San Francisco and what to do in it

If you work in a bookstore you probably can't afford to live in sf.

I keep looking at places for laughs. My friends were living close to the haight - $1200 for a little under 500 sq ft - and their building got sold and now they're living way out on the edge of the city, in a smaller place, paying $1950.

haha my last apartment in SF was near the Haight and was $1200 -- for a standard Victorian 2 br.

n.b. that was in 1997

I paid $275 for a room on the top floor of a Haight St apt building in '96

my roommates were insane though

24th St is now home to a lot of Valencia St. refugees + Adobe. It still feels comfortable.

agree w this. 24th Street's p rockin these days imo. Bookstores, record store, las palmas, wise sons, manivanh

someone asked me recently about wise sons -- and I tried to summarize your and chaki's argument about it.

24 st is feeling more and more valencia-y every time i go there.

you are otm.

Considering I walk down it every day, yes, this is accurate.

Anyway I am fully down with a FAP that has nothing to do with Doctor Who, thanks.

(Tentatively, how do people feel about something this Sunday afternoon? The next few weekends after that will be full one way or another.)

I think I am going to be in a pumpkin patch sunday afternoon, not sure yet

I may be, gulp, house-hunting this Sunday, will know more later this week.

as a whole, ilx is always invited to drink at radio valencia sunday evenings while i do my show.

Can't do Sunday, hope to join something in the future.

xp - at the station?

24 st is feeling more and more valencia-y every time i go there.

― chaki (kurt schwitterz), Tuesday, October 6, 2015

valencia is feeling more and more polk-y so yeah

sounds like Amoeba is not long for the world:
http://m.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/can-legal-weed-save-the-music-industry/Content?oid=4526932

was wondering how they were managing to hang on with what must be huge overhead at those stores

the Berkeley store has cut its hours in the past few years. I'm guessing the SF store does better because of the Haight St. tourists and general foot traffic, whereas Telegraph Ave. in Berkeley is not what it used to be in that department

LA store was doing well last I heard.

Really tough to convince a townie to go to Telegraph these days ime

Imagine how weird it will be ... go grab tacos at Sinaloa, head down to Rasputin for an ice cream, and then over to Amoeba for some indica. Nice little day out on the town.

otoh the parking situation in the evening there is way easier than it used to be

I haven't been to Telegraph in years and they don't mention that the other stores are doing badly so yeah idk

I think rumors about Amoeba going out of business have been around for at least a decade.

though I guess I've never seen them tied to a specific location & in print before

haha I remember when the guy that wrote that article was the music editor of the EB Express and I had to be nice to him

the telegraph store these days PALES in comparison to the other two, selection-wise. also that block is totally fucked up. the other street corners on the block are vacant (NE = empty lot; SW = formerly cody's books, vacant for years; NW = building burned down a few years ago, not sure if anything's there yet.)

last I was there -- a few weeks ago (didn't buy anything because they were closing earlier than I'd thought they closed) -- the building that burned down was in the process of being rebuilt. I know the owners of Amoeba had been advocating for having something built in that vacant lot for years, but it actually is owned by the owner of Rasputin's (iirc).

yeah, ken owns it. he's the worst.

the project he has in development for the cody's space is going to be so bad.

what is it?

http://patch.com/california/berkeley/mad-monk-complex-approved-for-cody-s-space-on-telegraph

lol Russian food is horrible

Here's more

http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/twenty-five-year-record-store-feud-spins-again-rasputins-rubble-on-telegraph-and-haste/Content?oid=4235876

In keeping with Rasputin's Russian theme, it would feature a novel take on soviet cuisine. Additionally, he promised a cafe and a venue, with nightly live music of varied genres — except techno — but including rap, as long as it was the conscious, didactic stuff, he explained, citing Tupac Shakur. Furthermore, Sarachan planned on selling media, with particular focus on vinyl records.

sf native and rapper eqiupto calling ed lee out to his face

http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=uJ2XUxnabjI

damn

always love the use of "conscious"

as opposed to un, i suppose

do you have protips about San Francisco?

He knows all the German-American enclaves.

do you have protips about San Francisco?

― sarahell, Wednesday, October 7, 2015 8:39 PM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

depends on the audience

Man arent u banned yet

i see you got no more of a brane the past 7 years

aaaaanyway ... lol and good on this dude:

https://twitter.com/EQUIPTO/status/651618534414352384

Posted that right above u

oh duh

sorry was distracted by gabby

what the hell

http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Shooting-shuts-down-San-Francisco-s-Market-6572784.php

jesus

so apparently that drunk rich bitch that ran over two kids in the Marina at 8am on a fucking Monday - one of those kids is from the Mission from a family we know through my kid's school. so angry. kid is gonna survive but so many broken bones... we signed up for a meal delivery.

well this is good news at least

http://missionlocal.org/2015/11/96-units-of-affordable-housing-for-seniors-approved-for-sf-mission/

fighting over scraps :( but yes

106 bikers indicted in Twin Peaks shootout

zuh that's in texas, not sf, pardon.. quality mugshots, however