only in sf

I was fortunately enough to spend last week in san francisco for work, it was unseasonably warm down there for january, and didn't rain a lick.

one morning walking down powell st. I saw this dude walking this dog, with a cat chilling on top of the dog and a rat chilling on top of the cat. the cellphone camera picture is really shitty, but you can find lots of pictures other people took if you google this guy.

madness

so if someone robs a few liquor stores with a gun, but didn't hurt anyone, and then get caught. this person is probably going away for quite a while.

but if someone cheat some nice people out of their life savings, he might not be going away for that long (probably in a nicer dig than the robber), yet the damages he caused may be far greater than the dumbass robbing the stores.

it doesn't make sense,

what also doesn't make sense is that all these investment bankers and lenders made billions of profit when the going was good, they took their money, buying vacation homes, sports cars, drank vintage Bordeaux, had a grand old time, while regular people made the same little bit of money, lived in the same shit hole, drove the same beater and drank coors light. Now the going is not so good anymore, the schmuck with dirt under his nails is bailing out the guys in $3000 suits!?

I am not a jew but that doesn't seem very kosher to me.

(disclaimer, I am definitely not saying you should start robing liquor stores or try to get a job as an investment banker, those things are for douchebags)

gran master

just saw gran torino, holy shit, the ticket is 12.50, no wonder a lot of people don't go to movie no more,

I don't care that perhaps in the last few movies that he has been the lead, he played sort of the same grumpy old american dude character; ever since Unforgiven, I don't think I have been disappointed in any movie clint eastwood had directed/acted. Not a lot of fucking around with this guy, the story telling has a really refine but never fancy aesthetic to it that I really enjoy.