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Let’s party in the TL and Bernal Heights.

January 4, 2011 3 Comments

Tuesday is the new party animal.
To close this party posting saga, here is your addictive dose of murals y Frenchie love ala mucho color as always. ♥m

LET'S PARTEEEEEE
For Heist Gallery on Geary
mural times in Frechie high
Mural times in Frechie heights
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Bikes, beer, basket y basketball

January 3, 2011 4 Comments

I am very thankful that I didn’t get sick at all in 2010, asides the allergy cases and hangovers,
I did pretty good. Started this first week pretty mellow, bici bike basket was loaded with
yummy eats and since I was a rainy first weekend of the new year, took it real easy.
Got lots of energy, chismes, events and posts and photos to share, naturally at its own pace.
You know EZ baby.

On another note, this weekend I enjoyed watching a phenomenal game when a PAC10 team CRUSHED the #1 team
that hadn’t lost in 90 games. Stanford *ENDS* UConn’s winning streak.
OhEmGee.
I cant wait for March Madness for both men+women’s teams.
I’m not a huge fan of Stanford, but they have flawless defense.
Cardinal cut into UConn’s invincibility via espn
Don’t get me started about basketball. That is all for now.

♥Okay, ride on.

Bike beer basket y bag of nonnoms
Can you guess the solar-powered beer? =)
2/365
oh HAI. IM IN YER WINDOWZ. STEEELIN YER REFLECTIONZ
nononmnomn
Bike fuel in progress.
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Events+moments del 2010: December craft fairs – the holiday Renegade fair

January 3, 2011 4 Comments

There are some photos and events I didn’t get to publish last year, I will post them in the next few weeks of the new year so, some kind of quasi-review of 2010.

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renegade frenchie
The obligatory banner-Frenchie shot. I now have a gazillion of these.

The Holiday Renegade fair was fun and as always full of cute overloads. My camera was almost dying so I got to snap some photos. I got to hang out with my handsome Hambone Design peeps at first, then wandered around to see what new shops and findings I encountered.

semi-wet rain panda
Rain panda
On my way there, it had just stopped raining.
always someone admiring the mural
There is always someone admiring that fun mural
concourse needs racks

A serious issue here is the bike parking situation. Racks, lack thereof. I recall using the front one for a couple of events (by the 8th street entrance) and for the rest such as the Green festival, I recall having the Bike parking valet SFBC service. Are there not enough events here to have a sufficient amount of bike racks, did I totally missed them, or does the management of the concourse not know/nor maybe has not decided to get in touch with 311 (Link: Request a bike rack!) to get those racks installed? Seeing how easy would be to cut some of the cables of beautiful bikes attached to fences or very weak hand rails, brakes my bike heart to even think that thieves thrive for these situations. Us bikers are a crafty bunch, there was an invasion of bikes creativly parked all around 7th/8th Brannan. I parked at the corner of Room and Board, closer to Townsend.
What is going on here concourse, allow more bike racks!!
Moving along –

 fabriquettes
The ladies of Fabric Horse, from Philly. How AWESOME is that fluorescent handbag?! 
I’m in love. But I also know I dont need another bag…. la lalalalalala.
hip bike posters
hip bike posters, cool cats from ELAY. and I don’t know what the ginger discount is all about.
jersey maker from san diego
Skulls and other cool women-line jerseys, made by a woman based out ofSan Diego, Calif.
tom girl shop
Tom girl shop. Isn’t she adorable?! she is super nice =)
I also loved the guys that had the gigantic octopus helmet-pillow thing, does anyone know the name of that shop. 

They were so funny.

 Later in the evening, I met an enthusiastic young man and his camera, and he so nicely asked if he could take my photo (Thank you!! It gets on my nerves when I catch people I don’t even know trying to be sneaky, well – I also snap a million photos of people, but you know what I mean those lurker types…not cool). I said yeah of course. He told me I was the most eccentric gal in the building. Mmmh ok, if he thinks so. LOL

yo, at the Renegade fair.
Photo taken by Deo | Credit(C)Deowaves

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Til next time Renegadettes!!

