I found this neat little surreal guerilla art billboard in The Mission.
The style is a lot different than most of the murals you see around there.
The neatest thing to me was that part of the material they used for this billboard had ripped open and exposed something…not quite sure what, underneath its surface.
Very cool project.
What strikes me as odd and probably the most unique thing about Yank Sing’s south of Market location is that they have the only visible advertisement from this angle.
Compare that to the loud advertising that most other local Chinese restaurants have to compete with.
Some people still swear that Yank Sing is the best Chinese food in the city. I think it definitely has some of the most expensive Chinese food in the city ($16 – $20.50 for fried rice?!) But they also manufacture their own chili pepper sauce, which is worth its weight in gold.
Every single store I’ve ever seen that carries the Yank Sing Chili Pepper Sauce in The Outer Sunset always stores it behind the counter, right next to the cigarettes and lottery tickets. This is the kind of spices that trade wars have been fought over. Say what you will about the restaurant, I think most of San Francisco would descend into anarchy in a heartbeat if they were unable to get their fix of Yank Sing’s Chili Pepper Sauce.
The Bashful Bull has got one of the better burger deals in the city. Chris Isaak has been said to be a regular here and I can see why. Bashful Bull is definitely my favorite dinner in The Outer Sunset.
The homemade hamburger is a dieing art form. It’s amazing how many trendy/expensive burger joints have popped up all over town that serve frozen patties. I’m not a purist, but there is something really cool and unique about a hamburger patty that a human being in the kitchen just made specifically for you.
That and the place carries Sriracha! Fuck yeah!
Cheeseburger is $5.50 + tip.
+ Anchor Steam is $3 (happy hour) + tip.
= Breakfast of Champions.
Rosamunde is a sausage place on Lower Haight and on Tuesdays they also sell a cheeseburger special that is the holy grail of homemade burgers in San Francisco. People start lining up before they open and then can wait up to another 40 minutes after they place their order. The Toronado is an dive bar next door and they encourage people to hang out at the bar and have their burger with a beer.
I had heard about the Tuesday only cheeseburgers years ago. I even played hooky a few times from work just to check it out which is essential since they always sell out by early afternoon. It’s hilarious to see the Toronado packed with 50+ some people at around 1PM. I used to see Billy Gould in here all the time and I still see the exact same people in line after all these years, it’s like the Cheers of cheeseburger dinning.
This struck me as an odd sight.
It’s not often that you have block party on a sunny day with not a single person in line for the porta potties.
The South of Market condos are in season again. You can see this structure has some new growth over on the right hand side.
There’s a lot to love about the 2006 How Weird Street Fair video. Love the tiki bar, love the didgeridoo guy with the megaphone helmet, loved the way it was filmed.
Not really in love with the psytrance soundtrack. But hey, it’s a free country.
What I love most about this video is the architecture the background. Check out all the Victorians. This is back when How Weird was on Howard (Get it? How-Weird) on 8th, over by the nucleus of the club district in San Francisco. They had to move the block party in 2008 over to 2nd because some neighbors that moved into the heart of the club district of San Francisco were complaining about this party.
Which kind of begs the question, what kind of people move into a club district and then complain that there are too many parties?
It’s like moving into Harlem and then complaining that there are too many Black people living next too you.
Anyhoo, How Weird survived last year, this time over by Howard and 2nd and closer to the Finical District. I’ve always maintained that the Finical District is one of the weirdest parts of the city, it really is San Francisco’s Bermuda Triangle.
During the weekday it’s packed with all this road rage energy and people that hate their lives, jobs, commutes, co-workers, ect.
Then on the weekends it’s a ghost town, but sometimes you can still feel some of that disgruntled poltergeist energy that’s been accumulating over the decades.
Very weird and creepy.
This 2008 video was shot by Lux Vibes, I like his work a lot. He covers a lot of ground in this one. Again, it’s the architecture in the background that trips me out the most. All those skyscrapers and other finical temples that create city blackness in the afternoon, or funnel vicious city winds down certain streets. It’s kind of crazy when you think about it, that the city insisted that we move this freaky block party from a somewhat public area down to this deserted area just south of the unprotected heart of our finical temples.
The California Academy of Sciences has started a new free day specifically for local residents. If you live in The Sunset you got in for free today and there was almost no line to get in. Amazing.
The trick is to grab the free passes to the Planetarium and the 3D Show as soon as you get in and then plan your day around those shows.
This was another shot of the line to get in from a few hours later.
If you were trying this on that other free day there would be 300+ people in line ahead of you.
This sign cracks me up.
Just incase you weren’t sure which direction down was, The Academy has got you covered.
The Free days at the California Academy of Sciences for Sunset residents are May 8, 9, 10, 2009
And then again in September 11, 12, 13, 2009
Just kidding!
I love how the reflection has warped my Raiders shirt.
You have the normal Raider’s face on the right hand side, then he warp drives over to the left hand side, and in-between you have this third face, like a depressed V for Vendetta mask crying out in pain.
We know that you’re hurting and hiding your theatre of pain behind a macho façade.
We know you’re hurting, Raiders Guy. We know.
And the award for the worst Raiders copyright infringement shirt of the month goes to…
The Obama Raiders shirt as seen in a window display on upper Haight. C’mon down and take a bow…
Likewise, my favorite Raiders copyright infringement shirt remains the Misfits Raiders shirt.
This is a mash-up that got it right.
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