san francisco #3
Friday, November 7th, 2008stapling comics at needles & pens
As much as I love San Francisco, I’m appalled that prop 8 passed. I voted in California (on paper I’m still a resident there) just so I could vote no on prop 8 so fuck all ya’all who voted yes. (although those types of assholes probably don’t read fart party) Newsom may have not cleaned that city up (in fact it looks dirtier than when I left it) but he did more for gay rights than any other politician and to have prop 8 pass is a huge step backwards. BOOOO California, no wonder everyone thinks we’re assholes.
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November 7th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
you didnt step in the huma poop did you?
November 7th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
Good comic but once again, your sketch is just fantastic!
November 7th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
word. prop 8 is an embarrassment. We (California) are the new Kansas.
November 7th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
Florida had the same thing, but it was Amendment 2. And, of course, to my dismay, it passed. But I kind of expected it what with living in one of the notch holes of the bible belt.
*sigh*
November 7th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
I don’t know if Florida is a notch hole for the bible belt, I always told people that the Bible Belt was “just above us”, and we’re actually living in the pubic area of the country, just b’low it.
Yeah, I know, said I wouldn’t be annoying. I couldn’t resist.
November 7th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
More SF stories. You spent a week there. Please tell me there’s at least 5 more comics coming.
November 7th, 2008 at 7:04 pm
I’m moving to San Francisco in 2.5 weeks, and one of the clearest parts of my mental picture of the town is the various kinds of poop on the sidewalk. This comic made me anticipate my move more than I already was!
November 7th, 2008 at 7:24 pm
I have the finger to a group of prop 8 supporters. I’m a political activist!
November 7th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
I meant “gave” not “have”. Oops…
November 7th, 2008 at 7:33 pm
You should tell the mixed race prop 8 supporters that they’re in untraditional, unnatural marriages that reject god’s natural plan and confuse children, and the only reason they’re married at all is because activist supreme court judges went over the voter’s heads back in 1948.
November 7th, 2008 at 7:34 pm
Then you should give them the finger, just like you did.
November 7th, 2008 at 7:41 pm
I am sad for prop 8…boo on ignorance. boo.
November 7th, 2008 at 10:44 pm
KACHUNK is just the right sound for a long arm stapler. Nice work Wertz!
November 8th, 2008 at 12:05 am
i take heart in the fact that few people our age(at least few people i know, and i live in the midwest) are against gay marriage, so i can’t imagine this lasting terribly long
November 8th, 2008 at 12:07 am
Beautiful touch on the background bum “No? Fuck you, bitch!”
Meanwhile our hero skips merrily onwards …
November 8th, 2008 at 12:51 am
haaa, awesome
November 8th, 2008 at 1:13 am
yeah i liked the fuck you bitch guy too, we have bums like that in melbourne
November 8th, 2008 at 1:24 am
I thought we called them “homeless people” in Australia?
November 8th, 2008 at 1:39 am
They probably are homeless in Australia. SF homeless are totally bums, though. How can you tell the difference? A homeless person says something like “Hi, can you spare some change please? God bless you.” A bum says “Hey cunt! Give me some money! Hey! Come back here! Fuck you! FUCKING BITCH!” I’m quoting what one said to me, and I’m a man.
November 8th, 2008 at 2:07 am
panel 5 is thanks to me.
November 8th, 2008 at 4:12 am
It’s annoying that prop 8 passed, More annoying still is that Oregon effectively passed the same thing a few years ago. Did Washington do the same thing yet? If they do/did the entire West Coast will be one giant asshole.
November 8th, 2008 at 10:47 am
jordan- if you don’t know much about SF and want some info before you move there, email me! I LOVE talking about that city to a ridiculous degree.
Austin- yeah, it is your fault. thanks a bunch asshole, I have wasted so much time! I’m just waiting for Luke and Larelia to stop fucking around and get married already. geeez.
