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12/7 This is very sad. Rest in peace James Kim, may heaven treat you better:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/12/07/missing.family/index.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16089354
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,235018,00.html
\_ http://csua.com/?entry=45423
The auto categorizer thinks this thread is about cars. And in
fact, it is about cars. The Kims were killed because of their
addiction to automobile. In fact, many Americans are already dead
because of their addiction to automobile, from asthma, petrol
chemicals, to car accidents due to drunken drivers and cell
phone talkers, to wars for the control of the last drop of oil
on earth. Fuck you all oil addicts for not seeing beyond
problems you're creating for future generations to come.
\_ If you truly want to start a flame war, you'll have to troll
harder than that young padawan. -dans
\_ Teach us, oh master. - jvarga
\- you want a sad may-heaven-treat-you-better tragedy:
http://csua.org/u/hny
am i comparing tragedies? you bet i am.
it's kind of amazing the cnn reporter described the
rescuers leaving "care packages". E_CATACHRESIS.
\_ Uh, ok. Want to know what else is tragic and totally fucked
up partha? That in order for an Asian man to be in
American media, he needs to know kungfu, play
a role as an engineer/scientist, or be dead. THAT is traffic.
For crying out loud you're a fucking idiot partha.
\- i dont understand what you are talking about
but the amount of breastbeating at place like:
http://sf.metblogs.com
from people who didnt know this dood, seems quite odd.
\_ http://csua.org/u/hnz
\_ The Kims did spend the lats 10 years going to 'chill out' music
parties in the woods with the elite dot commers of San Francisco,
so a lot of the sad people at least know someone who was directly
connected to the Kims. its still kind of odd.
\_ Sure SF has a lot of people who knew Kim. But a lot of
these Mourning Bloggers explicitly say "I dont know them."
Or in some cases after the fact they "discover" things like
"oh, it turned out, I did know him [sic] after all ... we
were both at party X." I think this is another case of
(some) bloggers being desperate to find something to say.
\_ So what, exactly, is the metric for desparation? Does
something said in desparation have less merit than something
that isn't? -dans
\- google for "non accelerating rate of blogging" [NARB]
\_ Google for "total fucking waste of time":
- Your search - "non accelerating rate of blogging" -
did not match any documents.
- Searching without quotes yields lots of hits on the
non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment.
- Searching for NARB provides unhelpful links to the
National Advertising Review Board.
- dans
\_ You have been punked.
\_ TV has enfeebled your brain. -dans |
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| www.cnn.com/2006/US/12/07/missing.family/index.html But a coroner in Oregon could not determine exactly when the father of two died. After waiting a week for rescue, burning car tires for warmth and having little to eat besides berries, the couple decided they had no other choice but for James Kim to venture out Saturday for help, Kati Kim told authorities. Video ) On November 25 the Kims had begun a drive home to San Francisco, California, after a Thanksgiving vacation in Oregon. They missed a turn and found themselves stranded in snow and lost on one of Oregon's treacherous mountain roads -- an area that is rarely plowed during the winter. At some point, James Kim tried to back up the car to where there was less snow to block them. But snow was falling so fast and furiously that he had to open his door to see, authorities said. Over the next few days, the snow and rain fell unrelentingly, Kati Kim told searchers. The family ran the car sporadically to keep warm as temperatures dipped below freezing at night. After running out of gas, they set a spare tire on fire and eventually burned all four tires for warmth. When the weather let up briefly, they burned magazines and driftwood. Kati Kim, nursing 7-month- old Sabine, also breast-fed her 4-year-old daughter Penelope. Before James Kim left his family, he built a fire for them. He put on a pair of sweat pants over his jeans and set out. He encountered what searchers would later describe as rugged, steep, snowy terrain with sodden branches, slick rocks, downed trees and poison oak nestled between sheer cliffs. Despite those conditions, authorities said, he covered about 10 miles before succumbing in the ravine where rescuers found his body on Wednesday about noon (3 pm ET). "It seems superhuman to me that he was able to cover that amount of distance given what he had and also that he had nine days in the car" before setting out, Josephine County Undersheriff Brian Anderson said. "We spent hours down there and made very little distance. The terrain is so rugged, just spending one day out here is very exhausting." Kati Kim and the couple's daughters were found Monday when searchers saw her waving an umbrella. She had just set out on foot when they were found, authorities said. The three spent a night in the hospital and were released Tuesday. An arduous and determined trek Using a map, authorities showed that Kim had headed south and west before entering the drainage