Interview: Jacob Leland
Summer time and easy living wouldn't be complete without baseball and good eats. We've incorporated a crew of new SFist contributors to guide you through the goodlife in coming months.
Hometown team loyalty and keen insight into local's seasonal wardrobe? You may have noticed the Oakland pride creeping into new SFist contributor Jacob's posts. When he's not cyber heckling the Red Sox Jacob is in school. He seems to have spent an awful lot of time there.
Name
Jacob Leland
Introduce yourself in one sentence
My name is Jacob, and I have been in school for 24 years.
Age and Occupation
28, lifetime learner.
Home Town
Oakland
How long have you lived in the Bay Area and Where?
I grew up in Oakland. I went to high school in Lafayette and to college in Berkeley. Go Bears. I went to grad school someplace on the East coast, and now I live in the Mission.
BEST story EVER on SFist
The Sarah Daly interview. Awe, shucks!
BEST Picture on SFist
Tie: All the photos of food at the farmers' market. They make me hungry.
I wanted to be an SFist contributor because (besides the obvious fame and glory that would be mine):
I didn't spend enough time in front of my computer, or enough time thinking about baseball. Contributing to SFist has solved both those problems, and brought me obvious fame and glory.
You should read my SFist posts because
Sometimes they're funny. Also, when I attacked the Boston Red Sox, Boston fans and people from Boston, one of the Bostonist writers got my back in the comments.
Favorite website
www.dustygroove.com
Favorite local business
In alphabetical order: 826 Valencia, Camp Tawonga, the Oakland A's.
What I'm currently Reading
Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood.
Best Deal in San Francisco
Produce in the Mission
Favorite mode of transportation
flip-flops
Best Band or Musician to come out of the Bay Area
Sly Stone
Favorite local hangout
Dolores Park
SF has the BEST:
There's more to that sentence?
You've never lived in SF until:
You've walked more than a couple blocks out of your way to avoid walking up or down a hill.
Favorite Bay area politician of past or present:
Barbara Lee
You can tell someone is a local here IF:
S/he has a winter hoodie and a summer hoodie.
SF would be soooo much better if only:
there were more live jazz
Best Burrito:
Cancun
Best Restaurant:
LuLu
Best movie scene filmed in or about SF:
The funhouse mirrors scene in LADY FROM SHANGHAI
Favorite artist to come out of the bay area:
Ribity
Favorite author to come out of the bay area:
I think it's pronounced SHAY-bon
Place you always tell visitors to check out:
Alcatraz. They never go, though.
Favorite Bridge in the area:
Bay Bridge
You have two hours and $15 bucks to kill in SF, what are you going to do?
I would invest half of it in low-risk mutual funds, and then take the other half over to my friend Asadullah, who works in, uh, securities . . .
http://www.imdb.com/find?q=office%20space;tt=on;nm=on;mx=20
I have found/sold/bought the following on craigslist:
Found: my apartment, people to play music with, one job I didn't get and one I didn't take.
Bought: my turntables, tickets to stuff.
Sold: One kid sister.
I want all the SFists out there to know:
Fat and salt make food taste good.
Tell us a San Francisco Story:
This story does not take place in San Francisco, but events relevant to it do: On October 17, 1989, I started walking home from my best friend's house
(10 blocks or so; Google maps puts the distance at 0.7 miles but does not go out of its way to avoid walking up and down a hill) at around 5:30. I was supposed to be home at 5, I think, so I expected to get in a little bit of trouble. For being late. I did NOT expect to see my mother (who is from Michigan),driving around the neighborhood, freaking out, frantically looking for me, and I did NOT understand what the big damn deal was until I saw on TV that the Bay Bridge was broken. I did not get in trouble for being late.
Question you'd ask if you were doing this interview:
So . . . what can you DO with that degree?