As I regularly show off my spandex body suit in the jazzerobics classes at the 24 Hour Fitness on Post and Van Ness, I know the area pretty well. When I don’t encounter DPW employees getting hummers in city trucks on Hemlock, I notice things like new restaurants going in.

Apparently at 1161 Post something is a brewing. Construction has been in progress there for the last few months and now it appears things are really ramping up as PG&E were digging up a trench to install what I’m assuming is more power to the place. When asked about the place, those guys told me it’s a going to be a new two story restaurant. Additionally they also told me that the sky is blue and my body suit is sexy like hot caramel, to round out their “no-shittedness” of knowledge.

I’m curious as to what it is. Upon glancing in, not much was revealed and while the interior was okay from what I saw, it had the same general charm as a Round Table Pizza establishment. Maybe I’m wrong. It’s cool that something new is coming to the area, but dammit, I wanna know what it is! Oh and the construction card just had the name of the contractor and nothing else.

It was cold last night as I walked back from a meeting up on Hyde and Washington at Cafe Meuse. Once I hit the Saint Francis Hospital at Hyde and Bush, I saw this steam vent billowing out in to the night from up on the building. It was an interesting, slightly eerie sight on an otherwise fogless night.

Okay, so we sorta slacked on this blog for the last two months (ahem). The only interesting part in this was that we found out that people did indeed enjoy the blog as they wondered where we went. This of course further compounded the issue as we realized that despite not getting paid for this, we were letting down at least two if not three people.

The problem is based around the fact that tenderblogette and I are often out of the country for what somewhat resembles work. We just got back two weeks ago after being gone for about two months. While this may sound glamorous to some, it sure as hell is not lucrative and honestly, we’re not going to be moving out of LoinLand any time soon. Plus, we actually like it here despite being overrun by idiot children, their angsty angular haircuts, and the constant roar of their princess limos.

We also have the problem of not wanting to just echo stuff that gets reported on in the news about the Loin. For one thing, it’s often negative. For another, you can read that stuff pretty easily without us. We really want to report on what we see, hear, eat, drink, and step in. So, when you’re not in town, that makes it pretty hard to write about anything.

One of us is actually leaving again and will be gone for the rest of the year and the other of us could very well do the same if this @#%! company could make up its mind. So, here’s what we’ll try and do:

1) We’ll write when we can although this may mean that there will be long pauses in activity (again.)
2) We’ll put the call out for anyone who wants to write on this blog as well.

Think about it, you could reap all the benefits of local blogging glory without having to pay WordPress and GoDaddy’s blood money for hosting a domain. All you need is time and an ego, preferably more of the former, although we ain’t picky. We’ll even help you as much as we can with HTML and general bloggery if you’re new to the medium.

So if you want to write, hit us up at thetenderblog@gmail.com. The community and this great nation will thank you, although the praise will be disguised as comments that question the lineage of your mother.

As was mentioned and then left to sit there for two months (more on that later), the trees on Polk Street are still in danger of being chopped down for no other reason than to uglify the crap out of the street. There’s probably some liability wank in there as well, but I never buy that.

For those who can, attend the hearing on September 30th (yeah, this Wednesday) at 5PM in City Hall, Room 416.

I’m hoping that someone there will take the lead as to what you do at these things, seeing as how I’ve never been to one due to the fact the Academy of Art never had to put up anything for public review. If you want more details, you can read all the signs that are up at Bush and Pine. Heroes, this is one instance where we can indeed make things better in our beloved Loin. See you there unless I fall in to a deep, dark bar beforehand.

Appears that area brunchers will be SOL this weekend as awesome New Orleans cook-in-the-Loin, Brenda will be closing down shop to run off an get married. We managed to grab a bite this week and discovered that yes, it’s just just as kick ass as it always has been at Brenda’s. Good to know that there are indeed constants in the world still.