Oh that’s right, the recession IS over.
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At least for now, anyway
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Word From The Street: “THE RECESSION IS OVER – LEARN THE GUITAR – 987-9666″ – Irrefutable Logic
Wednesday, April 10th, 2013Here’s the Difference “6th Street Safety Hub” is Making for Stolen Bicycles in the Corrupt Mid-Market Twitterloin
Tuesday, March 19th, 2013[UPDATE: It's gone now, so I didn't get to see how it was picked clean.]
See? This stolen bike wasn’t totally stripped. Not on the first day, anyway.
Take a look, the junkies have left all sorts of easily-stealable parts.
995 Market at 6th:
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People, people, people! When will you learn that a U-lock is no defense?
I’ll tell you, the U-lock I use cost $15 (and it came with a cable as well.) It’s turbo light. Really, it’s feels like kind of a toy. But the junkies don’t know how to defeat it – they don’t even try.
Look, if you want to just park your ride on Market Street and walk away to do your bidness, you need, at the very least:
1. Locking wheel skewers;
2. A way to secure your saddle; and
3. Superglue installed in every hex bolt you can see
I’m going to see this now-abandoned white bike frame again today and all the rest of it will be gone, except for the chain and maybe the fork.
Now, was this bike “stolen?”
The SFPD would say no.
I say yes.
Postcard From Marin: “This Bus Uses Clean-Air Technology” – But It’s a Diesel – So Diesel Equals “Clean Air?”
Thursday, March 14th, 2013Hey Marin! Why not say “This Bus is a Diesel,” you know, instead?
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It’s like, what are you so proud of?
The See-Through Skyscrapers of South of Market – Now Our PacBell Building Looks EVEN MORE Like It Belongs in Detroit
Thursday, March 14th, 2013First, our PacBell Building in SoMA was all like this.
Then is was all like this.
Now it’s all like this, so you can see through entire floors.
Say hello to the higher floors of a totally gutted building:
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If only San Francisco were the Innovation Capital of the World or something, then we wouldn’t have a bunch of empty buildings sitting around for years and decades.
On It Goes…
This POLIZIA Lamborghini Has Been Pulled Over, Ticketed Repeatedly, and Towed the Past Three Weeks
Thursday, March 7th, 2013Do you remember this one, from last month?
“If You Want to Look Like an Italian Police Officer, Just Paint “POLIZIA” on the Side of Your Lamborghini Gallardo, Like This“
I do.
Good times.
Well, since then, this vehicle has been making waves, you know, getting pulled over by the SFPD, getting ticketed by SFMTAMUNIDPTSFBC meter maids (Tough People, Good Jobs), and getting towed outta Chinatown like a beached whale.
And you know what the little people, the tiny topolino, those boring, mousy types who can only dream of being piloti di Lamborghini or a sexy-time lover of piloti di Lamborghini, you know what they do? They whip out their cell phones and then post photos to the Internet.
Fucking haters!
As here on Market last month, via my Samsung Galaxy Note II phablet:
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And here’s an effort from Lulu Vision a few days later:
But there was no ticket issued for this particular yellow zone violation. Lucky Devil!
Now speak of the Devil, El Diablo, here’s a list of recent citations issued for this whip by the SFMTA:
02/13/13 T37C STREET CLEANING $62.00
02/25/13 T202.1 PRK METER DOWNTOWN $72.00
02/28/13 T37C STREET CLEANING $62.00
03/01/13 T38C WHITE ZONE $98.00
03/02/13 V22502A OVER 18 IN. FRM CURB $57.00
03/02/13 T38C WHITE ZONE $98.00
03/02/13 T38A RED ZONE $98.00
Of course the cops don’t care about you parking in the yellow zone when they’re pulling you over, as here on Kearny. Also via Lulu Vision:
Hey look what came out of the Lambo – it’s a quarter ounce of medicinal Mary Jane plus a quarter gallon of medicinal luxury vodka.
Good times. Good times for 32-year-old Mr. Cheng.
(Good thing that vodka was capped, Brother. Anyway, the SFPD let him go with a ticket.)
But getting towed from the front of the Chinatown McDonalds because of corrupt Rose Pak’s Chinese New Year’s parade, well that’s the limit, am I right, people?
I’ll tell you, I don’t know if this kind of exoticar lifestyle is sustainable.
Well let’s the driver of this car can Go Forth And Sin No More…
A Real-Life Carl Fredricksen: This Homeowner on Oak Street Looks Like the Star of Pixar’s Animated Film “Up”
Wednesday, March 6th, 2013Except this guy didn’t fly away using balloons. He stayed put and watched larger buildings go up around him.
Anytown, USA plopped down on busy, busy Oak Street, San Francisco:
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Not All Google Buses Go To Google! Meet the Mission District Facebook Shuttle, Lost in the Haight
Friday, March 1st, 2013That’s my guess, that this VanTool #180 had just come from FaceBook Building #16 down in Menlo Park.
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FaceBook itself sucks, of course, but the FaceBook corporate shuttle, well that’s all right by me.
SF Chronicle Building Attacked with Graffiti: “Fuck CW Nevius, Fuck Gentrification”
Monday, February 25th, 2013Appears as if this recent pro-gentrification bit from CW Nevius has garnered a reaction from the street.
Check it:
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I’d say the top suspects in this caper are the tens of thousands of people who have priced apartment rents in the 415 over the past few months.
Of course CW Nevius himself is a newcomer to San Francisco, but he likes increasing rents because he’s an owner, right?
Oh well.
The “Conspiracy of Silence” That Built San Francisco’s World-Famous Sutro Tower
Monday, February 18th, 2013Local writer Anne Herbert, famous for coining the phrase “practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty,” recently announced on her blog:
The closer I live to Sutro Tower, the more I think it isn’t dangerous.
O.K. then. But who says Sutro Tower is dangerous? Well, for starters, the people who live around it in the Twin Peaks area, in small neighborhoods like Clarendon Heights and Midtown Terrace. Among other things, they worry about EMF radiation. They worry that the tower might fall down.
Sutro Tower at night under a shooting star. Looks safe enough:
But there’s not much they can do about it. The time to do something would have been back in the 1960′s when this thing was being planned.
So, let’s take a trip down Memory Lane and check out this 35-year-old piece from Stephen R. Barnett. He alleged:
…the project was cloaked from public view by a media blackout, a conspiracy of silence hatched by the TV stations that own the tower and joined by the Chronicle and Examiner.
Them’s fighting words, don’t you think? You might not agree with his conspiratorial tone, but we all can appreciate little nuggets such as:
“It is ridiculous to assume the FCC will require the entire tower to be painted with alternate stripes of white and orange.” Wheat declared. It “will doubtless be painted a neutral color consistent with the surroundings,” he assured the Supervisors.
As you can see, it’s white and orange to keep the FAA happy. Note the newish 125-foot-long, 10-ton auxiliary antenna mounted vertically
More recently, a movement was afoot to prevent the tower from going digital, but that didn’t work out.
There are updates for the digital future slated and there’s a lot of life left in this structure, so it’s not going anywhere anytime soon.
