Category Archives: Sunday Switchup

Sunday Switchup: Gloster Canary

This bird has the most ridiculous haircut that anyone has had since the late 1960s. Except perhaps Lady Gaga.

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Sunday Switchup: The Second Strangest Home I’ve Seen In San Francisco

I have probably walked by this building, Five Lusk Street, a couple hundred times in my years of working in SOMA. I have never, until last week, looked at it from the back, where it becomes apparent just how strange a … Continue reading

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Sunday Switchup: Bentley the Black-Headed Caique

Look who I ran into while wandering Fillmore Street on Saturday! Bentley is a girl, and may well be older than you, at 27 years of age. I asked where the name came from, and her dad told me that … Continue reading

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Sunday Switchup: Funny Hat

Found in the Goorin Brothers hat store in North Beach. A very, very subtle misdirection: in case you were deceived, that is in fact an ice bucket, not a fedora.

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Sunday Switchup: New Apple Store

Well, it’s the talk of the town. I went and checked it out on opening day, more because it was only four blocks out of my way than because I really needed to go… after all, I jog past that … Continue reading

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Sunday Switchup: Donald Trump Grumpycat

I know, I know. This is not a political blog, I don’t post political stuff. But this isn’t political, I promise! I was just sitting down to use a coworker’s computer a few weeks ago and I looked down at the … Continue reading

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Sunday Switchup: Anna’s Hummingbird

I am tickled every time I see one of these, and when I get close enough to one to take pictures I always do. Sometimes they come out all right. Separately… I know that there are other things to be … Continue reading

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Sunday Switchup: My New Favorite License Plate

California license plates, if you don’t request a custom job, are a digit, three letters, and three digits. Thus, this is a natural, luck-of-the-draw plate. I just hope the owner of the car is a lover of dogs, or wolves, … Continue reading

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Sunday Switchup: Complete Fabrications

My new favorite tag line, coupled with one of my favorite-ever business names. Complete Fabrications is a San Francisco metalworking firm that does custom work. I ran into (in the figurative, not literal sense) one of their trucks and just had … Continue reading

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Sunday Switchup: Superb Owl 50

These Superbowl 50 (excuse me, Superb Owl 50!) logos that were placed around the city were amusingly defaced almost before they were finished being put up. I’m no sports fan, so it was no great loss to me. In fact, at … Continue reading

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