142 where are you, we got some work to do now


Let's talk about squatting. Half of renters may be facing eviction in the next few months. America currently has half a million houseless people. Imagine 20 million. 

Meanwhile there are all these empty stores and offices. 

In November when it gets cold, 20 million people may be looking at those empty storefronts and offices and thinking "that looks warm."

For comparison, there are about 800,000 police officers, 240,000 DHS employees, and 1.2 million active duty military in the US.


We are getting used to it. The masks and the closed places. The sitting outside. The avoiding each other on the sidewalk.

The death.

For the time being, we seem to have gotten over the looting and window-smashing. These baristas are able to see (a low wage future of economic desperation) again.

Remember "mission drift?" I'm all for wearing masks cooperatively. But here we are, handing more responsibility to the police, just when we're also saying, maybe the police should be focusing on serious criminal activity.

What jumped out at me from this was that last line. Companies that received CARES act money back in April are what?!? 

Able to "downsize" on October 1? 

Uh oh.

And now for news from Australia.


They were doing pretty good.


But now this fucking virus is spreading again.

And people are back in lockdown.

Except, they're not.

So the rules are getting harsher.

It's winter there, I guess this is a stock photo. Looking at this picture makes me wish we'd gone south to visit this city when we were over there. They say it's a lot like SF.

On Day 142, with unemployment benefits gone, evictions looming, and businesses like restaurants, bars, hotels, theaters, and tourism, shuttered or restricted, it is entirely reasonable to feel hopeless and panicked.

I'm sorry.

I didn't realize that the reigning champions didn't get invited into the NBA bubble.

When the city built a new basketball arena based on Steph Curry's amazing run, you knew it wasn't going to last. The Warriors couldn't dominate forever. But I'm pretty sure nobody expected it the new "Chase Center" to be this empty, this quickly.

In a world where smiles matter.

Look at those twinkling eyes!

This might explain why the mask line has moved from Castro Street all the way up the hill. On my walk to the farmer's market yesterday, unmasked was the exception. 

Who doesn't wear masks at this point? Rebels. People with breathing issues. Some houseless people. And young women sipping coffee, who all make sure to hold their cups high, as a friendly gesture saying, "I'd rather die than go without stimulants."

It almost makes you want to find a sailboat and get away from it all. Here's a free one! From 1988 even.

Uh...rats?

Somebody really doesn't want to clean up their mess.

Still, for the right person...


Saw a headline a week or so ago that the couple who designed the bear hugging California graphic above had to shut their retail shop.

Here we go.



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