San Francisco and what to do in it

Tartine's coffee is also great btw.

xp - i wonder if "could use a little exercise" is BART and MUNI's rationale for service cuts and all around mediocrity

There was a mother and her infant on my train home yesterday and the kid started to cry and wouldn't stop. At one point I turned to one of the other passangers and said, "MUNI makes me feel that way a lot, too."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8Q87qZYIQM

whoah

engine blew up or something? Doesn't look intentional from that video

My friend's FB status:

"Holy crap! A car just blew up in front of our office! On fire now and we being evacuated."

saw that cloud of smoke from the ferry building but couldn't figure out where it was coming from when i walked back up market an hour later.
i like how the horn won't quit...

welp

http://blogs.sfweekly.com/foodie/2010/10/blue_bottle_kills_plans_for_ca.php

ridiculous

do these people not understand that the Parks department IS BROKE

http://roastlog.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/hammer.jpg

Hammer knows what's up, keep that east bay crap where it belongs.

xpost we had to destroy that park in order to save it

I didn't realize that the money from these leases would go into the city's general fund rather than Dolores Park or Park & Rec. If that's true it is kind of lame.

Tartine's coffee is also great btw.

― Fartbritz Sootzveti (Steve Shasta), Thursday, October 7, 2010 8:29 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark

annie and i were talking yesterday about this, and i think i concluded that tartine does the best job with four barrel coffee, and is probably my favorite coffee in the mission. i think it's like this for me, among the places i ever go for coffee:

tartine > ritual > atlas > dynamo > grand > little spot.

oakland's modern coffee (my every-morning spot) is pretty great, too. probably runnin even w atlas in the above ranking.

<3 tartine, but they do a better job with four barrel coffee than four barrel does?

only time i had four barrel at four barrel, i was like ehh. but that was just once.

Four Barrel does a great job with Four Barrel coffee, but I always get americanos there so maybe they do a less good job with their press/drips.

Dynamo Donuts does the best job with Dynamo Donuts.</controversial statement>

Four Barrel is also my favorite space out of all of these places.

Admittedly there is no space at Tartine or Ritual so that kind bias it in their favor.

xxxp fair enough.

i like how they clearly spent $$$ to renovate and have the ridiculous affectation of leaving the previous tenant's half-broken sign in place, making it look like an empty storefront from half a block away.

On a related, but not really, topic: the Blue Bottle @ the Mint is maybe one of the worst organized up establishments I have even been to. The line takes forever and for no good reason as far as I can tell.

coffee is for the weak

hammer looks like sisqo

MissionRat says:

I personally am glad that we can go to the Summit to enjoy Blue Bottle and keep Dolores Park beautiful and a commercial free zone. There are plenty of brick and mortar spaces that are empty and need renters. I personally am glad that I get to continue doing yoga every morning like I have for the past 5 years in the park without interruption and long lines surrounding me. If James Freeman needs to come out looking like the "good guy" then so be it.
Posted On: Tuesday, Oct. 19 2010 @ 5:02PM

rats do yoga

i'd rather see a blue bottle coffee cart than some dude doing yoga, if we're talking in terms of keeping the park beautiful

he's probably one of those guys who does his public yoga exercises in a loincloth

Go at 10am and find out!

this made me happy, for some reason:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/31/us/31bcsanfran.html?ref=sanfranciscobayarea

my friend just opened a new record store - at 3174 24th St.

here's the website

Dio De Los Muertos festival needs some money

my friend just opened a new record store - at 3174 24th St.

wow this street is really changing

LA times eats in SF on a budget:
http://www.latimes.com/travel/la-tr-20for20-20101031,0,6337194,full.story

Cowgirl Creamery has undergone gender reassignment?

haha there are so many errors in that article it's hard to pick just one.

it's sort of like one of those "new york times goes to LA" pieces, but less lol mostly sad. the guac at chilango is pretty good though.

howsabout Lers Ros then?

xp wtf Bart station is 'nearby'? Still have yet to go to Chilango despite living a few blocks away :(

Ticker-tape parade WEDNESDAY starting at 11am at Montgomery then progressing to Market and culminating at City Hall around 12noon.

loot Borders and Urban Outfitters apparently

want to go to chilango.

also, my friend's girlfriend got the windows smashed out of her car while she was parking in the mission, and then they robbed her at gunpoint.

it's cool, our team won, but seriously, priorities need straightened.

your team finished 2nd in the ALW with a .500 record iirc

phalanx of SFPD in riot gear on Valencia tonight and... wait, xpost holy shit, what?

saw on the news someone got dragged out of their car and beaten in the Mission last night. Go Giants!

Shenanigans!

nothing bad happened to me in the Mission last night, for what it's worth. I didn't see any rioting, or any cops, or any criminals (actually the streets were pretty empty - and I was out and about at 10pm). there was a lot of honking and yelling though.

Didn't see any violence but I saw much craziness last night in the Lower Haight. Haight between Fillmore and Steiner was essentially shut down for more than an hour.

http://www.ktvu.com/news/25602411/detail.html

still pretty tame compared to others I've seen

Noticed that The Paramount got graffiti bombed in a major way when I went passed by this morning.

it's just kinda unsettling, esp. in light of the Chron/sfgate coverage that glosses over the fucked up behavior that if the context were about something other than sports, it would have been reported differently.

yoooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

EXPO 70
WALDTEUFEL (markus wolff, ex-crash worship)
NUMINOUS EYE (mason jones, ex-subarachnoid space)

playing at the (tremdendously awful, bridge & tunnel bait) red devil lounge on polk

8 pm on thursday, $5

i will be flying up for the show, say hi, tell me j0hn wi11iams sent you and i'll buy you a drink