SFist: PARK(ing) Day Map and Images

Brock Keeling

Sun, 21 Sep 2008 15:50:29 -0800

while billy joel might disagree, thefacts, PARK(iong) Day has to do what it does because of what your generation did in its day. but we heard someone playing "White Rabbit" at one park, so, you know...there's that.

Leanne

Sun, 21 Sep 2008 15:18:44 -0800

An anti-war rally in SF -- how novel!

thefacts

Sun, 21 Sep 2008 15:12:20 -0800

Gee, when I was young, we protested against the war, for social justice and fair wages. This is a joke, when people are getting killed in Iraq, a little anti-war rally might have been more socially redeeming.

feedthebirds

Sat, 20 Sep 2008 13:04:10 -0800

hey kristin go back to los angeles, you will not be missed.

Leanne

Sat, 20 Sep 2008 09:38:07 -0800

Well, as someone who was not an organizer of one these spots, I thought it was a lot of fun. There were a ton of spectators wandering around checking out all the spots and introducing themselves to each other. I met several new people in the hour that I hung out at my friend's spot.

bottombracket

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 23:25:37 -0800

These parks remind me of Critical Mass in the following respect: from the outside looking in, they appear pointless, absurd, and ridiculous. But from the inside looking out, they are lovely.

RobInSF

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:02:17 -0800

I am the ultimate non-conformist. I'm getting *INTO* investment banking.

sfdjhexhector

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:49:38 -0800

bunch of hippies

what

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:43:39 -0800

All I hear is, "Waaaaah I'm being deprived of my right to leave the office every hour to feed the meter."

oskarv

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:42:36 -0800

ARrrrrr! it's national">http://www.talklikeapirate.com/>national talk like a pirate day!

KatyG

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:34:22 -0800

Geez, and I thought I was the angry pro-car person around here....

Leanne

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:24:25 -0800

FYI, most of the parking spots are put together by employees of various companies, so therefore they're getting paid.

davitydave

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:20:00 -0800

@ KatyG: In a word, no.

oskarv

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:12:42 -0800

i guess i'm sympathetic to what they're trying to do. we definitely need more parks in downtown. i live in the TL, and we have a few extremely ghetto playgrounds, but nothing that resembles a real park. the closest thing to a park within a mile of my apartment is civic center plaza. =(

KatyG

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:59:56 -0800

Jesus, people - it's not like these spots are being taken over sans payment. Quarters go into the meters: does that make it any better?

kristinester

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:45:49 -0800

@wiyum I just moved here from LA and I had no idea this nonsense happened there too. First thing I thought was, "Taking up parking spaces with sod when parking is a pain in the ass? That would cause a riot back home." Either way. I still don't see the point in it. Damn Hippies.

wiyum

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:28:42 -0800

sfist park day entry is much more fun to read than laist park day entry. i miss sf.

oskarv

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:28:13 -0800

greggers: also: being a "non-conformist" is so common these days that being a traditional conformist is actually the new non-conformist!! you should try it out. always gotta be one step ahead of the conformists, you know!

oskarv

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:25:52 -0800

greggers: hahahaha. no need to get offended, greggers. if working for a living is conformity, i guess i am a conformist. i do work at a nonprofit though -- don't your type of people like that?? ;).......what a bunch of silly people living in my town these days.

RobInSF

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:21:10 -0800

Tomorrow Greggers has to mow the lawn and pull weeds. ; )

fizzandpop

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:11:57 -0800

Greggers: I hope your grammar was better in your play.

travin

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:09:46 -0800

Thank you greggers, for laying down some perspective that not everyone participates in the debt bridled consumerist slave society.

duke

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:52:25 -0800

According to the google map it looks like the old San Francisco and Pittsburgh cliché, wait what, THAT Pittsburgh?

greggers

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:38:47 -0800

Man, there are so many better things to do than work your life away. Where do we get our money? Are you kidding? What a bunch of boring, small minded conformists living in my town these days... How I got my money? I wrote a play. Today I'm laying sod on 5th Street. Tomorrow I'll do something else.

oskarv

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:59:59 -0800

hudu: seriously. i don't understand where all of these kids get their money.... scopa: the easiest solution would be not to drive at all.

fizzandpop

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:56:14 -0800

Today I parked my car on the grass in the middle of the polo fields.

scopa

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:47:42 -0800

Im waiting for a really radical idea... like turning a single car parking space INTO A TWO CAR PARKING SPACE. Rather than make parking EVEN MORE difficult, why not try to make it easier? /damn hippies

RobInSF

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:47:07 -0800

Maybe they have just solved the homeless problem too. Just throw a plastic tarp over them and lay down some sod. Add a wishing well, some bumpers and a windmill and the TL can become a miniature golf course! Fun for the WHOLE family. We can run a shuttle from Pier 39 on the hour.

izzyizzy

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:36:11 -0800

maybe i'm spoiled by living on the panhandle, but i'm feeling pretty good about the open space in my neighborhood. are we supposed to set up parks in the fd? if so, let do a twelve+ year, billions over budget project to run all the streets underground and turn the surface streets into parks. boston did it, it was so fun. except they forgot about the parks part.

hudu

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:32:44 -0800

Sometimes I think I'm the only person in this city with a job.

the_absentee

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:00:38 -0800

Are they getting paid for that? Because if that's how they spend their days, well, sign me up.

travin

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:55:22 -0800

Why not?

RobInSF

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:51:44 -0800

And they're covering a Honda in sod, why?