If you voted for Ed Lee for Mayor, your choice for the next D5 Supervisor is London Breed.*
OTOH, if you voted against Ed Lee for Mayor, your choice for the next D5 Supervisor is Julian Davis. Throw in a couple other choices if you want, but make sure neither one is London Breed or Interim Supervisor and Total Sellout Christine Olague. (Or should I say Christine “8 Washington” Olague? Or should I say Christine “Perjurer Accomplice” Olague?)
Easy Peasy.
Come out and say hi to Julian, I’m sure he’ll be there, this Sunday:
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Hey, is PG&E a “Sponsor” of this event, on September 9th, 2012, the two year anniversary of PG&E’s San Bruno Pipeline Explosion, the one that killed eight souls? I think so.
(I wish San Francisco had just an average kind of utility monopoly instead of motherfucking PG&E. Speaking of which, a while back they inquired about how much it would cost to advertise some PR campaign on this tiny blog. I was like GTFO – I ignored it. Interestingly, presented with a similar offer, the San Francisco Bay Guardian said bring it, and so then PGE’s signature blue banner ads started appearing at SFBG.com, I’m seriously. Ah memories. )
Anyway, see you at Sunday Streets Western Addition 2012.
*I’m sure he’d be delighted to have her on board. Now, she’s a little PO’ed these days about how she kind of got screwed over by Interim Mayor Ed Lee earlier this year, oh and by Willie Brown and Rose Pak and all, but I’m sure Mayor Lee and his minders would adapt to London’s election swimmingly. (Of course Ed Lie said he would stay out of this particular race and of course now he’s now picking sides in D5, you know, just a few months later, but he also said he wouldn’t run for Mayor. In fact that’s why he became Interim Mayor, based on that other promise. Hence the sobriquet Ed Lie.) Anyway, Republican billionaire Ron Conway threw her a few bucks a little while ago – that’s telling, IMO. Oh, and DiFi just endorsed her, and you can’t get any more Establishment than DiFi I don’t think.
Looks as if we got our weekly Tuesday Noon Siren Test in early when some of San Francisco’s emergency sirens went off today at 3:45PM to … mark the end of Sunday Streets Chinatown?
“A siren from San Francisco’s Outdoor Public Warning System sounded at about 3:45 p.m. Sunday, but a City Twitter account stated that the siren was activated accidentally.”
…why not let’s have a Sunday Streets on the western span the next time Caltrans or whoever does work on the eastern span, you know, the next time they shut down the bridge over a three-day weekend.
Then people could walk or ride their bikes to islands Yerba Buena and Treasure, if only for one day.
So sure, leave a lane or two open on the western span for TI residents to escape the isles and for trucks to service the eastern span. And maybe Homeland Security could have a few snipers around in case a sleeper cell tried to attack the main suspension cables.
*Kind of lackluster, actually. People don’t seem to care as much about this event as much anymore. It’s become more kind of a private-public, corporatist, corporate sell-out these days. Anyway, you can see some of its tents on the left and a few cyclists going past the Ferry Building, if you look hard enough.
I don’t know, there were lots of people out there, so that was good.
On the other hand, this no-cars-allowed “Walking Streets” event was brought to you by PG&E, the company what just blew up eight people a year ago and then lied about the circumstances of that these past 12 months.
I’m still not sure what the point was for this “walking-oriented” Sunday Streets but oh well.
Here’s the beginning, at Bush and Grant “Avenue.” (Note Chiu-bacca and red-shirted handler spreading the word of the mayoral candidacy of Board of Supervisors President David Chiu.)
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And the middle, featuring a wealth of counterfeit goods on sale, and T-shirts for $2.88, just like any other day:
And here’s the end, with pretty much all the whimsy I could find today. (In aggravation, a NIMBY group was using this same very block to recruit more NIMBYs.)
That’s it.
Thanks, PG&E, I guess.
“The Chinatown-North Beach Walking Street event is made possible by the lead sponsorship of Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E) with additional support from State Farm Insurance. Other Sunday Streets sponsors include Bank of America (Lead Sponsor for the 2011 Sunday Streets Season), AT&T, Bay Area Air Quality Management District, Kaiser Permanente, California Pacific Medical Center, UCSF, Shape Up, The California Endowment, Bi Rite Market, REI, Sports Basement, Mikes Bikes, Bike & Roll, Bay City Bikes, and Blazing Saddles, along with in-kind support from the American Red Cross, Bay Area, City CarShare and media sponsors SF Examiner, Clear Channel and Scoutmob.”
[UPDATE 7-28-2011, 4:57 PM: Bogus SFSundayStreets is no more. It's has ceased to be. Now, it's all, "Sorry, that page doesn’t exist!" Fast work, Twitter.]
[UPDATE: Appears as if http://twitter.com/SFSundayStreets is no more, as of today, July 25th, 2011. Was it something I said? Perhaps. Was this account authored by a robot? Was there some profit to be had by somebody somehow, like some donations via a so-called secure website? I don't know. It's a mystery to me.]
I suppose there’s nothing holding back anybody from Tweeting as much as physically possible, you know, like if somebody challenged you to see how many four-word Tweets you could broadcast in five minutes, something like that.
As here, where SFSundayStreets chose a Sunday evening to just go Twitter crazy.
And for what purpose? To get donations for Livable City? (How much would you pay for more joy in your life?)
But it turns out that joy involves a NIMBYish attention to details, like telling bidness how tall their ceilings should be. And how to store nighttime security grates.
“Security gates or shutters for closed stores should be open grillework rather than solid metal, and should fold away from view when the stores are open. High ceilings on non-residential ground floors create attractive, light-filled spaces that can accommodate a variety of uses. They also lift the first residential floor a few feet further from the street, which makes that housing more livable. Ground floor ceiling heights of around 14′ should be required for non-residential uses…”
Why is Sunday Streets connected with this kind of effort?
Don’t know.
Anyway, step one is to delete SFSundayStreets from my overloaded Twitter. Guess I’ll make do with plain old http://twitter.com/#!/SundayStreets, which manages to get by with couple hundred Tweets per year (as opposed to 76k(!).)
Why there should be both a SundayStreets and a SFSundayStreets on the Twitter to promote the same series of events, well, that eludes me. Oh well.
All right, adios, SFSundayStreets and your 200 Tweet per hour bursts.
Today, Sunday, October 24th, 2010, is a looking a little soggy so the 2nd Annual Tricycle Music Fest Westis heading indoors and starting an hour later, at 12:15 PM this afternoon.
All the deets, below.
COME INSIDE FROM THE RAIN AND ROCK OUT AT THE LIBRARY
Free concerts for Kids!
Come inside from the rain and rock out at the library with the 2nd Annual Tricycle Music Fest Main Stage Event!
Check out the Bay Area’s coolest kindie rock bands at a music festival inside the Main Library on October 24th, starting at 12:15 p.m.
Join us for an afternoon of lit-kindie rock featuring performances by The Sippy Cups, Frances England, The Time Outs, The Devil-Ettes and Pip Squeak A-Go-Go.
The 2nd Annual Tricycle Music Fest West is FREE and open to the public.
Presented by the San Francisco Public Library and Friends of the San Francisco Public Library, in partnership with Sunday Streets (Civic Center/Tenderloin), there’ll be giveaways, good times and more. Come shake, rattle and roll at the Library—all in the name of literacy! For more information, please visit SFPL.org/Tricycle
