I finally got them all.  It took a number of (very) long walks, a combination of bus-and-Muni rides that vastly exceeded the two hours of my single transfer, and a quick dash in the car to the southwesternmost spot in San Francisco, which is surprisingly remote from me, being not only far but somewhat cut [...]

Since I like polychromatic things, nerdy things and the orderly regularity of the alphabet, it’s only natural that I would swoon over San Francisco’s residential parking permit system.  Here is the delightful map showing where you can park (for more than an hour, or two, or four) only if you live in the nabe.  I [...]

Not back to the Triassic period, like the protagonist’s psychological state in J. G. Ballard’s The Drowned World (which I just read and it’s quite well overwritten).  More like back to 1983.  Lately, all I do is complain about what a mediocre president Obama is turning out to be and all the rest of that [...]

Yikes.  This is last Sunday’s San Francisco Examiner.  Nancy Pelosi’s face is a little freakish, especially when cleft in twain.

What would Laura Mulvey say?

I’m sure it dates from Spanish times, since it means “The Royal Road,” and doesn’t seem to be a post-meaning place name chosen to connote aristocracy or California-ness like so many other places.
Here are some shots of the Bay Area’s equivalent to Nassau County, New York’s Old Country Road, Seattle’s Aurora Blvd or Austin’s North [...]

It’s not even cited in this list of desirable (or un-) US cities, but it’s totally in my top 4, along with NYC, SF and Seattle.  I’m sure it’s humid as hell for 10 months out of the year and you’d never find a decent job anyplace, but I could totally live there, especially in [...]

In honor of the least populous state, home of Dick Cheney and a massive McCain landslide over Obama, here are two of my favorite photos from there.
I made us turn around and stop when we passed this time-warp.
If it’s hard to go long without eating burgers on a road trip, it’s even harder to avoid [...]

I took a walk through a new (new to me, that is) nabe in SF: Silver Terrace/Bayview. I’m not really sure where one ends and the other begins, but they look a lot like L.A.
3rd Street, the main drag and the street with the newest Muni streetcar line (the T) reminded me of Brooklyn. [...]