A few years ago the city installed new smart parking meters that accept credit cards and are powered by the sun. But did you know they’re also smart enough to wear clothes and enjoy sports?
Well, this particularly hip parking meter at 21st and Valencia is not only hip, but is also a 49ers fan. Take that, dumb meters.
Good news, everyone! Disneyland is coming to the Mission!
A recent street stencil breaks the news. I called up Disney’s headquarters for more information. Here’s the scoop:
Flyers proclaiming their love for you have started appearing around the Mission. Is this some kind of viral marketing for a new romcom staring Adam Sandler? Someone’s unusual art project? The CIA’s new mind control experiment?
Who knows. The posters direct you to visit LoveYou2.org, a mostly empty page which directs you to a rather sappy blog.
Visit those links at your own peril: don’t say I didn’t warn you about the sappiness.
Not sure if Pi Bar really has a problem with this in their bathroom, but it’s good advice nonetheless.
On a small side street near the touristy hellhole of Alexanderplatz is a San Francisco themed burrito place. If you’re a burrito lover in or around San Francisco, you may have heard of this by now: they have a San Francisco Muni map covering on the wall and Anchor Steam (imported via Amsterdam) by the bottle.
The burritos are made traditionally, but they didn’t use an “assembly line” format like you find in so many SF taquerias. Rather, you order at the counter and they call your number.
To me, the burrito I had tasted more like something from Rubio’s than a traditional SF burrito. It was more sweet than spicy, very light on the rice, and wasn’t tightly rolled. Which isn’t to say that it wasn’t good! It’s just different. Unsurprisingly, the place seems to attract American expats in Berlin longing for home. And I can’t say I blame them — after a few days of heavy carb-and-fat laden German food, a burrito really hit the spot for me.
You might recall the favorite fruit of Spaniglish-speakers everywhere, the estraberi showing up at Loma Produce last year.
Well thanks to this photo by Alexia Anthem, we can see that estraberis have returned to Loma Produce for 2011!
Oh dear, the Anonymous meme junkies at 4chan seem to have infiltrated San Francisco’s hacker-den, Noisebridge, with a variety of meme-stencils.
English: Strawberry
Spanish: Fresa
Spanglish: Estraberi
Spotted at La Loma Produce.
Photo by Rose
A street-level billboard on 14th St. and Valencia that recently featured a cool street art mural. Unfortunately it was removed by “the man” before I could get a pic of it with my real camera.
But here’s a couple of craptastic iPhone shots:
Someone pulled a Jack Nicholson on this poor door, then left it on a bunch of mailboxes at 16th and Guerrero.
At least the mailboxes are happy about it.