theFlats.

spotted today on theFlats..

2010-03-25T14:38:00.000-07:00

the elusive Rainier Raleigh

Police suspect bicycle chop shop in North Seattle storage locker

2010-03-23T12:06:00.000-07:00

Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Last updated 9:42 a.m. PT

Seattle police are investigating a man suspected of collecting stolen bicycles in a Lake City storage facility and selling them on Craigslist.

The man, who is not being named because he hasn't been charged, has a lengthy criminal history including arrests for burglary and bicycle theft, according to court documents. He recently pleaded guilty to an expedited felony charge of second-degree possession of stolen property stemming from an unrelated case involving a bike worth $1,400, court records show.

Investigators say at least one of the bikes found at the man's Lake City Public Storage unit was stolen from Gas Works Park in December.

Shortly after midnight March 16, utility workers on the roof of the storage facility noticed what they described to police as a handful of people stripping bicycles in the vehicle bay. The group was moving dozens of bicycles, they said.

Police stopped three men. The man with the lengthy criminal history, 45, said he owned the bicycles being moved in the storage facility elevator. The man said he'd bought them on Craigslist, had checked their serial numbers and planned to resell them on the Web site. He offered to let officers check serial numbers of bikes in his unit.

When officers got to the roughly 10-by-10-foot unit, they found it "stacked floor-to-ceiling with disassembled bicycles (frames, wheels, accessories) and recognized them as mostly high-value and some specialized bikes," North Precinct Detective Dain Jones wrote in an affidavit used to obtain a search warrant. "The bikes and parts were stacked in jumbles without any reasonable effort at organization or for concern of damage; they were literally piled in heaps against each other."

Police said it was also obvious that the man and his girlfriend, 26, were living in the unit. The woman was asleep there when officers arrived.

"Moreover, they found people obviously living inside other nearby storage units and heard snoring coming from others," Jones wrote. "Some of those 'occupants' even had space heaters hooked up to extension cords, creating a substantial risk of fire."

Jones reported that the officers didn't do a close search of the unit initially, but examined the bikes in the common-area elevator and found the one reported stolen from Gas Works Park. The man suspected of stealing it told police he was surprised because he'd checked the serial number, according to court documents.

The man with the extensive criminal record was arrested for possession of stolen property, but released the following evening. The others at the scene were indentified and released.

Police found the man's phone number linked to several Craigslist posts for a seller of "Road Bikes Galore!!!!!!!!!!!"

During a March 16 search of the locker, police seized 14 bicycles, 20 bike frames and 42 bike wheels. The investigation continues and has not been referred to the King County Prosecutor's Office.

Spotted today on theFlats..

2010-03-22T13:38:00.000-07:00

Is this the next trend, going tube and tire-free? Very bizarre..

Colton Alludes Manhunt

2010-03-19T13:16:00.000-07:00

Police step up hunt for Colton Harris-Moore on Orcas Island

Police comb part of Orcas Island for Colton Harris-Moore

By Jackson Holtz
Herald Writer

EASTSOUND, Orcas Island — A steady stream of police cars with flashing lights were seen Thursday morning racing to the ferry dock in Anacortes to catch an early boat to Orcas Island.

The police were headed to join the latest effort to nab Colton Harris-Moore, the elusive fugitive from Camano Island who has managed to slip away from police time after time.

He's been on the run for nearly two years, and by late afternoon Thursday, he appeared again to be winning the cat-and-mouse game he's playing with law enforcement.

Police would not say what prompted the latest action. The intensive multi-agency manhunt kicked off around 1:15 a.m. and included officials from Snohomish County.

Police on Orcas believe Harris-Moore has been hiding out there since Feb. 10 when a small stolen plane landed in the mud.

Thursday, as the hours ticked by without an arrest, hope of ending the 6-foot-5 teen's time on the lam diminished, San Juan County Sheriff Bill Cumming said.

The search was scaled back by 3 p.m., he said.

