Thusly:
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At first I was thinking…Easter?
And then I thought Boston Marathon.
And then I realized it was for the GSW.
Is it a little cheesy to do this so far ahead of time?
Yep, IMO.
Oakland doesn’t have much, you know.
They were going to get a pair of pandas from China, but that didn’t work out.
Oh well.
That’s Venus, the Evening Star, to the right of the dome, BTW.
And that’s a #5 Fulton hover bus heading inbound on McAllister…
I’ll tell you, I haven’t seen this much drifting since The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift.
Here it is,Sean Spees: Longboarding San Francisco Sunset:
Ooh, I know where that street is. But not that one.
All the deets:
“New Original Skateboards team addition Sean Spees enjoys the bay areas finest on the Arbiter 36 topmount. Thanks fly out to Sean and renaissance Camera / Editor Aviel Hod of Splash Productions (http://www.youtube.com/shazzbazz740) for contributing their edit to the OS channel.
Sean shreds with; Original, Cult, Black Diamond Sports, PNL and Riot Boardsports.
Music; Metric – Breathing Underwater
Check out the Arbiter 36 and more from Original at;http://www.originalskateboards.com“
But, oh no, I can only buy two at a time?
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Darn the luck.
Why would you paint the top half of your Lambo in flaked gold to make it look like a bowling ball?
This vehicle, spotted in San Francisco’s Chinatown last week, is an abomination:
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So Dennis Rodman bought this 2004 Lamboghini Gallardo automatic and then he spent $15,000 to paint the top half in gold flake after an accident and then he sold it last year for $80-something in order to make child support payments?
And then a City College of San Francisco student obtained it as a daily driver to get him to the Main Campus reservoir parking lot each and every day for both the Spring and Fall semesters of 2012?
Really?
OMG. (Please note the tell-tale green CCSF parking sticker in the windshield.)
Let’s hear from a Toyota-driving CCSF student earlier this week:
“saw this lambo today at the school parking lot (ccsf). in fact, it parked 3 cars away from me. easily the most expensive car at ccsf…”
This car is all over town these days, C-Town, J-Town, Upper Haight, Lower Haight, all over.
And just think, when the owner gets around to registering this car (use tax, baby – $7k), that’ll pay for the education subsidy he’s getting by being a stu at troubled CCSF.
Hurray!
Here’s CA plate 6SUG286 during happier times with DR, back in aught-five, back before he accumulated a million bucks worth in unpaid child and spousal support.
Anyway, mail in your photos, gentle readers, when you see this ride about town.
In closing, go CCSF Rams!
Million dollar pig junior / You’re my Bangladesh
I’m crazy dynamite / I’m the cactus man
I drive a Lambourghini / I stop for petrol
You mangle my pig junior / There’s tornadoes in Spain
I’m alone tonight / I’m the cactus man
I drive a Lambourghini / I stop for petrol
Mangle my pig junior / Mangle my pig junior / So far away / So far away…
Add Ferrari delivery to onus of Market Street.
“Performance beyond ownership,” it says. (Heh.)
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Club Sportiva, do you make money?
I question your bidness model.
Sometimes I just don’t know…
Well here’s the news, CW Nevius has taken to the air, once again.
Here’s an early review, from Rich Lieberman 415 Media:
“I heard Chronicle metro writer, Chuck Nevius’ new report on the 810 “news” Tuesday. It was plain horrific and god-awful. Nevius’ forte is as a writer. He’s NOT a radio guy. His voice was tantamount to listening to wallpaper. He tried in vain to be funny. He was not. The subject matter was the lights going out at Candlestick at the 49ers game Monday Night. It would have been merely bad if the segment ran a couple minutes. Nevius’ piece droned on well past four minutes. If this is supposed to draw listeners, then some moron needs to get his head examined.”
(Meesa say, “How wude!”)
Anyway, listen for yourself:
SF Chronicle columnist CW Nevius has joined the KGO 810 news team as a daily news commentator.
Nevius is well known to Bay Area readers for his unique look at the Occupy Movement, San Francisco politics, and even street toilets. His first commentary for KGO is a sad farewell to Candlestick Park, where Monday Night’s blackout during the 49er’s game may have signaled the end of the stadium.
C.W. Nevius has been a columnist at the San Francisco Chronicle for over 20 years, covering sports, reviewing movies, and spotting trends. He is currently a metro columnist, appearing on Tuesdays and Saturdays.
As a sports columnist he climbed the ski jump at the Norway Olympics, ate bee larvae in Japan, and skied in the French Alps. In all he covered eight Olympic Games, from Australia to Spain to Korea. (And the strangest place of all, Los Angeles.)
He also wrote about riding the “Straight Talk Express” with John McCain during his first presidential bid, parachuting out of an airplane, and running the Boston Marathon. Although he only reviewed movies for a year, he did rate a blurb with his byline on the DVD box of “Santa Clause II,” to the undying embarrassment of his kids.
He co-authored “Splash Hit,” about building the Giants’ new waterfront stadium with Joan Walsh. His latest book is, “Crouching Father, Hidden Toddler. A Zen Guide for New Dads.”
