SwimFinsSF

Love / Hate

I know they buy the products that pay my salary but I’ve gotta say that some times the movie production companies make me a little nuts… Two examples of why came up just this weekend. First, Kevin and I went downtown last night to meet Randy and Rick for dinner at Blupointe (which was very good). Unfortunately, after letting Kevin off at the restaurant, I made the mistake of turning down California Street which landed me right in the middle of traffic caused by some production having streets in downtown SF closed off. It took me a good 20 minutes just to get myself back out of the snarled traffect and parked. Dinner was great after that but I did need a couple of cocktails after dealing with traffic saturday..

The other is this cool new BART station that suddenly appeared in Duboce Park this week.. We were all excited that they had some how quietly dug bart tunnels that would come by our house and maybe through the city – it would make getting to the airport and down town SO EASY from home. Unfortunately I spent a while this morning googling bart to see what the plans were to no avail which lead me to walk down to see if there was info on the site.. No such thing – but I did see the signs saying that there would be filming in the park on Wednesday… Dohh… So t hey built a big concrete fake subway exit in the middle of our neighborhood park for a film shoot… Long as they put the grass back the way it was (or better) I suppose its OK but still kinda odd..

I suppose its one of the costs of living in a pretty city like this one .. but I’ve learned to cringe when I see the star wagons..