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                                            November 13, 2014
                                          
When I first started exploring San              
Francisco seriously in the mid-80s,       Actually, for good of for ill,       
I was greatly amused by the aging         tie-die Greatful Dead t-shirts       
hippies still hanging around the          remain a staple of the Upper       
Upper Haight commiserating to each        Haight tourist industry.      
other: "Oh man, the leather shops                                    
are taking over!"

  I had no sympathy                 In the Yoko Ono exhibition at
  for them, and                     SFMOMA, a section of metal
  would be wearing                  work leads with her comments
  my leather                        that when a friend suggested
  jacket still if                   she try working in metal, she
  it wasn't so                      cried, lamenting the end of
  goddamn warm all                  the 60s, but eventually
  the time in the                   concluded it was "okay to be
  San Francisco once                80s": dark, cold, cynical.
  famous for its
  fog...
                                                          Of course, you
  There's a school of                                     should never trust
  thought that this is                                    a hippie-hater, but
  the way it always is:                                   then, we're all
  a new generation comes                                  hippie-haters.
  in with new ideas,    
  and the old generation    
  is always dismissive.    
  So there's no reason           I beg to differ, myself.
  to pay attention to    
  them, right?                          CURMUDGEON_MANIFESTO
              



  There's a similar constellation
  of gripes about the present wave
  of start-up culture infesting SOMA.

  They-- and their cousins, the southbay
  bus commuters of google and friends--
  have bid up housing prices on the east 
  side of town.



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