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November 25, 2008 05:00:52
Posted By Karsty

There's been a lot of cool stuff happening involving wheels and nighttime lately.  The Friday Night Skate is always the best possible way to spend a Friday night, but ah there's been improvements!  The last two weeks a group of us broke away from the regular route and skated the Sutter/Stockton garage, followed by "bombing Post" from Leavenworth to Union Square.  What a blast:

 

ggbThe other thing I've been doing past my normal bed time is going on rides out to the beach on the many recent evenings of uncommonly balmy weather.  In the past month I've been to Ocean Beach twice, but the most fun ride I did was through the darkness of the Predisio to Marshall Beach, not far from the Golden Gate Bridge.  Just before that ride I went out and bought a camping stove to enable a picnic of hot coffee and tea for me and my fellow riders.  And of course, no ride to the beach would be complete without a stop at a local dive bar on the way home. :^)  Has everyone been to the Buckshot Tavern?  If I was a Yelper I'd 5-star that dump.  Skee Ball, shuffleboard, pool, a DJ that plays everyting from Bel Biv Devoe to Slayer, and $2 Miller High Life.  Word to yer momz.  Click my pics.

 

 
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November 7, 2008 06:38:00
Posted By Karsty
obamafestWhat a week it's been.  Over the span of five days there was Halloween, Dia de los Muertos, and then the election.  Each event exceeded the previous one mightily in terms of both fun and good-vibed positivity.  But it was the election that I can pretty much guarantee that when I'm a centenarian I'll look back on as one of my life's favorite experiences.  I'm at a loss to come up with naming a particular political event that happened in my country, and in my lifetime, that caused so much jubilation.  (I suck at history so forgive me if I missed something obvious.)  And of all the places to be celebrating America's comeback, there can't be a better place than San Francisco.  Over 85% of San Francisco County voted for Obama so it was as if all 700,000 of us all got out of a long, horrible, abusive, and embarrassing relationship and into a new one full of promise at exactly the same moment.  After the last eight years there was a hell of a lot of happiness bottled up inside of everyone, and what a sight seeing it all get uncorked like a shaken-up champagne bottle on Tuesday!  People took to the streets randomly hugging and kissing each other, singing and generally going nuts.  Judging from the behavior of the revelers I'm expecting a mini baby boom in San Francisco in about 9 months. :^)

I kinda wish that my trip to South America occurred after the election because when people asked me where I was from I wouldn't have said "San Francisco" rather awkwardly.  For at least the next four years when I'm traveling I can say "I'm from America!  USA USA USA!"

Pictures are here.
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November 5, 2008 11:19:44
Posted By Karsty

Wow.  Holy cow.  If I could be transported to any place, any time, it would probably be San Francisco the night that Barack Obama won the presidency of the USA.  This clip doesn't even come close to doing the scene justice:

 

But I'd trade it all for prop 8 going down in flames. :^( I had no clue that so many evil people live in my state. I guess we aren't that far from the eras of the Holocaust and slavery.

All the people I interact with in the above video are indeed complete strangers. ;^) Click here to see the full res version.  Props to Mike for taking the video!

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