Stephan Zielinski: Dwa

The fifth annual San Francisco Noe Valley Harvest Festival took place on 2009 October 24.

Noe Harvest Festival 2009

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2009 October 3 saw San Francisco’s first LovEvolution Parade. (Arguably San Francisco’s sixth such celebration– but the name changes. Hence, San Francisco had “Love Parade”s in 2004 and 2005, “LoveFest” parades in 2006, 2007, and 2008, and a “LovEvolution” parade in 2009.)

LovEvolution Parade 2009

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These are from the day of the San Francisco Pride 2009 parade: 2009 June 28.

San Francisco Pride 2009

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So President Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize!  And all of a sudden, I can’t swing a dead cat without hitting someone singing

I’ll tell you what Obama’s done for me lately: deflected my country away from a beeline course towards a multi-front hot war against every Muslim state on the planet. That he’s also been reversing the thunderingly stupid Bush policies when and as he accumulates enough political capital to do so is a bonus– but that’s mostly just for us.  On a global scale,  he was halfway to the Nobel just by defeating John McCain– and, God help us, the party that looked at Sarah Palin and thought, “Looks qualified to be the Vice President to me!”

Allow me to expand on that.  You know the teabagger neocons who are whining about birth certificates and raving about “Death Panels”?  The guys doing their best to make the rest of us wonder how many cases of paranoid schizophrenia are going undiagnosed every year?  These chuckleheads used to have the ear of executive reactionary thugs with NUCLEAR LAUNCH CODES. People thought this was BUSINESS AS USUAL.

What’s Obama done for Peace?  Turned the whole damn country around.  What’s he doing now?  Maintaining sanity.  Collaring the hawks, ignoring the doctrinaire, and laughing when the absurd stumble onto the political stage– so that once again, we’re a force for good in the world.

That counts.

Summary: almost all the GameScience dice I looked at passed chi-square testing fine, with one exception: the “D16 Transparent Ice Blue Gamescience Gem Die”, which failed miserably.

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The 17th Annual San Francisco Dyke March 2009 took place on 2009 June 27.

17th Annual San Francisco Dyke March 2009

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(With apologies to Aeschylus, Kafka, and YHVH.)

These photos are from the day BEFORE the parade: 2009 May 23.

Carnaval Festival 2009

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(If that’s not quite what you were looking for, you may be seeking this: Photos of the San Francisco Carnaval 2009 parade.)

Another Sunday Streets San Francisco took place on 2009 June 7.

Sunday Streets San Francisco (2009 June 7, the Mission)

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