This guide will feature descriptions of outdoor adventures in the San Francisco Bay Area that are accessible without a car. It will provide ideas for enjoying outdoor exercise and experiencing nature for anyone who does not own a car or who just wants to use a car less often. My goal is to make car-free outdoor trips easy and fun by providing route descriptions and logistical details — pulling together information from maps, guide books, websites, and other resources — and by taking the trips myself and reporting on my experiences. I am approaching car-free travel not as a barrier to getting outdoors, but as a fun challenge to find routes linking mass transit with nature and an opportunity to explore the urban-nature and suburban-nature interfaces of the Bay Area.
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Fat Bottom Bakery is a project started by Carolynn and Ashley in Oakland, Ca-- the manifestation of our desire to spread delicious, cute, cruelty-free things to the world.
Keep up with us through our blog and look around town-- you'll be seeing us around at shows, Pride, parks, parties, and maybe even farmer's markets!
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East Bay Conservative takes a look at events in Oakland and the surrounding areas from a non-Leftist viewpoint. This does not necessarily mean we’re actually conservatives, as traditionally defined across the US. We’re not evangelical Christians, we’re pro-choice, and we’re not particularly fond of guns. That being said, we stand opposed the throngs of people in the Bay Area who can properly be called Leftists — those who believe things such as:
* There is no reasonable maximum tax rate. The more you tax people, the better.
* Government services generally, or always, work better than those provided by private industry.
* Organic food is meaningfully better for people and/or the environment than regular food.
* Schools should receive as much money as possible, and no one should ever ask what they use it for.
* The homeless should never be regulated or constrained in any way.
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I used to have one of these up but it went away during one of the many redesigns over the years. So, instead of digging out the old one, I thought it would be a good exercise to revisit About Me and see if I am the same person I was when this blog coughed to life four years ago.
So, what About Me?
Who am I would be a good start. I'm not really a guy named Johnny Huh but he is a character I've written with for a number of years and forced anonymity gave me Johnny Huh rather than some of the other folks I've written. Anyway, the Huh part works well with my general incredulity at the never ending descent (or seeming descent) of our nation and culture.
[Update: The astute will have already noted this but I thought it should be noted here as well, I'm no longer going to be blogging as Johnny Huh. I have decided that I will be blogging under my real name, which is Erik. I'm still working on adding my last name to the disclosure but this is a significant first step out behind the anonymity curtain.]
Because I do believe that this nation is being poisoned from within. That it is being led by people who do not care a whit for nation or a united people, they care for themselves and their friends to our collective detriment.
So I guess its fair to say that I've got a reasonably well developed sense of justice and fairness. I also tend to prefer reasonable people over raving nutfuck lunatics with nothing but axes to grind and spittle to spray. Though the nutfucks aren't so bad if you're out of range, sometimes they come up with a good line or two.
I get on political tears from time to time when the incessant stream of bile posing as news from the White House just gets to be too much. But I try to not be a full-on ranting bastard without cause. I write about marketing and public relations concerns because that's what I do for a living. And I like to discuss advertising that works and advertising that does not work.
I also like words, I like coming up with new ones, I put them here and on another blog called the Fictionarium. I'm sure I didn't invent that term but I like it well enough to pretend it's mine.
I take a lot of photographs, some of them are pretty good. I'd like to get a nice full sized SLR someday to see what I could do with it. But portability is key to me and my SD450 fits into my pocket easily.
I will try to add to this About Me as time and circumstances permit. But for now, I'm going to post it and get it added to the template to make it easier to find. Oh yeah, I'll also add pictures at some point too because photography is pretty important to me and I love to show off pics of my two beautiful boys.
This blog provides information about Oakland’s most happening ‘hood - Downtown Oakland, colloquially known as The DTO. I don’t moderate comments but sometimes they’re caught in the spam filter; contact me if your comment hasn’t appeared within a day.
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In San Francisco, it all comes back to our neighborhoods: where we live, where we work, where we eat, and where we play. First launched in 2006, Curbed has been at the center of the virtual city, covering real estate sales, rental prices, and news-making deals. We also track the newest developments in architecture and design while keeping up with the hottest restaurants, via our sister site Eater SF, and the latest neighborhood gossip—it's all on Curbed, because this is where you live.
Curbed SF is the third of the Curbed sites, which also include Curbed NY and Curbed LA, and part of the Curbed Network, a collection of neighborhood blogs. Our other sites are the restaurant blog Eater, the retail and fashion blog Racked and, during the summer season, The Beach, which covers the Hamptons.
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