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July 2010

If you buy something really large you can get it shipped on Greyhound

It will cost next to nothing, but then will take two months to get to you.  But that’s just the problem–it doesn’t come to you.  It goes where the Greyhound goes, and if you’re in San Francisco, that’s the Transbay Terminal. 

So you walk around that museum of urine, trying desperately to get your freight, and eventually you do, glad you had the interaction with the station agents, the somnambulant security guard, and the freight manager who tells you that your package got there three days ago, good thing they didn’t send it back.

Godspeed, Transbay Terminal!

Jul 31, 2010 1 note
#personal archives #transbay terminal #it was a nice chair
Jul 30, 2010 3 notes
#Forget it Jake it's Chinatown #Robert Dawson #water & power #photography
Jul 30, 2010 4 notes
#MJ #art #children's art for sale #Hayes Valley
Jul 29, 2010 2 notes
#corporate #transit
Jul 29, 2010
#vanity plates #car culture
Jul 29, 2010 1 note
#vanity plates #tagger #car culture #mixed messages
Jul 29, 2010 3 notes
#cycling culture? #choose your blog caption #democracy? #UN Plaza #unicycle
Jul 29, 2010 2 notes
#tenderloining #urban surveillance #parking meter #tumblrbooksearch
Jul 29, 2010 1 note
#linguistics #graf #look it up
Jul 28, 2010 2 notes
#books #play hard play fair nobody hurt #reading rainbow #SFPL
Avast, murderous hobos!sfist.com
Jul 28, 2010
#crime #Buena Vista Park
Wherein we check our email

Hey dude(s),


Your tumblr is this dope

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and I just started following you. but must you update so much? I fear I will be inundated with your posts and will unfollow you in a couple days.

Not that you should change yourself for me, we just started this relationship, and it’s a two way street, at least that’s what the counselor said. But seriously, you should post less. It would be awesome-er.

Dear sir or madam: You are probably correct and we sincerely appreciate your missive.  We have posted what, three things today?  Either we have Tourette’s or the multitudes of city overwhelms and we cannot but reflect such profusions. 

Also, if less photography perhaps more drawing?  Is this a pleasing syllogism?

Jul 28, 2010
#mailbag #fan mail! #critique
Wherein we do the news

Hi Tenderloin Geographic Society –

Do you only post things about the Tenderloin? If yes, sorry to bother.
If not, I wanted to give you a heads up about a video we posted on our website. It’s by citizen journo Mike Melero and it’s Oakland youths talking about the police in their neighborhood. It’s good stuff.
http://www.baycitizen.org/videos/how-can-we-all-just-get-along/
Thanks for considering it!
-Queena

Thanks, Queena, for mistaking us for a relevant news agency.  Too many friends have been face-down on police cruisers, so we’re happy to be of service.  Police do not always protect and serve (disclaimer: I grew up in Los Angeles–so far, SF police have been representative of nothing less than tea parties and well-armed cucumber sandwiches).

Jul 28, 2010
#news from abroad #Bay Citizen #Oakland #youth #social inequity
Jul 28, 2010 2 notes
#note to self #found #underfoot #self improve-ment
Jul 27, 2010 2 notes
#freak flag #underfoot #flea market
Jul 27, 2010 1 note
#NYC #other cities #snowglobe
Jul 27, 2010
#TL #spin #free art
Jul 26, 2010
#tenderloining #signage #somdmburger
Jul 26, 2010 2 notes
#archives #power of the ziptie #urban studies
Jul 26, 2010
#tomato plant passenger #greening #SF #car culture
Jul 26, 2010
#economics #youth #real world vs. fake world
Jul 26, 2010
#BYOformula #friends #party
Jul 25, 2010 1 note
#underfoot #graf #Hayes Valley #imaginary hip hop
Jul 25, 2010 1 note
#Alamo Square Park sidewalk gallery #underfoot #graf #sidewalking
Jul 25, 2010
#Alamo Square Park sidewalk gallery #underfoot #graf #sidewalking
Jul 25, 2010
#Alamo Square Park sidewalk gallery #underfoot #graf #sidewalking
Jul 25, 2010
#Alamo Square Park sidewalk gallery #underfoot #graf #sidewalking
Jul 25, 2010
#Alamo Square Park sidewalk gallery #graf #underfoot #sidewalking
Jul 25, 2010
#Alamo Square Park sidewalk gallery #graf #underfoot #sidewalking
Jul 24, 2010
#truly crazy straws #party pics #friends
Jul 23, 2010
#Divisadero #not talking about weather #nature's fog machine!!!
Jul 23, 2010
#critique #design #muni #greenwashing? #sorry Olle
Jul 23, 2010 3 notes
#graf #SOMA #art #I have a childlike scrawl too
Jul 23, 2010 2 notes
#Divisadero #crime #western addition #Middle Haighters
Jul 22, 2010
#working hard or #PhotoSF #house of cards/tickets #archives
Jul 22, 2010
#art projects #booze #friends #it smelled like jesus playing with kitties under a rainbow
Jul 22, 2010 2 notes
#friends #Le Mayeur #Gavin Newsom #clever juxtaposition means lazy reportage
We are not overly vindictive

nonetheless I am hoping for ghost bees. 

Angry, justice-seeking ghost bees.

Jul 22, 2010 1 note
#hayes valley farm #killer bees #misanthropy
Jul 21, 2010 1 note
#working hard or #DP #art projects
Jul 21, 2010 2 notes
#Chinatown archives #GPOYW #ye olde camera

The new bus stops do not make me feel like I’m in Slanted Door.  Except for the part where I’m overpaying for service

Jul 20, 2010 1 note
#MUNI #design #critique #it's post-modern duh
Jul 20, 2010
#Go-getters Pizza #schadenfreude party #loose lid #pepperoncini
Jul 19, 2010 1 note
#neon #hot el #tenderloining
Jul 19, 2010
#SOMA #bars & clubs #portraiture
Jul 19, 2010 2 notes
#and you can tell #muni
Jul 19, 2010 1 note
#literary criticism #graf #Middle Haighters
Jul 19, 2010 1 note
#SF history #booze #mixing business & pleasure #raison d'etre #wall of text
Lunch ennui, the real San Francisco treat

I’m dead serious–try working in Civic Center for seven years, you jump on anything that’s new just so as to wash the delicious boredom from you palate.  I know, we’re all up in our first-world concerns here. 

As much fun as it seems to ride down to the Design Center, it’s far easier to stalk some falafel a few steps from work.  Liba’s may be marginally healthier than my new crush, the month-old Little Saigon.  Service is slow, but only because they make their potstickers to order.  Are you going to rush genius when it’s freshly pan-fried?  I think not. 

In case you hadn’t noticed, I just neatly summed up the food cart thing.  We’re freakin’ bored with how good everything is, as San Franciscans we must up the ante by making it a sport: standing, chewing, trying to not dribble tahini or kimchi juice down the fronts of our coats.  This is why I only buy Belgian waffles when I’m wearing white: wind and powdered sugar makes it look like breakfast came straight off the mirror. 

Jul 18, 2010 2 notes
#falafel #fud #last restaurant review I promise #pot stickers #rant
Jul 18, 2010
#just married #never ever
Jul 18, 2010
#civic center #relijun
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