SFilthy, my new favorite Tumblr dedicated to our city's sanitary sidewalks, came across this Dollar Menu value somewhere in SoMa:

Coming soon to a McDonald’s near you: The McPigeon.

The McPigeon is also available as a signature Happy Meal. (The toy is a dead bird.)

As you might have heard, the eviction of The Eagle Tavern has been quite the controversy to both the LGBT community and lovers of good bars in general.  To some, the closure was yet another tragedy in the assault on gay culture in the ever-gentrifying SoMa neighborhood; to others, another casualty in the erosion of San Francisco's character.

But plans by area queer businesspersons to pay the $15,000/month rent and re-open the Eagle offered up an encouraging glimmer of hope—until an owner of Foreign Cinema came in to open a “high-end restaurant” in the space.  Feeling burned by the landlord and Foreign Cinema for playing the role of quasi-homewrecker, activist-types picketed the restaurant on Sunday chanting “our space, queer space” and something about how good their bloody marys are.

Here's what the protest organizers had to say about the situation:

A valiant team of queer business owners have been trying hard to reopen the Eagle over the last year. After many months of hard work, they got the landlord to agree to a contract, signed it and sent it to him to sign. They didn't hear back from him for weeks.

The landlord deliberately dropped the potential gay business owners in order to pursue business with five straight guys. This is the third or fourth time that the landlord has purposefully dicked around with gay business owners. Could this be a pattern of homophobia?

These five straight dudes want to open up a high-end restaurant where our beloved Eagle used to be. One of them is a part owner of “Foreign Cinema” the $20+ per plate restaurant that lies at the heart of gentrified mission. These straight guys insist that they can support our gay community just as well as any gay owner. That's bullshit.

Now, the landlord who has refused to let a gay business owner come back to the Eagle is trying to slam through a liquor license transfer to the space. They're hired well connected consultants to get it through lightning fast - the City Operations Committee that first supported it spent a whopping 7 minutes for the entire meeting.

The “homophobia” bit sounds like the stretch, but it sounds like they have a point on the landlord being a bit of a greedy shithead wise entrepreneur.  Regardless, does it really make sense to drag Foreign Cinema into the mix?  Can you really blame 'em for taking advantage of an opportunity to serve yummy $6.75 pop-tarts to more people?

[h/t SFist | Photo by Bob Horowitz]

That's some biker on top of Moscone West, filming a commercial for Google's New Terminator Glasses, so says the uploader of this video:

Turns out it was for Google. They were doing a demo of project glass. Pretty awesome!

While the jump itself looks pretty lame embedded above, if you bump up the quality and full screen it, you can see the biker do a 360 and not the ramp doesn't reach the top of the roof—he's got some 3-4 feet to clear—which kinda makes it cooler.  Also, according to the uploader, “they had some people fly in by parachute too”—which definitely makes it cooler.

[via Bluoz]

My friend, who lives on the corner of 11th and Folsom, had something quite unsavory go down outside her apartment late last night:

i heard a bunch of girls screaming outside. at first i thought they were just drunk, but it turns out they were drunk -and- watching somebody kick the shit out of their friend. the cops found her unconscious on the ground. the whole lot of them denied knowing who did it and stood around like donkeys while the EMTs tried to resuscitate the girl. some shirtless guy kept on shouting “how could you do this to me?” and was thrown into the back of a squad car.

welcome to trendy, urban, hip, soma. would you like to purchase some real estate?