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Thursday, March 11th, 2010
From District 5 Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi comes this newsletter update concerning floats at the upcoming 2010 ING Bay to Breakers footrace. Certainly appears as if last month’s plan to start floats only at Divisidero and then stop them 1.2 miles later in Golden Gate Park is dead.
The new idea is having two staging areas for floats to enter the race – at the beginning in eastern SoMA and at Civic Center. Deets below.
These mariners will need a place to sail their float again in 2010:
Oh, whoops, they abandoned their stripper pole-equipped vessel in the Golden Gate Park Panhandle last year. Oh well.
Bay to Breakers Update
The 99th Bay to Breakers will be run on Sunday, May 16th. Last year’s race saw a significant reduction in problems and impacts on the neighborhood, although there is still more work to do be done. Plans are still being developed for how floats will participate this year. Race organizers initially proposed having all floats start on Divisadero; however, this raised concerns with both neighbors and with float advocates. Supervisor Mirkarimi organized a meeting with the race organizers, the Mayor’s office, float advocates, and neighborhood representatives. We are still waiting to hear the organizers’ revised plan, but they have indicated that they now plan to have two staging areas for floats: at the beginning of the race and at Civic Center.
We are encouraged to hear that the organizers plan to adopt Supervisor Mirkarimi’s suggestion to implement a registration system for floats. This will generate additional revenue to pay for the impacts of the floats, and also create a new level of accountability for floats that are abandoned on the streets. Despite the improvements last year, the impact on the Panhandle area was still unacceptable. Supervisor Mirkarimi remains committed to changing the practice of floats celebrating in the Panhandle for hours after the race has passed. Ross continues to encourage the race organizers to provide an end-point for floats in Golden Gate Park. He believes creating an event in the Park that encourages floats not to stop in the Panhandle will significantly reduce the impact on the neighborhood.
More information:
- www.baytobreakers.com
- Float registration information (to be posted soon)
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Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
Owing to Program 4 at the San Francisco Ballet, I missed my chance to see Steve Wozniak emcee the Bay City Bombers’ season opener last weekend. But this short vid eases the pain. Will this Apple co-founder join in on the fun in the near future?
You Make The Call.
The Woz at Kezar Pavilion on Stanyan last Saturday:
Your next chance to pay $10 to see banked tracked roller derby comes up May 1st, 2010, when Orlando’s finest rollers come to town.
See you there!
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Monday, March 8th, 2010
Not too often you see regular military fighter jets above San Francisco these days, you know, just flying around on some mission as opposed to performing an airshow. Last time for me seeing something like that was when a pair of U.S. Air Force F-15’s roared low and fast over the Western Addition about a half-decade ago.
Here’s the view from Haight Ashbury yesterday, through the Blue Gum Eucalyptus trees. Don’t bother looking at the misfocused photo ’cause you probably won’t be able to see them, but KPIX / CBS5 has some footage from Oakland International Airport yesterday. There they are lined up next to the King Airs and whatnot at OAK.
Speaking of airshows, remember this alarmist headline from a few years back: “Blue Angel Kills Thousands in SF crash”
Of course, no spectator has died at an airshow in San Francisco ever, I don’t think. And actually, no airshow accident has killed or injured a spectator in America in the past half-century or so that writer Tim Redmond has been alive. (Let’s not talk about Russia or Ukraine – spectators die all the time in those places.)
And of course, a crash like that one in San Diego wouldn’t kill anybody in San Francisco because the Blue Angels would react differently to a sudden loss of power. And if there were a crash for other reasons, it would be simply unpossible for that to kill “thousands.”
Anyway, if you ever want to say that you don’t like the Blue Angels, it’ll be up to you to just say that you don’t like the Blue Angels or, instead, to make a blog post going, “Blue Angel Kills Thousands in SF crash.”
Your choice.
Anyway again, this “Military Aircraft operation” might have brought a nuclear aircraft carrier to the waters of the Farallones, who knows.
Look to the skies! They are ever changing.
Suit and tie comes up to me
His face red
Like a rose on a thorn bush
Like all the colours of a royal flush
And he’s peeling off those dollars bills
Slapping them down, one hundred, two hundred,
And I can see those fighter planes
And I can see the fighter planes
Across the mud huts as the children sleep
Through the alleys of a quiet city street
Up the staircase to the first floor
We turn the key and slowly unlock the door
A man breathes deep into saxophone
Through the walls we hear the city groan
Outside is America
Outside is America
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Friday, March 5th, 2010
Via SFist comes the news of Steve “The Woz” Wozniak starting up the Roller Derby game at Kezar Pavillion at 775 Stanyan Street just up from Haight this Saturday, March 6th, 2010.
