CAFE LA BOHEME 6 A.M. Good Morning Mission District! 53° Fahrenheit and clear, though overcast. Supposedly, this is the way it’s going to be all day.
The $20 Anecdote
Missionloc@l received word that Skoda Man Press is seeking personal anecdotes that “capture the spirit of the Mission.” The best twenty will receive twenty bucks from Skoda Man and your story will appear in a Comic Book Guide to the Mission. Is this for real? If interested, Find out by contacting skodamanpress@gmail.com. Anecdotes are due March 20. Good luck.
The Mud Thickens around Dolores Park
Last week, we noted the March 3rd community meeting on the Dolores Park renovation process and “to answer your questions.” Today we hear from Kevin Montgomery at Uptown Almanac has heard that Rec and Park has hired a public relations firm “to coordinate community meetings, synthesize public input, and ‘reach a general consensus’ with ‘vocal community members’ surrounding the Dolores Park renovations and other park improvements.” The smell of impending boondoggle is bad enough, but hiring a PR agency when you’re laying off 71 more workers?
Broad Coalition to Oppose Fare Increases and Service Cuts
SF Streetsblog sez many of the groups that got together to form the Transit not Traffic Coalition in 2007 will attend the MUNI showdown tomorrow with a plan to spare fare increases and service cuts by charging city workers for parking and extending parking meter hours. The Youth Commission, with SF youth packed into the Supes’ Chamber on Tuesday, also supports the meter extensions, including Sundays.
War Memorial at War Memorial
This past Tuesday, the American Friends Service Committee organized a vigil in front on the War Memorial to mark the death of the 1000th American since the war in Afghanistan began nine years ago. And this is for . . . ? Antiwar.com offers another explanation for the Marjah attack. Surely General McChrystal intends handsome compensation for Marjah residents for their performance in the Pentagon’s blockbuster infomercial.
Theater of the Absurd
No tv in La Boheme (Glenna’s much more interested in the soccer anyway), so gotta split and find one before the curtain goes up on the big DC healthcare show (also have to sharpen my critical faculties with a breakfast sandwich from Rosamunde). Conventional wisdom sez this will be a career definer for Nancy Pelosi, House speaker and the Mission’s putative “representative.”
She made her reputation raising money and now that it’s time for the most important health care legislation in a generation, and she’s in the spotlight. Congressional Dems and the White House have been very disappointing in terms of health care policy, so don’t expect big surprises. The real question: will it make good theater? Stay tuned.