...that'll be the day I crack that nice bottle of Champagne I've been saving. Or at least, the level of entitlement in the atmosphere will drop a good bit. First, Mr. Latte's leafblower article in the NYer, where one is hard pressed to decide to pray for a pack of syphilitic mountain lions to carry off the folks who pay Mexicans to run leafblowers multiple times a week, in order to keep their lawns in a state of AVN award-winning smoothness, or some sort of lava event for the people who are unhinged by the noises their neighbors make.
And now this -- the good people of San Francisco have banded together to stop an organic coffee truck from opening in Dolores Park. Through grassroots tactics like threats and intimidation. Against a local business, Blue Bottle Coffee, that happens to make really good coffee. This is the most impressive display of entitled community activism since the good people of Cambridgeport banded together to stop... an art museum. I'd been too busy toasting the annual disappearance of Yankee caps to consider which of the two disagreeable teams in the World Series I would vaguely root for. But I have an answer. Go Rangers, creepy prayer meetings or no. Fuck San Francisco. In the eye.
I have to disagree with The Cod on the leafblower issue. We are surrounded by them. One on each side and several across the street. The chain saw comes in first, but it, at least, serves a useful purpose. The leafblower is without a doubt the noisiest internal combustion engine that serves no purpose. You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.
Posted by: Marco | Monday, 25 October 2010 at 02:07 PM
I, too, am anti-leafblower. But I cannot see making banning leafblowers in my town the consuming passion of my life.
Posted by: The Gurgling Cod | Monday, 25 October 2010 at 03:11 PM
It's only a consuming passion when they are in the on position. Other than that they can stay where they stay forever in the off position. When we moved to quiet small town America Delmar, there was no such noise engine. People have to have that newest noise-generating device. All they have to do is put good fucking mufflers on the fucking twerpy things. The upside is that I get to turn up the volume on the audio without impunity.
Posted by: Marco | Monday, 25 October 2010 at 09:11 PM
I do agree with you about the coffee truck in the Mission though and other uniquely Cailifornian quibbles.
Posted by: Marco | Wednesday, 27 October 2010 at 03:27 PM
In case The Cod missed this:http://tiny.cc/z6f52
Posted by: Marco | Tuesday, 09 November 2010 at 09:02 AM