It’s 7 a.m, 51° and headed to 63°. Details for the next ten days are here. It seems like we may be heading into rain by Tuesday – always a good excuse to listen to Mission in the Rain.
SF Eater reported that Elixir and Etcetera Wine Bar celebrated anniversaries on Saturday night – 10 years for Elixir and two for Etcetera. If you missed Elixir’s Saturday barbecue with 4505 Meat, you can enjoy today’s Hangover Brunch from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Happy belated birthday to both.
Here is something on Grist from Heather Smith, a former reporter for Mission Local, who takes on a NYT Oped that calls on bikers to obey laws and drivers to remember that they can kill. Smith, who biked the streets of San Francisco for years, has a better idea:
Trying to make our streets safer by telling drivers to be better to cyclists, and by telling cyclists to try to look more responsible to drivers, is a pleasant notion. But, as pretty much all of human history points out, it’s not easy to get everybody to stop being a jerk.
Which is why, in times like these, it’s important to turn away from platitudes and towards the imperfect but nonetheless occasionally effective jerk management system that our ancestors have passed down to us: government. Specifically, the time has come to figure out how to take away the driver’s licenses of those people who are found unequivocally at fault for killing or injuring cyclists and pedestrians.
Ah Heather, we miss you.
Save the date: The writer Daniel Alarcón, whose new book, At Night We Walk in Circles is getting a lot of attention, will be at the Mission branch of the San Francisco Public Library on Wednesday, December 11.
Enjoy the day!