Posts Tagged ‘russian’
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.
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Thursday, August 16th, 2012
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Friday, June 8th, 2012
Tags: 1200, 2012, bay area, bike, bmw, california, cops, hill, incline, motorcycle, police, Police Motorcycle Training on an Incline, R1200RT, R1200RT p, R1200RTP, russian, San Francisco, SFPD, steep, steepest, training, Video, youtube
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Friday, May 18th, 2012
It’s arresting is what it is.
Let’s hope The Artist Formerly Known doesn’t find out about this:
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Wednesday, September 28th, 2011
Remember that Yak-50 what used to buzz about the bay area? Good times. (See below for some shots taken from the East Peak of Mt. Tam.)
Well this is better, this one’s a Yak-52 (Як-52). Hurray!
(It probably killed fewer pilots per hour than the single-seat Yak-50, so that’s nice.)
As seen from Land’s End:
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(In Soviet Russia, plane kill you!)
What kind of crazy airplanes will Mother Russia send over next?
“This Russian-made Yak-50 acrobatic airplane used to be seen all over the skies of the San Francisco Bay Area – buzzing Mount Tam in Marin County, checking out anti-abortion rallies along San Francisco’s waterfront, that kind of thing.
But here’s your take-away, babe: These things had a working life of just 50 hours back in Mother Russia, as the stress of all them 9G loop de loops and whatnot led to bad things, such as “main spar collapse.” Ouch.
Anyway, looks like fun:
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Canon 1D Mark II with 300mm 2.8 IS I and 2x extender – ISO 400 and lots of digital zoom:
Happy trails.”
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Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011
Look at dude in Civic Center.
His hat isn’t necessarily Russian, but that red star atop oak clusters means something, right Komrade?
I dub him Sky Admiral Krul:
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And the funny thing was that it was a pretty nice day, rather warm, in fact…
Tags: 2011, Badass, bay area, california, chinese, civic center, communist, earflaps, flaps, fur, greatcost, hat, lined, red, russian, San Francisco, shades, star, sunglasses, warm
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Monday, February 14th, 2011
I don’t exactly know why, but our San Francisco Ballet opened its doors last night for a last-of-the-season performance of Giselle.
First, it was all like this, with the will-call line going down Van Ness and then curving around to Grove:
And then it was like this – here’s the view from first class, courtesy of McNitt.
(Oh, so that’s what it looks like from up there. I’ve never been.)
And then it ended with a standing ovation for Maria Kochetkova (@balletrusse – she has 110,000 Twitter followers at this point) and everybody else involved.
Truly a memorable evening it was.
Hey, why not head over to the SFB right now and score three performances for $78 ‘n stuff?
And don’t forget about enchanting story ballet Coppélia coming March 19th, 2011.
See you there!
Tags: 2011, Ballet, balletrusse, bay area, california, Coppélia, day, giselle, Maria Kochetkova, russia, russian, San Francisco, show, twitter, valentines
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Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
The only way to travel on Third Street is by motorcade, IMO.
Check it:
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This was the scene yesterday, after the arrival at SFO.
And here’s the scene with Arnold:
via Schwarzenegger, srsly.
Tags: 2010, Arnold, california, Governor, Medvedev, motorcarde, president, russian, Schwarzenegger, soma, street, third
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Monday, June 21st, 2010
It was all pomp and circumstance today down at Piers 30-32 when Russian Guided Missile Cruiser Varyag (Viking, mas o menos) made a courtesy call. See for yourself at Japan Security Watch.
Here she is after coming through the Golden Gate yesterday:
“Russian Federation Navy Missile Cruiser Varyag transits through San Francisco Bay while Coast Guard boat crews provide a security zone around the vessel, Sunday, June 20, 2010. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Pamela J. Manns – 100620-G-7265M-047″
All sorts of government officials went aboard today - people like Mayor Gavin Newsom and elements of every alphabet soup federal agency extant.
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There are some of your 16 huge launch tubes right there:
Then it was all over to Pier 7 or someplace for a ceremony with George P. Shultz and the Russian Ambassador:
They were all addressed by this avuncular Russian cowboy:
(This Rear Admiral has a few medals, huh?)
And then it was time to hit the town and do a little alcohol shopping. Thusly:
Employees at John Walker & Co. store (man, that’s a little too close to Johnnie Walker, don’t you think?) were pleased, to say the least.
Now, if you want to get on this aging cruiser to see how the recent refurbishment went, well, get there early at the foot of Bryant Street on Thursday. It should be a very popular tour (from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM or whatever they decide to do.)
Tags: 2010, 30, 30-32, 32, california, cruiser, FBI, Federation, Johnnie Walker, navy, ncis, pier, piers, russian, San Francisco, ship, United States, Varyag, vessel
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Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009
I’ll tell you, the reason why the home county of the exchange student who was recently sexually asaulted in San Franciscois resting easy these days is that the media of said home country isn’t aware of the attack. And why’s that? Apparently, it’s the policy of San Francisco to not give out that kind of information. Per the SF Appeal:
“Police are not releasing information about the country the alleged victim is from in order to protect her identity, Tomioka said.”
I’m wondering how small a country has to be such that saying its name discloses the identity of any particular tourist in San Francisco.
Like if there’s a famous exchange program in Monaco (population 30k) and they send ten students a year to the States? That would seem to fit the bill, fair enough.
But what if the exchange student is from one of the following Big Ten tourist-producing countries (countries avec concomitant robust, aggresive media, of course)?
Germany
United Kingdom
France
China
Italy
Japan
Canada
Russia
South Korea
Mexico
If the student is from one of these countries, I’d be hard-pressed to see how saying the name of the country would identify any particular person from that country. Maybe there’s a written policy, or maybe there’s an unwritten rule, the way the MSM won’t report routine cases of Golden Gate Bridge jumpings?
That is all.
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