You see and hear a lot around San Francisco about how progressive the city is, and events that support this narrative (like 1934 West Coast Longshoremen’s Strike) get played up, but the foundations of the city are greed, vice, and free wheeling capitalism. A song supposedly still being sung as late as the 1930s […]
Still, you have to respect the workers for seizing the means of production, though that sounds kind of dirty . . .
Moose actually seems like an interesting guy and anyone who can get money from a major corporation to do stuff that’s cool has my respect.
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″
San Francisco is a city with great history and historical characters but neither the history nor the characters are, shall we say, evenly distributed. Noe Valley, home of the door with this historic plaque, evidently prides itself of being a quiet neighborhood.
Tired woman sitting down on a happy hour bar stool: “You know you’re having a bad day when you just found out your lawyer’s been disbarred.”
Suit she’s talking to: “Yeah.”
Tired Woman: ” . . . but I got a good parking spot when I got back from the lawyer’s office.”
Suit: “So it’s a wash.”
Tired Woman: […]
The more you read about the people that San Francisco’s streets are named for, the more you realize the truth of this T Shirt. The downside of wearing a pithy truism on your shirt in Portuguese is, as my bartender said shaking her head, “I’m going to be explaining this all night.”
Every once and awhile you get reminded about what rock and roll is all about: loud, stupid, fun. I got off BART at 24th Street the other day and a garage band had decided to entertain the BART stop by simply opening their windows and playing. The lead singer, in the rock and […]
Personally I like the idea of driving some kind of monster SUV or pickup with a bio-diesel sticker on it just to confuse environmentalists about how angry they’re supposed to be. The owner of a full size Dodge pickup over on Church Street did me one better: he had the same idea with a […]
True story, pretty much, got it second hand. The 45 Bus in San Francisco goes down Stockton through Chinatown. One day the bus driver stops, opens the door, and sees a woman waiting to board, carrying a live chicken.
Bus Driver: “Maam, you cannot bring that on the bus.”
Chinese Woman: “What!?”
BD: “Maam, there’s no […]