News and Program Director Paul Hosley said, “We’re thrilled to have a journalist of CW’s caliber join the news team. We look forward to hearing his perspective on the Bay Area’s news stories.”
Realize that this might mean that you’ll have less Nevius to kick around, SF Chronicle-wise.
Oh well.
Invisible airwaves crackle with life
Bright antenna bristle with the energy
Emotional feedback on timeless wavelength
Bearing a gift beyond price, almost free
I was actually too close to the action to properly record last night’s outrage taking place amongst Christmastime Union Square shoppers.
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Via Kevin “KevMo” Montgomery‘s always unique and (never deriv-ative) Uptown Almanac comes some news that leaves me saying uh oh, now this is getting spooky – why is it that the Giants T-shirts you can buy for just $5 are sold at ConocoPhillips 76 gas stations (and at ConocoPhillips 76 gas stations only) in San Francisco and the Sunset District?
For example, how about these 76 stations at 19th Ave. and Judah and 24th and Valencia and Lombard and Divisadero and Potrero and 17th?
Here’s a shot from Google Maps Street View way out in the West Bay* from a while back…
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So, can anybody check to see if these shirts are the real deal?
Seems as if somebody has a contract to sell these shirts at all these gas stations?
Did shirtmakers way, way, way overestimate demand for Giants merch?
How can they make money selling at just $5?
Is sales tax included?
Is said tax getting forwarded to the Board of Equalization?
What else can you sell at gas stations – can I get in on the taco truck craze and start selling, you know, after I get my own deal with whomever operates these stations?
This is a Grade A Class One Mystery.
And, for your pleasure, here’s a retread post from a few days back:
[Area resident M. has the deets:
"Ha. I live on 19th right across Judah from this. It's totally an ongoing business, it's been there every day, all day since right after the world series last year and I have no idea how they haven't gotten busted just because it's so brazen and regular. I've actually seen a water department truck blocking the 28 bus stop in front of the gas station while the two dudes were shopping for t-shirts and the bus was trying to find a way to pull over and pick people up. It does tend to screw up traffic right there with so many people trying to pull over/pull in, so it's definitely a bit annoying. I have to assume the gas station owner gets a cut or something."]
This sure seems to be a good place to buy Giants shirts for cheap.
Now, I’m talking about the 76 gas station what’s on the east side of 19th Ave. on Judah (and not the carbon copy 76 on the west side of 19th.)
And my buddy showed me a shirt he got there that wasn’t licensed.
And yesterday, they had a sign up what said, “$5 T-Shirts.”
And here’s the scene from early August 2011.
(Is this an ongoing bidness? Does the gas station owner get a piece of this action as well?)
Now I didn’t stop to check things out or nothing, but, well, you tell me if you think I’m jumping to conclusions.
*You know, the Sunset District, but I’ve heard 19th Ave. being described part of the Inner Sunset, the Middle Sunset, and the Outer Sunset so I don’t know…>
SanFranPreps.com needs money to stay alive to continue covering the San Francisco high school sports scene.
If it doesn’t get enough $$$, it will go dark on August 15th.
Don’t make these Burton High School cheerleaders cry:
Work with me here. According to simple-minded former sportswriter C.W. Nevius, our Haight-Ashbury Neighborhood Council Recycling Center has been
“…a noisy, industrial bone of contention for decades.”
O.K.? And, according to simple-minded former sportswriter C.W. Nevius, the reason why San Francisco Shadow Mayor for Life Gavin Newsom hates the Haight-Ashbury Neighborhood Council Recycling Center is because, because:
“…because the industrial recycling center doesn’t belong in Golden Gate Park.”
All right. But, hold on a second. Does this add up?
Now, maybe I’m just a simple country lawyer,* but didn’t Supervisor Gavin Newsom vote in favor of the HANC Recycling Center a decade back? Check it:
Let’s see here, isn’t the HANC RC just as noisy a “bone of contention” in Golden Gate Park now as a decade ago? Yup.
Did it move or something? Nope.
So why then would Gavin Newsom vote in favor of the hated, terrible, hated recycling center back in 2001?
Was he for it before he was against it? Mmmm.
That’s something to ponder as you read the latest missive from the HANC. Sure looks like they have something cooked up for Judgment Day, aka March 4th, 2011:
“HANC RECYCLING & NATIVE PLANT NURSERY TO ACCEPT OLD CHAIN - FINAL DAYS APPROACHING?
HANC Recycling, under attack for years may go out in a blaze of glory if neighborhood NIMBYs ably led by CW Nevius finally get their way. HANC is seeking to acquire thousands of feet of old chain, padlocks with or without keys, so long as they are open to accommodate the more than 1000 people expected to link up in civil disobedience on the final day.
Executive Director of HANC Recycling, Ed Dunn says, “1000 people have already pledged to chain themselves together on our last day, so we’ll need a lot. But in any case, if things work out scrap prices for steel are through the roof, so this is a good time to recycle.”
All right then, the battle is well and truly joined.
Wake me up on judgment day.
All the deets, after the jump.
* I was born on the bayou, more or less - Choctawhatchee Bay in Okaloosa County, just below Alabammy.
