Travels and Tales

Cool Kid Merchandising: The SFMOMA Airport Annex Gift Shop

— By Zach Perkins |

[Part Two of a Series in which I recycle shit from my Tumblr, because 17 readers is better than 2]

 

THIS EXISTS (@ SFO)

“Spent my whole vaca in San Franciscy puking in Marina alleyways and tanning at DP.  Don’t want my bros and fam back home to know that’s all I’m about.  Want them to think I had an authentic cultural experience (via justifying the use of Dad’s frequent flier miles)  Thank gawd for the SFMOMA airport gift-shop annex.”  ~VacaBro (via Fly Over State)
 

Is San Francisco Better than New York?

— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |

This bro claims his video series is the “76-second travel show” but this video is 146 seconds long.  What does that mean?  Either he’s an idiot or just fucking with me.  The former means his opinion isn’t worth shit, the latter means I’m going to hella mean-mug YouTube for 146 seconds.

Anyways, watch all 70 seconds in overage to find out what Pythagoras’s opinion is.

(via Eye on Blogs)

Free zipline rides in Justin Herman Plaza starting tomorrow!

— By Jane Parton |

So, I don’t know about you all, but I’m definitely doing this.

Urban Zip-Line Coming to San Francisco! Zoom 600 Feet Over Justin Herman Plaza for Free

Those people in British Columbia, they like to have fun. So, in order to get you to think about taking your next vacay up in the Great White, they’re going to install a 600-foot-long zip-line* in Embarcadero Square and run it for eleven days starting April 8th, 2010. And, assuming you meet their physical requirements (It looks like I’ll qualify, but 280-pound Epic Beard Man Thomas Bruso probably won’t), you’ll be able to harness up and go for a 200-yard ride FOR FREE.

Imagine zooming over the giant white tent hey’re constructing for Peter Pan (opening April 27th!) at neighboring Sue Bierman Park.

(via sfcitizen)

Thanks, Canada! I doubt I’ll ever go up there to vacation, but the awesome free zipline ride will be much appreciated.

Update: NIMBY Neighbors Already Hating on Brooklyn's Mission Dolores on Yelp!

— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |

Reader Neil points out that “NIMBY neighbors are already on the scene” at the recently opened Dolores Park-inspired bar in Brooklyn:

Wow, what a great bar! Do you know what would make it more awesome? A roof! And sound-proofing!

Seriously, as one of the hundreds of neighbors who won’t be falling asleep until 4AM every night this summer, this place sucks. That room that’s open to the sky that everyone is raving about? All of that noise has to go somewhere, and right now it is bouncing off of all the buildings and going straight into our windows. I can hear EVERYTHING people are saying, even if it’s only 1 or 2 people… the noise is magnified enormously. I can’t even tell you how loud we have to turn up our TV to cover the din. I didn’t move to Park Slope to have to sleep with the windows closed and earplugs in every night.

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Jamie M. is your stereotypical Dolores Park NIMBY.  Looks the part, probably hasn’t gotten “serviced” in 6 months, and her “interests” include “calamari, clams, mussels, oysters, bourbon, wine, sushi” (read: moving to suburbia and shitting out two kids whose father is a sperm bank next fall).

Previously on Uptown Almanac: 

Dolores Park Gets a Bar

— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |

Grubstreet SF notes that a beer bar in Brooklyn called “Mission Dolores” has opened its doors.  The website doesn’t mention anything about weed truffles, Cold Beer, Cold Water, impromptu concerts, or NIMBY neighbors, but I still have high hopes.  Anyways, it’s like Shotwell’s, only in a part of the country that snows and Jay-z talks about every other verse.  But yeah, props on someone at least attempting to get California beers on tap somewhere in the northeast.  I only wish someone would open up a bar in SF that does beer from the Northeast.  San Francisco gets a lot of things, like nice weather and alcoholism, but damn does it not get beer.

Cool Kid Travels: Belize, It's Just Like San Francisco!

— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |

San Ignacio is quite the little town: there are impressive feats of engineering, no one appears to have any form of employment aside from drinking and gambling, there are bridges everywhere, everyone only drinks one brand of beer (it tastes like PBR!), and, as everydaydude points out, San Francisco street artists come here to spraypaint! (pictured below) Neat!  Plus, it’s like 95 degrees here any everyone goes swimming all the time.  Just like SF!

Steve Comes Back From Guatemala

— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |

Net-level photo geek justonlysteve has returned from Guatemala and would like to share what Guatemala would look like with a little bit of post-processing.  It’s a preview of what you’ll get to see next week from me, only mine will be taken from a cellphone, look a lot less pretty, probably involve a lot of graffiti, and will be from a Latin American country whose official language is English.

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