San Francisco and what to do in it

Moved in '80; evangelicals and hippies, hour-long commute to school for four of those years, population varied from several hundred in the summer to maybe a hundred in the winter. My back yard was as awesome as anyone's, though. We lived in the penultimate house on a north/south street (Spelt Road) about a half mile from the Redwoods' business office. More bear interaction than most people that didn't grow up going to the Eagle.

Wawona, more than anything, made me love big cities. First time I could I went to London.

Run for your lives everybody!

anyone else up for FAP next Wednesday...?

Yes - depending on time + place

I'm game!

would fap with all this baylxors

can't do next Wednesday but would love to crash the party

ILX's own Dominique Leone is playing at the Knockout on the 23rd starting around 10, opening for Fred Frith. Should we FAP somewhere nearby? I want to be able to do both.

hmm I think everyone's got competing agendas - would be best if I could meet somewhere after ye olde dining hour (ie around 8pm or so) as I have to get my mom dinner and drop her off at BART that evening after she's done babysitting my daughter. Which would work out for a pre-Knockout meetup (seeing as how that's also in my neighborhood) but EZ said earlier would be better and I don't know about Michael White... may have to scrap the plan

I might be able to do later but that's definitely not my preference.

afraid I have to bow out, mom making things difficult - sorry to miss ya EZ

That's a bummer! I'm loving the area so I'm sure I'll be back. Next time.

EZ, I can meet you in the Lower Haight if you want - earlyish - since I have a boatload of laundry to get started. Let me know.

We'll that was a bummer. Michael and I were in the same bar for nearly two hours and didn't manage to meet. Sorry, sir. Sincerely sorry.

http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Woman-slain-in-S-F-after-fender-bender-4991275.php

goddamn

it creeped me out even more because it happened half an hour after I left a party that was 2 blocks away

That's sad

man I hate SOMA at night, would never hang out there. loonies come from out of town to party and shit happens.

totally sad.

meanwhile, servin' and protectin:

http://blog.sfgate.com/crime/2013/11/18/video-prompts-cries-of-s-f-police-brutality/

so glad they're fighting this epidemic of people riding their bikes on the sidewalk

and also fighting the epidemic of 'resisting arrest.' i'm still baffled that a person can be cited for nothing but resisting arrest.

he's being charged with assault with a deadly weapon. guess.

Professor Murder, on the sidewalk, with a bicycle!

what is good here right now

http://wisesonsdeli.com/

Damn it, why did I click on that menu at lunchtime.

tonight

hey thank you!
there for a few days next week, so no ron lynch
deli rec is totally what i was after though, i will try to eat the hell out of some eggs there one afternoon
also neighbourhood recommendations also appreciated, from what i understand it is somewhat passé to go to sf & circulate wide-eyed along haight ashbury, let me know if anybody has strong feelings about where i should end up strolling

Stroll through the Mission for good eats, coffee, Dolores Park, hipsters, google buses and burritos. Stroll through the upper Haight for Golden Gate Park and Amoeba. Stroll through the Embarcadero for shops/food, boats and tourists. Stroll through Ocean Beach for ocean/beach, and also Land's End hiking. Stroll through North Beach for Italian restaurants, strip clubs and close proximity to Chinatown. Stroll through Union Square for big department stores and tourists.

so is SOMA worse than 3 years ago? If I get out there this summer I'd just go there for the reopened Eagle.

I only ever go to SoMA to look for graffiti, or walking through on my way downtown. There are art galleries and restaurants popping up there now to suit the tech community (and Slim's the music venue is there), but I still wouldn't consider it a great SF end-destination spot.

worse in what way

xp

like Dominique I wouldn't really consider it a neighborhood to stroll through. while it is flat, it's also (usually) deserted apart from homeless/randoms during the day and by obnoxious bridge-and-tunnel idiot clubbers on weekend nights. and it's not like there's a preponderance of cool shops/stores/restaurants (although there is a smattering of leather shops/bars if yr into that kind of thing - the Eagle is cool)

Just went to the Pizza Shop on 24th (it's new!) and it was YUM. Inexpensive NY-style pizza slices. $3 for cheese, $4 for others.

Is that the one right next to the Bart station that was gonna have a beer garden but neighbors complained?

btw I will be at Dolores Park from 2-4 today

No, it's at 24th and Folsom. I'm doing a one on one day with Owen, but next time for sure. I let K know in case she and Ben want to meet you guys.

there are some great restaurants and bars in SOMA - i work over there, so i end up hanging out in that neighborhood more than i otherwise probably would have. it's not just hip spots for techies.

Meanwhile in the 'tech or housing or not or both or' continuing saga, this detail:

Another man who didn't want to give his name, but said he was from the dot-com boom and called himself "part of the new upper class of Silicon Valley," encouraged tech employees to "acknowledge our privilege" and "listen to people's stories of eviction instead of looking at our phones." He then read from a poem that said "The Internet is killing us."

http://www.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/woman-google-glass-lead-to-anti-techie-hate-crime/Content?oid=2714391

what to do = FUCK UP NERDS' SHIT

ah yes, the historically repressed class of people known as Google Glass wearers

OPPRESSED

repressed works too I guess lol

i have always been anti-camera but that kind of shit has seriously got me itching to join some kinda breakaway political party or something

hate crime, jesus

maybe she thinks she's a transhuman

Those people at the bar fucking with the google glass lady are assholes but I kind of love them.

my kind of assholes

they acted on an impulse I have often had to suppress because I r civilized human but fuck her for calling it a "hate crime"

it's not anti-"techie," it's anti-prick. based on her posts about the incident and eager engagement with any and all media around the she's certainly trying to present herself as an innocent victim of anti-tech hooligans but ime if you act like an ass in molotov's someone's going to invite you to mind your manners.

tbh Molotov's is exactly the kind of joint I would expect this to happen in. Zeitgeist too.