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[bonnettsbooks]

11/25/23 Open at least 6-9p. No open containers, please.

Traveler seriously thinks it's Small Cat Business Day and doesn't want me to get up for Small Business Saturday. Here are a few fun SubCulture cartoon books we have available, among our seriously broad selection of mainstream topics, & possibly some things you haven't yet imagined!

[bearterritory]

WE'VE (still) GOT THE AXE!!!

THE BIG GAME … – Was first played on a field on the corner of Haight and Stanyan Streets in San Francisco on March 19, 1892, was played twice that year (also Dec. 17), and has been played every year since other than 1915-17 (World War I) and 1943-45 (World War II). – Was the first game played in both Stanford Stadium (Nov. 19, 1921) and California Memorial Stadium (Nov. 24, 1923) with the Golden Bears winning both contests (42-7, 9-0). – Is the sixth-longest active running series between two Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) teams and the second-longest in the West – The Golden Bears are going for their 4th win in a row over the Cardinal. Except for the pandemic season, Cal has held The Axe since 2019. – Has been decided on the final play five times including The Play - Cal's five-lateral, 57-yard kickoff return for a touchdown in 1982 to give the Bears a 25-20 victory that is arguably the most iconic moment in college football history.   SENIOR DAY – Cal is slated to honor 30 seniors in a pregame ceremony Saturday before their final game at California Memorial Stadium with the list including Mavin Anderson, Jake Arguello, Hunter Barth, Teddye Buchanan, Kadarius Calloway, Xavier Carlton, Ryan Coe, Ricky Correia, Collin Gamble, Trond Grizzell, Marcus Harris, Lu-Magia Hearns III, Dylan Jemtegaard, Liam Johnson, Jeffrey Johnson, Matthew Littlejohn, Will McDonald, David Reese, Rush Reimer, Chandler Rogers, Nate Rutchena, T.J. Session, Victor Stoffel, Josh Stovall, Derek Wilkins, Miles Williams, Myles Williams, Nohl Williams, Lachlan Wilson and Craig Woodson.   2004 TEAM 20-YEAR REUNION – Cal's 2004 team led by head coach Jeff Tedford will celebrate its 20-year reunion and be honored at the 2024 Big Game. The 2004 squad was one of the best in school history, finishing with a 10-2 record to equal a school record in victories and ranking ninth in the final national polls.     CAL … – Will become bowl eligible with its next victory in 2024 to mark the first time Cal has been bowl eligible in back-to-back seasons since 2018 and 2019. – Despite its .500 record Cal has outscored opponents 283-207, with its five wins coming by an average of 20.6 points per game and its five losses by an average of 3.4 points per contest. – Features the ACC's top scoring defense (20.7 ppg) that is allowing 12.1 points per game fewer than the 32.8 it allowed in 2023. – Shares the national lead with 17 interceptions and is among the country's top 15 in a total of five team categories related to turnovers, also including turnover margin (3rd, +14, +1.40 per game), turnovers gained (T6th, 22), fumbles lost (T7th, 2) and turnovers lost (T13th, 8). – Is ranked in the top 40 nationally in a total of 19 team categories, including rushing defense (15th, 105.2 ypg), completion percentage (15th, 67.6), team sacks (17th, 2.90 spg), defensive touchdowns (T17th, 2), net punting (20th, 41.77 avg), blocked kicks (T20th, 2), team passing efficiency defense (21st, 112.88), punt return defense (24th, 4.46 ypr), passing offense (25th, 273.8 ypg), passes had intercepted (T29th, 6), scoring defense (33rd, 20.7 ppg), third-down conversion percentage defense (T33rd, 34.5%) and kickoff returns (T36th, 22.00). – Is 7-1-2 in the turnover battle with its first loss of the season against Syracuse when the Bears threw two interceptions and did not force any takeaways for only the fourth time in their last 48 contests.

[ginandoldlace]

King Charles l. Swipe for a vest, read on to judge for yourself if it was worn by him during his execution…

Gifted to the Museum of London by a Mr and Mrs E S Makower in 1924, the ‘Sky-colour Satten Wastecoat’ certainly seems to be of the correct date and quality to have been owned by the King.  

The only British monarch to have been publicly tried and executed for treason, Charles I was beheaded outside Banqueting House, Whitehall on a cold January morning in 1649. 

Charles requested two shirts, lest the observing crowd mistake his shivering for fear. As Thomas Herbert, the King’s attendant during his last two years, describes in his memoir of 1678, his master said: 

‘Let me have a Shirt on more than ordinary… by reason the season is so sharp as probably may make me shake, which some Observers will imagine proceeds from fear. I would have no such Imputation. I fear not Death!’ 

The challenge of verifying the garment’s authenticity has proved to be complex. None of the depictions of the executions created at the time are thought to be by eyewitnesses, and have been proven to contain inaccuracies. A clear image of the King on the scaffold has yet to be found. 

