Posts Tagged ‘paper’
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
Remember what newpaper racks used to look like? Sure you do, because they’re all over the less-populated parts of town. But the Great PedMount Invasion of the Aughts this past decade is firmly entrenched on Market Street near Union Square, and the Castro, and other places.
San Francisco’s ridiculous News Rack Ordinance mandates these glorious pieces of “Street Furniture.” Does this program cause problems for the Bay Times newspaper and other free publications? Yes. Should we double the cost the producers of the publications have to pay again? Why not? Would San Francisco’s Quimby-esque mayors, past and present, such as Willie Brown, have numerous motives to support this kind of scheme? Oh yes.
Oh well.
(Did publishers at the time band together to fight? Sort of.)
So, this photo on the Boing Boing was kind of misleading, of course, but what’s the point of having 20+ completely empty news boxes mounted on six pedestals in front of the Abercrombie at Fifth and Market?
How about using them as bike racks when others aren’t available and you are tasked to buy 100ml of Fierce cologne for $70(!) after work? (Girlfriend, Abercrombie cologne costing $3000/gallon is just about the last thing he wants from you this Christmas, just saying.) The green metal handles are perfect for even the heartiest of U-locks. See?
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Dead and wounded on either side/
You know it’s only a matter of time:
Who can afford to pay the fees? Spammers, mostly.
A tombstone, of sorts. Here lies AsianWeek. Here lies Where Magazine…
If your vocabulary includes terms like “streetscape” and “street furniture,” and you don’t like the media and/or you don’t like what the media says about you, you ought to consider starting a News Rack Ordinance in your town. Why not? Feel free to call the resulting Fail Whale a “huge improvement.”
Tags: "street furniture, abercrombie, bay times, fees, fifth, first amendment, fitch, gavin newsom, market, Mayor, media, news, news rack, newspaper, ordinance, paper, pedmount, racks, San Francisco, street, streetscape, union square, wilie brown
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
You know me, I’m a regular Eli Whitney on a lawn mower and I love my French fries, so imagine my shock when my weekly potaters from the Lucky Super got wrapped in a plastic shopping bag yesterday.
So let’s see here, San Francsico’s “new” Lucky started off a few years back with red and white shopping bags (oh no! Ed Jew! – yes, he was there that day, along with the undercover Federales who were stalking him at the time) that fell apart easily, then, I don’t know, they had paper bags, then paper bags with handles, then paper bags without handles recently, and now this:
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They’re free. They’re built to last. They have a Halloween theme. What more could you ask for?
How about a commercial for “Got Your Bags?” These bags also have that.
You know me, I’m a firestarter, a twisted firestarter, so I like the convenience of having a ready supply of paper bags to use as accelerants when I’m arsoning parked cars. But if this is the future of shopping bags, I can live with it.
These things should last a long time and be very easy to pack up for reuse.
So, hurray for the new bags, I guess. At least they don’t fall apart with a quickness the way the older plastic bags did.
Read all about it, after the jump.
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Tags: AB 2449, Alicia Rockwell, American Chemistry Council, bags, ban, brocery, Chris Peck, Christine Flowers-Ewing, Director of Public Relations, Executive Director, fulton, Got Your Bags, grocery, Keep California Beautiful, lucky, Mariposa County Public Works Department, MCPWD, paper, Progressive Bag Affiliates, San Francisco, Save Mart, Senior Director of State Affairs, shopping, Supermarkets, Tim Shestek
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Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
CalBuzz, “Political News, Analysis, Commentary and More About California and Beyond,” has amused California Attorney General Jerry Brown so much that he’s sent a message out about it this AM.
Take a look at the video here to see for yourself if JB successfully punk’d the CNBC. Are you LYAO? CNBC’s Michelle Caruso-Cabrera seemed amused, anyway.
MCC on the left and California’s fightingest public representative on the right, temporarily suspending the national interview with a piece of paper:
Here’s Jer-bear’s missive in full:
“Yesterday I filed a $200 Million dollar fraud action against State Street Bank for ripping off California’s pension funds. In another example of how Wall Street elites poo poo financial abuse in their own backyard, CNBC sneered at this important effort to recover money stolen from California retirees. You can see the interview with CNBC at Calbuzz:
http://www.calbuzz.com/2009/10/lmao-attorney-general-jerry-brown-punks-cnbc/
With respect, Jerry Brown
P.S. – Our new mailing address is 291 3rd Street, Oakland, CA 94607″
On It Goes.