area and following it eastward -- back in the direction of the family's car. Authorities tracked him by following his footprints in the snow. Before locating his body, rescue workers said they had found what they believed was a trail of clues from James Kim, including three shirts, a wool sock, a blue girl's skirt and pieces of an Oregon state map. Kati Kim had told authorities her husband had taken the items with him when he left their car. Operating on the assumption he might still be alive, searchers had dropped care packages in the area. Kim's body was found about a half mile south of the family's car at the foot of a huge cliff, authorities said. Authorities were not sure why Kim chose that route, he said. A deputy found a message written on white paper on the road, Anderson said, describing the note as an SOS saying the family had been stuck since the Sunday after Thanksgiving and that two children were in the car. Authorities are not sure which of the Kims had written the note, Anderson said. It was written by Kati Kim and indicated where she and the children were headed. "This has been a heart-wrenching experience for everyone involved," CNET CEO Neil Ashe told reporters. "I know that I speak for everyone at CNET Networks when I say that James Kim was a hero, and we will miss him greatly." He said the company would do all it could to assist Kim's family and honor his memory. Searcher Joe Hyatt told reporters the rugged terrain of Oregon can be deceiving to those who are unfamiliar with it. "When you're up in the mountains, it all looks nice and peaceful," he said. Of Kim, Hyatt said, "I can only describe him as an extremely motivated individual. Wednesday evening, Scott Nelson Windels, a friend of the Kims, issued a statement thanking the searchers and others involved in the incident. "We want to send out our utmost thanks to the search and rescue teams who risked their lives in the efforts to bring James back to us, they are true heroes to risk their own lives for a stranger," it read. "Please continue to keep Kati, Penelope, Sabine and the rest of their family in your thoughts." Gunman, 3 others die in 'scary' office tower shootings A gunman killed three people and wounded another at a downtown office tower Friday before police killed him as he held a hostage, a police official said. |
| www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16089354 The San Francisco man died of exposure with hypothermia. The Most MSNBC staff and news service reports MERLIN, Ore. His body was found in a creek's shallow water, about a mile away from his family's car. James Olson, a deputy state medical examiner, was unable to determine the exact time of death, said Lt. But at a news conference, authorities tried to chronicle Kim's last days in the snowy wilderness. Kim, 35, was a senior editor for the technology media company CNET Networks Inc. They were heading home to San Francisco after a family vacation in the Pacific Northwest when he, his wife and two young daughters became stranded on a remote mountain road. Hastings said the family got stuck after they missed an interchange, and ended up going through Grant's Pass, an area the Oregon Department of Transportation does not recommend driving through during wintertime. They stopped at a forked intersection and called it a night," Hastings said. Used car for heat In the first four days that they were stranded, Hastings said, the Kims "occasionally started up the car for heat" until they ran out of gas. They then used a spare tire to start a fire to try to attract attention and stay warm, he said. Last Saturday, Kim went for help at 7:46 in the morning, Hastings said. "He built a fire for Kati (his wife) and the kids before he left on foot," he said. Kim told his wife he would be back by 1 pm the following day. "He thought that if he could get to the river, he could make it to the town." Kim thought the nearby town of Galice was only 4 miles away, although it was really 15 miles from where he was, Hastings said. Kati Kim, 30, and her daughters, Penelope, 4, and Sabine, 7 months, were rescued Monday after waving an umbrella for helicopters to see, according to Hastings. She told officers that with only a few jars of baby food and limited supplies, she nursed both children. The key to finding the family's car, police said, was a "ping" from one of the family's cell phones that helped narrow down their location. After scouring the mountains of southern Oregon for days, a search helicopter hired by his family spotted Kim's body midday Wednesday. He was found fully clothed on his back in Big Windy Creek near the Rogue River, authorities said. James Kim's body was found at the foot of the Big Windy Creek drainage, a half-mile from the Rogue River, where ground crews and helicopters had been searching for days. Investigators believe he traveled about eight miles in total, and said there was no way he could have reached the car directly from where he was found. Searchers said they believed Kim had shed clothing and arranged it to give searchers clues to his whereabouts. They had planned to drop rescue packages with clothing, emergency gear and provisions. A tearful Josephine County Undersheriff Brian Anderson announced the discovery of Kim's body on Wednesday, his voice breaking at one point. |
