Ramona Emerson

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• Posted Things San Franciscans Like: Moving To New York to Culture/Entertainment
  Moving to New York, what a San Franciscan thing to do. Because San Franciscans are perpetually from somewhere else, they are stuck referencing said place...
• Posted Things San Franciscans Like: Doing Work In Coffee Shops to Culture/Entertainment
  I think I'm gonna go do some work in a coffee shop. Nothing big, just somewhere local. You know, the place with the extra-hot coffee....
• Posted Things San Franciscans Like: The Sundance Kabuki Theater to Culture/Entertainment
  As far as San Franciscans are concerned, there is no place like the Sundance Kabuki Theater. It's comfy, has an awesome balcony, serves food, and...
• Posted Things San Franciscans Like: Food to Culture/Entertainment
  I was at a restaurant in the middle of the day yesterday (very San Francisco), and when I ordered my broccoli soup the waitress immediately...
• Posted Things San Franciscans LOVE: Christmas Tree Genocide to Culture/Entertainment
  Early January is always the saddest time for me, not only because I gained 1 pound over the holidays and have to tell anyone...
• Posted Things San Franciscans Like and Also Don't Like: Not Being Part of Snowpacolypse '10 to Culture/Entertainment
  We were glad we weren't there, but we didn't like being left out of the action. We tried saying things like, "The Eastern seaboard is...
• Posted Things San Franciscans Like: Nopa to Culture/Entertainment
  If there is one thing that basically equals love for San Franciscans that thing is Nopa the restaurant. Nopa has a bunch of things going...
• Posted Things San Franciscans Like: Art Walks to Culture/Entertainment
  There's nothing that gets a San Franciscan going like a good old-fashioned art walk. People in other cities are probably under the mistaken impression that...
• Posted Things San Franciscans Like: Spending Money On Their Hair to Culture/Entertainment
  There's not much that is more satisfying for an SFian than a fresh hairdo, and we know this because of how much they are willing...
• Posted Things San Franciscans Do Not Like: The Cold to Culture/Entertainment
  There is only one type of weather San Franciscans like, and it isn't bone-chilling-kill-yourself-50-degrees-or-below-mean-weather. Now, we all know that there are some places like Nebraska...
• Posted Things San Franciscans Like: Their Google Friends to Culture/Entertainment
  I'm not sure that working at Google means much outside the Bay Area, but from the way San Franciscans brag about their friends and...
• Posted Things San Franciscans Don't Like: Thinking They've Lost Their Phones to Culture/Entertainment
  There is not much that the San Franciscan finds more frightening then the half-second between when they start looking for their phone and when they...
• Posted Things That Are Like Death To San Franciscans: Parking to Culture/Entertainment
  There is literally nothing in San Francisco that is worse than parking. It's the kind of place where if you won a free Maserati on...
• Posted Things SFians Like: The Difference Between "Real" Giants Fans And The Other 99.9% Of The City to Culture/Entertainment
  If there is one things that San Franciscans never cared about before and now care about a whole bunch that thing is their baseball team,...
• Posted Things San Franciscans Like: Hummus And Pita Chips to Culture/Entertainment
  Nowhere is it more obvious that pita chips and hummus have become the tortilla chips and salsa of the new millennium than in San Francisco,...
• Posted Things San Franciscans Like: The Blue Angels to Culture/Entertainment
  Like doing floor drugs at French Laundry, you never had a better or worse idea than heading down to the Marina to watch The Blue...
• Posted Things San Franciscans Like: The Greek Theatre to Culture/Entertainment
  I was there on a full-ride scholarship (free tickets) last weekend to see Vampire Weekend, which for some reason both me and my male companion...
• Posted Things San Franciscans Like: Not Being San Franciscans to Culture/Entertainment
  There is almost no person who lives in San Francisco who will call themselves a San Franciscan in mixed company. This is for a few...
• Posted Things San Franciscans Like: Taking Themselves Seriously to Culture/Entertainment
  From the tone of the comments sections on local news sites, to Burning Man, to neighborhood differentiation, "I finally figured out where Upper Haight ends...
• Posted Things New Yorkers Like: Writing About SF In A Patronizing Tone to Culture/Entertainment
  "[San Franciscans] have clothes, but they wear them in private." -- Miguel Lopez, owner of "default outfitter to the Castro tribe" Sui Generis, quoted in...
• Posted Things San Franciscans Like: Observations About Themselves to Culture/Entertainment
  There is almost nothing a San Franciscan appreciates like a well-timed observation about themselves. For those of us actually making the observations about San Franciscans...
• Posted Things San Franciscans Don't Care About At All: Earthquakes to Culture/Entertainment
  Since the beginning of time everyone has known that San Francisco is a bad place for earthquakes. The only people who don't seem to realize...
• Posted Things San Franciscans Like And Also Hate: Bikes to Culture/Entertainment
  It's kind of a chicken/egg scenario when considering which came first: the asshole motorist or the asshole bike rider, but it's pretty safe to say...
• Posted Things San Franciscans Like: The Phrase "The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco" to Culture/Entertainment
  Never will you hear so much local pride in shitty weather as you will coming out of the mouth of a San Franciscan in the...
• Posted Things San Franciscans Like: Their Phones to Culture/Entertainment
  If there is one thing that is more important to a San Franciscan than trying to get a boyfriend, or finding out if NOPA is...
• Posted Things San Franciscans Like: Tattoos to Culture/Entertainment
  People in San Francisco talk about getting a tattoo like they're just doing their job. "(sigh) Well I think I'm getting a tattoo this weekend."...
• Posted Things San Franciscans Like: Roommates to Culture/Entertainment
  There are probably some places where the idea of living with roommates well into your 30s is thought of as a failure on the same...
• Posted Things San Franciscans And The Whole World Likes: Memoirs to Culture/Entertainment
  Luckily for truth we have entered the age of the memoir. Marriage, divorce, prostitution, copious drug use, doing any of those things in a foreign...
• Posted Things San Franciscans Don't Like: Getting Asked To Join Greenpeace to Culture/Entertainment
  Pretty much the first thing you learn when you move to, or even visit San Francisco is that there are a lot of things on...
• Posted Things San Franciscans Like About Bike Messengers: Everything to Culture/Entertainment
  Bike messengers are like the firemen of San Francisco. Not because they are buff or rescue kittens from trees, but because they are universally thought...