SFist_Jonathan

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• Commented on Vice at the <i>Chron</i>
  One never has the last word in a debate about words, but once again we refer to Merriam-Webster: Etymology (noun): the history of a linguistic form (as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in...
• Posted Vice at the <i>Chron</i> to SFist
  In a relatively affordable act of civic duty and nostalgia, we've just subscribed to the print edition of the San Francisco Chronicle, "The Voice of the West." Our first day's paper arrived this morning, and what a thrill it was to put on our slippers and go down to the sidewalk to fetch it, just like we've seen people do in the movies. Of course, we turned right to the serious stuff: "Obama's Gamble...
• Posted Valencia Street: You Have Nothing to Lose But Your Chains to SFist
  We were happy to find a photo of ourselves -- or is it "ourself"? -- on Flickr the day after we went down to Ritual Roasters to type a letter registering our disapproval of chain stores on Valencia Street. The photographer, Timoni Grone, duly noted the irony: a man in the picture is wearing American Apparel, but the people are typing letters against American Apparel! In fact, we ourself was wearing an item from...
• Posted Blogs in Print? Taking Trivia to the Streets to SFist
  Will SFist and other blog content soon be available in print form at a newspaper box near you? According to a story in yesterday's New York Times, a fella in Chicago is going to bring the blogosphere to newsprint, starting in the Windy City and right here in San Francisco. The project, The Printed Blog, hits the streets on Tuesday. Blogosphereans that we are, we do occasionally glance at our soon-to-be neighbors on the...
• Posted Something Happened... But What? to SFist
  20th & Mission When we see five police cars, half a block cordoned off by crime scene tape, and a bicycle laying in the street, we think, "this can't be good." Photo snapped at 20th & Mission at about 7:30 last night, just a few feet from where Armando Estrada was gunned down in July. About an hour earlier, gunshots were heard in the area -- the legendary "epicenter of crime" -- about an...