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Between all the rave kids looking like they were just womp-womped by Jesus for the first time and the wide, fanciful grins on the faces of everyone else, it looks like the reported 2,000+ people who turned out to "the world's first ever interactive balloon immersion" had a damn good time.
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In case you didn't already know about The Wiggle, the Lower Haight bike route now has musical PSA announcing its presence. Perhaps more interesting is the fact that no one in the video was unceremoniously given wedgie by Zeitgeist's bouncers--that place is really blossoming into adulthood.
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Answer: awesome!
There's a short, low-quality video we're only learning about now, but it's tickling our imagination and forcing us to contemplate how to get up there ourselves. (Also, can we bungee jump off this thing? The city could probably close its budget deficit by charging for terrifying tours/jumps...)
Also, here's what it looks like when Sutro sees its shadow:
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Ever wanted to know about the day-to-day of Four Barrel Coffee owner Jeremy Tooker? Of course you have! And lucky for you, the new YouTube series "American Hipster" (which we had anticipated would be pretty "meh") delivers a surprisingly sincere portrait of Jeremy, painting him as a fairly normal dude self-aware of Four Barrel's pretension.
(Also, is this the crystal ball into the future for the successful 20-something Mission kids as they crawl into their 30s? Total workaholic sporting tattoos who does cool dad stuff with mixed race kids all while lamenting the inherent pretentiousness of their hipster-targeted business? Whoa. Is there a Never Never Neverland?)
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I'd like to write about everything that makes this video solid--the camera angles, the editing, the riding, and so on--but, really, sometimes we all need an excuse to listen to Juvenile's Back That Azz Up again.
Plus, it's a good watch if you're stuck at work and want to get jealous about what you could be doing outside in this amazing weather right now. (Who are we kidding? You'd be at the park like everyone else.)
Around 4pm yesterday, a washed-up William H. Macy-looking character decided he was 'sick and tired' of big bank's corporate greed and jumped in front of a southbound BART train, somehow not getting hit by it. So, with his fragile life intact, he went on ranting and apologizing for making people late for a solid 5 minutes before chillin' out with the third rail:
Admist all the excitement, the notoriously trigger-happy BART PD deployed a shotgun-equiped army to deal with the situation. And deal with it they did. Eventually pulling the guy off the tracks, cuffing him, and letting people make their boring journey down to Daly City.
[Thanks for the heads up, Tuffy!]
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At the :10 mark, dude gives up on the graceful exit from the wreckage and goes for the mad dash.
Anyway, the rest of the video is kinda dull, but Mission Local reports the runner, fleeing the scene on 19th between Valencia and Guerrero, was apprehended by undercover cops on 18th Street while attempting to board a bus.
This morning I woke up with Lana Del Ray stuck in my head and was all kinds of pissed off about having to start my day with that whiney drivel running through my mind. That is, until I hopped online and discovered Toast's fresh new video for their song 'Fog City.'
Like this video, their music is gritty and down to earth, but with a sleek finish. I mean, who else raps about clogging their toilet with tampons, and can squeeze in a smegma reference and the phrase "okie dokie" in the same breath? These girls are crazy talented and obviously living life at expert level as evidenced by their vase of bacon grease. Peep them on Facebook and Youtube too.
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