friend of the built environment

Just days after New York did it, San Francisco introduced a new park in the middle of what was once a street.
I actually like it. I’m still sometimes floored at how auto-centric even the densest neighborhoods in San Francisco are, and especially a touristy area like this, at Castro & Market has way too much [...]

One lesson we should all learn from the current economic crisis is to live within our means and know when to quit. The past decade was a story of lost opportunities, wasted energy, over-investment and wasted money. Let’s stop wasting local government cash and abandon this Ballpark. Even if this Ballpark is finished (which still [...]

I haven’t chimed in on world affairs much lately - thankfully the economic crisis has seemed to make foreign adventures seem less appealing to most Americans.
But I do have a few opinions on the events taking place in Iran. Take them for the views of a person with limited education on the situation that they [...]

Goths Nationwide Raid Head Shops for Last Clove Cigarettes.
Whilst I no longer hold the hardcore anti-regulation view I once held on cigarettes, I really can’t understand regulating cigarette flavors. The idea just seem silly.
Yes, we should protect workers who are clinging to their jobs from having to sacrifice their health for their job. I agree [...]

Chase. For those times when you need a cheap, half-assed, hack-job bank. When only crap will do.

Latin hiphop gayboys

Yes, it was very normal.
Some people, including me at times, have argued that homo culture is a sort of dissent, and succumbing to normalcy is a bad thing. But normal in this context was so much different than normal as seen in its dark light by certain authors.
This sort of normal was amazingly diverse, celebratory [...]

I’ve spent so many years being a fabulous homosexual living in Ueber-Creative San Francisco, and seen the casualties of creative cities - namely drug addiction, AIDS, and dead-end careers that will do nothing for people when total social collapse comes in the next decade or so.
Florida seems to have no original ideas: his philosophy is [...]