Thank you, friends, new (that’s a lot of new) and long-standing.  If we were in a Japanese cartoon, this is the part where I’d earnestly shout “I won’t let you down!” and then I would nod solemnly, humbly, thinking on the gravity of the situation.  

I can’t think of anything else to say to all the new—well, I can’t say followers, for you are not that.  You curious city-dwellers, you read, you care about the details, you look, and more importantly, you see.  You fall for the irrational nature of this place.  Or, you don’t care, but choose to stick it out, because truly, who doesn’t love a good story?  Perhaps you know a bit about history, or wish to foster a keener sense of  San Francisco and environs.  I bet you laugh at terrible puns, too: lucky me.

Anyhow: feel free to drop me a line, give me a high five, or tell me to shut it, but remember, this is your city, make of it what you will.  I suggest a narrative along the lines of an early Hal Hartley film, but it’s not always up to me, is it?

Yours in urban studies,

The Tenderloin Geographic Society