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House 530 opening soon
The perpetually vacant spot on Valencia between Blondie’s and Limon finally removed their plywood to reveal… yet another Thai restaurant! If at this point you’re wondering whether there’s more Thai restaurants or Thai people in San Francisco, I think it’s safe to bet on the restaurants. As Grub Street reported several months ago, this spot…
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Fuzzy purple heart tree
All kinds of wonderful things grow on trees — apples, coconuts, oranges… so why not fuzzy purple hearts? Spotted at 16th and Dolores.
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Pica Pica levels up, adds outdoor seating
Local arepa restaurant and ever changing tiger mural spot has added some outdoor seating. With Four Barrel’s hipster jungle gym parklet just down the street, will Little Star be next in line for an extension into the realm of public space, or will Zeitgeist beat them to it?
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Angry bird
Looks pretty pissed. So pissed that if this guy were a character in Angry Birds, I’d hope he was of the useful birds. Not one of those throw away birds, like the impossible boomerang one or the zero-damage causing egg bomb thing. This tough bird is angry and means business. Spotted in the “Mid Market…
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Ironic iron
What’s this? An element sticker? The cool kids are all into chemistry now, I guess. Bill Nye would be proud. But the “irony” of this (if you’ll pardon the pun) is that the metal the sticker is applied to is most definitely not iron. Now that’s a major “fe pas.” Spotted at 18th and Dolores.
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Berlin street art
All the photos of street art above come from Mitte, the central borough of Berlin. It’s the “capital” of Berlin, if you will. Around the backstreets of Mitte you find abandoned buildings filled covered in illegal art. There’s some real creativity there, it’s refreshing compared to what we see here in San Francisco. Lots of…
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Einstein’s desk drawings
Okay, I doubt Einstein really drew this. But the desks at his old university are very old, and many of them had fun drawings like the one above. And in all fairness, the school has seen many other famous folks as well including Karl Marx, Max Planck, and the Brothers Grimm. Perhaps Karl Marx drew…
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Bad Fucking
Spotted this on display yesterday at a bookstore in the Tegel airport in Berlin. I tried really hard not to laugh (but wasn’t very successful.)
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