Gilded Garbage Can

Quite the trinity...

It’s been a while since we reviewed some of the wit, wisdom, cluelessness, and stupidity of our favorite useless app.

Learn about today's grocery shopping experience and why the initials "TJ" will from now on mean "traumatic journey" to me.

I went to the immersive Van Gogh exhibit recently and I highly recommend the show, but this episode is not about the exhibit.

The “improvement” project to the Van Ness corridor, which is really code for, “we want to create even more dedicated bus lanes to reward the incompetence of MUNI,” began about five years ago and was supposed to be finished in three years.

Recently, the brain trust at the MTA decided, “let’s mess with those evil automobile drivers yet again.”

Let’s start the new year by reviewing the old one, Gilded Garbage Can style, as we look back at the topics covered in 2020.

In looking for inspiring topics to gnaw on today, I moseyed over to everyone’s favorite website – that virtual think tank of keen observation of the obvious – Nextdoor.

There’s an unwritten rule in city politics: Be good at powers of observation...not powers of vision or leadership.

From the "Only in SF" file: SF Public Works, to make it look like they’re doing something important, needs residents to vote on one of 3 garbage can designs as the city seeks to waste money replacing 3,000 existing cans that only serve as vandalism targets.

When it comes to San Francisco politics, despite the assertion that supervisors are nonpartisan, they do fall into one or more distinct parties of sorts and those affiliations come with consequences.

It’s time for another installment of “City Hall hates cars and drivers but loves issuing parking tickets and does everything it can to extort money by tripping you up.”

Block parties, mask narcs, and "Karens" - sometimes the material just writes itself.

Outdoor dining, ridiculous neighbors, MUNI, and the Department of Public Works cannot escape this week's defogging!

Only in San Francisco, would someone be offended by wind chimes.

No matter how optimal the circumstances, the city simply never finishes anything it starts.

Having more bikes and bike lanes will not make SF Copenhagen.

No, it's not about the old TV show...

In SF, "eat better and exercise" doesn't even scratch the surface...

We cover two recent news stories about the city.  And no, they aren't made up...

The city is spending a ton of money on marketing the project, so it can't possibly be good.

There are many things to be thankful for, even in the gilded garbage can.

We answer that age-old question...

They cost a lot of money and accomplish nothing...welcome to the Gilded Garbage Can!

Time to decipher what political promises in the GGC actually mean.

An entire lane of an entire thoroughfare dedicated to a single, unreliable bus?  We must be talking transit in the Gilded Garbage Can!

A city of tech vs a village in Norway - who will win?

There are some good things about San Francisco - this episode is dedicated to sharing them.

Follow me as I describe, in somewhat graphic detail, my ride on the Gilded Garbage Train known to most as BART.

Today, we have fun playing a word association (of sorts) game:  Is it "gilded" or is it "garbage?"

An intro to Gilded Garbage Can, a podcast dedicated to defogging the image that is San Francisco.