| www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,235018,00.html PRINTER FRIENDLY VERSION AP An undated photo provided Oregon State Police shows Penelope, James and Sabine Kim An undated photo provided Oregon State Police shows Penelope, James and Sabine Kim * * * * MERLIN, Ore. They were heading home to San Francisco after a family vacation in the Pacific Northwest. Kim's wife, Kati, 30, told officers that the couple made a wrong turn and became stuck in the snow. They used their car heater until they ran out of gas, then burned tires to stay warm and attract attention. They tried to put wood underneath their car to keep it dry to burn. With only a few jars of baby food and limited supplies, Kati Kim nursed her daughters Penelope, 4, and Sabine, 7 months. Family Members Found The family burned tires in an attempt to create signal flares, authorities said. Gregg Hastings said Thursday that Kim left the car shortly before 8 am last Saturday to get help. Right before he left, he built a fire for the family, and he and Kati studied an Oregon map to determine which route he should take. "They thought the Hanna police was just about four miles away, when in reality, it was probably more like 15 miles away," Hastings said. "James thought he could reach it in a couple of hours ... he was trying to get to a road, to flag down some help." Kim's family told authorities that when he left, he was wearing tennis shoes, pants and a heavy coat, but no hat. His family said he had some outdoor experience, and authorities said he was carrying two lighters. Hastings said Kim traveled about 10 miles from the car before he died and said there was no way he could have reached the car directly from where he was found. He was discovered Wednesday lying on his back in the Big Windy Creek near the Rogue River. He was carrying a backpack that held identification, among other items. Searchers had been following his footprints in the snow and searching by helicopter since his wife and two young daughters were rescued Monday. The key to finding Kati Kim and the two children, police said, was a "ping" from one of the family's cell phones that helped narrow down their location. Big Windy Creek drainage, a half-mile from the Rogue River, where ground crews and helicopters had been searching for days. "He was very motivated," said a tearful Undersheriff Brian Anderson. CNET's CEO said the company will provide grief counseling for employees. Executives are also trying to determine what type of memorial to provide in Kim's honor. |
| csua.com/?entry=45423 entry=45423 The auto categorizer thinks this thread is about cars. The Kims were killed because of their addiction to automobile. In fact, many Americans are already dead because of their addiction to automobile, from asthma, petrol chemicals, to car accidents due to drunken drivers and cell phone talkers, to wars for the control of the last drop of oil on earth. Fuck you all oil addicts for not seeing beyond problems you're creating for future generations to come. it's kind of amazing the cnn reporter described the rescuers leaving "care packages". Want to know what else is tragic and totally fucked up partha? That in order for an Asian man to be in American media, he needs to know kungfu, play a role as an engineer/scientist, or be dead. org/u/hnz \_ The Kims did spend the lats 10 years going to 'chill out' music parties in the woods with the elite dot commers of San Francisco, so a lot of the sad people at least know someone who was directly connected to the Kims. But a lot of these Mourning Bloggers explicitly say "I dont know them." pdf \_ People still like their cars more than mass transit. In addition the majority of the population don't mind being in traffic for over an hour, it's the only time they have to themselves. Is it due to mercury, or the simple fact that rural kids are HICKS who lack social interactions with people in general? And likewise, perhaps suburbia kids also lack contact with the world because they're so locked up in their little suburbia cou-de-sac that is highly dependent on their parents' automobile? com/insideline/do/Features/articleId=46009 \_ Yes, and many V8s were powering muscle cars and putting out 500 HP. html But a coroner in Oregon could not determine exactly when the father of two died. After waiting a week for rescue, burning car tires for warmth and having little to eat besides berries, the couple decided they had no other choice but for James Kim to venture out Saturday for help, Kati Kim told authorities. Video ) On November 25 the Kims had begun a drive home to San Francisco, California, after a Thanksgiving vacation in Oregon. They missed a turn and found themselves stranded in snow and lost on one of Oregon's treacherous mountain roads -- an area that is rarely plowed during the winter. At some point, James Kim tried to back up the car to where there was less snow to block them. But snow was falling so fast and furiously that he had to open his door to see, authorities said. Over the next few days, the snow and rain fell unrelentingly, Kati Kim told searchers. The family ran the car sporadically to keep warm as temperatures dipped below freezing at night. After running out of gas, they set a spare tire on fire and eventually burned all four tires for warmth. When the weather let up briefly, they burned magazines and driftwood. Kati Kim, nursing 7-month- old Sabine, also breast-fed