The higher-ups tell me that it might be good if this blog saw a little more action, so as your intrepid editor, I will try to post some comments or links here as often as possible; I'm aiming for once a day.

A little bit about me: My name is Allie, and I live in San Francisco (Potrero Hill, to be specific). When I'm not seeing to the open bar needs of our fair city, I'm collecting slightly garnished unemployment checks from my previous job as a manager for a disreputable Internet retail site, which laid me off late last year. In other words, I'm my own best customer. Like the work you see here? Send me an e-mail.

Today's news of note: They've found a pink dolphin in a lake in Louisiana. Okay, it's actually an albino, but close enough. You know, I always thought that Lisa Frank just took too much LSD, but maybe she was actually having visions of the future. My inner nine-year-old girl is squealing and drooling all over her Trapper Keeper right now.

The family of Oscar Grant, the Oakland man shot by a BART cop, also announced today that they're going to sue BART for $50 million. They may well be justified, but combined with economy-increased ridership and economy-decreased funding, there's probably some ritual purging and self-flagellation going on over at BART HQ. Maybe someone should get the creepy train-announcing voices to talk them down, HAL 9000-style. posted by allie

The press is concerning itself with hipster hypocrisies:

Seven Hipster Fashions We Love to Hate posted by ---- Ed ----

Hipsters have been getting a lot of criticism lately. Why all the hate you ask?
Well:

"We've reached a point in our civilization where counterculture has mutated into a self-obsessed aesthetic vacuum. So while hipsterdom is the end product of all prior countercultures, it's been stripped of its subversion and originality, and is leaving a generation pointlessly obsessing over fashion, faux individuality, cultural capital and the commodities of style."

So says the new AdBusters.


"The avant-garde illusion ultimately sustains itself on free beer." So says Time Out New York. We can attest to that. posted by ---- Ed ----

These Pen-tailed Tree Shrews drink palm beer nightly. posted by ---- Ed ----

SF Weekly photographer and Myopenbar contributor Gretchen Robinette went to the Bicycle Film Fest block party on Saturday to take pictures. What follows is her account of the day:





So i put a bunch up on flickr:
www.flickr.com/photos/gretchenrobinette/


I gotta tell you the story about Saturday.

So I've noticed at almost every Sparks sponsored event I've attended, at some point mouths or fists will go flying before last call, and usually for an epically dumb reason. And I can always blame my own drunken blackout on the free hyphy juice I half drank at 3pm on 17th and Capp St where the bicycle block orgy started. For a couple hours after I popped my first can, I loaded up on free barbeque placed conveniently next to the bike ramps, dudes did tricks and everyone was stoked to have a real summer sunshine day.
Then the cops kicked everyone out because no one had a permit to block Capp Street off with free Sparks and four slopped together ramps, threatening to take all 5 million bikes away from the crowd. So dude with megaphone announced the event was being moved to Portrero del Sol Park, encouraging hundreds of bicycles to flood the new skate park.
This apparently led to a standoff between the skaters and bikers, I'm imagining much like an after school brawl. The skaters immediately defended their territory by drunkenly swinging their boards at the bike invaders until they were run off yet again. I took a few pictures of the skateboarders glowing at their reclaimed spot, then decided to cash in on a few too many free drink tokens at Pop's.
It wasn't that hard to get shamelessly hammered in San Francisco without spending a dime, as I had planned. But I eventually tried to see The Breakfast Club showing at 8pm in Dolores Park. I tried as far as I remember, but thats another story. I could only manage to take one picture at the park of the movie screen showing before passing out in a muddy plot of grass, only to be woken up with some nice guy offering me a hoodie, bag of chips, and another beer. I ate the chips, had a couple bike crashes, and woke up at home with 10 unexplainable bruises.

Well, you can use this info to make fun of me in your article if you wish, but just in case you decide to actually quote me, i had to edit out some parts for privacy reasons. So thats about it. If you have any questions, don't hesitate. posted by ---- Ed ----

London's The Guardian (Not SF's) reports that studies have concluded that the louder the music in a bar, the more drinks people buy. posted by ---- Ed ----

These people meticulously mapped the SF chase scene from Bullitt. Marina to McClaren Park in one second flat. posted by ---- Ed ----

Everyone knows that neat-freak roommates are a drag. But your suspicions about their insanity may well have been legit.

It was discovered this week that lab rats are more likely to cannibalize their young if their cages are cleaned frequently. The slovenly rats are, it seems, more mellow. posted by ---- Ed ----

"Silicon Valley is experimenting with bacteria that have been genetically altered to provide 'renewable petroleum'" posted by ---- Ed ----

East Bay Comcast reviews on Yelp. Harsh. posted by ---- Ed ----

We love the dismounts... and getting kicked out of Gestalt Haus. posted by ---- Ed ----

I found my house, my roommates, 3 bikes, 4 jobs, and my cat on Craigslist. I sold my car, my furniture, my synthesizer, 3 bikes, and various household junk on Craigslist. I love Craigslist. Every experience I've had with EBay sucked from getting broken shit delivered, to having no shit delivered. AND EBay tries to get money from you. I have a bias for free. A bias for Craigslist.

Now the folks at EBay, who bought about 29% of CL making them minority shareholders, are suing Craigslist for some bullshit about "diluting shareholder value." Craigslist accuses them of plotting a hostile takeover which I totally believe. Go Craigslist! posted by ---- Ed ----

London's venerable newspaper The Guardian listed the top ten things to do for free when vacationing to NYC. Look who popped up in the #1 spot. posted by ---- Ed ----

It's everywhere now, that word: freegan. Who thought of this? It's the stupidest idea I've ever heard.

So now it's on. Myopenbar is officially looking for a straight-edge kid who only gets plastered when it's free. And for that one kid, we are Mephistopholes. posted by ---- Ed ----

We shit you not. This is a real headline. posted by ---- Ed ----