Will he bring his Segway along, or maybe Steve Jobs too? We Can Only Hope. Tickets still on sale.
After this, maybe San Francisco will get it’s own ‘Woz Way” the way they have it down in San Hoser.
Your Bay City Bombers in action on the banked track. Ask yourselves, if it’s not on a banked track is it really Roller Derby?
via xispo
See you there!
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Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
[UPDATE: Word on the street is that, for 2010, floats will be confined the 1.2 mile stretch betwixt Divisidero Street and Arguello Boulevard. Is that a fact? No se, hermana/o. And people, use your words - this new rule ruins B2B because....]
Let’s see here, the Citizens for the Preservation of Bay2Breakers (Bay to Breakers) are upset about not being consulted with a change to where the floats start at the 2010 ING Bay to Breakers coming up on May 16th?
Today’s Beef of the Week:
“Even with an organization of more than 25,000 members built in just a couple of weeks in 2009 to fight AEG’s bans and preserve the traditions of the race, AEG did not approach CPBB or any of its officers to discuss the new 2010 restrictions prior to their announcement. AEG did not approach Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi’s office or the Board of Supervisors to discuss the new 2010 restrictions. AEG did not approach Mayor Gavin Newsom’s office to discuss the new 2010 restrictions. AEG did not approach the North of Panhandle Neighborhood Association to discuss staging floats in their neighborhood instead of at the start of the race.”
All right. Spokesman Sam Singer is saying that the rules will be the same as last year, except for the float starting point. Actually, I thought people were mad in 2009 when they were required to start their floats down in the SoMA starting area. Oh well. Won’t this all get worked out when the permits get issued, and during the ISCOTT hearing ’n stuff? I mean the Third Sunday in May is three months away, right?
Haven’t run this photo in two or three months, or something. Click to expand:
Maybe changing the float starting point is a bad idea, I don’t know. There are pluses and minuseses.
This change wouldn’t seem to be enough to be able to “destroy” the B2B race though…
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Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
This hungry juvenile hawk (red-tailed? red-shouldered? red-something anyway) perched on a Eucalyptus tree in the Golden Gate Park Panhandle has stopped screeching for its parents’ food and started hunting on its own.
Click to expand:
If only it knew about Craig Newmark’s nearby backyard, a veritable smorgasbord of delicious boids (a smorgasbird, if you will) that’s just up the hill. Here’s a recent menu du jour.
Happy hunting, little raptor.
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Sunday, June 14th, 2009
Not sure what the Yelpers have a problem with, but the Haight Ashbury Street Fair went off today without a hitch, just like last year.
Look at the swirling mass of humanity on just one block of 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.
District Five Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi was on the scene, gathering names for his newsletter distribution list.
Poorbot was 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 Your Have It.
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Sunday, May 17th, 2009
You’ve seen this morning’s post on today’s Anschutz ING Bay to Breakers fun run, now here are some more photos. As always, click to expand.
King Tut, baby. Tut at the de Young Museum is going to be huge this year and next:
“Zero tolerance,” indeed:
Tom Cruise enjoyed his Bud Lite as he rode along:
A classic tiki bar float, the kind our forefathers used 98 years ago. Tradition dies hard:
The dopest DJ of the day helming his Ark. Not sure about the Noah 5:17 reference, however.
Monstrous U.S. Navy F-14 Tomcat float:
President Obama proved popular:
Some of the Secret Service agents refused to break character. Good for them.
60% plasma, 40% alcohol:
The famous NOPA NIMBYs were nowhere to be seen, perhaps cowering in fear in their panic rooms. This resident helped out by hosing down the partygoers
Mostly mellow cops. What’s the opposite of “zero tolerance?”
The party’s over on Fell Street beginning before 1:00 PM.
None shall pass! Momentary, semi-serious defiance.
This unregistered tank, complete with a beer keg under the turret, was encircled as soon as it entered the fight, for your right, to party. It was directed off the street.
The motocycle cops in the vanguard of the party shut down-crew had the ability to clear the streets at about five miles per hour. The problem was that the rear units of DPW garbage trucks and street sweepers couldn’t keep up. So the entire column got stalled, not unlike the time General Patton’s tracked vehicles ran out of fuel at Lorraine in occupied France. The cops up front just hung out while recyclers cleared Fell and Masonic by smashing aluminum beer cans one by one.
