Barbary Coast Ranger

The SF Medical Examiner is not without a sense of humor entirely however. Their web site features this prominent warning:
“IF YOU ENCOUNTER SOMEONE WHO APPEARS TO BE DECEASED: CALL 911″

I’m walking around Russian Hill with Amy, and this is before we spent all afternoon drinking, and two things jumped out as noteworthy.

There seem to be a lot of missing pet flyers up around town these days and . . .
The big set of paw prints we saw

We’re walking past a car when Amy stops […]

From the back of the 41 Bus:
Woman: “. . . and then we’ll go out. We’re normally out till 4 or 5 in the morning . . . ”
Man #1: “That’s pretty late.”
Woman: “Yeah, plus he likes to be in bed by 10, especially when he’s going to be drinking the next morning. […]

I was walking through Pacific Heights with Sweetie when we found the Matson house and discovered the Matson apartments across the street.
William Matson was a sea captain who started with a single ship and built it into a large fleet running passengers and cargo, primarily between California and Hawaii. He lived in San Francisco […]

“Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him.” Lord Chesterfield
I walk past this piece of graffiti on my way to work sometimes:

I was thinking about it last week. On the 16th a guy was hurrying trying to catch a muni streetcar. He didn’t make […]

It’s fundamentally unfair to make fun of engrish signs, but I want to put the FUN in FUNdamentally unfair.
Walking through the edge of Chinatown, on my way up to North Beach with Sweetie, I came across Professor Wang’s massage. OK, I could have let the ‘let’s go for a wang massage’ joke go, if […]

Coincidence? I don’t think so:

A house in Dolores Heights (Left) and a Tiki Idol (Right, courtesy of pageblankn on Flickr) Coincidence or secret tiki cult? You decide.

The Crown Victoria Police Interceptor (CVPI), the most popular police vehicle in the US, often seen around San Francisco:

The “last of the V8 interceptors” from Mad Max, not usually seen around San Francisco:

The Go-4 Interceptor from Westward Industries, ubiquitous around San Francisco:

There seems to be some contradiction to naming something “Interceptor” and requiring all the […]

Taking the Ferry over to Alameda, Sweetie and I got a good look at the Cosco Busan. This is the ship that hit the San Francisco Bay Bridge and spilled 58,000 gallons of fuel oil into the Bay. They were offloading the ship, so it was riding higher in the water than it […]

This poster was in the window of a shop being renovated in the Fillmore:

Why wouldn’t you draw the shark’s head as an actual hammer? Isn’t it self-contradictory to have the hammerHEAD mascot carrying a hammer in its HAND? Then you could skip putting arms on the shark or, if you’re compelled to put […]