Sue found this on the San Francisco Craig’s List. The Mission district was / is a working class Latino neighborhood but is gentrifying rapidly.

STUPID HIPSTER KIDS ARE RUINING THE MISSION!!!
what are all these
tight pants wearing,
fixed gear bike riding,
shitty “indie” music listening,
buffalo exchange shopping,
chuck taylor wearing,
pabst blue ribbon drinking,
cigarette smoking,
purse carrying,
spend time on their hair making it look messy,
freakin douche bags,
doing in the mission?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

PLEASE END THE GENTRIFICATION OF THIS ONCE LATIN COMMUNITY!!!!!

Click on the image to view full-sized on Craig’s List. It’s a hoot, esp. the description of the messenger bag contents. Then scroll down to view the Hipster Bingo card.

Of course, maybe it was posted by a hipster, wouldn’t that be ironic.

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The wrinkly white-haired guy is probably not happy to hear this.

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Conveniently located near Denver International Airport so passengers can see it when flying in or out. How thoughtful.

Heck, think of the possibilities. Paint enormous signs on unused buildings. Prune forests so they spell out “Drink Coke”. Terraform mountains to spell “Advil.” Because it’s really important that we never be able to go anywhere or do anything without an advertisement being there.

Yes, this one is new, different, maybe even amusing. But in a few years, if everyone decides to mimic the idea, then…

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Federal regulators have ordered southern California-based Vineland National Bank of Corona to not accept any new brokered deposits, which are large amounts of money seeking high yield CD gains bundled by a broker from multiple sources.

After the announcement by the Feds, it’s a given such deposits are now fleeing Vineyard at warp factor 9 speed, which will only weaken them more.

You already figured out they made huge amounts of bad loans to real estate developers, right?

I’ll be checking the FDIC Failed Bank list after close of market tomorrow to see if they dodged the bullet or not. (The FDIC takes over failed banks on Fridays and announces after close of market.)

The regulators’ conditions also include a requirement to find “experienced and competent individuals” as chief executive and chief credit officer. Vineyard fired its CEO in January.

Ouch.

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The energy will come from active and passive solar plus geothermal. So, not only will electricity and heating be generated completely from renewable sources, it’ll be done on site. Sounds like it could become a resilient community, a concept John Robb posits as a model for the future.

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Spend some time at Doc 40, Mick Farren’s blog, you’ll enjoy it. Great graphics (like the one above), trenchant political commentary, all mixed in with an insiders view of rock and roll and sf.  He was in the Deviants, Pink Fairies, and lots more bands too. Plus he’s an sf / horror / vampire author and recently did a book about Bomp Records with Suzy Shaw.

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Countrywide dogs howling over bare bones

Just when BofA maybe thought all was well with their purchase of Countrywide, suddenly a pack of dogs wants to (and may well) force Countrywide into bankruptcy to grab assets. Why? Because Countrywide didn’t tell holders of certain of their convertible notes that, due to them being bought, the notes could be cashed in. BNY Mellon as a custodian holder of these notes has sued.

And what is unique in this case is the pack of dogs (Countrywide bondholders), now have a vested interest in pushing Countrywide into bankruptcy so they can get some of the meat (Countrywide’s servicing unit), instead of worthless bones (Countrywide’s Debt).

This must be that “invisible hand of the marketplace” capitalists are so proud of.

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