OAKLAND

and tasers that fire bullets too apparently! :-(

from Chip Johnson's column:
"If violence occurs, like before, it will also be the story of outside anarchists from our neighboring professional protester incubation cities."

I hope all the violence makes it easier for me to find a new apartment.

lol - had guilty thought that maybe if things get really fucked up, i'll finally be able to afford a house

friend who lives in fruitvale (a few blocks from the bart station where this went down) posted a ton of photos around his neighborhood where all the businesses boarded up their windows

one of my BFF's moved out of 94110 (20th & Mission) in 1991 because his landlord raised his 1BD apt rent from $150 to $175. He said fuck that and moved in to the BlackJack Records hq off 14th & MLK in post-earthquake Oakland for $125 for the master bed and master bath top story of a 3 floor house. ye good olde days.

last night heard that 2bd are 2800 in oakland now

depends on the neighborhood - i pay $940 for a 2bd

I might move to Oakland one day. It's the secret best city in America imo

I agree that it's definitely one of the top 2 cities in the east bay.

pretty glad we just moved to el cerrito, tbh. been dreading this trial and its verdict for awhile now (we were living right by lake merritt).

I agree that it's definitely one of the top 2 cities in the east bay.

ok, i'll bite... what's the other? EC?

san leandro obv

ha I was about to make the exact same joke

san leandro vs san lorenzo shootout!

after 15 years of not living adjacent to these two (I used to live in Hayward) I can't remember the difference between them.

san lorenzo is smaller. san leandro has a bunch of car dealerships, and a mall visible from the freeway with a blindingly bright billboard

San Leandro has a proper downtown. San Lorenzo is actually a 'district', not its own municipality at all. And then there's unincorporated Hayward....

Hayward has a drive thru liquor store

no verdict today: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/07/06/BAIC1EA4LC.DTL

i pay $1400 for 2br @ lake merritt. I have to say that everyday I am in oakland, I like it more. yes, I will probably move back to city at some point, but there's a lot here that makes it hard to leave (esp around lake area)

there's a Specialty's bakery now in an office tower near Harrison and Grand - was very excited to discover this the other day

yeah they did a demo for my office when they first moved in! cookies are TITE

i smelled the cookies while i was walking to work one day last week - also the Rocky Road brownies

zmg, a chain restaurant!

just kidding 510ers, there are actually some great local, non-chains if you poke around.

Oh really, Steve, do tell?

Love, Sarah (Oakland resident since 1997)

Mehserle verdict today.

...the very day I am off to Sequoia N.P. Good luck Oakland.

Perhaps I will stay in tonight.

my "inside" sources (ie folks working for the city who have received advance notice of the verdict) say there will be no riot. wouldn't say what the verdict was tho

Here we goooooo

ugh

really no surprise at all

yeah

what a joke. fuck LA.

for reals

Watching the ABC news feed and just saw Frank Chiu.

he goes where the action is

seriously, he follows the camera crews around

I love him so much.

texted friends to make sure they get out of town

eh I think the riot fears are a little overblown tbh

Prosecutors in Los Angeles have not won a murder conviction in a police shooting case since 1983!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"Cops put a hurtin' on your ass, man, you know. They really degrade you. White folks don't believe that shit, don't believe cops degrade;--`Ah, come on, those beatings, those people were resisting arrest. I'm tired of this harassment of police officers.' Cause the police live in your neighborhood, see, and you be knowin' 'em as Officer Timpson. `Hello Officer Timpson, going bowling tonight? Yes, uh, nice Pinto you have, ha, ha, ha.' Niggers* don't know 'em like that. See, white folks get a ticket, they pull over, `Hey, Officer, yes, glad to be of help, here you go.' A nigger got to be talkin' 'bout `I AM REACH-ING INTO MY POCK-ET FOR MY LICENSE--'cause I don't wanna be no motherfuckin' accident!'"

Richard Pryor
That Nigger's Crazy, 1974

http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/ac/96/a79b828fd7a0df3cb68b7110.L.jpg

There really is nothing more infuriating than when this exact situation plays out exactly like this -- what year is it??

friends going to watch the riots
lots of helicopters overhead
plenty of parking

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9SUeizW7rD4/TDTFznO18-I/AAAAAAAAALQ/mNGzsj4kKHM/s1600/car+pool+to+the+riots.jpg

Yeah everyone loves the police in LA

xp - i got that shirt!

i asked erin to save me one.