If you somehow managed to skip the headline, here's the shocking explanation for all of this -- Rubberta is a ball made out of rubber bands.
She goes where Guiterrez goes, so when he's at work as a manager at Tuggey's Hardware on 24th Street in Noe Valley, that's where Rubberta is. When he's out for a spin in Alyssa, his 66 mustang named after Alyssa Milano, that's where Rubberta is. When he's hanging out with his pet rock, Mighty Whitey, so is Rubberta.
All this attention on the rubber band ball has actually started to make Guiterrez's wife jealous, he admits. But deep down, Guiterrez believes his spouse has feelings for Rubberta, too. "Some days I'll catch her putting rubber bands on when she thinks I'm not looking," he says.
Recreation and Park Department Spokeswoman Lisa Seitz Gruwell will be leaving city government after just over a year on the job, department General Manager Phil Ginsburg announced today.
Speaking at this afternoon's Recreation and Park Commission meeting, Ginsburg said Seitz Gruwell plans to take a new job as an executive at the Democracy Alliance, a coalition of wealthy donors that supports liberal causes. The group was founded in 2005 with major backing from billionaire George Soros.Do you like that warm feeling you get knowing that random acts of crime-ness are being committed around you every moment of the day? Well, if so, you're in luck. The latest addition to the city's amalgam of crime-mapping web sites, www.crimemapping.com, lets you type in an address, tinker with the zoom and the date range, and find out exactly what signs of urban malaise were reported to the police in the area of your choosing. Alternatively, you can sign up to get email alerts on the latest hijinks close to you. Cue the paranoia.
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We checked out the SF Weekly's location here in SoMa, for example, and we learned that since last Friday, we've been sitting just blocks from a strong arm robbery and assault at the Caltrain Depot, and an act of vandalism at 4th and Bluxome -- all denoted with cute little icons: A red fist for assault, a magic purple needle for an intoxicated person, a carnival mask for a burglary. If only all crime was so whimsical.
Perhaps it's just our ancient office computer, but we had glitches getting the dialogue boxes with the details of the crime to show from behind other frames on the site. Nevertheless, it's a nice tool to get a handle on the frequent crimes in your hood. Just don't blame us when you start to considering a move to Fairfield.
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