LOTI

These things made me laugh on the inside when I saw them.  Not lol (I still refuse to use this phrase/acronym seriously.  This in fact may be the first time that I have even typed it.), but loti...

Haha, fish and chips.

Cripes!!! Oh so many blogs!

It seems like everyday, while I pilfer away the work hours reading up on local blogs, I run into a new even more niched publication with coverage of the Bay Area.  They all have a much higher calibre of writing and design to them as well as a built in audience.  Kudos you to folks, you seem to have done something right.
I on the other hand have much less of an attention span and am only one person (as opposed to a team) which may be the reason while this blog is not quite as successful in appearance and content.
I often wonder how these people are capable of getting the information they do while they simultaneously work a full-time job.  They must either be getting paid to do so, or they are wasting MUCH more time than I am.  Either way, here's a very abbreviated list of local blogs that I tend to refresh several times a day to see what I'm missing out on as I sit in an office in the FiDi:

SFist
SF Appeal
SF Citizen
Mission Mission
Uptown Almanac
Sex Pigeon
Blog SF (which appears to be an aggregator/blog roll in itself)
Haighteration
Curbed SF
Laughing Squid
Gawker: Valleywag
7x7


And these are just few.  Obviously there are the usual print publications that have made the switch over to the digital medium as well such as SFGate(Chron), Examiner, SF Weekly, Bay Guardian, etc.  Too many to name, and somehow they all manage to come across with their own original content.  Although that's not to say that they don't all tend to cover the big topics simultaneously, but when that happens you get the opportunity to view multi-angled coverage which can provide some very interesting prospective.

Anywho, the point?  I guess there's not one really.  Maybe one day this crappy blog will have something to add to the over saturated opinion/tabloidial/news/events SF BAY AREA sphere.

Schizophrenic Manifestos in the Financial District

Again, I meant to post these earlier but it got lost in the shuffle along the way.  So without further ado, I present to you two wonderfully written schizonphrenic diatribes that I stumbled upon on two separate occasions whilst on my lunch break in the financial district.
I suspect that both of these originate from the same author/publisher; and while the first of the two is somewhat more entertaining (barring the fact that it is cut short clearly by someone who doesn't want the truth to get out) both are equally compelling.  Not to mention that the second suggests that you contact him with further information and supplies the reader with an email address.  Behold:

Winchester Mystery Tour - Highly Recommend!!!

This past weekend I finally managed to get down to San Jose to take a tour of the Winchester Mystery Mansion. This had been somewhat of a childhood dream destination of mine ever since I saw a brief documentary about it on one of those history or discovery channel shows.  For those of you that don't know what it is, basically it's a house with a ton of rooms, strangely placed doors, windows, and other structures.  The story goes that Sarah Winchester, widow and inheritor of the Winchester rifle estate, believed that she need to have continuous construction on her house to appease the ghosts of the people who were killed by Winchester rifles over the years.  The results were this superbly bizarre house.
While the entrance to get your tickets (conveniently placed within the gift shop) is a bit on the over-polished-truck-stop side, the actual tour of the house is pretty freaking spectacular.  The tour guide had her schpiel down pat and moved the group through pretty efficiently, but with enough time to inspect things on your own without feeling rushed.  Unfortunately photography is not allowed inside the mansion, but below are a couple of shots I snapped with my phone of the exterior.

One thing I would recommend avoiding however, is the "Behind The Scenes" tour.  It may seem like a deal only being an additional $5 more than the the Mansion tour, but it's really just completely pointless.  The only thing on this portion of the tour that you can't explore on your own is the basement, which is surprisingly run-of-the-mill.  Save yourself $5 and skip this part.

Easter Sunday Brunch

I saw this fine gent waiting in line for his coffee at Cafe du Soleil on Easter Sunday morning.  Yes, that is indeed a hooka conspicuously poking out of the top and sides of his backpack.  Back in the small mid-western town I'm from no one would attempt an act as brazen as this unless the hooka was 100% new and unused, and even then it was pretty much understood that they were asking for the cops to confront them.

Yet, in this beautiful city that I now call home, sights like this aren't all that uncommon, not to mention this individual may very well be a fine contributing member of the community with his very own legit medicinal prescriptions.

Fix MUNI Now Petition

If I see these guys around, You Betta Belee I'mma Sign That One!  Check out the website for details on the ballot initiative.
Basically the bill will require MTA operators to engage in collective bargaining and reign in some of the crazy rules that allow them multiple no-call no-shows; altogether while limiting the amount of fare increases and service cuts to MUNI riders.
check, check, check it out...

http://www.fixmuninow.com/

Learnding

While walking through One Market/Spear & Steuart Towers or whatever the series of buildings between Steuart, Spear, Market, and Mission is called, I witnessed a middle aged woman sitting with a be-bearded (it's a word now sucka!) hobo teaching him how to read.  For some reason I couldn't help but think of the timeless classic "Dangerous Minds," where the students don't realize that they want to learn.  Oh well, que sera, sera.