Monday, September 23, 2013

Get It Together SF Chronicle


Behind The Head Family Shot



This is what I had to say to him about that.

To Whom It May Concern,









And take my picture off your site.

Thank you.


There. Now go back to your lives citizens.


  1. please let us know what he has to say when he gets his head out of the ground!

  2. thank you, and yes please let us know if you get a response.

  3. thanks ase, y ctx - if it wasn't for the auto tweet posts wouldn't have seen it til later. wrong local vocal woman to mess with.
    LAMESAUCE! keep us posted pls, will now be multi sharing this..

  4. Being born and having lived most of your life in SF shouldn't give you more rights than anybody else. This is a rather weak argument.

    1. It certainly gives her more knowledge and authority to talk about what the Mission is like than someone who just moved here and seems to think it's entirely populated by rich hipster twentysomethings.

      And copyright law gives her *all* the rights over her photo, which the Chronicle has yet to respect.

    2. You are correct. My right to safe housing, equal access to public services, stable neighborhoods and civic governance that respects my rights and protects my city are the same as everyone else's. As are my copyrights.

  5. Wow. I was hesitant even to give the guy the click, but the stuff he is trying to pass off as humorous is just stupidity.

  6. What Meli said -- they picked the wrong woman to steal a photo from (to illustrate a boneheaded myth-perpetuating blog post) -- I'm proud to know you and thrilled to have your fiercely articulate local voice call bullshit on nonsense like this . . .

  7. this person keeps harping on "bad journalism", but being a journalist herself, maybe she should invest a little time in honing her own writing skills. that letter of hers was painfully long-winded and it took a lot of willpower for me to slug through all the drivel to try to find out what her point was...

    1. 1) I am not a journalist. I am an occasional blogger who has put many things in place on this blog to ensure that we do not use the words or images of others without their consent. I am proud to say that in the 4 years this blog has been in place we have never once been challenged on our use of any image here because of this.

      2) it is a long letter. I am angry. A photo of my family, originally taken for an article on the importance of family cycling in SF was taken without permission to make fun of families in the city I love most in this world by a news source that should be reporting about how those families are being forced out of this city.

      3) If you don't like it, don't read it. We will not hold it against you. Not that we could when you post secretly so you can be snarky.

    2. Adrienne, I'd like to rescind and apologize for my earlier comment, because after looking at your first paragraph again, it turns out that it was my own lapse in reading comprehension skills that led me to believe that you were a journalist yourself.

      Knowing that you are not allows me to see your post in a different light, and your letter no longer elicits the feelings of pretention, self-aggrandizement, and hypocrisy that I got from it the first time when I read it under my false premise.

      the goal of my comment was not to antagonize you, and i can certainly see how it came across that way- and for that i'd like to say i'm sorry. have a nice day.

  8. SFGate is now crediting your photo as "Special to the Chronicle." I think you ought to send them another letter. As a SF native, from different neighborhoods but with the same fierce love of the city, I think you're dead on.

  9. Replies
    1. which Anonymous? i made a post as Anonymous, but you realize that we aren't all the same person, don't you?

  10. ...abolutely lovely...bravvvo ~ !...anyone who can't see and feel this poetic honesty is spiritually illiterate or walking dead. Thank you