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  1. another nice day to try SFMTA recommended bike routes ( https://www.sfmta.com/sites/default/files/pdf_map/2021/06/sfmta_recommendedbikeroutes_0.pdf), so this time I went southeast: Chavez to Illinois to Cargo, side-quest out Heron’s Head Park and Hunter’s Point, back on the route to Mendel, Palou, Keith, Carrol, out to Candlestick Point, reverse back to Jenning, Paul, Bayshore, and Chavez home.

    Lovely!

    picture of the SFMTA pdf of recommended routes of the southeast corner of San Francisco

    hiked Bayview hill yesterday, today was very much a “I want to go down there” result

    photograph, view south from the top of bayview hill to oyster point and SFO Airport

    photograph of the parking lot for the now demolished Candlestick Park stadium from the Bayview Hill Trail

    Photograph of San Francisco from the initial climb of the Bayview Hill trail

    Photograph of Bayview Hill, reversing the second in the series, above from the parking lot of Candlestick Park. Most the actual lot and “Hunter’s Point Expressway” around the hill at this point are just a fenced off lake and are inaccessible.

  2. sixth book of 2024: “How Infrastructure Works: Inside the systems that shape our world.”, by Deb Chachra ( https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/612711/how-infrastructure-works-by-deb-chachra/).

    How Infrastructure Works by Deb Chachra: 9780593086599 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: BooksNAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2023 BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY "Revelatory, superbly written, and pulsing with wisdom and humanity, How Infrastructure Works is a masterpiece.” —Ed Yong, author of...PenguinRandomhouse.com

    I feel like more than a few people I follow posted about this over the past year so I eventually followed suit. More memoir (again!) than I’m normally into but just enough history, novelty, and new-to-me theory to be pretty good after all.

    The hardback cover of “How Infrastructure Works: Inside the systems that shape our world.”, by Deb Chachra, as I read it. White Helvetica-lookin’ title, subtitle, and author name in equal large sizes and weights over black asphalt spray painted with circles and arrows in orange, pink, and yellow. That infrastructure / utility workers paint the ground in specific colors in the U.S. is actually detailed in the book, so this is one of those rare cases where the cover artist read the book and wasn’t overruled by the publisher to do some other stupid thing instead. Huzzah!

  3. this is a qt of https://social.lol/@spotlightonpod/111952783201740255

    so after reading this I thought of a monthly “new artists” CD mailer subscription I had in the late 90s that I coulda swore had a Marley track one month, which is weird, right?

    so I checked my Plex for Marley, picked Catch a Fire, saw “Midnight Ravers”, which was the chorus I was thinking of, but not it.

    ddg for a remix and found it: Bill Laswell’s “Dreams Of Freedom (Ambient Translations Of Bob Marley In Dub)”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8sDYYwu2t8

    Midnight Ravers (Bill Laswell Remix)Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupMidnight Ravers (Bill Laswell Remix) · Bob Marley & The WailersDreams Of Freedom℗ 1997 The Island Def Jam Music G...YouTube

    neato.

  4. Learning from 500songs.com ( https://500songs.com/podcast/episode-116-where-did-our-love-go-by-the-supremes/ ) that the Supremes were called “the no hit supremes” within Motown and made to do stuff like “The Rock and Roll Banjo Band” until Holland, Dozier, and Holland had a say in matters, smdh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJer8U5WtWk

    Episode 116: “Where Did Our Love Go?” by The SupremesEpisode one hundred and sixteen of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at “Where Did Our Love Go?” by the Supremes, and how the “no-hit Supremes” became the …A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs(The Man With The) Rock And Roll Banjo BandProvided to YouTube by Universal Music Group(The Man With The) Rock And Roll Banjo Band · The Supremes50th Anniversary: The Singles Collection 1961-1969℗ 196...YouTube

  5. 🏁 what I’m considering the inner mission, bound by 101, Cesar Chaves, and Valencia

    A San Francisco street map centering the area bound by 101, Ceasar Chavez, and Valencia, on which every street has a meandering purple GPS path I’ve logged on it. (I tried to walk Erie St a few times but it’s been under construction each time.)

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