“The assets involved in this search will remain close at hand and will be redeployed if the situation warrants,” the sheriff said.

He said 35 police worked the woods Thursday in an all-out push focused on the northwest corner of Turtleback Mountain, the iconic ridgeline that defines the western half of Orcas Island.

Harris-Moore was “believed to be in a very isolated and very rugged area on the west side of the island where only a few homes are located,” Cumming said.

A Snohomish County sheriff's police-dog team and two five-man teams of mantrackers from the Marysville Police Department joined FBI agents and other law enforcement agencies under the direction of the San Juan County Sheriff's Office. A U.S. Customs helicopter searched the area from above, including the mostly uninhabited western bluffs.

“We're out there, and we're active,” Marysville Police Chief Rick Smith said of his team.

Police in camouflage uniforms could be seen going door-to-door to check homes. Other police were seen coming and going from a narrow road with access to what were described as remote vacation properties.

The area is not far from where police suspect Harris-Moore, who turns 19 on Monday, was last believed to be operating.

He's suspected in an attempted burglary at a hardware store in the town of Eastsound on Feb. 28.

On Feb. 10 a plane was stolen from Anacortes and landed off the runway at the Orcas Island airport, about a mile outside town. Hours later, someone broke into an organic grocery store stealing food and vandalizing the security system.

The burglar drew several large footprints with chalk on the store's floor, an apparent reference to the “Barefoot Burglar,” the name some media have used to describe Harris-Moore. He's believed to sometimes commit crimes and run barefoot from the scene, although police say he most often wears shoes.

The crimes in Eastsound led officials to openly speculate about Harris-Moore's possible involvement.

Harris-Moore has been on the run since April 2008, when he escaped a halfway house in Renton where he was serving a three-year sentence for burglaries on Camano Island. Since then, he's suspected of stealing four private planes, two boats and luxury cars. He's also been linked to break-ins at homes and businesses in Washington, Idaho and British Columbia.

If Harris-Moore is responsible for all of the crimes he's been connected to, the total value of property involved exceeds $1.5 million.

The young felon has a following on the Internet and has drawn considerable media attention. The men's magazine Maxim has a feature story on him in its April issue.

I wish I was at this show

2010-03-18T15:26:00.000-07:00

this show.

I think my internets is trying to tell me sumpthin

2010-03-15T16:11:00.000-07:00

theFlats track of the day

2010-03-10T16:57:00.000-08:00

Listen here.

Spotted today on theFlats..

2010-03-10T16:55:00.000-08:00

theFlats track of the day

2010-03-09T18:19:00.000-08:00

Listen here.. thanks Mo.

theFlats track of the day

2010-03-03T14:48:00.000-08:00

Listen here.

Fixed gear $1

2010-03-01T11:19:00.000-08:00

"OK, here's the deal. I just picked up a new track bike and have no need for my old one. It's not the best bike on earth, but it's far from the worst and would make for a perfect starter racebike for Marymoor Park Velodrome events this summer. I'm not looking to get a bunch of money for the thing. But I also have no desire to hand this bike over to some trendy, skinny jean wearing, PBR drinking, ironic trucker hat wearing, eyelined and pierced hipster who will bastardize this fine bicycle by skidding it around the streets in a flurry of critical-mass-wannabe-rebel-neo-emo-poseur fixie nonsense. This bike was built with one goal in mind: to be raced on a velodrome. Not as a fashion accessory. Grow up, get a job, and buy a bike with (gasp!) brakes and gears for riding on the street.

That said, I'll let this bike go for ONE DOLLAR (that's right, $1) to the first person who claims it AND can show me reasonable proof that they intend to ride it on a velodrome. A printout of your racing license, results from races listing your name, etc. etc. etc. Failure to convince me of your intentions will block the sale of the bike, and result in derisive comments flung in your direction, I'm on to you, you $&$@&% hipster!"

Why is teen fugitive Colton Harris-Moore so hard to nab?

