Thinking of you East Coast, and everyone in the NY/NJ regions ♥
🙁 “The New York City subway system is 108 years old, but it has never faced a disaster as devastating as what we experienced last night.’ -via alert.mta.info
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[All photos © Metropolitan Transportation Authority of the State of New York / via the MTA Flickr stream.] Each photo links to its source, location/stop in NY +artwork information.
My fave, the Oakland A’s had an amazing season, and have won the AL West back to back. The loudest standing ovation happened during their last game of the playoff series vs the Detroit Tigers in the post season, once again.
Then the San Francisco Giants went on to win 2012 World series, sweeping Detroit – congrats!
What a great year for baseball! Til next year.
/photo by Oakland’s Facebook
/on Divisadero.
Hillary Clinton
October 26, 1947 (age 64) born Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton in Chicago, IL
67th United States Secretary of State.
Texts From Hillary had a short 1-week life, but it is hilarious. Missing it, would be awesome pre-elections.
Goodwill’s Bike-oween
This year’s theme is bike-oween. Not sure if that has been a previous promotion on windows at Goodwills, but the DIY+wallet-friendly is the way to go.
The one located on Van Ness +Mission is in full bike-mode. These bike-oween window ads have been up for a few days, I hadn’t been off the bus to snap some fotos, but had the chance today:
Calacas are ready for their Critical Mass halloween ride tonight.
This is also a Goodwill, on Fillmore+Post:
7×7
On the flip-side, this local magazine’s blog has some links to buy new stuff ranging from h+m to jcrew. I have never been to an h+m and that’s OK. I think the little custome-collage post they did was pretty cute: Look of the Week: Pee-wee Herman Halloween Costume for Him and Her
For the Castro-banned halloween party generations, 7×7 also has some event-guide post with some local festivities: Where to Dress Up, Party, and Get Down This Halloween
SF fun cheap is the ultimate guide to everything, fun and cheap.
This Saturday there is SF’s local brewery Speakeasy’s 2012 Haunted Halloween Party in the Bayview, Michael Jackson thriller zombie dance-off in Oakland,
Critical Mass
Halloween is one of the best masses of the year as you get to see everyone and their alter ego out +about. Well, that could actually be year-round because it is San Francisco after all 🙂
Meets every last-Friday, 530PM on @Justin Herman Plaza.
sfcriticalmass.org/
The Friday/Critical Mass in 2009 was super fun 🙂
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Gimme a pumpkin
The last week in October is pumpin-flavored.
Halloween-theme events, sportsfans and locals are in good spirits.
Weather has been extremely nice with a bit of rain, some crazy beautiful skies lately. I have been walking a lot and something there is almost a secret sidewalk language about decorated pumpkins. They are kind of funny.
Half Moon Bay Pumpin Festival 2012
This world-famous festival is super fun. I was so happy my GF Muffin and I got to attend this year, the weather was fantastic. My favorite part of it was the pumpkin-flavored beer. Sounds weird but it wasn’t as sweet as I had initially imagined, which is good for a sunny day in the mid-70s°F. Mid-October, yes that sun felt great for once. It is California after all..
Proud adult moments. Tasted the Harvest Moon pumpkin ale, pretty good.
Pumpkin bread +pie. Ate them both like a chammp (not the same day though..)
Familiar faces.
**The pumpkin patches (their decorations are beyond cute) between the west end of Highway 92 +Half Moon Bay are pretty awesome, we didn’t stop but we are tempted to go back before October ends.
I have found the official Half Moon Bay pumpkin patch map! Here: Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Patches and Local Area Farms
