Grace Zheng hipped me to this pretty neat video of San Francisco moving backwards.  Highlights include cigarette smoking, an American Apparel bro walking from a BART station, and a don’t walk light that INCREASES in time.  Got me thinking though: this is the second rad San Francisco video using an Air track.  Does some French electro-chill duo really sum up life in San Francisco?  My life could be easily summed up by avian death metal and Amy Winehouse, but that’s probably because I enjoy needless vandalism, spending quality time at ‘biker bars’ and hangovers.

While this press release from David Addington,  er, article by Susie Cagle is fairly one-sided and makes some dubious claims, such as “Proposition D would have earned Mid-Market an estimated $100 million for neighborhood improvement projects and community betterment,” I’m willing to ignore all that for the awesome map of the new developments in Mid-Market she created with Laura Foxgrover and David Sachitano. Cagle drew it and you can click on things that will show you other stuff. This is the internet I was promised! As someone who spends a lot of time in Mid-Market, I’m pretty fascinated with what’s going on there now and can usually only find info from Central City Extra, which covers it extensively, and actually speaks to people who live there. Imagine that. Also Curbed SF, where Cagle was once the editor.

Found this article/rad-map via unstoppable.tumblr.com.

So, it’s approaching that time of year again kids. BAY TO MOTHERFUCKING BREAKERS.

I’m sure, like me, you’ve been up late at night worrying over what super unique ensemble you’re going to put together for Douchebag Pride Parade 2010. And oh boy is it ever tough to decide which posse of assholes to hang with while you sleaze your way through the City.

Well worry no more. The Jersey Shore To Breakers float has got you covered!

The fine folks behind this fraternity on wheels are super pumped to announce “the return of the biggest and best float at Bay To Breakers” and this year’s theme is…OMG wait for it…the Jersey Shore! So original!

So much about this pisses me off, I don’t know where to start.

First of all, you can’t dress up like a bunch of douchebags when you already ARE a bunch of douchebags. This is like Jeffrey Dahmer going as a serial killer for Halloween. If you already own an Ed Hardy shirt, you can’t dress up as a person who would wear an Ed Hardy shirt because YOU ALREADY ARE THAT PERSON.

Second, this group wants you to know that they are totally all about preserving “the tradition of B2B.” Wow, what a noble fucking cause. How generous of you to take time out of your busy schedule of sauntering down Chestnut and date-raping to save the very event people like you helped ruin. I tip my trucker hat to you, right after I barf in it.

Fuck Bay To Breakers. Shit’s deader than Lindsay Lohan’s career. There was a time when it was more than a parade of 22-year-old frat boys & sorority sluts who can’t get over college puking their way down Fell Street. For fuck’s sake, my dad ran that shit and he was not a man to put up with bullshit, but B2B has been gentrified by scumbags and mental midgets just like everything else that used to be cool in SF.

I hate that people like this live in my city and think that spending a Sunday pissing and puking while wearing ironic running shorts and sweatbands has anything to do with what San Francisco is all about. I can’t wait until they all trade in their overpriced Marina flats for comfortable deathtraps in the suburbs and get the fuck out of town.

Why the rage? It’s simple. You don’t go to someone’s house, piss all over their couch, and then wonder why they hate you.