Posts tagged san francisco
Well, our situation has improved since this morning. I guess beggars can’t be choosers.
8-Bit City maps San Francisco. Unfortunately, this doesn’t tell me where the next dungeon is…
Blue Bottle coffee and Perbacco cured meats on the roof of SFMOMA last night.
I had never heard of spreadable salami until last night, but I’ve already decided I can’t live without it.
State warns Bay Area bars not to infuse drinks
Mixing elaborate drinks - say, muddling mint leaves in mojitos - and serving them immediately is OK. But, the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control agents said, Bourbon and Branch was changing the character of the booze by allowing it to mature on the shelf - “rectification” that is illegal without a special license.
And by “special license,” they mean “cash money.” This city has directed the focus of their law books away from public welfare and asked them to fix their bottom line.
This is absurd and should be fought. Using irrelevant laws to raise funds is what this country was founded against. Hell, the cocktail was even born in the US when the British started taxing beer.
San Francisco lends a hand.
“Even if we assembled a think-tank supergroup of the most cynical Mission bloggers whose sole purpose would be to come up with the best Marina zingers that the world has ever seen, there’s no way we could have come up with anything more absurd than the real thing.” (Via Mission Mission)
Scattered across the centre of San Francisco are almost seventy semi-secret spaces, privately owned but open to the public. Subject to the fine print of a little-known pact between City and Commerce, these so-called POPOS (Privately Owned Public Open Spaces) allow alluring vistas of San Francisco and access to its intimate interiors. However, they are often poorly indicated – perhaps a deliberate tactic by the private companies who own the spaces to prevent the pesky public from using them. Accessing POPOS sometimes even requires walking past security guards, or through unmarked doors. No wonder many are underfrequented.
My building is #24 (via Strange Maps)
