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Vieux Carré

Bwahahaha.

Traffic spike.

There’s an alley in San Francisco that I love to visit.  It’s the Leidesdorff.  It runs from Pine to Clay, from the Pacific Stock Exchange to the Transamerica Pyramid.  It’s mostly pedestrian, with seats for sidewalk cafés blocking off traffic for a couple different places.  There used to be a Boudin’s on the Leidesdorff where I’d go when it was cool out and I wanted clam chowder for lunch.  Next to the PSE is Specialty’s, which has incredible deli sandwiches and tasty pastry.  Over near California Street is this place called Bistro Burger, which is probably about the only burger place I’d choose over Ray’s.

But for me, the Leidesdorff is about memory.  It’s about being 20 and working in the Financial District.  It’s about being paid to think about how to promote cool software, and how to do media tracking back when the clippings service was still sending bundles of newsprint that I got to scan.  Well before Facebook and Twitter and all the rest of Web 2.0.

I have to brush memories away from my face like so many heavy branches when I walk down that alley.  To do it is to feel young again, and then older and wiser after. It’s not a bad way to go through life, to be honest.  You remember silly crushes, work projects that were good but could’ve been better, work projects that were bad but could’ve been worse, parties and walks home and starry nights on the walk home from BART.

The Watcher: My take on the ‘Chuck’ controversy as some fans of the spy guy flip out

kimberlyfaye:

awomansplace:

kimberlyfaye:

stfuconservatives:

thepoliticalpartygirl:

brooklynmutt:

Robert Gibbs Scrawls Notes on Hand, Mocking Sarah Palin

Gibbs quipped that he had made the notes in case he and the press corps are snowed in. He said the words written on his hands included “eggs and toast.”

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I can make out:

Eggs
Milk
(Toast?)
Hope
Change

*slow clap*

Well done, Mr. Gibbs, well done.

Yes.  Well played, sir.  But why isn’t health care on the list?  Or jobs?

Maybe he didn’t think they could accomplish that during a snow storm?  :)

Oh Gibbs.

tiffanyb:

Look at my couch, my couch is amazing…

Does it taste like raisins?

Chinese Bronze Frog Pimp demands your wages, street worker.

Oh Hai SF. Is it too late for your tweetup?

The Leidesdorff

For Michele

Desktop Meme.

couch:

Urban snowboarding in DC

I love seeing what people do and how people react to an event like this.

fuckyeahdc:

jacquesofalltrades:

An absolutely stunning shot of Georgetown from the Key Bridge (via Cycle the Ghost Round)

This is very stunning!

To go with the Foursquare Badge I just unlocked.

Nice Tits, twistedspinster!