However, the vest came with a note of authentication attached. It read: ‘This Waistcoat was worn by King Charles the First on the day he was Beheaded and from the Scaffold came into the Hands of Doctor Hobbs his Physician who attended him on that Occasion, The Doctor preserved this Relic of his Royal Master, and from him it Came into the Possession of Susannah Hobbs his Daughter, who married Temple Stanger [Stanyan] of Rawlins in the County of Oxfordshire.’ 

[richwall101]

Rod McKuen (US Poet & Visionary) On the Corner of Stanyan Street San Francisco in 1967

photo by Ralph Crane

[usaccidents]

SAN FRANCISCO, CA (October 23, 2024) — A 70-year-old pedestrian was hit and killed by a dump truck at Parnassus Avenue and Stanyan Street.

[desn512shams]

The English Typeface Experiments:

Typefaces explored & rejected:

Olicana: garamond, playful, elegant, handwritten and decorative. I hated it, because it lacked impact and didn't go with the rest of the poster. It resembled the ink from a fountain pen, and looked too basic compared to the rest.

Timberline: also a script based type, a bit more on humorous side, with some strength and personality, but again it didn't match the mood that I was going for.

Millesime: Bold, rustic, beautiful, slightly distressed, from long ago, a bit vintagey, which seemed great initially, but then I realised that it looked more like 'French' vintage, and didn't work with the traditional/cultural feel original to Aotearoa that I was looking to keep. So I didnt work with it further.

Stanyan Bold by P22 Foundry: Rustic ,distressed, bold. It didn't have the impact or personality that I was looking for to match the rest of the poster.

Sirennia: friendly, rounded corners, calligraphic influences, decorative. This is where I realised that maybe scripted and calligraphic writing for the English just wasn't cutting it. Instead of creating a sweet juxtaposition and some interest in comparison to the earthy Māori text, it just lacked the boldness I was looking for.

Terracotta, followed by Eaglefeather, both by Frank Lloyd Wright:

I really enjoyed discovering both these typefaces. Frank Lloyd Wright was a famous renowned architect back around the 50's. He created his very own typefaces to match his architectural drawings, and they're stunning, full of rhythm, beautiful flow and texture. They lean towards looking long, tall, confident and scripted. For example Terracotta is delicate, and is stylised after natural plant forms based on his drawings for The Haye Beautiful. However when testing it out for my poster, it proved too frail and didn't hold up, which is a shame. So I tested out Eaglefeather instead which was better than Terracotta, and kind of worked if I had the English text in all caps.

Sadly, as beautiful as they were on their own, I had to toss it out, because it felt too 'architectural', and almost too perfect. Also the history of the type is based on a famous architect in America, and that history doesn't resonate with the pieces that I'm trying to create.

The typeface that I picked:

Moonglow by Michael Harvey:

Michael Harvey also does carpentry and this typeface is based on the letters that he draws for the inscriptions that he carves into wood or stone. It also works with lightness and darkness. The type resonated with me because it suits the ancestral themes and traditional carving from our history. Testing it out, it worked with Engraved, and definitely matched the best out of all the fonts that I had tested prior.

However , it still wasn't quite perfect, I couldn't tell what was off. Perhaps it wasn't looking 'carved' enough, and I think the borders around the lettering felt too 'heavy'?

So after modifying it and changing the colour to white, it had the personality, boldness, and earthy hand-made quality that I was looking for, and I stuck with it for my final posters. (See the following post for the final look).

[micoc84]

Coffee & Eats - Clara Fran+ Borrone - El Camino - Menlo Park Bean Scene - Murphy - Sunnyvale Red Rock - Castro - Mountain View Donut Wheel - De Anza - Cupertino Cocola - Santana Row - San Jose Red Berry - Main - Los Altos Great Bear - Santa Cruz - Los Gatos Greco - Columbus - San Francisco Victoria Pastry - Filbert - Fran Purple Kow - Balboa - Fran

Fantasia -Wolfe- Sunnyvale, Zanotto Family -Naglee - Jose, Orchard Valley -Campbell - camp, Christy Donuts -Calaveras - Milpitas, Crema -Race - San Jose, Esther's Kitchen -San Antonio - Los Altos, Big Mug Roaster -El Camino - Santa Clara, Voyager Craft - Stevens Creek - Cupertino, Moonbean -Teresa - Jose, Los Gatos Roast -Main - Gatos, Lattea -Stevens Crk - Cupertino, Hannah -Alameda - Jose, Philz -Paseo Antonio - Jose, Andersen Bake - great mall - Milpitas Tartine - Middlefield- Redwood city, Penelope - Plaza View - Foster city, Claires Crunch -Grant - San Mateo, Copenhagen -Burlingame - burl, Three Bees -Third - Mateo, Devout - Niles - Fremont, Bitter Sweet - Town center library - Cupe, Tea Era -Homestead - cupe, TP tea - Blaney - Cupe, Blue Bottle - Univ - Palo Alto, Verve -Univ - Palo, Barefoot -Bascom - Campbell // Arizmendi -Ninth - Francisco, Four Barrel -Valencia - Fran, Sightglass -Seventh- Fran, Golden Bear -Sixth- fran, Flywheel -Stanyan - fran, Boba Guys - Stockton - fran, Tpumps -Irving - fran, Bambu -Geary - Fran, Peet's -Vine - Berkeley, Wrecking ball -Union - fran, Lavender Solano - Berkeley, Romeos - Telegraph - Berkeley, Timeless -Piedmont - Oakland, Orbit -Seventh - Oakland, Mong Kok Bake -Stockton - Fran

[riverdamien]

Peniel-February-March

Lent, 2023

February-March

Peniel

"Where Jacob Walked With God!"

