Bubbles on Castro Street.
Jamison Wieser
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San Francisco, CA
In the before time, the long long ago, San Francisco's Castro District was a thriving, safe, queer-friendly neighborhood know around the world as gay mecca.
I made the mistake of being on Castro Street last week when two homeless men got into a fight.
I hear them arguing, but didn't pay any attention until one of the men attacked the other with a bar stool. After wrestling each other to the ground the second man drew a SWORD from his bucket.
Thankfully, the manager of 440 Castro talked them down from any further violence while I hid inside until @sfpdmission officers showed up 15-20 minutes later.
Just the other day I discovered the mentally ill homeless man who threatened me with a machete two years ago is still around too.
It might not be immediately obvious why this is offensive, but taking my dog for his morning walk the other day, I discovered this anti-trans sticker on a traffic signal pole on my black, on San Francisco's main boulevard, where Market Street runs through the city's famously-gay Castro District.
Gender identity – and sexual orientation while we're at it – is a lot more complicated than a binary reproductive systems and innate need to continue our species and our genetic line.
If there is anywhere in the world you are welcome, you are not alone, you have a community, being queer is pretty awesome, and you should be free of this bullshit, it's San Francisco.
"Nobody gets beyond a petrolium economy. Not while there's Petroleum there" – Dan Simmons, Hyperion.
Not this soggy copy someone left out in the rain, but the Hyperion Cantos is a great science fiction novel series.
I realize now that by making it my job to prevent wildfires, Smokey has been deflecting from the need for better wildfire prevention from both government agencies like the US Forest Service, and private utilities like PG&E.
Named for renowned architect Daniel Burnham, the condominium that was built at Daniel Burnham Court seems like an insult.
The closing credits for the new season of Star Trek: Picard has the best closing credits ever: a montage of LCARS user interface glamour shots.
When Star Trek: The Next Generation premiered in 1987, the new futuristic Enterprise's Library Computer Access and Retrieval System (LCARS) and Personal Access Display Device (PADD) was far beyond the text-based operating systems, early windowing interfaces, and CRT monitors of the time.