wings

good guys win

hey health care reform!  hooray!

still, i'm kind of digging this graphic.  hoping obama's 2012 posters look something like this.

piano and vocals

security

mission street.

behold, the inventor of the baby-cut carrot

crazies

ewwww.

wait what

wait what

you've definitely been beeped

also, the library is very pretty.  the atrium is the big showpiece, but i like the stacks, with their calm, easy lighting and big windows.  i've been spending a lot of time in the third floor reference stacks for my classes.  it's a nice place to be.

(although i hate the way the stairs are designed.  function following very very far behind form.)

by the way, do you remember the film "city of angels?" the kind-of-not-really-remake of the wim wenders movie, with the goo goo dolls song that wouldn't go away? it's got a whole scene in that library!


CHECK IT OUT







(just the first 4 minutes)

though the film is using the sfpl as a stand-in for a library in los angeles, they got some details right - creepy people in trenchcoats claiming to be messengers of god?  sounds like the main library alright!

saw this at the main library today

more importantly, what color is your dog's parachute?

scary mirrors!

(via peaches christ)

favorite bits from peanuts

favorite bits from peanuts

bikes+google

bike directions on google maps! not perfect but pretty good. seems especially useful in combination with the terrain layer.

some things are a little odd.  if you tell it you want to go to oakland from sf it suggests taking the ferry, but the times aren't incorporated. hopefully eventually the bart trains that allow bikes will be included.  also all the offstreet paths in glen canyon, alamo square and other parks are included as bike paths.

disgusting food: the craigslist ad

ewww here's a craigslist ad for one of those market research events, where specific demographics are offered a small amount of money (a $75 gift card, in this case) to tell market researchers what they think of a specific product. this time, they're looking for 13-16 year olds whom they describe in this way:

+ You are heavily involved in sports and are always snacking (especially meat snacks)
+ You really like Meat Sticks like Slim Jim and Jack Links and have a unique way of eating these
+ You love jerky but hate meat sticks!
+ You are your friends dare eachother to eat the most spicy of foods
+ You love junk food and your friends would call you the junk food king!
+ You love meat sticks waaay more than jerky and want to tell us about this!
+ You are in charge of purchasing all your own snacks
+ You have a sibling younger or older than you that also likes snack foods
+ You and your friends meet or hang out at a convenient stores often.
+ You often carry snacks with you on the go
+ WWF is your favorite sport on tv

I AM IN CHARGE OF PURCHASING MY OWN SNACKS! I LOVE JERKY BUT HATE MEAT STICKS!  I OFTEN CARRY SNACKS ON THE GO!

can you imagine the sad marketing person writing all this?  what kind of product do you think they have in mind?  something in between jerky and a "meat stick?"

11:38 am

remember 'hate it or love it?' i miss that song.

blow your lunch!

blow your lunch!

new mural

new mural on cesar chavez x mission, on the new ugly condos+walgreens building (click for large).

gavin on guererro

oh golly, gavin newsom was in my neighborhood! 

by the way, kudos to burrito justice.  everytime i wonder what something is or when it was built or whatever it seems like burrito justice has a post explaining it.  katie and i spent 10 minutes discussing what the sand application was at the new (wonderful) guerrero x 28th x san jose minipark. burrito justice talked to the contractor and has the answer. 

hooray

"hooray!"

happy weekend folks! love deathwishthree.

doesn't look like friendship to me

spaced american

oh weird.  a clip of the american remake of spaced, which never got the green light, perhaps partly because the american producers (who included. . . . sigh . . . mcg) refused to work with or involve the creators of the great bbc series. 

also it was going to be set in san francisco.  aaand it's pretty bad.








oh yeah, i got alls this from the onion.

"cupcakes are essentially reactionary"

"Their economic rationale withstands any and all conditions. When the economy is going well, people can afford little extras like cupcakes. When the economy isn't going well, people can afford only cupcakes."

slate predicts the end of the cupcake bubble.  i'm putting my money in scones.

stop stosselling me

CA

jerry brown gives his opening pitch to the chron:

Brown said he would not support raising taxes unless voters approved, that he can live with the current two-thirds majority needed to pass new taxes and state budgets, and that he does not believe changes are needed in the Proposition 13 tax initiative.

He also said he opposes so-called "sanctuary cities" and driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants and said he is "not going to jump on the (marijuana) legalization bandwagon."

well then.  this is going to be an awful election!

although this seems like a really smart talking point to me:

While never mentioning Whitman, who already has put $39 million of her own money into her campaign, Brown clearly aimed to challenge her argument that fresh perspective and business know-how are needed in the governor's office.


"Some of these CEOs don't get that being a governor is not being an autocrat," he said. Governors "don't give orders to the Legislature. The Legislature controls the money - and always has."

oh yeah this too

oh i love this video.  here's some awesome squirrel monkeys at the bronx zoo.  they are looking for delicious blueberries in jello, which is supposed to encourage their foraging instincts.  

via robert popper.

here it is, folks. 2:40 is really good.

continued

an update on my last post . . . i'm listening to kqed's forum with michael "crazy dog" krasny, and they're talking about this issue.  very interesting.  the spokespeople in support of it say that there is a wave of violence in the haight (though crime levels are down) and residents are fearful to make complaints, so cops need a way to preemptively arrest criminal youth before they commit a crime.  it's a pretty incredible argument.   criminalizing something (that supporters admit isn't the real problem) to reduce crimes that are only peripherally related, if at all.  crimes, by the way, which are already, by definition, illegal.  we're assured that the cops will exercise discretion in only using this law against undesirables (as opposed to, say, well-dressed kids running a lemonade stand).  but is that really how the laws are supposed to work?   we're supposed to give the cops whatever constitutionally doubtful "tools" they request, so long as they pinky swear they won't use them against us "regular people?"

also, the callers, my lord.  so many rich people in this city are under the impression that their share of property taxes entitles them to a representative share of influence in city policy.

this week in assholes

have you sf people been following the sit/lie debate?  pretty ridiculous.  c.w. nevius (who does not live in the city) is leading a movement to make it illegal for people to sit on the ground, specifically in the haight. 

anyway nevius is now saying 71% of san franciscans support a sit/lie law.  his source? a san francisco chamber of commerce poll of 500 people.  the article doesn't suggest that they hired a professional organization to conduct the polling.  it doesn't even suggest that they didn't just poll their members.  so all this really tells us is that a pro-business, anti-progressive organization supports a law that further criminalizes homeless people.  big surprise.  on the basis of this very, very, very questionable poll, nevius assures the board of supes that should they vote against a sit/lie law (as they will, thank god), they will face a double digit drop in support. 


by the way, newsom says he decided to support the sit/lie law after he went with a walk with his kid on haight street (no he didn't, by the way) and saw a man sitting on the ground, smoking crack.  is he under the impression that you can't smoke crack while standing up?  maybe he should pretend to take a walk with his daughter near 16th and mission.