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[legendarytragedynacho]

The Clash and Joe Ely (Before Joe Strummer's fall, falling down and when he was on the ground) - Tribal Stomp II Festival, Monterey, California, September 8, 1979

📷 George Rose via SFGATE

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Pity the nation whose people are sheep,

and whose shepherds mislead them.

Pity the nation whose leaders are liars,

whose sages are silenced.

and whose bigots haunt the airwaves.

Pity the nation that raises not its voice,

except to praise conquerors and acclaim the bully as hero

and aims to rule the world with force and by torture.

Pity the nation that knows no other language but its own

and no other culture but its own.

Pity the nation whose breath is money

and sleeps the sleep of the too well fed.

Pity the nation — oh, pity the people who allow their

rights to erode

and their freedoms to be washed away.

My country, tears of thee, sweet land of liberty.

 -- Lawrence Ferlinghetti

[pruesgaultier]

DOVESSO + UPDATED SOCIALS

in honor of my 1 year anniversary of the og post

[electronicsquid]

But again, discretion isn’t this car’s job. This is a loud and lonely car for loud and lonely people.

Drew Magary drives a Cybertruck for a SFGate review

[soapdispensersalesman]

Epic Games sold Bay Area-based Bandcamp to Songtradr, with 50% of the fan favorite's employees laid off along the way.

[nerdsworld]

What did you sacrifice to go see Barbie? 👛🍧

This writer apparently sacrificed the comfort of his behind,went and saw BOTH the Barbie and Oppenheimer movie.

Thank you,Drew 💋

Saturday

07.22.2023

Update:

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[california-slow-take]

Why 'Star Trek' made San Francisco the center of the universe

The Enterprise may boldly go where no one has gone before, but it often returns to SF.

“I would speculate that he saw it as a city that symbolized the kind of tensions and optimistic future that he wanted to depict in ‘Star Trek,’” Bernardi says. “... Different people — different aliens, in other words — coming together, struggling together, on a ship, i.e., San Francisco.”

Over the decades, “Star Trek” has returned to and expanded upon its version of San Francisco. Helmsman Hikaru Sulu, played by George Takei, was born in the city. The original starship Enterprise was canonically built at the Mare Island shipyard. In 2161, the Charter of the United Federation of Planets was signed in San Francisco, just as the Charter of the United Nations was signed here in 1945, another San Francisco fact that may have endeared Roddenberry to the city. 

The Golden Gate Bridge has been destroyed and rebuilt in the series. When the crew of the Discovery visits 32nd century Earth, it makes a point of visiting Starfleet Academy in what looks like the Marin Headlands to hug a tree. And, in what I would argue is the absolute best “Star Trek” movie, the cast of the original series lands a Klingon ship in Golden Gate Park and spends 122 minutes gallivanting around 1980s San Francisco in order to bring a pair of whales to the future. (Though you, like me, might scream at the screen when Kirk and Spock walk through a “Sausalito” that is clearly the Presidio as they discuss how they’re going to get back to San Francisco.)

[posttexasstressdisorder]

Updates: 'Floods are inevitable' in San Francisco, Mayor Breed says

Get the latest information on the bomb cyclone slamming California.

Welp, the first big “arm” of rain is pretty much past us now.  Wind is absolutely crazy.  Gusts of 85mph!  Was sitting at the kitchen table with roomie and his son, eating some lentil soup I’d made, and the first gust just whipped the building so bad it flapped all the screens on the windows/screendoors, and felt almost like an earthquake up here on the 3rd floor, it hit with such force the whole building shook!  I’m charging up phone/flashlight batts in case we lose power.  So far, no problems.  I went out to run an errand at 3pm and there was nobody out.  Hadn’t really started raining yet, at that point.