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With love from San Pancho: merry xmas, happy holidays +happy new year 2011!

December 21, 2010 23 Comments
With love from San Pancho: Happy Holidays
mine
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With love from San Francisco, wishing you all happy holidays and a peaceful, relaxing, 
and big wild party to celebrate the end of year and receive a brand new sunrise in 2011.
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frenchie. and you are there
Frenchie, and you are there. — BART
ginger dose
Hot ginger dose — Outdoor sitting at Outerlands
bart parking
BART parking — Passing by parked bikes at the 24th and Mission BART station.
jump
Jump — Crunchie sidewalk, somewhere in North Beach
holiday spirit night riders
Blinkies — Butterlap pit stop in the Presidio
sweet ride
Sweet ride. — Chatting with a fellow randonneur, outside Trouble Coffee in Outer sunset.
red bow white ride
Red bow white ride — Outside Orphan Andy’s in the Castro
greetings from foglandia
Greetings from foglandia, from a quiet Golden Gate Bridge sunset fog view
Chillaxing +drinking lots of coffee and, maybe will give it a try at skating that ice rink at Union Square or Embarcadero (!!)
I’ll be back to the blogesphere after the Holidays, in January. Thanx for reading, as always. Mucho love.
– – – –
’til next year!
♥xo.meli
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Photo del día: winter dreaming

December 16, 2010 5 Comments
winter dreams
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Special announcement: posters are now for sale!!

December 11, 2010 4 Comments

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Buy my posters.
Make everyone’s holiday gifts more colourful =)
♥xxo.meli

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The Holiday season is here

December 7, 2010 7 Comments
los cupids
Cupid santas

Above: Super duo at this year’s Supermarket Streetsweet. If they look familiar, you have probably seen them on their tandem around town. If you were a reader of my now retired column in Momentum What to Wear, Joel y Cecilia were featured and printed in the April issue  [link here]. Very cool!

lights are halfway done
Lights were halfway done. I haven’t been to Union Square since, but I might ride by one of these evenings or early-early mornings.
Speaking of santas, I ran into a few of the ones in this year’s Santacon this past Saturday
while participating for the Supermarket Streetsweep. Here are a few shots.
crossing santas
crossing santas
ucla santas
ucla santas
noel noble
noel noble
drunkette santas
drunkette santas
These santas were all over downtown, civic center and the tenderloin.
Was a sea of red and the smell of stale budwesier everywere.
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I have spotted some cute bike chicas around town already with the spirit full on.
cristina
Meet Cristina, I met her last Friday – she is a star!
lights at the statues
and la Calitexican has her bling going on
20061222 bicycle-menorah-8th-night
I also liked this bicycle-menorah found this picture above from 2006
by my photo-buddy Jym Dyer, titled: “20061222 bicycle-menorah-8th-nigh”
Nothing better to kick off Decemeber, than with books, babes and beer — my ultimate favorite beverage of the year
babes, books, beer.
susan
This year’s Anchor Steam’s Christmas Ale is like a young cousin of a porter, with a light spice kick to it and a red woody-like after taste. And that is my review.
union street
happy holidays!

How are you celebrating the Holiday season?! December just sneaked in and now I can’t wait for the end-of-year celebrations.  The Holidays are kind of special, people drive wasted, family members fight, family members make peace, people cherish and all kinds of emotions are stirred up upon each one of us reflecting or not, this past year and getting ready to welcome the next one.

home warmth
home warmth

This year I put some small decorations at home including my warriors basketball ornament, but decided to spend a bit more time on my bicycle than I did looking for a fuschia pink, white or red tree, so I decided to decorate my ride instead. In past years I’ve had the basket lights, so this year I also added some little holiday ornament things to saddle. The basket has a small wreath with mini-Poinsettias around the basket.

rear view
hyde and seek
hyde and seek.
Frenchie at the Cala market, on Hyde st.
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happy holidays!! 
xxo♥meli
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