May 17th 2011 PDT
--> *//* */The full moon that is outside your window tonight… that’s the full moon we closed the Odeon under 6 years ago. /* */ /* */A lot has happened in 6 years… our young doorman Pho/*/enix now has a family and 3 children and is the captain of a ship. Camilla married Kirk, passed the bar and now does social work and books art shows at Good Vibrations. Windy still flirts with me over the internet. She lives in Miami and surfs full time. Ben Burke now owns a 60’ sailboat ...Continue Reading
May 2nd 2011 PDT
OK, so the battle for Dolores Park ended on Friday. Saturday we had a nice day in the park and Caleb even delivered us some tacos. OK, they were yummy. Fuck it. I even got a few donations to make the $750 a puke sting a little less. (I could use a few more, I'll glady give you as much novelty vomit as you'd like). But this morning the SF Chronicle’s online newspaper printed the following fluff piece, which is basically a commercial for the General Manager Phil Ginsburg: http ...Continue Reading
April 29th 2011 PDT
At the 9th hour, fierce negotiations between La Cocina, Chicken, Supe. Scott Wieners office and a few fixer mediators have come to a breakthrough!!!! Gillian Gillette, assistant to Supe. Wiener, has petitioned DPW to put the trailer in the 'cut in' at Cumberland street. Which would be, basically, at the curb. Not 'in' the park proper. Technicalities aside. Everyone wins. And we all eat tacos. I am postponing the puke in for 6 months. To allow time for Gillian to make the arrangements. Gillia ...Continue Reading
April 29th 2011 PDT
By Chicken John Rinaldi It happened pretty quickly, when privatization came to Doritos Park. Sorry; Dolores Park. I keep forgetting they haven’t sold the name yet. It didn’t come like a wraith with icy fingers or an immense monster with an army of lawyers. Privatization came to Dolores Park in the form of a nonprofit incubator for immigrant women entrepreneurs called La Coucina. For a progressive city like San Francisco, you can’t get much more cuddly than that. I hear the Trojan horse was ad ...Continue Reading
April 28th 2011 PDT
(having problems with list, sorry for blanks and duplicates, PLEASE SEND A SHORT NOTE SO I KNOW IT'S NOW WORKING) First of all… http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/gov/2351187307.html Second of all, please sign the petition!!!! http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?dpTBOP1&1 So, today is day 3 of trying to disseminate information to the end of gaining support to accomplish a simple task: Take Back Our Parks. The ...Continue Reading
April 28th 2011 PDT
More privatization. This is current, this week….* * http://sf.streetsblog.org/2011/04/25/neighborhood-groups-push-to-keep-sidewalks-clear-of-att-boxes/* * * Monday, April 25, 2011 15 Comments Neighborhood Groups Push to Keep Sidewalks Clear of AT&T Boxes by Aaron Bialick on April 25, 2011 Pedestrians in San Francisco are no strangers to crowded conditions, but a plan to install 726 private utility boxes on sidewalks could impose even more obstacles ...Continue Reading
April 28th 2011 PDT
(not sure if the first one sent out, sorry for duplicate) First of all… http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/gov/2351187307.html_ _ Second of all, please sign the petition!!!! http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?dpTBOP1&1 So, today is day 3 of trying to disseminate information to the end of gaining support to accomplish a simple task: Take Back Our Parks. The blogs are alive with the sound of music. Do a google searc ...Continue Reading
April 28th 2011 PDT
First of all… http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/gov/2351187307.html_ _ Second of all, please sign the petition!!!! http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?dpTBOP1&1 So, today is day 3 of trying to disseminate information to the end of gaining support to accomplish a simple task: Take Back Our Parks. The blogs are alive with the sound of music. Do a google search for Chicken John, Puke In. The coverage is staggering. The pr ...Continue Reading
April 26th 2011 PDT
Why can’t we have a little trailer in Dolores Park to help with the bills? Why is that so bad? I like to eat tacos. Why should I have to walk all the way over there, when we can have one right here in the park? For some people, its just the idea that a park is for recreation and leisure. The placing of a commercial entity in the park is just bad Ju Ju. They don’t like the idea of it. Some people like the expanse of greenery, uninterrupted by a trailer with a line, and all that goes with it. ...Continue Reading
April 25th 2011 PDT
OK. So now it’s time to get serious. I’m going to write 5 essay’s this week and try to make a point. If you want to keep up, you are going to have to do some reading. Do it. Read this whole thing. Get activated. My intention is to get 2,000 signatures on this petition by next week, then present it to RPD and demand that they figger out some way to put the damn trailer on the curb and promise to never sell a lease for a commercial entity on the green parkland of Dolores Park again. I can’t fight every battle. ...Continue Reading
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