Pets & Animals

Cool Kid Fashion: Dogs

— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) | June 26th, 2010 @ 9:03am

Snakes on a BART

— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) | June 25th, 2010 @ 1:28pm

A couple of questions:

Who's your dealer?
Is this even fucking allowed?

Look, I don't have a huge problem with snakes or weed. But I do think it is kind of fucked you combine the two and decide to bring said snake onto BART. BART is a place for homeless people to sleep and my friends from Berkeley to puke, not for snakes.

BART Don't Lie has the full story and more pics.

(Thanks Brock!)

Update: Rats in the Tokyo Go-Go Building

— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) | June 25th, 2010 @ 10:08am

Following our post about rats at Tokyo Go-Go, we received an email from Tokyo's Sushi Boss, Kevin:

Subject: not cool…
hey. who ever is in charge of this blog please take off whatever that rat thing is about. there has never been an incident of rat problems here inside of tokyo go go. never been any reports. so i dont know what this guy is talking about. if you have any questions please give me a call.

Accepting that maybe we didn't do enough research on this, we pulled out the “pic or it didn't happen” card on Generic. As you can see, it was no lie:

Here’s today’s offering in infestation. Not yesterday’s, mind you, not the day before’s, but today’s. I kind of threw up a bit in my mouth taking this picture.
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ALSO: KevMo at Uptown Almanac blogged my plight. Apparently he got an email from the owner of Tokyo Go-Go who was, um, irate. So I gave him a call, left a message, then he called me back. What follows is a dramatic recreation of the conversation and is in no way a verbatim transcript:
(ring-ring)
generic: This is generic.
Sushi Boss: Hi, this is Sushi Boss.
generic: Oh. Hi.
Sushi Boss: Look, I’m really sorry this is happening to you, but you’re kind of screwing my business by telling everyone our restaurant is infested.
generic: That’s not what I wrote.
Sushi Boss: You said there are rats in my restaurant.
generic: Re-read the blog post. I said there are rats in the building. Know why I said that?
Sushi Boss: Why?
generic: Cause there are rats in the building. I live in the building; I have rats, ergo… And it’s been a longstanding problem, for several months, before I even moved in.
Sushi Boss: I guess I should talk to the landlord about fixing this.
generic: I guess you should.

Generic goes on to mention he feels bad to the guy at Tokyo. In spite of the fact there clearly are rats in the building, there is no evidence to suggest the restaurant is plagued (although it seems doubtful there wouldn't be rats). I talked with another friend that used to live on 16th and Albion and she says “there are rats all over that part of the Mission. I saw rats on a nightly basis behind my house feasting on the neighboring restaurant's trash. Not the small rats either, these were the big kind.”

This basically sums up what everyone should already know: 16th St. is pretty disgusting and if a little bit of dirt in your food bothers you, you shouldn't eat around there..

Be sure to check out Generic's entire followup. Especially if you want to know how to kill rats.

Tokyo Go-Go: Full of Rats

— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) | June 23rd, 2010 @ 3:16pm

UPDATE: Follow-up with pics.

Why is Generic moving out of his 'sick pad' above 16th Street's Tokyo Go-Go? Because he hates animals:

“So what was the problem?”
Rats.
“Like, actual rats?”
Actual, non-figurative vermin were in my room and all throughout the building. I could hear and see them. Fun fact: hearing them is worse—especially at night. When they fight, they make a high-pitched squealing noise that makes your skin crawl. The cliche about women jumping up on chairs? I’m not making fun of that anymore. (I didn’t say I do it, just that I’m not making fun of it.) Rats generally move too fast to hit with anything, so if you’re relying on poison to kill them, getting the hell away strikes me as a pretty sensible choice. (See Plague, Bubonic.)
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PRO TIP: Don’t eat at Tokyo Go-Go. I don’t care how good the sushi tastes, there are rats in the building.
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He claims he has pictures. Care to share?

(The full story)