I mean, there were probably like five posts a week about Bender’s back in 2009 when KevMo and I hung out at Bender’s all the time.

Fair enough about Chino’s, but in the context of what many of the posts on this blog are about (and have been about for a while) it’s easy to think this is advertising. I’m talking about how your favorite few spots seem to come up over and over again and include pricing, specials, etc. Maybe that’s just what blogs are about now and it’s totally off base to criticize someone for writing about the same businesses over and over again, but this blog wasn’t always like that (and didn’t rely so much on that content).

At this point, though, I think the hating is tired (speaking about myself), so I will try to be constructive and positive from here on out. I always appreciate the different stuff on here (like the drama talk, the coverage of politics in the Mission or protests or whatever, the weird shit (like the laundry story), the show reviews (when you had them), the photography (even if it’s not always great), etc. I also think the frustration about the changes the Mission (and the city) have undergone gets taken out on you simply because you’re writing about the new places, people, activities, etc., which isn’t fair. Whether it’s good or bad, people see this blog (and you as an extension of it) as representing a certain part of the city that many have an attachment to. You have a good amount of traffic for a neighborhood blog and that’s part of why there’s a backlash when you feature businesses. But at the end of the day, it’s just a blog and you should do what you want to do.