Local photographer Thomas Hawk blogged 10 days ago about a confrontation he had at SF’s Museum of Modern Art with Director of Visitor Relations Simon Blint. After spotting Hawk taking pictures from a museum balcony and arguing with the photographer — who is well known for his strenuous defense of his right to photograph in public places — Blint had Hawk 86′d, asserting his duty to defend the museum’s employees from harrassment.
The incident became widely known after BoingBoing blogged about it. Last Thursday the incident was analyzed at 10 Zen Monkeys , which tracked down and interviewed a security guard involved in a 2006 confrontation with Hawk. The 10 Zen Monkeys post, by author “Destiny” (for that matter, “Thomas Hawk” is also a pen name), depicts Hawk as a hothead who used profanity in the 2006 incident, which ended with the security guard being fired by his employers. Hawk also recently called for a boycott...
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Hawk Bloc I'm not sure how it evolved, but among reporters on the Kansas beat, we tend to designate certain players as "Great Men." I suspect the LJW's Gary Bedore had a lot to do with this, but I'm not sure.
Anyway, the qualifications for being a Great Man are vague, but not all that stringent. We ask mainly that an athlete act like a normal dude, say funny things occasionally and be genuine. To help you understand, these are some of the Great Men from the last coupl... more
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Mark Pritchard : With respect to the now widely-reported story about yesterday’s Board of Supervisors’ refusal to outlaw relationships between city managers and their employees , I have only this to say: When was the last time you had a boss you wanted to date? Either this notion is -- like many of the ideas considered by our city’s governing body -- strictly theoretical, or the managers of city departments are some kind of special breed of desirable bosses. I mean, I&rsquo... more
Mark Pritchard : The decorations have been going up since Halloween. The commercials started two weeks ago. And the annual buying frenzy has already started.
Aren’t you already sick of Christmas?
Then participate in the annual Buy Nothing Day , in which you pledge not to choke the freeways, waste resources, go into debt and deal with a lot of screaming Christmas shoppers just so you can load your friends and family down with a lot of shiny, useless crap. Again.
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Mark Pritchard : A cat saved its owner from a burning house this morning in San Mateo.
The cat woke the guy up once, and he sleepily let the cat out and went back to bed, not even noticing his house was on fire. The cat continued yowling from outside and when the man got up again to yell at the cat, he finally noticed the house was on fire and called 911.
The cat was not harmed. (Photo is not from this incident.)
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Mark Pritchard : Some thieves in need of holiday cash stole an ATM machine from a location in San Mateo and dropped it off in a Pacifica parking lot, leading a San Mateo cop to say: "For all the work they did, they got very little money out of it," despite going through "heck in a handbasket to get this thing."
In Windsor, about 50 miles north, a teenager who pitted his car’s GPS device against a cop’s radar gun was still convicted of speeding .
And in Vallejo, the m... more
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