Star Simpson

This church on Valencia at Duboce is brand new, just being completed. I don't think I've ever seen a *new* church before, I think of them as stuff we used to build in the old days.pic.twitter.com/I4AyAni8i8

I cannot think of a more depressing gift idea. (Yes, I am walking across San Francisco, and you're all coming with me)pic.twitter.com/CjqOdTZYQt

At a stoplight, a lady in her car rolled the window down and leaned out to attract my attention. "You're really handsome, and don't you forget it," she said. Picture is unrelated, from the antique store at Valencia and 14th.pic.twitter.com/AVPQf8QInv

At Fell and Octavia an ambulance is parked, doing nothing. I stopped to ask what the deal is. He said they improve coverage by parking at 15 separate spots in the city, but at holiday times there's far less of them. "Don't get seriously injured on New Year's," he said ominously.pic.twitter.com/Yp1nTXz6BJ

8-lane Geary punches through San Francisco like a bullet track through a body, a gross relic of car-centric urban planning. It runs through the Fillmore, which was further destroyed by openly racist development policies in the 60s.pic.twitter.com/FcOX1mGdW0

This tree in Lafayette Park is decorated every Christmas with laminated pictures of the dogs who live in the neighborhood. Some are current residents, some are memorials. They save them every year, so every year there's more.pic.twitter.com/RY3tD48jY7

My headcanon of this crumbling majesty at Laguna and Jackson is that it's inhabited in only one room by an elderly widow, once wealthy, now fallen on hard times, plus her loyal manservant with whom she has an unspoken platonic love affair.pic.twitter.com/539vGpzD2v

This angular concrete monstrosity was built in the 80s and nobody will ever think otherwise. It was rejected as a filming location for Blade Runner because it was "too depressing".pic.twitter.com/GqzrwEqKCr