Comments on: More Than A Cell Phone?

By: New Home For Your Ironic Lost Pet Flyers « Mission Mission

New Home For Your Ironic Lost Pet Flyers « Mission Mission — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 20:54:36 +0000

[...] Looks like Valencia is getting some official flyer postin’ posts on those halfsie telephone poles. With this increased visibility, maybe now we’ll finally find Grease Lightnin’ the parrot or stop staring at our cell phones. [...]

By: Hoy en la Misión: 06.01.10 | MissionLocal: Spanish Language Version

Hoy en la Misión: 06.01.10 | MissionLocal: Spanish Language Version — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 02:00:45 +0000

[...] publicó este letrero de “por favor tome uno” con un mensaje amable. Me hubiera gustado verlo con mis propios ojos mientras estaba con algunas personas que viven casados [...]

By: Case of the Mornings « San Francisco, For the Win

Case of the Mornings « San Francisco, For the Win — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:40:49 +0000

[...] more to life than a cell phone? [...]

By: Morning Wood: stiff links « instaboner!

Morning Wood: stiff links « instaboner! — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 14:25:45 +0000

[...] It’s a little SF-cheesy but I love this. [...]

By: The Dinosaurs Are Alive on Valencia – Mission Loc@l -- San Francisco Mission District's News, Food, Art and Events

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 08:49:22 +0000

[...] posted this “please take one” sign with a nice message. I kind of wish I’d seen it myself — while in the company of a few people who are glued [...]

By: Ariel Dovas

Ariel Dovas — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 01:57:38 +0000

I just thought it was too on the nose. But I like things that aren’t ads better than ads. Maybe someone should follow it with something more thought provoking?

And in this person’s defense, I did almost exactly this kind of thing when I was about 7 years younger.

By: stiiv

stiiv — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 01:33:41 +0000

So who would the new Yoko Ono break up?

By: M.A.C.

M.A.C. — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:33:27 +0000

this is more like a young Mark Morford on acid.

By: john b.

john b. — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:58:24 +0000

you guys should leave 17-year-old, idealistic, white girls alone, both sexually and otherwise.

By: M.A.C.

M.A.C. — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:04:15 +0000

you can almost hear them thinking “I’m the new Yoko Ono” while they tape it up.

By: Brillo

Brillo — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:41:52 +0000

the whole thing fails because if I weren’t already noticing the world around me, I wouldn’t notice the stupid sign in the first place.

By: sam

sam — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:34:56 +0000

I gotta agree with Devin. Sure there is a point to be had, but the whole tone of it smacks of superior than thou, pretentious, smug bullshit. Yuck.

By: Devin

Devin — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:43:17 +0000

UGH, I saw this on 16th and Guerrero and even though I am not some iphone toting-permanently connected-cell phone carrier, it still just made me scoff. Stupid smug shit like this is how SF gets such a lame reputation. Something about the way it’s written you can just feel the creator sitting back and enjoying the smell of their own farts. There’s something to be said about reconciling the difference between the visual/tangible city around us and the increasingly intangible technology tapped world online with cellphones, but I think it’s lame when someone has to remind you of it. I was actually on a nice walk when I read it and it just made me lament the escapist idea that technology is some sort of alienating distance between us and interaction. I feel like it’s increasingly the opposite of that, connecting people and making casual friendships more multifaceted.

By: Dolores

Dolores — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:08:35 +0000

love it.

By: Blanche Du Blah

Blanche Du Blah — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:22:20 +0000

and may I add, LOOK UP when you walk and text? Seriously people…