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July 13th, 2006 | Category: General Musings | Comments Off

A beautiful weekend in which I sat in Dolores Park under the blazing sun with 5,000 of the best looking people I can ever remember assembling in San Francisco (they were mostly not Americans… big surprise!) to see the World Cup final, climaxing in the strangest act by a sports star in his last-ever big [...]

July 10th, 2006 | Category: General Musings, Public Space | Comments Off

The Yellow Sign of our Irony Problem

I had a great time at Critical Mass last night, as usual. Probably over 2000 riders, great weather, a lovely evening. The ride broke up into a bunch of smaller clots after an ill-advised loopback through the Broadway Tunnel, which also led to some tense interactions with a drunk idiot at Broadway and Polk who [...]

July 1st, 2006 | Category: Critical Mass, General Musings, Public Space, San Francisco news | Comments (6)