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The Loving Wild Parrots of San Francisco: Is This a Nest High Up in a Pacific...
TweetCould be. These South American parrots should feel right at home in a south-of-the-Equator tree, non? Click to expand Will their chicks soon join the flock in Telegraph Hill? Or maybe they’ll just...
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The Best Photos from Carnaval 2011 via Ravi Kalaga, Bhautik Joshi, –Mark–,...
Tweet Well that’s another Carnaval San Francisco for the history books. Here’s how the 75th Anniversary went on May 29, 2011: Via Ravi Kalaga Via Bhautik Joshi: Via –Mark–: Via –Mark–: Via –Mark–: Via...
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The Best Tattoo in Town: A Flock of Cherry Headed Conures – The Wild Parrots...
Tweet[UPDATE: OMG, OMG, it's their One Year Anniversary on July 30th, 2011 - Joyeux anniversaire, Tattoo du Boogaloo! All the deets.] First it was all like this (Yes, this is the view you’ll get of the...
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Green Eyes, Pink Umbrella: BTSSB Fashion Contest – J-Pop Summit Festival 2011
TweetYou gotta click to expand this one. Wow: Via –Mark–
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The Wild Parrots of San Francisco’s Telegraph Hill, From Far Away and From...
TweetBelieve it or not, this is a color photograph of the Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill. A view from the Financial from a few days back: Click to expand But leave us remember more colorful San...
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Proof That the “Mid-Market Renaissance” is Finally Complete: “Business...
TweetVia The Tens comes, “Business Meeting Outside of Twitter.“ Click to expand The dude on the left is Ghiberti and I’m pretty sure that that’s Donatello in the blue cap. You know, when I see all the...
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Remembering the Good Old Days When It was Legal for Tourists to Feed the Wild...
TweetBack in the day down there betwixt San Francisco’s Financial District and the Golden Gateway Apartments, tourists would come along and just hold their hands out, with astonishing results. Wild...
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The Longest Fixie Bike Skid Mark I’ve Ever Seen – A Third of a Block Long –...
TweetI guess if you put enough of your weight forward and you have a steep enough hill, you could skid forever: Click to expand But this is not an example of an exemplary braking system, IMO
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Acceptance: The SFMTA Spends Money Quoting Mark Twain to Apologize for...
TweetAre you up to speed on this one? Laird Harrison of KQED has the deets on the original “My Jihad” campaign. Then some lady spent money on ads making fun of that campaign. An example can be found...
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It All Comes Together: Our SFMTA Balances Out an Anti-Semitic Ad With a...
TweetAll right, get up to speed here and then check out demiurgic Chris Roberts right here in the San Francisco Examiner. From the back: Click to expand And from the side: See how that balances out?...
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McAllister Update: A Brand-New Bullet Entrance Wound on a Brand-New Building...
TweetSee it? Click to expand Most people miss it, they just walk by. The real estate people (aka realtors*) like to minimize this kind of thing… *Lower case “r,” always
View ArticleFree Advice for Marc Benioff, Who’s All Kinds of PR-Sensitive These Days –...
TweetWell, here it is: The Benioff Doctrine – Marc Benioff has a message for his rich tech friends: Give back or get out. A candid conversation with the Salesforce CEO and philanthropic alpha dog. Um,...
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Houses of the Holy – What are These Stones from an 800-Year-Old Spanish...
TweetThe answer is nothing much. All the deets here and here and here. Here’s a stonemason’s mark, the cross you can see in the middle: This is sort of kind of what it looked like, back 800 years ago....
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It’s Orange Bird Season in California! Our Best-Looking Native Bird Has Got...
TweetYour pet-store Cherry-Headed Conures certainly are handsome animules (see below), but our Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill don’t really belong in Frisco, not really. So the Hooded Oriole takes the...
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Google Maps Car Catches Mark Zuckerberg’s Security Team Car Illegally Parking...
TweetHere you go, start here. And now check it out: Is that a legal space? Nope. Sorry. Now let’s talk window tinting for the driver and front passenger windows. Just raising the issue. Looks pretty...
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Move In Right Next Door to Mark Zuckerberg in the Mission for Just $3.5...
TweetShown in the middle here – Zuck’s place (under construction at the time of the photo) is on the left (And consider that the Zuckerbergs paid $10 mil.) All the deets on Your New Home: “3442 21st...
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The New Corporate Shuttle Bus Terminal on Fell is Now Fully Operational – Oh,...
TweetHere you go, you can click here and then click some more to learn about the lengthy new corporate bus-only bus stop at Fell and Masonic. But here’s endgame – an officially marked, new-school bus...
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The Wild Parrots Not of Telegraph Hill – As Seen Over the Eucalyptus of...
TweetThe range of dese boids has increased a lot since I first saw them on the Filbert Steps some 11 years ago: Speaking of which, they still hang out there, but they aren’t as approachable as back in...
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IAC is DTF – OIOW, Inter Active Corporation is Down to Fuck, How Charming –...
One supposes this prominent billboard is an attempt by New Yawk City’s IAC to localize the OKCupid dating service? OKFine. But how should one read this ad? “Down To Fuck Ferry Building OK Cupid?” What...
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HYPNOS and THANATOS, the Twin Gods of the Hunters Point Shipyard – One...
Once you see them… …you can’t NOT see them Choose wisely, condo buyers… Would Farrell support a family member or good friend purchasing a condo at the shipyard? “No, not right now,” he said. “It’s...
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