Tags: 291 3rd Street, 94607, address, ag, attorney general, bank, cable, Cabrera, calbuzz, california, Caruso, CNBC, fraud, GE, Governor, interview, jerry brown, Michelle, Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, Oakland, paper, poiece, race, sacramento, San Francisco, state street
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Saturday, August 8th, 2009
Find out just what an Antique Paper Faire is all about at the Hall of Flowers in GGP tomorrow, if you want.
It’s sort of a part of the first Sunday Streets on the West si-iiiide, aka Ocean Beach.
See you there!
Specialties
The Vintage Paper Fair is a large exhibition and sale that offers an array of antique paper items for collectors of all kinds. Serious collectors come and know exactly what they want, but it is also a welcome environment for first-time collectors to come in and discover the history and art that is found in this hobby.
Among the 50 + vendors there, you will find postcards, trade cards, stereoviews, photography, Victorian-era items, pin-ups, sports memorabilla, labels (beer, fruit crate etc.) brochures, transportation related (vintage cars etc.) and many more types of interesting and beautiful antique paper. Most items for sale date back to the early 20th century, some are more modern, some older. There are boxes of 25 cent postcards as well as rare and expensive museum-quality pieces.
Our location is unique as well, situated in the heart of Golden Gate Park, near the Botanical Gardens, Academy of Sciences, De Young Museum as well many great restaurants.
History
Established in 2006
We are the only antique paper fair in the city of San Francisco, and thought a new show would contribute to the culture and collecting hobby here!
Meet the Business Owner: Hal L.
Hal Lutsky has been in the antique paper business since 1996, and a show promoter since 2001.
Tags: 2009, antique, August 9, ephemera, fair, faire, golden gate park, great highway, hal l., Hal Lutsky, Hall of Flowers, inner, inner sunset, juice, ocean beach, oj, paper, postcards, sale, San Francisco, shoppping, show, simpson, summer, sunday streets, sunset, vintage, Vintage Paper Fair
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Saturday, May 23rd, 2009
Hal Lutsky’s Vintage Paper Fair (aka Antique Paper Show aka Antique Ephemera Show) is going on this weekend at the Hall of Flowers near the Inner Sunset in Golden Gate Park, right near Strybing Arboretum. Let’s take a look, huh?
Here’s the deal – it’s a bunch of old printed stuff, like gas station maps your ancestors got free in 1946 for $3, and postcards from people you don’t know, 3 for a dollar.
The whole place smells like the basement in my grandmother’s house, not the new one in Agawam, the old one in Springfield on Roosevelt.
And here’s the star of the show – O.J. Simpson, Galileo High School, 1965. See, when OJ wasn’t busy killing his ex-wife and Ron Goldman and who-knows-how-many manatees in Florida over the years, he took the time to honor Hertz rental car licensees. Que bueno. Do you want to buy this?
There’s your antique paper, right there.
Vintage Paper Fair
SAN FRANCISCO
2009
May 23 & 24
August 8 & 9
Tags: 2009, antique, ephemera, golden gate park, Hal Lutsky, Hall of Flowers, inner, inner sunset, juice, oj, paper, sale, San Francisco, shoppping, show, simpson, sunset, Vintage Paper Fair
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Here’s how it went today for voters opting for the touch screen system. Bright, easy-to-read graphics on your screen – what could be nicer?
Here’s what you’re thinking - what about the paper trail, dude? Well, San Francisco’s got you covered as they print it all out - you can check for yourself. No hanging chads and no butterfly ballots in the 415 this year. Is City Attorney Dennis Herrera still working on this issue? Think so.
Welcome to the future!
Tags: 12, 13, Aaron Peskin, access, ada, bill barnes, Carole Migden, Chris daly, City, county, county central comittee, dccc, debra Walker, Democrat, diebold, district, e voting, election, electronic voting, evote, evoting, Michael goldstein, paper, rafael mandelman, rick hauptman, robert haaland, San Francisco, screen, Senator, SF, touch, vote
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Monday, April 21st, 2008
This salesman shilling subscriptions to the actual dead tree paper version of the New York Times didn’t seem to get much traction during an otherwise bustling street fair in San Francisco over the weekend.
Something like 75% off and free New York Mets swag wasn’t enough to tempt the typical passerby. Perhaps if he could promise that a fetching scooter rider, such as this one, would deliver the paper each day, things would be different…
Cue tumbleweeds.
Who is to blame for the decline of newspapers? Is it San Francisco’s very own Craig Newmark and his feisty CEO buddy Jim Buckmaster? Well, you old-school newsies should be tickled pink to hear that the people behind craigslist are now worried about being taken over by eBay.
Not much consolation, but there it is.
Tags: buckmaster, california, Craig, craigslist, dilution, eBay, japantown, loneliest, new york times, newmark, paper, post street, San Francisco, sfist, subscription, tumbleweeds
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