June 19, 2007
Day Around The Bay
--Here's today's mini-blotter: a family murder-suicide in Tilden Park; Man hit by a BART train at Balboa Park in the late morning today; a guy drove off the side of Mount Tam [Inside Bay Area, the EBX 92510, the Chron; CBS 5; Marin IJ].
--They're laying people off at the Merc News too? [SFBG Politics Blog].
--A blogger gets sued for defamation in small claims court by a journalist who didn't like, among other things, being called a douchebag. [The Daily Clog].
--A guy who collects toilets. [SJ Merc News].
--The SFZoo saved the bald eagle! [KTVU]
--Randy Shaw begs Matt Gonzalez to run for mayor. [Beyond Chron].
--Local tiki bars [Gridskipper].
--Wanna buy the last available island in the San Francisco Bay? [KTVU].
--And the picture to your right is of inbound Bay Bridge traffic, from the One Rincon Plaza construction site. You gotta check out the rest of these shots! [Telstar Logistics; Telstar Logistics' Flickr set].
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about the blogger suit. I thought that Lee kaplan sounded a little familiar. Sfweekly did a good article on him last year >>
http://www.sfweekly.com/2006-08-09/news/disturbing-the-peace/
looks like there's a whole world of Kaplan out there
If the google ads I saw today are to be believed SOMEONE wants matt to run!
Sure the vistas from 1 Rincon are great, but the views from the outside in suck. The building itself is plain ugly. Where was creativity in its design?
The building blocks views of the west tower of the bay bridge when you are looking from parts of twin peaks. Didn't anyone in the planning department give a shit about that before they approved the plans? What a stupid question.
I'd hate to be in it [especially in the top parts] during a quake or fire, or even a power failure. Rent the 80s film "The Towering Inferno" which is about the tallest building in the world which is in SF and burns in a fire that cooks lotsa people in horrifying ways. It's a must see for all potential 1 Rincon condo buyers.
I'm sure that the Osama crazie krews will be keeping their eyes on the building too.