The Truthiness Shall Set You Freak- My Building Museum July 29, 2019After my HASF posters post I received several requests for views of the rest of the building. Since I became manager in the 1990s I have turned it into a museum of San Francisco & California memorabilia. The tour starts … Continue reading →
- Haight Ashbury  Street Fair Posters July 25, 2019Today I finally got around to hanging up my rather extensive Haight Ashbury Street Fair poster collection. Every year the Fair holds a contest to select the poster and the artist gets $500.  I also included a couple of … Continue reading →
- For Sale: 1939 Porsche Type 64  July 8, 20191939 Porsche Type 64 RM | Sotheby’s – MONTEREY 15 – 17 AUGUST 2019 A strive for technological advancement in motor car performance drove the motorsport industry in the 1920s and 1930s, resulting in some of the most iconic race … Continue reading →
- Scored a Righteous T @ Haight Ashbury Today July 6, 2019
- San Francisco MUNI in the 1970s June 28, 2019When I moved here in 1976 I was dating a woman who lived on Russian Hill and after being fortunate enough to spend the night with her I would take the cable car to my job near Union Square. I … Continue reading →
- TAKE LSD AND SEE 💡 June 28, 2019This concrete parking strip on Haight Street near Masonic Ave was installed in 1968. As part of the new improvement plan the section with this graffiti was removed and tomorrow it will likely be demolished. To take a few last pictures … Continue reading →
- An Ex-Army Medic’s Collection June 19, 2019
- Astronomers Make Massive Discovery on the Far Side of the Moon | Smithsonian June 15, 2019A 1,200-mile-wide crater on the far side of the moon was formed when a huge asteroid with a heavy metal core smashed into the lunar surface billions of years ago. When that happened, the asteroid drilled through layers of the … Continue reading →
- Pageant of Pulchritude: 1927Â May 22, 2019(click on photo to enlarge and zoom) Â Â Â Â Â Â Source: Shorpy Historic Picture Archive :: Pageant of Pulchritude: 1927 high-resolution photo
- GoLo or Go Homies May 21, 2019I found this Lowrider Magazine trophy on the corner of Haight and Ashbury in front of the Gap (which closed in 2007) and when David Gonzales’ ‘Homies’ first came out in the early Noughts I spent a small fortune collecting … Continue reading →
- My Building Museum July 29, 2019
Tag Archives: Politics
TAKE LSD AND SEE 💡
This concrete parking strip on Haight Street near Masonic Ave was installed in 1968. As part of the new improvement plan the section with this graffiti was removed and tomorrow it will likely be demolished. To take a few last pictures … Continue reading
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The 12,400km by 200m Nature Preserve
The European Green Belt initiative is a grassroots movement for nature conservation and sustainable development along the corridor of the former Iron Curtain. The term refers to both an environmental initiative as well as the area it concerns. The initiative is carried out under … Continue reading
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“We’re running like a fine-tuned machine.” ~Drumpf
Yeah, just like these equally fine-tuned machines: Compiled by YouTube user 4feitDgam3 (Forfeit The Game) Â
Happy Alexander Hamilton Day!
Alexander Hamilton was born on January 11, 1755. He was an American statesman and one of my favorite Founding Fathers. Hamilton was born out of wedlock in Charlestown, British West Indies, to a mother of French Huguenot and British ancestry,and a … Continue reading
Anti-Surveillance Fabric Aims to Confuse Facial Recognition
Berlin-based artist and technologist Adam Harvey aims to overwhelm and confuse these systems by presenting them with thousands of false hits so they can’t tell which faces are real. The Hyperface Camouflage project involves printing patterns on to clothing or … Continue reading
Extra Second Added to 2016 Today
Won’t this fucking year EVER be over? Even science seems to have joined in to make this horrendous year a little bit worse: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/12/161228213356.htm Charlie Brooker is a sarcastic and wonderfully British comic and in this video he disassembles this … Continue reading
Sea Shepherd finds Japanese whaler ‘hiding behind iceberg’
Japan persists in hunting whales despite the International Whaling Commission having found their claims of “scientific research” to be blatant lies. But now they are facing Sea Shepherd’s new faster interceptors that can keep pace with the murderous harpooners. After … Continue reading
How Journalists Covered the Rise of Mussolini and HitlerÂ
In this brilliant essay John Broich of Case Western Reserve University details how badly the US Fourth Estate failed to appreciate the dangers of 2 of the 20th century’s worst dictators (though they weren’t much better on Stalin). In nearly every instance you … Continue reading
Your Media Whore Host
I was interviewed at the corner of Haight & Ashbury a few days before the travesty of pseudo-democracy that was our last election. They were looking to interview Millennials about current events but they liked my fuck Trump hat:
Twas the Night Before Drumpf
Twas the nineteenth of January, when all through the house Not a creature was Tweeting, not even this louse. Effigies were hung on the lampposts with care, A sign that insanity soon would be there. The children were hiding under … Continue reading
