San Francisco is Weird

I know, I know…it’s been over a year since I’ve posted. What do I have to say for myself? Well, I wish it was just that life got busy or that the obligation of keeping up a blog was just �...

https://adamahata.wordpress.com/2010/10/24/im-back/

If you subscribe to the theory that a city’s coolness is directly proportional to the sheer variety of vehicular transportation options, then San Francisco is the baddest town of them all! In a...

https://adamahata.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/we-got-a-mutha-fking-blimp-yo/

Everyone from New York knows where oysters come from: Blue Ribbon, Jacks Oyster Bar, Aqua Grill or one of another dozen-or-so delicious (and well lit) Manhattan restaurants. Imagine my surprise t...

https://adamahata.wordpress.com/2009/10/07/aw-shucks/

OK, I’ll occasionally talk about the fog here in San Francisco, but you’re probably wondering is it really foggy…is it really foggy today? To address the nagging question that’s on everyo...

https://adamahata.wordpress.com/2009/09/24/introducing-sfiw-fog-view/

Bisecting the (relatively) busy Northeast corner of San Francisco is one of the oddest streets in the world. While its turn-of-the-century name evokes an quaint, commerce-oriented, crafty vibe �...

https://adamahata.wordpress.com/2009/09/03/it-aint-sesame-street/

Coinciding with the hottest day of the year decade um, ever, Outside Lands rolled back into San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park today for a long weekend of music, tie-dye shirts, fancy sponsor ins...

https://adamahata.wordpress.com/2009/08/28/outsized-lands/

Similar to the international celebrity status of New York’s Brooklyn Bridge, San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge gets all the press around here. And while the famous red bridge is certainly go...

https://adamahata.wordpress.com/2009/08/14/bridge-to-nowhere/

While most of the civilized world may have abandoned streetcars about 100 years ago, trolleys are still proudly clanking away on the roadways of Ye Olde San Francisco! Sure there are plenty of ot...

https://adamahata.wordpress.com/2009/08/12/give-me-your-tired-your-poor-your-streetcars/

Every foreign village has it’s own strange and incomprehensible customs, and San Francisco is no exception. One of the oddest, and most troubling for visiting New Yorkers are the rituals surrou...

https://adamahata.wordpress.com/2009/08/11/dont-cross-innapropriately/

Berkeley’s Shotgun Players dares you to cross the impossibly long Bay Bridge and navigate through a maze of windy streets until you randomly stumble upon North Berkeley’s John Hinkel Park. If...

https://adamahata.wordpress.com/2009/08/07/bad-little-piggies/