Third anniversary of the Iraq invasion – Answer Coalition protests in cities across the country.
In San Francisco:
WHERE: Civic Center, at Grove and Larkin Streets (near Civic Center BART)
WHEN: Saturday, March 18, Gather at 11 a.m.
Click Here For: March 18 San Francisco flyer
To get involved, call 415-821-6545, email sf@internationalanswer.org, or go to http://www.actionsf.org/. Weekly Organizers Meetings every Tuesday at 7 pm, 2489 Mission St., #24.
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So I spent a good portion of this evening on MySpace. I added a few of my friends, and then kept looking around and found a bunch of other people that I know, and friends of friends, and old friends and people from other times and places in my life.
I haven’t had a chance to listen to this yet, but I noticed that KQED did an hour about MySpace on March 3rd.
Update: The Forum segment was focused on how kids use MySpace and what parents need to know about it. Not my area of interest, but it was a good discussion that hit on some important topics.
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I have not written much about politics here. I think that there are other people out there who are actually in politics, or cover the subject professionally, that are much better equipped to comment on such things in a methodical and effective manner. I’m glad they are doing so.
As for me, I believe the intentions of the Bush administration are misguided, and their resulting policies are failures. I believe the executive branch is not exempt from common sense and, much more importantly, from the law. I believe it is wrong for the goverment to lie, invade and occupy under false pretenses and profit from doing so, torture, kill, leave citizens affected by natural disasters to die, engage in illegal wiretapping on citizens, spend the peoples’ tax dollars irresponsibly and enact policies based on greed, intolerance, moral policing and hypocrisy.
I really think it’s time for people to stand up and say enough is enough and we’re done with this now. Especially those of us that don’t normally do so.
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I’d like to see if I can develop a better voice for this blog.
Lately I have been underwhelmed by the writing that I have been doing here. Don’t get me wrong, I really am a fan of exploring San Francisco Parks, but I’d like this to be more.
If you read back far enough you’ll find some major time gaps and a lack of theme that goes back several years. The entries prior to 2006 were lifted from the journals and blogs I kept before this one; the deeply personal items did not make it to this public space.
On this site it’s a challenge for me to balance sharing too much about my day to day life versus writing in a way that shares virtually nothing of my real feelings and opinions. I tend to do the latter, which ends up being rather lifeless.
I would like to achieve a better balance.
Very few folks read here at the moment, but if anyone has comments, I’d love to hear them.
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This is one of those “I’ve lived in San Francisco for years and I can’t believe I’ve never been here before” places: Buena Vista Park. The Haight is just north of this hilltop park, and the Castro is to the southeast on the other side of the R Museum. The N-Judah runs underneath it in one of San Francisco’s transit tunnels. The park is really astoundingly scenic, with huge full-grown trees from decades of Arbor Day plantings. The views of The City are framed by those trees; the top of the Golden Gate Bridge can be seen Northward and Point Bonita is visible past the Richmond District.
I went up there for the first time a couple weeks ago on one of my “urban wander-walking” excursions; I hiked through again this morning with a friend to excercise, get another look and take some pictures. It’s a dog-friendly park and a lot of them were out and about this morning — what fun.
As usual, I went online for some more information. Buena Vista Park was created in 1867 — originally called Hill Park — which makes it the oldest park in San Francisco. This is less of a neighborhood park, and much more of a landscape design showcase, if I may use such a term. The Neighborhood Parks Council has much more historical information on their site.
As for me, I really recommend checking it out.
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