her 4-year-old daughter Penelope. Before James Kim left his family, he built a fire for them. He put on a pair of sweat pants over his jeans and set out. He encountered what searchers would later describe as rugged, steep, snowy terrain with sodden branches, slick rocks, downed trees and poison oak nestled between sheer cliffs. Despite those conditions, authorities said, he covered about 10 miles before succumbing in the ravine where rescuers found his body on Wednesday about noon (3 pm ET). "It seems superhuman to me that he was able to cover that amount of distance given what he had and also that he had nine days in the car" before setting out, Josephine County Undersheriff Brian Anderson said. "We spent hours down there and made very little distance. The terrain is so rugged, just spending one day out here is very exhausting." Kati Kim and the couple's daughters were found Monday when searchers saw her waving an umbrella. She had just set out on foot when they were found, authorities said. The three spent a night in the hospital and were released Tuesday. An arduous and determined trek Using a map, authorities showed that Kim had headed south and west before entering the drainage area and following it eastward -- back in the direction of the family's car. Authorities tracked him by following his footprints in the snow. Before locating his body, rescue workers said they had found what they believed was a trail of clues from James Kim, including three shirts, a wool sock, a blue girl's skirt and pieces of an Oregon state map. Kati Kim had told authorities her husband had taken the items with him when he left their car. Operating on the assumption he might still be alive, searchers had dropped care packages in the area. Kim's body was found about a half mile south of the family's car at the foot of a huge cliff, authorities said. Authorities were not sure why Kim chose that route, he said. A deputy found a message written on white paper on the road, Anderson said, describing the note as an SOS saying the family had been stuck since the Sunday after Thanksgiving and that two children were in the car. Authorities are not sure which of the Kims had written the note, Anderson said. It was written by Kati Kim and indicated where she and the children were headed. "This has been a heart-wrenching experience for everyone involved," CNET CEO Neil Ashe told reporters. "I know that I speak for everyone at CNET Networks when I say that James Kim was a hero, and we will miss him greatly." He said the company would do all it could to assist Kim's family and honor his memory. Searcher Joe Hyatt told reporters the rugged terrain of Oregon can be deceiving to those who are unfamiliar with it. "When you're up in the mountains, it all looks nice and peaceful," he said. Of Kim, Hyatt said, "I can only describe him as an extremely motivated individual. Wednesday evening, Scott Nelson Windels, a friend of the Kims, issued a statement thanking the searchers and others involved in the incident. "We want to send out our utmost thanks to the search and rescue teams who risked their lives in the efforts to bring James back to us, they are true heroes to risk their own lives for a stranger," it read. "Please continue to keep Kati, Penelope, Sabine and the rest of their family in your thoughts." Gunman, 3 others die in 'scary' office tower shootings A gunman killed three people and wounded another at a downtown office tower Friday before police killed him as he held a hostage, a police official said. com/id/16089354 The San Francisco man died of exposure with hypothermia. The Most MSNBC staff and news service reports MERLIN, Ore. His body was found in a creek's shallow water, about a mile away from his family's car. James Olson, a deputy state medical examiner, was unable to determine the exact time of death, said Lt. But at a news conference, authorities tried to chronicle Kim's last days in the snowy wilderness. Kim, 35, was a senior editor for the technology media company CNET Networks Inc. They were heading home to San Francisco after a family vacation in the Pacific Northwest when he, his wife and two young daughters became stranded on a remote mountain road. Hastings said the family got stuck after they missed an interchange, and ended up going through Grant's Pass, an area the Oregon Department of Transportation does not recommend driving through during wintertime. They stopped at a forked intersection and called it a night," Hastings said. Used car for heat In the first four days that they were stranded, Hastings said, the Kims "occasionally started up the car for heat" until they ran out of gas. They then used a spare tire to start a fire to try to attract attention and stay warm, he said. Last Saturday, Kim went for help at 7:46 in the morning, Hastings said. "He built a fire for Kati (his wife) and the kids before he left on foot," he said. Kim told his wife he would be back by 1 pm the following day. "He thought that if he could get to the river, he could make it to the town." Kim thought the nearby town of Galice was only 4 miles away, although it was really 15 miles from where he was, Hastings said. Kati Kim, 30, and her daughters, Penelope, 4, and Sabine, 7 months, were rescued Monday after waving an umbrella for helicopters... |
