I love San Francisco.. Fuck everyone who lives here.

One of my favorite restaurants is (http://www.lolosf.com).

If you are anywhere NEAR there, show up.. because it took a lot of effort to make it as awesome as it is right now.

.. So as I'm walking down 24th Street at 2pm on a really sunny day... in the middle of the week. The birds are chirping, the pot is burning, the meat markets are selling...

16th and Mission / Valencia is the hip place to go to. Place.. area.. whatever. Take 10 people.. tell them to meet you in the mission at 8pm. Out of 10, 9 of them will meet you within a block of 16th Street and Valencia... the other one will meet you about a block away. If any of the 10 people involved happen to be gay, they might think that you mean Dolores Park... where the gays can smile for being the most educated, physically fit, paid, [whatever it is .. the gay equivalent of you does it better] ...

.. So I'm not a small guy.. and I'm the kind of guy who looks out of place.. and I'm not the kind of person you would want to mess with...

The 2 BART stops are 16th and 24th. ANY restaurant, bar, club, etc that is within range of 16th street has historically been full. You can't just want into a place there on a whim and expect to be seated. The turnover in that area is extreme and I am pretty sure that you could take a shit on a piece of wonderbread make a few bucks before EVERYONE kicked you to the curb. That area is magic.

.. I really like walking down the street and enjoying life. Sometimes people who don't appreciate life want to walk up to me and ask me for cigarettes. Smokes cost a lot of money now and while I would give a smoke to some people, I don't just give them to a random crackhead on the street.

Noe Valley (with their stollers and family friendly world view that happens to exist there) wants the 16th Street area (especially Dolores Park) to be part of Noe Valley. I think it is cool that the 24th street area (with their strategic killing of gang members, awesome target shooting by 15 year olds, self expression by taggers who really don't know WHAT they are pissed off at.. only that they are).. is giving us places to go on the OTHER side of 24th street. Pi Bar and Heart, fill up the area that exists before people hit up the Dovre Club.

.. a hand comes towards me and lands on my shoulder. I'm not really sure what is going on but someone thinks I am threatening them while both their hands are trying to choke me and (after I push them off), a knife is in their hands.

I like how the area is filling in but am extremely sad about the Palace Family Steakhouse closing up. I am pretty sure that some really hip and cool place will end up there but along the way, someone forgot that the reason people wanted to move here in the first place was the awesomeness that the locals made happen. People love SF because idiots from Arizona show up and the people from Mexico who have ALWAYS lived here are smart enough to offer them an authentic "CHEETOES, FRITOS, PORK AND CAVIAR BURRITO" for 80 bucks and everyone wins.

.. he loses, I win.

San Francisco exists because of all the people who made the area BEFORE the dot com boom. Be smart enough to realize that. If you live in the Mission, any "progress" should involve the people who lived in the area before you did. If you live in Nob Hill, you should shut the fuck up. If you are a politician here, have fun. How the fuck can you go to bed at night?

Enjoy your fucking social experiment.