Franzy- Matt covered it pretty thoroughly. There are definitely “homeless people” in San Francisco, who I feel incredibly bad for, but once you’ve been yelled at, chased by BUMS in wheel chairs and even spit on, it’s really hard to feel any compassion. SF turns people into heartless bastards, but it’s really just a survival mechanism you have to adopt there in order to be able to just walk the streets and go about your business. The day you step in a crackhead’s condensed, once a month shit, whatever shred of empathy you once had will go right out the window.
well, SF isn’t really THAT bad, just, avoid Market and 6th at all costs. I spent a lot of time in the Tenderloin because some of my favorite bookstores and bars are there, which kind of warps my view of the rest of the city since the tenderloin is like the crack covered asshole of california. oh but i love it so…
November 8th, 2008 at 11:56 am
Avoid Sixth and Market? What about Tu Lan? One of my favorite S.F. stories centers on that corner. Dave Thomas, founder of Wendy’s hamburger restaurants, was a guest on a radio talk show. A caller railed against the loiterers in the Sixth and Market Wendy’s. Mr. Thomas told the guy that there was another Wendy’s at Third and Market if he was afraid of the Sixth St. crowd and that if he ever fell to a point where he could only afford a 99 cent menu item and needed to get out of the weather for a little while, he would always be welcome. I’ll never forget that.
November 8th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
I campaigned for weeks against Prop 8, going to rallies and organizing some of my own. I was incredibly depressed when 8 passed, and have been having a hard time being happy for the great things that happened on election day, such as high-speed rail, animal rights, and that new president guy. What was his name? I wasn’t even paying attention to that.
November 8th, 2008 at 5:40 pm
I encountered a totally awesome homeless guy recently. He had one milky, blind eye, and when I gave him money he winked and said “I’ll keep my eye on you!” I kinda wanted to take him home.
November 8th, 2008 at 11:16 pm
Sigh Even though im not old enough to vote, yet i still think that lesbain and gays should have the same rights as straight people. I mean what if we made our own prop 8 except it would be called prop 8 II and it would threaten to ban straight marriges!? What would they think of that??!! huh!?
November 9th, 2008 at 1:14 am
i think prop 8 passing prevents luke and lorelai from tying the know. or am i misunderstanding the issue/the show???
November 9th, 2008 at 1:14 am
by know i meant knot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
November 9th, 2008 at 2:57 am
1. I too (sadly) left S.F. and vividly recall the is-it-human-or-is-it-canine guessing game. I laughed out loud when I saw the arrows in panel 4.
2. Somehow I managed to make it all the way to election eve without realizing how well Prop. 8 was doing … I never thought it would pass in California, and I was too busy helping the Obama campaign to notice the pro-8 surge. Now we have to scramble to fix it.
3. Gilmore Girls was a show I would never watch during season 1 despite friends insisting it was great. Let’s face it, the name blows. But it’s a smart, funny, well-written show, and I now have two seasons on DVD and don’t care who knows it.
November 9th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
more power to you huntingbyrd
November 9th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
I moved to NYC from Berkeley in 2007, and I’m heading back when I can afford it. I highly recommend the East Bay to people that want to be near SF but not IN it. But then, at 29, I am an old geezer that can’t handle the big city anymore. (or maybe NYC’s extremity has just worn me down).
Also, the Gilmore Girls was awesome. Fuck a bunch of hating hipsters.
November 10th, 2008 at 7:29 am
well, the thing about the east bay is that while it’s kinda the equivalent of Brooklyn to Manhattan, but few people in brooklyn actually even like manhattan. I, on the other hand, LOVE san francisco and if I’m going to move back to the bay area, I want to live IN it, not near it. BUt i’m not knocking the east bay, however I’d rather live in Oakland than Berkeley.
November 10th, 2008 at 9:52 am
Julia, something you might find interesting:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_8_(2008)
“The California Secretary of State will publish the official final election results on December 9, 2008.[1] As of November 7, 2008, 4:43 pm PST, approximately 2,738,695 vote-by-mail and provisional ballots (20% of the total cast) remain uncounted by county election officials.”
So technically, the vote that you cast might actually have a chance to make a difference.
November 10th, 2008 at 5:56 pm
I’m currently watching Gilmore Girls.
I have to say, the fast-talking dialogue is occasionally engaging! O.O
November 13th, 2008 at 4:05 am
On Prop 8:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27650743/
March 30th, 2010 at 1:00 pm
Good banter is not to be sneered at.