Eye on Blogs

"Hospital interior" by Kevin:

["Today's (Insert City Here)" is a photo post series at Eye on Blogs that brings you a provocative or otherwise interesting image from a Bay Area city. Photos are found on Flickr. All photos selected are licensed under the Creative Commons for commercial work.]

SFist: Nob Hill Gazette Releases Annual Singles List
Better than OKCupid.

Chez Namastenancy: Luc Tuymans at SF Moma
"He's articulate, fond of making brash, provocative statements and is a photographer's dream. Yet, there’s precious little living in Tuyman’s paintings, much ambiguity and no love that I can discern."

Calitics: The Prop 8 Fight Isn't About YouTube
"Their witnesses were so scared of appearing on YouTube that they couldn't possibly testify. Terrified, I tell you! But, when it comes down to it, what they were scared of was cross-examination."

Akit's Complaint Department: SFUSD to Change School Placement - Some Happy, Some Grumpy
"Some of the traditions are still being followed, like if you have a sibling in that same school, the odds the student can get admitted is much better. An interesting one offered is if you attend preschool in an area where a school is nearby, you get priority on that particular school."

SF Appeal: Ask the Appeal: What Can I Do If I Think An Animal's In Jeopardy?
"SF residents concerned about suspected animal abuse or neglect should definitely call SF Animal Care and Control's emergency dispatch number: 415-554-9400."

Bits + Bites: A Valentine's Day Chocolate Buying Guide
Hershey's won't cut it.

The Giants Baseball Blog: Giants Should Wise Up With Lincecum
"I just don't understand why the Giants are toying with their most important piece of their franchise, and risking the possibility of irritating the 2-time Cy Young Award winner."

All Shook Down: Dave Eggers Will Serve You Free Grilled-Cheese Next Week
How precious.

Sam Spade's San Francisco: Late Night Restaurants and Dining in SF
Things open past your parents' bedtime.

Food Wishes Video Recipes is a different kind of cooking blog, with this site offering up a video visual how-to. Today? Potato pancakes. For two:

These sexy looking potato pancakes would sure make a nice looking first course for your Valentine's dinner. Here you can see that I've finished them with a little smoked salmon, sour cream, and dill, but you can use them as a base for many other combinations.

If you want to splurge a bit, maybe a dollop of caviar, or if you want to go the other direction, simply garnish with applesauce and sour cream. Some other ideas I really like are crab salad, sautéed mushrooms, and caramelized onions.

But, before you get to the big decision of what to top these golden-brown beauties with, we have to talk about squeezing. The one and only way to not get perfectly crispy potato pancakes is to not squeeze them properly.

Read more, and see how to make them.

If you should find yourself on the 38 (inbound) in the morning in the Inner Richmond neighborhood and can't find a seat, stand near a grade school-aged kid. Go ahead, look around and spot the 10-12 year olds, then carve out a stance near one of them. Don't be creepy and eyeball the children or anything, just stand near them. Because they are getting off at Arguello to walk to Roosevelt Middle School.

Then you can ride all the way to the Financial District in comfort, your seat pre-warmed by someone about to embark upon some long division.

"Children Playing on a Dock" by tibchris:

["Today's (Insert City Here)" is a photo post series at Eye on Blogs that brings you a provocative or otherwise interesting image from a Bay Area city. Photos are found on Flickr. All photos selected are licensed under the Creative Commons for commercial work.]

Tonight there is to be a Town Hall Meeting regarding Muni. And with route cuts, bus line eliminations and rising fares (with promises of more hikes to come), you might be tempted to come to that thing with your guns blazing. But, as N-Judah Chronicles suggests, you might want to keep calm and carry on with purpose:

A word of advice if you plan on attending - just showing up and telling a horror story about your commute isn't enough to really do anything to impress the MTA commissioners to do anything for you. If such pleas did anything, well we wouldn't be in the mess we are in.

Instead, you really should try and push them to consider real revenue measures to plug the multi million dollar hole the state created for Muni (and all transit agencies). We can't plug that hole with a few parking meters and more parking tickets and declining service and fare increases. Until the Mayor and his crew get serious about that, all the pleas in the world will fall on deaf ears.

Read more at N-Judah Chronicles.

Should the White House be above this sort of mockery? Or no?

Blogging Bayport Alameda on what Alamedans will be arguing over next:

The next big Alameda battle which will reshuffle the supporters and opponents of Measure B will be the battle over the next school parcel tax.   With both parcel taxes set to sunset in order to ensure that Alameda Unified School District doesn’t collapse (close Encinal?  what?) a parcel tax will need to be supported by at least two-thirds of the voting populace to help keep AUSD afloat in the face of more cuts.

The Parcel Tax Advisory Group which included former plaintiff against Measure H, John Beery, has worked out a few options for how the parcel tax could be structured.   But here were their overall recommendations...

Find out at Blogging Bayport Alameda.

"Courtship rights battle" by wolfpix:

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It's happening right now. Andrew Dalton of SF Appeal is "liveblogging" his mission to score a free Grand Slam breakfast today at Denny's.

As you likely already know, Denny's is giving away a plate full of breakfast foods that normally costs $4 to anyone who wants one. SF Appeal has sent in a soldier to brave the long lines and the subsequent heart attack.

Here's a taste:

11:15 AM: Right off the bat Jim wants to make sure I note that we took the recession bus. (The 14L Hopon)

A very ominous man on the bus warned us about the lines. 10 minutes later and he's somehow talked his way in to practically the front of the line.

There's a cop guarding the bacon. And we're taking pictures of other people blogging this.

11:32 AM: Even the crazy people are saying that line is too long even if it IS free. So we're debating heading to the Fisherman's Wharf location.

At this point we just look like jerks with expensive cellphones. So we're heading to catch the 30 to the wharf.

See the photos, and follow their adventure. It's like Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, but with less weed and less cheetah.

RELATED: Is Denny's Free Grand Slam Breakfast Really Worth Your Time?

[Photo by oddharmonic]