Al's Comics Benefit at Cellspace- 3/22

Al's Comics
Originally uploaded by Jocie SF

Come to Cellspace for Al's Comics benefit event! There will be lots of Bay Area artists, performers, and other weirdness (including Al himself!). I'll be set up with the other artists, selling prints and doing sketches. Please stop by and say hello if you are in the area.

Sunday, March 22nd
5pm-12am
Cell Space
2050 Bryant St., San Francisco

Here's a link to the event on Laughing Squid:
http://laughingsquid.com/benefit-for-als-comics-at-cellspace/

Local 303 T-Shirt

Local 303 T-Shirt
Originally uploaded by joshuaellingson

Local 303 t-shirts are now available on Etsy.com. Get them while they are still warm from the factory!
http://local303.etsy.com/

Underground Comics

yup
Originally uploaded by Matt DeLight

ah yup...Once again, another member of the Local 303 find themselves in a big deal fancy art type show. This time it's non-other than THE.... Matt DeLight.
It's up in Mill Valley. I guess that where rich people live. Being poor, I really have no clue.
Anyhoo, I'm part of this show...and I'm pretty stoked...
It's at The Milk and Honey Gallery, 384 Miller Ave.
415-383-7580...or milkandhoneygallery.com
I'm showing with the likes of...
Wednesday Kirwan
Andrew Perry
and Paul Madonna
It will be up all of December...and into January. You should check it out....if you are remotely that way.
Hell, and make me famous.
303 forvever.

2-D/3-D Art Happening

Cheez SaPrity
Originally uploaded by Matt DeLight

...whoooo....it's gonna be the jams. A connected show that is being put on by the two stores... Neon Monster and Fabric 8. Visit the info-web fer more info...but you can see the work of matt delight at Neon Monster... which is at 901 Castro St. SF CA ... in case you didn't know.
PEACE!

Vinyl Apocalypse!!!!

So the cool dudes at yer favorite...The Local 303... are apparently in some sweety hipster art show at the always fan-tabby Lower Haters (or is it Lower Hater...the website is lowerhater...but print media would tell me otherwise..huh) Anyhoo, you can see some really stellar pieces by Jason Dryg, Joshua Ellingson, Dave Garvey and myself.(Matt DeLight...i did this sweety Pete Doherty that shouldn't be missed) Oh, and lot's other ot
The details
Friday June 6th, 7-11pm
Lower Hater/s
597 Haight Street @Steiner
lowerhater.com fer more intel

and naw, no pics fer you. you'll just have to see fer yerselves.
word.

Dot-com Central returns to earthly pursuits

I don't remember it quite this way, but the SF Gate has an article on our neighborhood-- Dot-com Central returns to earthly pursuits:

"Only a decade ago when the new high-tech economy was pumping cash into the Bay Area, a tiny part of the Mission District near Potrero Hill became one of the staging grounds for dot-com drama. The place was filthy with startups — some of them hell-bent on selling services or products or even ideas nobody wanted or needed.



Evicted tenants were protesting loudly outside glinting aluminum-windowed offices, where digerati had migrated from around the country to make their fortunes before the age of 25. The Yuppie Eradication Project, founded and implemented by a resident radical, was happily keying SUVs and wheatpasting insults on the buildings catering to the incoming dot-com elite."

More accurately, this area was known as "Audio Alley", and the 1890 Building was a vacant warehouse. The lofts they picture in the article were a cement plant; and yes the 18th and Bryant building across the street was much fancier, but it had been undergoing renovations for years before the dotcom.

ZDTV/Tech TV had their studios on York, near KQED. RealNetworks was there (only I believe it was Listen.com who they purchased at the time), the 17th and Alabama building was full with companies like Spinner.com and Winamp.com and later all the AOL music properties.

Most dotcommies at the time of the dotcom boom thought of NEMIZ as the wacky artsy creative dotcom areas, not so business focused like the stuff around South Park.

The area was slated by developers for more business action than actually happened; Bryant Park complex across from Blowfish was scheduled to be a large dotcom office building, but then the crash just left that as a large hole in the ground for almost 10 years.

A lot of the anger over displaced local businesses didn't occur in NEMIZ, but rather in the heart of the mission, in the old Bayview Bank building (now US Bank), that high rise on Mission near 22nd.

Our building, and the one across the street, had been abandoned warehouses for years before the dotcom boom.

One thing that bugs me about these articles is that the dotcommers always get the blame for ruining the neighborhoods, not the landlords. The landlords were the ones evicting people and raising their rents when their leases expired in the hopes of getting huge rent increases from new tenants.

M&M Colors

I just noticed this:

There are no white m&ms!!? And no black m&ms???!

Just green, blue, red, yellow, orange and brown?

And why are there so many blue m&ms lately? Is that the cheapest food color?