Ramona Emerson

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• 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...
• Posted Things San Franciscans Like But Do Not Know How To Deal With: Heat to Culture/Entertainment
  It's not the heat so much as the dry heat. It's just too much. -- 7:00 a.m. Saturday June 12, 2010, Inner Richmond Now I...
• Posted Things San Franciscans Don't Know That They Like Yet: Bustaurants to Culture/Entertainment
  "World Fare, America's first official bustaurant, opened its doors in Los Angeles this past March. "- Salon.com Like Brangelina and the maltipoo, a Bustaurant is...
• Posted Gothic A-Cup Dolly Parton: Karen Elson At Cafe du Nord to Culture/Entertainment
  Karen Elson is one of those rare people who can be a model, marry Jack White on the Amazon River, and make a crowd wait...
• Posted Appealing Events: Karen Elson At Cafe Du Nord to Culture/Entertainment
  Okay, I know we don't like Karen Elson, because she's a model and she married Jack White in a canoe on the Amazon River....
• Posted Things That Make San Franciscans Depressed: Sundays to Culture/Entertainment
  Is there anything more depressing than the low melancholy that rolls in at 5 o'clock on a dreary Sunday afternoon? Probably some things yes, but...
• Posted Things San Franciscans Like: Best Of Lists to Culture/Entertainment
  There are not many things that get San Franciscans more excited than the annual release of the Best of Lists. This is probably because there...
• Posted Things San Franciscans Like: Bay To Breakers to Culture/Entertainment
  If you've never been to Bay To Breakers you've probably never had to set an alarm on a Sunday so you could make sure to...
• Posted Things San Franciscans Don't Like: Stopping For Pedestrians to Culture/Entertainment
  There is nothing that appears to confuse San Francisco drivers more than a pedestrian in the crosswalk. They will look at you with this particular...
• Posted Things San Franciscans Like: Boutique Anything to Culture/Entertainment
  The word 'boutique,' like the letter 'i' can be put in front of any other word (hotel, winery, law firm) to make it instantly...
• Posted Things San Franciscans Like: These Boots to Culture/Entertainment
  If there is one thing that unites the women of San Francisco it is their unabashed love for the 'Intyce' boot by Steven by...
• Posted Things San Franciscans Like: Blogging to Culture/Entertainment
  San Franciscans love technology, intellectual pursuits, and their own lives, so it stands to reason that they would love to blog. Since many San Franciscans...
• Posted Things San Franciscans Like And Then Do Not Like: Houseguests to Culture/Entertainment
  Things San Franciscans Like: Houseguests, Day 1 In theory, San Franciscans love to have people from out of town come visit. On the first full...
• Posted Things That Are Common In San Francisco, But That San Franciscans Still Can't Seem To Wrap Their Heads Around And Also That They Hate Very Much: Cash Only to Culture/Entertainment
  Many San Franciscan business owners seem to have completely neglected to keep up with advances in the field of payment methods. They either don't allow...
• Posted Things San Franciscans Like: Getting Out Of San Francisco So They Can Look At San Francisco to Culture/Entertainment
  If there's one thing San Franciscans need to do every once in a while, that thing is "Get out of the city." While San Franciscans...
• Posted Things San Franciscans Like: Old Fashioned Light Bulbs to Culture/Entertainment
  Yeah, we all like light, it helps us see things, and if we're a cat we like to lay in a patch of it and...
• Posted Things San Franciscans Are Not Sure If They Like: The Sit/Lie Law to Culture/Entertainment
  There was a time when the criminalization of sitting and lying down was only used against people in the service industry, but now, in an...
• Posted Everything I Need To Know About Life I Learned At The Cave Singers Show At The Independent On Tuesday Night to Culture/Entertainment
  Previously: Appealing Events: The Cave Singers At The Independent Tonight Shoulder nooks are an evolutionary advantage for concert viewing. If people were shaped like rectangles...
• Posted Appealing Events: The Cave Singers At The Independent Tonight to Culture/Entertainment
  I first saw The Cave Singers in a coffee shop in college. It was raining, much like it probably is right now, and the place...
• Posted Things San Franciscans Like: Complaining About The Dating Scene to Culture/Entertainment
  "I've never had as much trouble finding people to date as I have here," a woman wrote. "I moved to the city after a nasty...
• Posted Things San Franciscans Like: Ike's to Culture/Entertainment
  That makes Ike's the people's choice, and this sense of ownership mixed with fervor has brought repercussions. On one recent Saturday afternoon, the crowd was...
• Posted Things San Franciscans Like: Knowing The Owner to Culture/Entertainment
  People in San Francisco love to go places where they know the owner. They also look for places in conversations where they can say...
• Posted Things San Franciscans Like: Knowing How To Ride The Bus to Culture/Entertainment
  There's nothing that says SAN FRANCISCAN like knowing how to ride the bus with the bored confidence of someone who understands that public transportation...
• Posted Things San Franciscans Like: Brunch to Culture/Entertainment
  San Franciscans probably didn't invent the concept of eating a meal that was a combination of breakfast and lunch, but the zeal with which...
• Posted Things San Franciscans Like: Putting Their Nasty Junk On The Sidewalk* to Culture/Entertainment
  Although it hasn't been as rigorously documented as something like gravity, it's a pretty well known fact that San Franciscans like to share. They...