We want a dog so bad we've taken to following strangers in the street in the hope that they'll stop at the “don’t walk sign” and let us pet Fido. One may wonder why we haven't run to the shelter to adopt one yet. The official reason we give the weary stranger towering over us while we crouch down to scratch his pit bull’s head is that our landlord doesn't allow pets. But truth be told, our common sense buckles at the idea of having to walk a hyperactive mutt called Schnitzel at 4AM when we just barely managed to crawl back home from the Orbit Room. Fortunately there is a heaven for lazy dog lovers and it is called Alamo Square. ...

Oh, the farmer and the merchant should be friends, the farmer and the merchant should be friends -- one man likes to push a plow the other one likes to shop -- and how! but that's no reason why they can't be friends. You'll have to go that much longer without accessible fresh fruits and vegetables in the Marina, now that the merchants of Scott Street have successfully blocked a Tuesdays' farmers market from setting up stands on their street. (There's a longer article about this in today's Examiner, but it's not online yet for some reason). All but four business and three tenants on Scott Street signed a petition against reopening the Marina Farmers' Market, claiming that all those bright, fresh-tasting leafy greens and tart apples interfered with parking and cut into their Tuesday profits. McGoldrick and Ma killed the request at the City Ops and Neighborhood Services meeting yesterday, and proposed to move the market to the Marina Middle School on Saturdays instead, to which (other) merchants complained that the same tomatoes and sugar snap peas would drive traffic away from Chestnut and onto Fillmore instead. The request is up for a full vote at today's Board of Supes meeting. Marina-ite folks should stick together -- Scott Street vendors should all be pals! Pluto's should dance with the farmers' daughters, farmers dance with the trendy bath products vendors' gals! Picture from the SF Center for Urban Education for Sustainable Agriculture...