Bush Becomes Obama

8 long ass years ago when Bush was elected some hippies covered up all the signs for Bush St. in San Francisco with the word Puppet. I'm not sure who he was supposed to be a puppet of (Special interests? Oil companies? The DEVIL!) but I was 23 and I thought it was sooooooo cool.

In retrospect it was kind of lame because everyone in SF voted for mother fucking Ralph Nader which is how all these problems started in the 1st place. Oh Ralph how I long to sucker kidney punch you.

Well anyway, new administration, new set of pranksters and last night all the signs for Bush were pasted over with 'Obama'.
This time however, I approve, because I'm obsessed with new black President and because this picture from flickr is adorable!!!




























Where do I get the big head Obamas shirt??????

My Nemisis, Fog

Basically the entire reason I moved to California (though of course there was also a man involved) was to get more sunshine and less snow in my life. I came from Pittsburgh, PA which has 300 days of rain, sleet, snow or hail per year.
That's only 65 days of sun!

It's sort of worked, it doesn't rain in the Bay Area for about 7 months out of the year, but there's the omni present fear of FOG!!!

Most people when they think of SF and fog they think of this...















Oh! How beautiful! Or they think of Carl Sandburg's semi famous poem about fog in SF -

The fog comes
on little cat feet

It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on

Wow! Sounds great, I'll take two.
But here's what fog is really like on the ground...















It's dark, it's damp and it's depressing and it's here all week. Booooooo! Boo fog!

I'll Shake Your City

You might be aware, since the movie Milk is opening today, that today's also the 30th anniversary of the assassination of Harvey Milk and George Moscone. What's crazy is that their murders happened only 9 days after the mass suicides of Jonestown in Guyana.
Guyana's obvi not in SF but basically everyone who moved down there was from SF plus there was a political and journalistic contingent there that got all shot up and murdered too.

It's kind of amazing to think of 2 such insane things happening here in such a short amount of time. I mean NOTHING happens here anymore. Well, everyone's hard at work developing new ways for you to waste time on facebook and with your iPhone, but that's about it.

Check out the Chronicle's 3 part series on '10 days that shook the city'
It will BLOW YOUR MIND!!!!!!!

You Seem 'Nice'

On BART this morning I spotted this headline in the newspaper of the guy in front of me:

'Nice guy' fatally shot outside S.F. bar

The quotes are meant to represent what friends said about him, but doesn't it just seem sarcastic? Plus then this is the photo they run of the poor guy -

This is his very last chance to make an impression on the world and this is what he gets??? Sarcastic 'nice guy' quotes and then probably the worst picture ever taken of him.

Plus he was shot out on Broadway in SF where all the strip clubs are, in front of a smut shop, which he will now always be associated with. I do not want my memorial anywhere near strip clubs and drunk horny tourists.

So, RIP Richard Barrett, sorry you got such a bum rap. You seemed so 'nice', plus the article says that your drink was Patron and that's my fancy drink of choice too.