Imagine my horror the other night as I spotted this hiptard out of the corner of my eye while drinking at Uptown.  As this crappy picture shows, this dudebro was hanging out at the bar and rocking a Hitler mustache with zero shame.  So many things rushed through my mind: do I talk to him to figure out what motivates someone to do this?  Is he Jewish and trying to take irony to a macabre next level?  Should I smash my bottle over the bar and stab him in the throat?

Ultimately murder seemed like a bad idea—plus I was too intoxicated to properly wield a broken bottle—and the idea of trying to talk to a person like this made me want to die.  Instead, I just was that creepy guy who sneaked a picture of Hipster Hitler IRL and bounced to a bar that wouldn't let someone like this in.  Even so, what the fuck?

Came across this madness pasted over a billboard on Valencia and 22nd by some anonymous artist.  Not sure why the hairy raisin is scratching its head, the mutant frog is doing jazz hands, and mushroom tops with human feet are jumping up and down, but I sure wish I knew who the artist's dealer is.  And as some sticker vandal wrote next to these pieces, “look at all these beautiful shades of grey.”  Word.

[Take a closer look at the work over at bhautik joshi's photostream]

Because this is so much better than plants and a comfortable place to sit.

For the past year, there has been a fair amount of grumbling from local businesses and neighbors about the 220-space parking lot at 17th and Folsom being converted to a public park.  The complaints have generally ranged from the petty safety concerns to the lazy (because parking your car at 14th and Harrison and walking three blocks is hard).  However, up until this week, these vocal, car-loving neighbors never bothered to do anything more than talk about opposing the park.  From the SF Examiner:

A coalition of 15 businesses within a one-block radius of the 220-space lot have appealed The City’s decision to allow construction of the new park without an environmental review.

“My company has been here since the early ’70s,” said Michael York, who owns Ocean Sash and Door, a custom door and window warehouse and company that operates in two buildings across from the lot. “The installers have tool boxes. They prefer to park in there.”

Damn. 15 businesses lobbying the city to take a step back before building the park?  Given the way things go in this town, that likely means this park won't be built for another decade which, well, just sucks.

[SF Examiner]

Lots of stuff.

Apparently a new collective vintage/antique shop just opened on Valencia at Market called “Stuff.”  I'm calling “Bullshit.” As Generic pointed out 7 months back, this trend of naming a business literally after what it sells is both boring and not as clever as people must convince themselves it is.  Chow, Grub, and now Stuff?  If this trend continues, soon some brilliant San Franciscan will open a restaurant and call it “Meal.”  Or a diner and call it “Breakfast.”  Or a bar and call it “Mistake.”

(pic via Atomic Fantasy)