| csua.org/u/hny -> www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/10/31/RICHMOND.TMP Email This Article An 8-year-old Richmond boy died after allegedly being beaten, tortured and possibly forced to drink household cleaner by his mother in what police said Monday was one of the worst cases of child abuse they've ever seen. Teresa Marie Moses, 23, was arrested on suspicion of murder, torture, child endangerment and child abuse in Friday's death of her son, Raijon Daniels. The Contra Costa County coroner has conducted an autopsy but is awaiting the results of toxicology tests before determining the cause of Raijon's death, authorities said. Police said the boy may have died from swallowing household cleaner or another poison. The boy, who was covered head to toe with injuries in various stages of healing, lived in horrible conditions, staying in a locked room outfitted with a surveillance camera and eating food that was mixed in a blender, police said. Moses, who works as a United Parcel Service supervisor in Richmond, told police she had disciplined him for what she perceived to be misbehavior, such as urinating or defecating on himself, police said. "She said she thought he was playing mind games with her" whenever he defecated on himself, said Richmond police Sgt. Moses also told police that she had been punishing her son, whom she home-schooled, since November 2005, because he ran away by jumping out a second-floor window and then stole toys at a store because he didn't have any, authorities said. "That little kid has been going through a living hell," Peixoto said. About 5:15 pm Friday, Moses called for an ambulance, saying she had a medical emergency at her home in the Monterey Pines apartment complex on the 700 block of South 40th Street. Paramedics and police arrived to find Raijon nonresponsive with traces of vomit on his face. The boy was rushed to Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Richmond. "It was pretty apparent that the child was the victim of extensive physical abuse," said Lt. Mark Gagan, who saw Raijon before he was pronounced dead at Kaiser. "It was the most disturbing crime scene I've ever seen." Raijon's room was outfitted with closed-circuit camera, and a cord led to a monitor in Moses' room where she kept an eye on her son, Peixoto said. Police found signs that Raijon had been restrained on his bed, where the sheets were duct-taped, Peixoto said. Raijon had whip marks, burns, cuts and scars "over every inch of his body," Gagan said. "It's obvious that this was a sustained and prolonged pattern of abuse. From what I've seen and heard about this case, I just don't understand how a mother could do this to her child." Enos Johnson said that when he walked into the apartment Friday, he breathed in fumes from a pine-scented cleaner that brought tears to his eyes. In an interview with police that lasted several hours, Moses was "strictly business," didn't appear remorseful and never once asked about how her son was doing, Peixoto said. When police told her that her son had died, "In my mind, she tried to cry, but couldn't come up with the tears," Peixoto said. She admitted that she poured a caustic substance on her son's genitals earlier Friday to discourage him from urinating on himself, Peixoto said. Although police found vomit in his bedroom and in the bathroom, Moses didn't admit to forcing cleaner down his throat or making him drink it, Peixoto said. Police also found a brown substance in the home that Moses said was her son's dinner: beans and spaghetti mixed in a blender. Moses told police that at one point Friday, she saw her son flailing and "doing a Stevie Wonder," Peixoto said. A conviction on the torture charge could bring a life sentence, authorities said. "We don't have sufficient information yet to establish a cause of death," said prosecutor Harold Jewett. "Certainly there are substantial indications that some criminal charges are appropriate here." Moses' 3-year-old daughter, who also lived in the apartment, appeared to be unharmed and had toys to play with, police said. After Raijon ran away last year, police investigated allegations of sexual abuse of Raijon on the part of a man who did not live with Moses, but no criminal charges were filed, police said. An officer who visited the home at the time noticed a padlocked fish tank in his room. Moses said it was locked because her son urinated in the tank, Peixoto said. Something has gone wrong with Teresa," said her grandmother, Lillian Ponder. |
| sf.metblogs.com Score since I had planned on transferring to the 30 - probably involving a wait, at midnight, with bridge and tunnel partiers drunkenly pissing about in the Marina. Before we got started chatting, he stopped at the Letterman campus. A lady there, started yelling at him , why did the outbound 43 not pick her up? Because you're not standing at the right stop, he replied. Then, we started chatting and figured out that I was near his route's end. Live 105 annual holiday season concert, has been one of the major live music events of the Bay Area for a number of years now. This year's show sold out within three minutes of the start of ticket sales, but I was lucky enough to have a hot date who had the ticket hook-up. controversy over the years about the show , last night's concert stood out as one of the area's most memorable live performances of 2006. The concert's labels have been as broad as "rock" and as specific as "modern indie / new rock". In the past, Not So Silent Night has been host to bands including Cake, Linkin Park, Rancid, System of a Down, Hole, Death Cab for Cutie and Taking Back Sunday. Nancy McClure at 5:15 PM on December 08, 2006 In an attempt to dodge the rain, I wove my way back from lunch near the Metreon, and turned down the side alley between the MoMA and the W hotel. This stretch of Natoma is the turn-around for the W's valets, and is one of the access ways to the MoMA parking garage, as well as having a number of small print galleries and design firms that front onto it. Aurobora Press, a fine art monotype print house with a small gallery space up front, but today my eye was drawn to the oddly familiar shapes hung in the storefront display cases of the parking garage. jpg It took me a minute, but I realized what made these shapes seem so familiar - the paintings are done on automobile hoods! The subject matter ranged from an homage to Bruce Lee, to illustrations of street youth overlaid on New York City street maps. Perhaps it's posted at the display cases on the front side of the garage. photo courtesy of Twice Shy In a city where the fashion variety is as plethoric as the number of restaurants, it is clear that the Bay Area has its own hold on personal style. In a region where you can buy a t-shirt for anywhere from $5-500, how do you choose where to spend your dough? Asking this question to a few of folks that I work it, it because clear that just about everyone has their own judgment system: who they see roaming the store, the brands they carry, if they recycle or not - these are just some of the responses that I got. Do you both reading reviews on sites such as Yelp before you go? Would you visit any shop at least once to see if they have anything you like? Do you stick to stores that only sell to a certain "lifestyle" or "crowd", such as mod, hippie, preppy ... Is the neighborhood the store is located in just as important as what they sell? Or, above it all, do you just avoid the city and shop online? Barry Bonds signed a one-year $16 million contract with the Giants for next year, ending speculation about whether team management had the stomach for his attitude, aging legs, and performance-enhancement problems. Rumors were Bonds was asking $18 million and the Giants were offering twelve. Somehow I'm not surprised at all that the team wound up agreeing to an amount much closer to the asking price. JT Snow announced his retirement today, along with a deal to work for the Giants in several capacities. The six-time Gold Glove winner, who played for the Giants from 1997-2005, will do everything from broadcast to "roving minor league instructor." news engines have started analyzing their own traffic hits and how that's news, in some postmodern metatextual way. I haven't heard of the wake yet- but I hope there is something. I went to the gym on Wednesday when Kati Kim was found, and it was on everyone's mind, that James Kim be found too. You didn't really have to break in with a "are you following the Kim family?" Crow Bar, at 401 Broadway in SF, is just about perfect as a hanging-out bar with a big group of people. There was plenty of room - chairs - we hung out playing air hockey, a six-in-one classic arcade game with Galaga and Ms Pac-Man, and a good pinball machine - and the music was comforting punk rock early 80s classics. Me and Shauna sang to "Institutionalized" in an overly melodramatic way while playing the Aladdin pinball thingie. It was like all the good parts one remembers from childhood about being at Chuck E Cheese, but for Gen X "grownups". In fact I felt weirdly at home, which I almost never do at bars. It was homey and seedy, like being in my Great-Uncle Warren's basement rec room, I swear to god. A guy at the bar had an enormous blue and yellow macaw with him. It was wearing a little sweatshirt and seemed relaxed, so it must have been a regular. I gave it a coaster to mangle and made my hand head-bob like a parrot. I can't speak for the alcohol part since I had a Shirley Temple with lime juice and extra limes, nice and sour, without any sneering from the nice bartender for it not being something more expensive. Noah at 9:51 PM on December 06, 2006 So, after about 1 full day of being here, I must say that I notice some extreme similarities to NYC, and also some things that are incredibly different. So here they are: Similarities: - It seems that San Francisco has... Poormojo at 10:59 AM on December 06, 2006 This picture was taken in the Duboce Triangle, it says "Fifthten" in case you can't make it out. On the same street, a block away, the pavement reads simply "teenth st." Mark Pritchard at 10:28 AM on December 06, 2006 Last night I went to the launch of Pet Noir, a comix anthology of stories of true pet crimes (like the Marina District dog mauling case and the infamous San Jose airport traffic poodle toss) edited by Shannon O'Leary (pictured... Anna at 5:07 PM on December 05, 2006 Went to see Casino Royale* this weekend at the Kabuki, and noticed the permit license posted on the window. Because of the Sundance purchase (yes, related to Redford's Sundance theaters), they will serve wine/beer. |
| csua.org/u/hnz -> news.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2006/12/09/2006120900022.html A108 A9) (Winters) (Spencer) . CEO . |