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Seeing as how the American Apparel-on-Valencia Street nonsense has captivated many San Franciscans -- look no further than the hair-pulling going on in SFist's comments to see the popularity of this strange story -- we (along with photog Steve Rhodes) were surprised to see that the Chronicle has yet to cover the story, online or in print. Even though 'Politics Blog' scribe Carla Marinucci said of yesterday's meeting, "This may be it: the recession-era equivalent of the 'dog bites man'' story. And look for the city's planning commission meeting Thursday, where this is on tap, to be a fun one." Wonder why the Chon hasn't covered it? Us too. We'll let you know as soon as they get back to us.
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that photo makes me cringe. who in their right mind would willingly wear baby blue tighties?
obviously someone with a big set of balls.
i'm wearing jewel blue tighties today. not to gross anybody out or anything...
Perhaps I need to shop for tighties. Don't have any at the moment but you never know when you might need them.
I wonder where I might find such things? Within easy walking distance of the Panhandle? Hmmm.....
Union square or cow hollow. Then you can go eat at Nopa and high-five your bros at Solstice
can picture the impassioned speeches at the anti-aa rally.
"Good news -- Macy's West closed and laid off all 1,700 people. Good riddiance working people! Gap -- you are next -- move to LA already will ya? We don't want you "formula businesses" no more.
What? Please hold. Oh, no tax base? Woops. "
12,000 jobs were lost in San Francisco in DECEMBER. And people actually care about this? Idiots.
> Street nonsense has captivated man a San Franciscan --
grammar police checking in :
while many men ARE captivated. I think you are missing a vowel. (y's are sometimes vowels)
ps I like baby blue tighties!
thank you brock!
I'd venture to guess that 60% of San Franciscans have no idea what "American Apparel" is. Hell, I bet 30% don't know what "Valencia" is.
Of course, they have managed to mention Twitter.
Don't tell Randy Shaw!!! He'll have a field day with this!
matier and ross ran a thing about it a few days ago in their column. they groaned about the supposedly copious amount of empty storefronts on valencia and quoted some american apparel guy as saying that the opposition wanted them to "go back to la with [their] immigrant workfoce." really on the level, those american apparel folks.
> really on the level, those american apparel folks.
Yes, only if they had the reasoned approach of the typewriter crowd who espoused that one American Apparel outlet was akin to a dam breaking and washing away all that is sacred about the Valencia Corridor, leaving drowned, evicted, and beaten small-business/artisans in its wake.
wow, that is a really good point!
here i'll make one too:
twee hipster typewriter artisan twee hipster typewriter artisan
I much preferred my run-on sentence to your burst of alliteration...however if we were playing Scrabble, I'd have taken your t-fest in a heartbeat.
Alas, we are not. So HA!
I win.
That's interesting considering one of the AA reps on MM played the whole ruckus off like they had no idea folks were so upset, inferring that was the reason they hadn't properly addressed the community, and expected their clothing donations to the community would have been better received.
On the "NO CHAINS" front I just received this tweet...
ritual coffee coming to 4th and king.
Maybe because they realize that the whole affair is an idiotic extravaganza of political masturbation? Way to tackle the big issues, Chicken John!
Why is any new business being alowed in San Francisco?
> Why is any new business being alowed in San Francisco?
Budget impasse. Not enough public-assistance checks.
Presumably, they think the story is too small to notice. I gave up on the Chron for local news a long, long time ago. They just don't report much of it.
Check the weeklies after a while -- some snarky piece is bound to show up sometime.