Richmond
We gotta admit: we're not particularly stoked on the new separated bike lanes along JFK in Golden Gate Park either. We love the fact the city is trying new things, and separated lanes have typically worked well in other cities, but they aren't really panning out in Golden Gate Park. People park their cars in the lanes, use the lanes as sidewalks, have made the approach to stop signs difficult, and people clearly have no idea how to park in the new spots. That's not to say the idea should be dismissed entirely--not at all. The city could put up new signage explaining the situation, install a curb between the bike lanes and the parking spaces, or actually stripe out specific spaces for people to park. You know, address the problems.
But KRON's Stanley Roberts! Fuck! People are Behaving Badly, you see, and those people are the government experimenting with improving our transportation. Grrrrrrrrr, Stanley mad!
Naturally, Stanley took his amazing voice and the camcorder he bought off eBay with all the milk money he's been saving up and interviewed a couple of angry (grrrrrrrr) dumb-dumbs in minivans about the problem. And guess what? They hate bicyclists! "Where should bikers be a bikin'?" In the middle of traffic, where they've always been biking. Obviously!
I don't know what my favorite part of the video is: when some green thing claims her door will now get sideswiped when she opens it (because, that's not already a problem on roads without bike lanes. Plus, she wants the American Privilege of opening her door into cyclists, not traffic) or when Stanley doesn't interview a single cyclist, urban planner, or someone who might actually be in favor of the lanes.
Watch below:
[Thanks for the tip, Tuffy! | Photo by SF Bike Coalition]
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Really, KISS breaking into the plumbing game makes a lot of sense considering Gene Simmons has a drain snake in his mouth.
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While everyone in the Mission is chowing down on delicious, authentic Mexican food on a regular basis, Richmond District residents are falling through a downward spiral of infinite culinary sadness! I was out there yesterday and it looks like that that fancy Korean place on 6th & Balboa closed recently, and someone hung up this plaintive sign in the window begging for some "really yummy" Mexican food.
As much as I love the Richmond (which I do, a lot) I have to admit that the taco offerings out there are pretty dismal. One of the only taquerias in the Richmond that I can think of is Gordos. How their flavorless, sloppily constructed burritos have achieved bi-coastal success is beyond me. But anyway, this sign is hilarious. Not only is the community just begging for a good taqueria, they’re doing it in English, Spanish AND Chinese! Purveyors of ordinary tacos need not apply! Only really yummy ones will do!
Added point of irony: Namu, which formerly occupied this space, was best known for their Korean tacos.
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Pic via Ocean Beach Bulletin's Facebook PageAccording to the folks over at Ocean Beach Bulletin; "A woman drove a Lexus sedan down Stairwell 25, across the beach and into the sea at Ocean Beach this morning." If she really did intend to drive it into the ocean, then that's some serious 'Free Willy meets PCP' shit right there.
UPDATE: SF Gate reports that first responders found her just chilling in the front seat of the car, which was already partially submerged.
If you suffered the misfortune of not checking out the brawny and titillating Super Prestige Series cyclocross race last weekend in GGP, here's a taste of the fiscal shitstorm you missed out on:
While I couldn't detect any hints of human decomposition emanating from the back, Dora the Explorer pops are being flipped for a criminally-high two dollars.
We haven't checked in with our pals in the Inner Richmond in a while. Let's see what they're up to:
(Thanks Daniel!)
Neighborhoodr clued me in to this awesome new set of San Francisco maps today. Started by a couple of Berkeley students, Visualizing Mental Maps attempts to map how San Franciscans feel about their neighborhoods & the city, and the results are really interesting. From the site:
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SF's finest are warming up to twitter, and thankfully their intent doesn't seem to be anything like back in 2k6 when the Isla Vista cops figured out how to use Facebook to skim the event/party listings and make underage drinking busts at my college era parties. In fact, SFPD's Richmond station twitter account is actually pretty rad.
In addition to live-tweeting neighborhood warnings and super interesting crimes you didn't think even existed (see the glued ATM keys above), it seems like their intent is to actually use Twitter as a platform to better serve the community (SHOCKER, AMIRITE?). According to SF Weekly and SF Appeal's recent coverage, the Richmond station top cop, Captain Richard Corriea, has four officers tweeting from the field and is encouraging more to do the same.
Time will tell if other SFPD stations catch on (or if the DA bitches them out via "YOU'VE GONE TOO FAR MCBAIN! I WANT YOUR BADGE AND YOUR SMARTPHONE ON MY DESK IN THE MORNING!") and start using Twitter to do the same, but in the meantime, let's entertain some fantasy SFPD tweets.*
or...
* = No, I don't care if there isn't actually a Dolores Park or Panhandle station, this is an exercise in stroking my imagination. Sexually. Post your own neighborhood SFPD tweets in the comments.
If you don't read Fecal Face, you're missing out on their fantastic Photo of the Day section. It usually has nothing to do with San Francisco, but they recently brought it back to the city for this Ocean Beach shot. No explanation was given as to why a man dumped a half gallon of whole on his head, but I guess that's what makes it art.
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