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Sunday, June 9th, 2013
Well it’s the morning of the second Sunday of June, so that means it’s almost time for the Haight Ashbury Street Festival.
Lets take a look at some photos from recent years.
Look up…
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…and down…
…and all around:
From Bluoz: Upper Haight is for Lovers:
Let your freak flag fly, baby. From the Eastern Stage:
From famous David Yu:
From Brian Brooks
And here’s one from Chris Witte:
There’s a feeling I get/
when I look to the West…
…and the East…
…on Haight Street on the Second Sunday in June.
At least the Yelpers like Frank:
This ganga guy in purple will sue you for $1000 if you take his photo, or something:
via Carnesuarus
And Obama in a Giants cap, just the way they had it at the recent Union Street Festival:
via Carnesaurus
You know who loves the Haight Street Fair? Parole agents
A mass of humanity:
Hookahs! Get your hookahs! It’s Hookahs.com
A dancing baby grooving on 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.
Former District Five Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi on the scene
Poorbot 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 You Have It.
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Sunday, May 5th, 2013
Well the announcement is officially coming this AM, but Messrs. Matier und Ross already have the skivvy on the brand-new, slightly-more-NIMBY-friendly proposal.
And, here, check the latest illustrations.
From the former proposal, a silvery looming UFO with kayak access…
…to the new proposal, a slightly lower silvery looming UFO without kayak access:
So Warriors, take that 13% rate down to 3% and then you might have something, you might have a privately-financed stadium deal.
Now let’s review our waterfront proposals.
The America’s Cup deal was poorly-negotiated on purpose so we could pay for Larry Ellison’s ego trip. It’s an ongoing travesty.
And 8 Washington is corruption.
But this here arena proposal seems OK fine to me, more or less.
I’ll now invite the rich, property-owning NIMBYs of SoMA to move to Fairfield, where 15% of the houses are in foreclosure.
Tags: 13, 2012, 2013, 49ers, 888 479 4667, Aaron Peskin, Adonal Foyle, april 16, arena, baseball, basketball, bay area, Bob Graham, california, Carmen Policy, Casey, chamber of commerce, cheer, cheerleaders, Chris Mullin, City Hall, civic center, Co-Chair, Co-Chairs, community, deal, dr., ed lee, footwball, giants, Golden State Warriors, grove, guaranteed, Honorary, interest, Janet Clyde, Jean Quan, Jim Wunderman, Joseph Marshal, Katherine Webster, larry ellison, matier, Mayor, mcallister, NBA, nfl, noon, Oakland, piers 34-32, player, Polk, rally, Rate, ross, San Francisco, San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, Shamann Walto, soma, south market, stadium, steps, street, supporters, team, Tom O’Connor, Warriors, Warriors Girl, waterfront
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Tuesday, November 6th, 2012
I’ll tell you, the lighted Christmas snowflakes of Market Street used to stop just past Fifth Street, because, you know, who cares about Mid Market?
Well, these days, the lighted Christmas snowflakes of Market Street make it all the way to 7th Street, AFAICS.
See?
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Hurray!
Tags: 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, bay area, bloomingdale's, burning, california, cbd, central market, christmas, Community Benefit District, Community Challenge Grant, company, december 14, Development, Dress for Less, electricity, Festivus, Flood Building, forest city, four seasons, Hanukkah, holiday, hotel, iphone, Kwanzaa, lighted, lit, LP, market, Market Street Association, McKesson, nordstrom, North of Market, Palace Hotel, path of gold, pg&e, recology, ross, San Francisco, San Francisco Centre, Seligman, SF, shn, Shorenstein, snowflake, snowflakes, snowflakes on market, stolen, street, summer, tenderloin, Theaters, twitter, twitterloin, Western Enterprises, westfield, winter, Winter Holiday Which Shant Be Named, yerba buena
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Wednesday, March 7th, 2012
Thusly:
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A wheelie bike, also called a muscle bike, high-riser, or banana bike, is a type of stylized children’s bicycle designed in the 1960s to resemble a chopper motorcycle and characterized by ape hanger handlebars, a banana seat with sissy bar, and small (16-to-20-inch (410 to 510 mm)) wheels. Notable examples include the Schwinn Sting-Ray and Krate lines and the Raleigh Chopper line. Other notable manufacturers and retailers that offered models include AMF, CCM, Columbia, Huffy, Iverson, J. C. Penney, Malvern Star, Monark, Murray, Ross, Sears, and Vindec.
