#stanyan

[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!

[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.’ 

[nicklloydnow]

“But what is sane? Especially here in "our own country" - in this doomstruck era of Nixon. We are all wired into a survival trip now. No more of the speed that fueled the Sixties. Uppers are going out of style. This was the fatal flaw in Tim Leary's trip. He crashed around America selling "consciousness expansion" without ever giving a thought to the grim meat-hook realities that were lying in wait for all the people who took him too seriously. After West Point and the Priesthood, LSD must have seemed entirely logical to him . . . but there is not much satisfaction in knowing that he blew it very badly for himself, because he took too many others down with him.

Not that they didn't deserve it: No doubt they all Got What Was Coming To Them. All those pathetically eager acid freaks who thought they could buy Peace and Understanding for three bucks a hit. But their loss and failure is ours, too. What Leary took down with him was the central illusion of a whole life-style that he helped to create . . . a generation of permanent cripples, failed seekers, who never understood the essential old-mystic fallacy of the Acid Culture: the desperate assumption that somebody - or at least some force - is tending that Light at the end of the tunnel.

This is the same cruel and paradoxically benevolent bullshit that has kept the Catholic Church going for so many centuries. It is also the military ethic . . . a blind faith in some higher and wiser "authority." The Pope, The General, The Prime Minister . . . all the way up to "God."

One of the crucial moments of the Sixties came on that day when the Beatles cast their lot with the Maharishi. It was like Dylan going to the Vatican to kiss the Pope's ring.

First "gurus." Then, when that didn't work, back to Jesus. And now, following Manson's primitive/instinct lead, a whole new wave of clan-type commune Gods like Mel Lyman, ruler of Avatar, and What's His Name who runs "Spirit and Flesh."

Sonny Barger never quite got the hang of it, but he'll never know how close he was to a king-hell breakthrough. The Angels blew it in 1965, at the Oakland-Berkeley line, when they acted on Barger's hardhat, con-boss instincts and attacked the front ranks of an anti-war march. This proved to be an historic schism in the then Rising Tide of the Youth Movement of the Sixties. It was the first open break between the Greasers and the Longhairs, and the importance of that break can be read in the history of SDS, which eventually destroyed itself in the doomed effort to reconcile the interests of the lower/working class biker/dropout types and the upper/mid-dle, Berkeley/student activists.

Nobody involved in that scene, at the time, could possibly have foreseen the Implications of the Ginsberg/Kesey failure to persuade the Hell's Angels to join forces with the radical Left from Berkeley. The final split came at Altamont, four years later, but by that time it had long been clear to everybody except a handful of rock industry dopers and the national press. The orgy of violence at Altamont merely dramatized the problem. The realities were already fixed; the illness was understood to be terminal, and the energies of The Movement were long since aggressively dissipated by the rush to self-preservation.

Ah; this terrible gibberish. Grim memories and bad flash-backs, looming up through the time/fog of Stanyan Street . . . no solace for refugees, no point in looking back. The question, as always, is now . . .?”

[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

[myfontz]