Temenos Catholic Worker

P.O. 642656

San Francisco, CA. 94164

www.temenos.org

415-305-2124

Fr. River Damien Sims, D.Min., D.S.T.  Servant Pastor

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Journal of an Alien Street Priest:--Ash Wednesday-A  Day of Haunting!

“Haunting. .Is the relentless remembering and reminding that will not be appeased by settler societies' assurances of innocence and reconciliation. Haunting is both acute and general; individuals are haunted, but so are societies. The United States is permanently haunted by the slavery, genocide, and violence entwined in its first, present and future days. Haunting aims to wrong the wrongs, a confrontation that settler horror hopes to evade. Eve Tuck and C. Ree”

 Ash Wednesday is on February 22, this year. A day when we have ashes placed on our foreheads, with these words: “Remember O human being that thou art dust, and to dust you shall return!” We are reminded of our own mortality, and our call during Lent to fast, repent, and to remember our atonement. We are called to examine our consciences and be honest about ourselves in our actions with all creation. As we look at ourselves we will remember that we are haunted, by our own neglect because of our selfishness and fear.

Ash Wednesday is a day of remembering our own haunting. We are haunted by the homeless, whom we relegate to the “tombs” of our society, pushing them out of sight and out of mind.

We remember the homeless aged that we haunt by our neglect of their care. We walk busily down the street, and fail to see the elderly curled up in blankets, dirty, and hungry. In fact we do not see the ages of the homeless.

We remember of our own neglect in giving to our money to feed and care for the neglected, in particular, the homeless; we are haunted by our failure to say hello to our homeless neighbors on the street, to simply sit down and listen,  or to invent them to lunch in a restaurant.

This haunting can lead us to break out of our habits of apathy, and indifference, to break through our turning of the blind eye, and look into the face of Christ in our midst!     Deo Gratias! Thanks be to God!

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Mobile Ash Wednesday Imposition of Ashes!

Wednesday, February 22, 2023

5:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.—Polk and Haight!

Volunteers Give Us A Call!

 Mobile Holy Communion on Holy Thursday!

April 6, 2023—5:00-9:00 p.m. on Polk and Haight!

Tenderloin Stations of the Cross

“Our Journey With Our Brothers and Sisters

Who Lives on the Street

“The street transforms every ordinary day into a series of quick questions and every incorrect answer risks a breakdown, shooting, or pregnancy.”

April 7, 2023

Meet at City Hall at Noon

Readers Needed-call 415-305-2124

                          We are giving out “Irish Soda Bread” with Butter and Jelly!

We need $300.00—If your heart is warmed send money to:

Aunt Barbara’s Kitchen—415-717-0151

Fairfax, CA 94930

  Easter Sunday!

10 a.m.—Easter Worship

Golden Gate Park—Haight and Stanyan

Followed by pizza !

 We Are Beggars, really Beggars!

Support our Ministry!

Please Give!

Temenos Catholic Worker

P.O. Box 642656

San Francisco, CA 94164

Pay pal!

Website: www.temenos.org!

[thesonsofchaos]

#streetart on #stanyan St. and #frederick St. around the #goldengatepark #haightashbury #sanfrancisco #frisco #sf #streetartsanfrancisco #bayarea #norcal #california #ca #westcoast #thebay #streetartbayarea #graffiti #stencil #wheatpaste #pasteup #sticker #installation #mural #murals #murales #arteurbano #urbanart #foto #fotografia #photo #photography (at American Cyclery) https://www.instagram.com/p/BphrAuSBW8v/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1ci2voo6p8ic0

[gnabrakadagna]

[theeboyracer]

And a couple more epic valentine’s day displays on Page St

[zodi-aries]

@frost-flame THESE I KNOW THEY'RE NOT EXACTLY THE SAME AMD I'M SORRY BUT I HOPE YOU LIKE THEM ANYWAY!!

Frost made a request and I hope I fulfilled it decently enough.

Here's the original images that these were based on:

[visnelik]

‘kilometrelerce derin, kilometrelerce dümdüz’

[mylibrariesclassicrockoperator]

I thought I should share this, it’s one of my favorite poems. This one is by Rod McKuen - brilliant man, that one. It’s from his book of poems titled Stanyan Street & Other Sorrows. 

[catmint1]

I cannot bear the thought of you in someone else’s arms yet imagining you alone is sad.

Rod McKuen, Stanyan Street & Other Sorrows