Tags: AMF, Attitude, banana, banana seat, bicycle, bike, CCM, chopper, columbia, high-riser, Huffy, Iverson, J. C. Penney, Malvern Star, market, market street, Monark, motorcycle, Murray, muscle bike, r banana bike, Raleigh, Raleigh Chopper, ross, schwinn, Schwinn Stingray, Sears, Seat, sissy bar, Stingray, street, Vindec, wheelie, Wheelie Bike
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Monday, March 5th, 2012
Now if you want to say that now-famous nonlawyer Ivory Madison was trained as an attorney, well, that would be O.K., I s’pose, but you can’t allege, as some have, recently, that she’s a “trained attorney.”
No.
No, no, no, no, no.*
Cause, you see, that goes too far.
OTOH, you can say that certain people thought IM was an attorney, for good reason, actually, and acted accordingly.
You could say that.
Imagine you’re a high school football player who went to a Catholic church to confess to sexual contact with a 15-year-old only to find out that the priest you thought you were talking to was actually Ashton Kutcher punking you. Would your mouthpiece start saying how evidence of your privileged communication should be thrown out of court because Ashton is a “trained priest?”
I doubt it.
But there are other good arguments to make, right?
Having said that, there’s nothing out there to suggest that Ivory acted improperly in the case at hand.
Did she “struggle” with the issues? Perhaps, but so have others before her…
Let’s hope this is the final Ivory Madison is not an attorney post you’ll have to read.
Oh, so it turns out Ivory Madison a merely a “law school graduate.”
NTTAWWT. Not at all.
But when you hold yourself out as a “nonpracticing lawyer,” well, that can create confusion, non?
Via ComicVine
I think I’ll file this one under alpha female self-puffery, and that will that be that.
All right, GASNM.
(Boy, San Francisco is a small town, huh?)
*My top five favorite poetic devices of all time are repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition, and repetition.
Tags: 2012, alpha, alpha female self-puffery, attorney, bay area, california, communication, domestic violence, dv, female, GFASNM, Ivory, Ivory Madison, jd, Judge, lawyer, Linked In, madison, Mirkarimi, non-practicing, privileged, puffery, red room, red rum, redroom, ross, San Francisco, self, sheriff, susan breall, Trained Attorney
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Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
Oh, so it turns out you’re a “law school graduate.”
NTTAWWT. Not at all.
But when you hold yourself out as a “nonpracticing lawyer,” well, that can create confusion, non?
Via ComicVine
I think I’ll file this one under alpha female self-puffery, and that will that be that.
All right, GASNM.
(Boy, San Francisco is a small town, huh?)
Tags: 2012, alpha, alpha female self-puffery, attorney, bay area, california, female, GFASNM, Ivory, Ivory Madison, jd, Judge, lawyer, Linked In, madison, Mirkarimi, non-practicing, puffery, red room, red rum, redroom, ross, San Francisco, self, sheriff, susan breall
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Thursday, December 15th, 2011
Here’s how things looked last night on Market Street, with all the streetlights and giant snowflakes turned off for some reason.
Oh, baby, that’s dark:
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Could it have something to do with the jury-rigged, frat-house-style wiring our City Family uses?
I know not.
When, oh when, will our Path of Gold glitter once again?