If you’re going to San Francisco, be sure to wear grapes in your hair. Did she apply for that Murphy Goode “job?” We Can Only Hope.
Pugilistics!
The complement to all those pirates:
This ambulance with flashing lights had a bit of a job getting off of crowded Fell Street. That was unfortunate:
A fair amount of garbage, just before it got picked up:
Lots of trucks from DPW, that’s for sure:
And speaking of Patton, here’s SFPD Park Station Captain Teresa Barrett on Fell, leading from the front. She was engaged and on the scene:
That’s it.
A good time was had by all today, non?
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Sunday, May 17th, 2009
San Francisco’s 98th Annual Bay to Breakers footrace is ongoing, but the winners are already done. Get exclusive live video here on KGO-TV, which, for some bizarre reason, is covering the race like a bankrupt TV station.
(Coverage is bad like FM radio morning-drive “zoo-crew” bad. Ironically, the actual bankrupt-type station in town, KRON, would have done a much, much better job with commentary, based on performances from years past. Today’s disaster isn’t the fault of Mike Shumann and Laura Kutch, but oh well.)
Twitter updates here and here
Top Men: Sammy Kitwara, Kenya (33:31, a course record – congratulations!), Tilahun Regassa, Ehiopia (34:15), and John Yuda, Tanzania (34:23)
Top Women: Teyba Erkesso, Ethiopia (38:29), Lineth Chepkurui, Kenya (38:35), Deena Kastor, USA (39:05)
The first runners to go up Hayes Street Hill. Is there some reward for this? Yes there is – five G’s, baBY. Click to expand:
The first men, just after the HSH:
The first Centipede teams. Is the leader of the white team calling out the leader of the black team for not having his mandatory headgear on?
The first nude runner. She ran alongside the first male centipedes for a bit, but this is a family blog so you won’t see that here. The body paint: “Catch Me … If You Can.” Get it? “Can.”
Now maybe the nude runner broke somebody’s concentration, because shortly after, the black centipede had a segment go down hard. Last I saw, he was trying to walk it off with his team.
The first female centipede? They were up front doing very well on Fell Street anyway:
Phil the Pink gorilla. Note the very low number attached to his pink pelt – he was the primate to beat:
Cowboys and Indians.
Richard Simmons!
A complete living room set on Fell Street:
It begins. An “illegal” float entrenched in “hull down” position, ready to attack Fell Street. When will this tank make its move?
God Bless the Armored Cav.
To Be Continued…
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Saturday, May 16th, 2009
Despite the mess instigated by ”Angela Fang and her team” (read all about the inchoate rules change here, in this Larry King-style “interview“), the Anschutz ING Bay to Breakers Civic Event and Fun Run should manage to occur anyway, for the 98th year in a row. (To be fair, A.F. might Only Have Been Following Orders from Far Far Away. Oh well.)
The trucks are warming up for the Great Midnight Tow on Fell Street (both sides, baby - for the first time ever?) tonight and the carbo loaders have swamped our sole Buca di Beppo. We’re just 14 hours away…
A rainbow of Porta-Johns will be your reward for making it over Hayes Street Hill (the second-highest point on the course):
Click to expand.
Co-organizers The Citizens for the Preservation of the Bay2Breakers show you how to keep in touch on gameday here.
Let’s hear from the SPFD below and the Anschutz people after the jump.
See you there!
The San Francisco Police Department has prioritized enforcement responses during the Bay to Breaker race, to be held on Sunday, May 17. There will be sufficient officers deployed throughout the event. There will also be special enforcement police teams to respond to activities of a criminal nature or breaches of race policy.
Police transport wagons will be on hand to transport and detain those intoxicated in public and who are unable to care for themselves.
This year the following revised policies are in effect:
· There is ZERO tolerance for public drunkenness, public urination, kegs, glass bottles and floats will ONLY be allowed to enter at the start of the race.
· The San Francisco Police Department has coordinated with race organizers to remove kegs and bottles of alcohol from the race course.
· Wheeled objects and floats must be registered and start from the starting line behind all runners and walkers. No wheeled object or float will be permitted to join the race along the route. There is no corral for floats and they will not be allowed in the Polo Field.
· The organizers have provided for over 700 portable toilets along the race course, there will be no excuse for urinating in public and violators will be cited or arrested.
The Police Department urges all participants to exercise common sense to help ensure a safe and pleasant experience for participants, spectators and residents alike.
For more information, please contact:
Public Affairs Office
553-1651
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