries;
First it was all like this (Yes, this is the view you’ll get of the 415′s famous wild parrots from our Filbert Steps.)

The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
But now it’s all like this. (Gee, should I get a Chinese character inked on my Europid skin and be a laughingstock for the rest of my life or should I get something cool like this instead? Mmmm, decisions, decisions…)

Wow! That’s a good one, Deanna Wardin of Tattoo Boogaloo.
That’s the best tattoo I’ve seen in the 415.
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill were made famous a few years back by the movie with the same name. Get the new Special Two-Disc Collector’s Edition today, why don’t you?
A friendly pair in the Presidio. Click to expand:

They love to fly…

and eat flowers.

Look to the Skies for Signs and Wonders…
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Friday, August 31st, 2012
What goes together better than oranges and medium battle tanks? Nothing, that’s what.
Not exactly sure that the Shermam Firefly tank displayed below saw any action on D-Day (and, anyway, lots of these D-Day tanks ended up at the bottom of the Bay of the Seine), but it’s fun to pretend:

Spotted at the “Lifestyle format,” Starbucks-free Inner Richmond Safeway on Cabrillo.
Tags: 17 pounder, 1944, 2012, 7th, art, avenue, bay area, box, brand, cabrillo, california, cardboard, d day, dday, firefly, france, green, invastion, lifestyle, m4, normandy, orange, oranges, richmond, safeway, San Francisco, sherman, store, tank
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Wednesday, August 29th, 2012
Here’s another story from the Central Market area:
SF bay area craigslist > san francisco > for sale / wanted > bicycles – by owner
“Yesterday afternoon I was assaulted by 5-6 young men on Sixth and Natoma in the Tenderloin. In broad daylight they surrounded me, tried and failed to grab my wallet, phone and backpack but made off with my 1999 green Cannondale road bike. I’ve attached a picture of a similar bike though mine had traditional silver rims and a black Terry saddle. If you see this bike for sale on craigslist or anywhere around San Francisco/Oakland please call the police immediately. They are aware of this group and, frankly, are fed up with this bullshit.
If you were involved in the violent, cowardly mugging on Monday August 20th you have not gained much. I am in good health and will pursue this until justice is served. These actions bring digrace on your families, community, and the city of San Francisco. My only regret is that I didn’t land another kick when the SIX of you had me pinned in the street.”

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j3rqs-3221484842@sale.craigslist.org
Reaction here.
On a related note, here’s how you get your stuff back from the corrupt Twitterloin, if you’re willing to deal with fences.
Oh, and thanks so much for moving in to the hood, Twitter. Let us know if you want anything else from the City and County, you know, like another shuttle bus service to CalTrain, you know, to supplement the two you already have. Oh, and thanks for not paying the 2004 Gavin Newsom tax – that was very clever of you. Oh and thanks for the $2,000,000 Jane Kim slush fund you’re paying for – the non-existent WiFi, you know, part of what you promised, you know, instead of paying your taxes, well, I’m sure it would have worked perfectly.
Tags: 1999, 2012, alley, August 20th, backpack, bay area, bike, california, cannondale, Chuck Prophet, dix, gear, green, guitar, males, mugged, mugging, natoma, Oakland, phone, police, road, San Francisco, SFPD, stolen, Terry, twitter, twitterloin, wallet, young
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