Ever hear of the Crocker spite fence?

Back in them early Victorian era days, rich guys would buy whole blocks of houses to demolish and build mansions. One railroad baron called Crocker started his big house before all the homes were secured. The last house was a German undertaker called Yung. The offer was $6000 for the property but Yung wanted a price adjusted for inflation so asked for 12.000. Rich dude refused to pay any more. After many ploys by Crocker to annoy Mr. Yung out of his home, he has a 60 ft. wall built around 3 sides of the Yung house. Yung still wouldn't sell even though he and his fam fam had to see by candle light during the day time. It became a tourist attraction to go see the monument to capitalist dickery. Then after a few years of this a funny thing happened...well maybe not so funny, both dudes died. The decedents of Yung sold the property to the Crocker people, the wall came down, then a couple of years later...the great San Fran Earth quake leveled the whole property. Epic win, by our favorite class M planet, leaving the final score at Earth 2-Apes 0

http://www.mistersf.com/notorious/index.html?notspitefence06.htm

Great pic from Annie, taken at Pie Spot Pie shop

Taken at our weekly Friday 3:00 showThank you Annie Bosworth Foley.   

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Quick heads up, the Ghost Bike monument for the cyclist struck by a motor vehicle...was itself struck by a motor vehicle.

Last year during the W.N.B.R. we found it a real hoot, to photograph people who were photographing the naked cyclists.

Last year during the W.N.B.R. we found it a real hoot, to photograph people who were photographing the naked cyclists. This gent was having a blast silently waiting and every time some nude women crossed the street he was taking dozens of pics. He was smiling really big until his lens found Olive smiling back and growing larger as she was approaching while taking just as many pics of him. Needles to say, he got real huffy. Leaving Olive to say "What? are we acting in a manner that is contrary to the spirit of what you have going on? Wow better write your congressman and tell him of your privacy invasion". I hate when people treat our town like a fishing pier. Just because you "can" do something, doesn't mean they "should".  Sitting in a car, exploiting a bike protest-fest is all kinds of messed up.
We got lots of photographs of photographers, one lady yelled "Please disrobe clowns, I came all this way". We yelled back "Sorry lady, we have diarrhea" the crowd around her erupted with laughter as did she with her cute defeated smile and ginormous camera.  I'm looking forward to some  more photographer photo safari this

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Luckily we don't work there or this situation would be very awkward.

We are both hard workers but we do distract each other sometimes  (I'm spraying the clock while Olive is washing dishes with a stick of margarine).

A good way to tell that someone isn't from around here; when they see us standing next to our tall bikes but still ask us where we are parked.

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guitar clinic

Got interviewed about guitarness.
I'm pretty good at it and i like talking shop.
I was approached by a fella who started by saying he saw one of our shows and noticed i was throwing down a lot of guitar.
He finished by left hand-complimented me by saying he liked my "Garage band" style. Garage band? What does that even mean? Is he saying my music is perfectly good enough to play for vehicles, seasonal decoration boxes and Granny's bike that she won't ride anymore?

Then it got weird. He asked "What are your guitar influences for the kid music?"
lol I honestly say
Kerry King, Jerry Cantrell, Mary Cardin, Nick Blumstedt and anyone who's last name is "Maiden" or "Surfers".
Then he wanted to know what type was my first guitar; I had to admit it was a coat hanger.
I was first shown the language of guitar by a fellow who was ancient in the 80's. His name was Jesse James Cayce and as a really young kid he lived a few doors down.
He showed me old school country style.
I got into punk and metal very young so all that went out the window. I have been in lots of bands and played a lot of shows since then.
He then wanted to know if I have any advice on how a aspiring guitarist could up their guitar game.
I said a good way that works for me;  is to eat a piece of greasy fried chicken right before you play and don't wash your hands. I found that out on accident. Works like a charm.
So cool how you learn about yourself by talking to others. I would hae told him more but his bus came.