Tags: 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, bay area, Bloomingdale’s, burning, california, cbd, central market, christmas, Community Benefit District, Community Challenge Grant, company, december 14, Development, Dress for Less, electricity, Festivus, Flood Building, forest city, four seasons, Hanukkah, holiday, hotel, Kwanzaa, lighted, lit, LP, market, Market Street Association, McKesson, nordstrom, North of Market, Palace Hotel, path of gold, pg&e, recology, ross, San Francisco, San Francisco Centre, Seligman, SF, shn, Shorenstein, snowflake, snowflakes, snowflakes on market, street, summer, tenderloin, Theaters, twitter, twitterloin, Western Enterprises, westfield, winter, Winter Holiday Which Shant Be Named, yerba buena
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Sunday, January 9th, 2011
The pay walls are all fall down today for Matier & Ross and Willie Brown at San Francisco Chronicle/SFGate, San Francisco’s Online Newspaper.
See?
(Hey, does Willie have a heretofore unknown skin condition or something?)
Wonder if this is a one-time deal or a permanent, Mr. Gorbachev-tear-down-this-wall! kind of deal. You could say that these particular columns this week might lose their effectiveness while waiting to get published but that’s true pretty much all of the time anyway, right?
And there’s blowback already:
“Willie Brown has named 4 or 5 people as the “next San Francisco mayor” over the past several months–and none of them were Ed Lee. Yet today Willie writes a self-congratulory column boasting Ed Lee was “noted here 1st”! Yeah, sure, whatever you say, Willie. The truth is Willie wrote his prediction AFTER word had already started circulating thru San Francisco on local radio and other non-newspaper outlets about Ed Lee as next mayor.”
Oh well.
You know, I’m thinking the portrait photos used at the Chron are generally not meant to be seen 300 pixels wide. Speaking of former Mayors, check out this obscenely magenta “photo” / illustration / image the Chron uses:
(You’d be better off with a cell phone shot.*)
And speaking of the hair-gelled:
Anyway, the other news of the day is that frustrated San Francisco Police Chief George Gascon is a fully-licensed California attorney eligible to become our next District Attorney. Did not know that. (See below.) Thanks, M&R!
Hey, maybe the idea of having a paywall and a two-day publication delay for these columns was a bad idea?
Just asking, bro.
Bar Number: 182345
Address: San Francisco Police Dept, 850 Bryant St #525, San Francisco, CA 94103
Phone Number: (415) 553-1551
Fax Number: (415) 553-1554
e-mail: Not Available
County: San Francisco
Undergraduate School: California St Univ Long Beach; CA
District: District 4
Sections: None Law School: Western State Univ COL; Fullerton CA
Status History
Effective Date Status Change
Present Active
6/11/1996 Admitted to The State Bar of California
Explanation of member status
Actions Affecting Eligibility to Practice Law
Disciplinary and Related Actions
This member has no public record of discipline.
Administrative Actions
This member has no public record of administrative actions.”
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Monday, August 23rd, 2010
The frisson from a half year back is hotting up again, what with the MSM once again covering Halle Barry’s family’s flight from paparazzi-laden SoCal.
Will this famous fam make a move to the tiny Town of Ross up in Marin County?
“My unconfirmed rumor is that they are now renting in Tiburon, while building a house in Ross. I guess they did not buy Sean Penn’s property there. They have been spotted attending the local theater in Tiburon.”
That’s the best rumor I’ve heard, anyway. It has the verisimilitude, n0n?
Tags: 2010, Actress, bay area, california, county, daughter, gabriel aubry, Halley Berry, house, marin, moving, paparazz, paparazzi, ross, San Francisco, tiberon
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Monday, May 3rd, 2010
It’s hard to keep up with this issue, but tout de suite, those black plastic bags you could get at Lucky Supermarkets in the 415 are now all gone (along with the concomitant metal hardware that held the bags open for easy loading).
Paper bags with handles are the new order of the day, apparently.
See?
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Local pols seem to have regarded these black bags as a kind of loophole in the plastic ban – that might have triggered the recent change.
Speaking of change, the reusable white bags from a few years back didn’t work out neither.
On it goes…
Tags: (415), 2009, 2010, bags, ban, board, district 5, fulton, grocery, haight, handles, loophole, lucky, Mirkarimi, paper, plastic, recycle, reusable, ross, ross mirkarimi, San Francisco, SF, supermarket, Supervisor, thick, thicker, thickness
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