2010-02-26T13:32:00.000-08:00

Friday, February 26, 2010

By Jackson Holtz
Herald Writer

"National law enforcement experts say to catch a nimble fugitive like Colton Harris-Moore, police need dedicated teams that can pounce swiftly and move easily across jurisdictional borders.

The outfit best suited to the task — the FBI — doesn’t consider the 18-year-old Camano Island serial burglar a grave threat.

“He’s basically a local burglar, a local misguided kid,” FBI Special Agent Fred Gutt said. “It makes for a good read but it’s not viewed as a high-priority item for us.”

Harris-Moore is suspected of stealing four small planes and crashing each one. The cost of the property he’s believed to have stolen exceeds $1.5 million.

Most recently, Harris-Moore is suspected of stealing a $650,000 private plane from Anacortes on Feb. 10. The plane was recovered in the mud the next morning on Orcas Island. Deputies there also investigated a burglary at an Eastsound organic grocery store."

Full story here.

theFlats track of the day

2010-02-22T19:02:00.000-08:00

Listen here.

Happy Friday!

2010-02-12T11:32:00.000-08:00

Breaking News: Colton's Back!

2010-02-11T15:19:00.000-08:00

Stolen plane, chalk-drawn feet: Teen burglar back?

By GENE JOHNSON

Associated Press Writer

SEATTLE (AP) - A stolen airplane found in the San Juan Islands and chalk-outline feet drawn all over a burgled grocery store suggest that Washington's infamous teenage "barefoot burglar" is back at it.

Sherri Pierson, a bookkeeper at Homegrown Market on Orcas Island, told The Associated Press someone broke into the store Wednesday night, and its owner arrived Thursday to find large chalk-outline feet drawn all over the floor. Cash was taken _ Pierson wouldn't say how much _ and a security system monitor was left in a sink with water running over it.

Two of the footprints were leading out the door, next to a chalk-scrawled message: "C-YA!" Pierson said that if the perpetrator wasn't Harris-Moore, who is suspected in a spate of burglaries in the same neighborhood last fall, it was clearly someone impersonating him.

"We use chalk on our deli board, and he apparently saw the chalk on the fish counter," Pierson said. "He took everything out of our dessert case. We had a whole tray of raw croissants with fillings."

San Juan County sheriff's officials are also investigating a plane from Skagit County that was left at the airport on Orcas Island on Wednesday or Thursday.

Last fall, after a stolen small plane crash-landed at the airport, Harris-Moore was caught on surveillance video breaking into a grocery store. A hardware store, bar, coffee-shop and bank were also hit at that time.

More here.

Shout out to Charles Bukowski

2010-02-11T14:03:00.001-08:00

ANOTHER BED
from: Love is a Mad Dog from Hell

another bed
another women

more curtains
another bathroom
another kitchen

other eyes
other hair
other
feet and toes.

everybodys looking.
the eternal search.

you stay in bed
she gets dressed for work
and you wonder what happened
to the last one
and the one after that...
it's all so comfortable-
this love making
this sleeping together
the gentle kindness...

after she leaves you get up and use her
bathroom,

it's all so intimate and strange.
you go back to bed and
sleep another hour.

when you leave its with sadness
but you'll se her again
whether it works or not.
you drive down to the shore and sit
in your car. it's almost noon.

-another bed, other ears, other
ear rings, other mouths, other slippers, other
dresses

colors, doors, phone numbers.

you were once strong enough to live alone.
for a man nearing sixty you should be more
sensible.

you start the car and shift,
thinking, I'll phone Jeanie when I get in,
I haven't seen her since Friday.

spotted today on theFlats..

2010-02-10T16:11:00.000-08:00

Differing opinions.

German pro Boku87 playing 51 tables

2010-02-09T18:19:00.000-08:00

This kid is sick, he plays 50 tables for 18 hour sessions. He just recently won a prop-bet by running his bankroll up from $100 to $10,000 in a 15 day period by grinding low stakes sit-and-goes, 50 at a time. Watch here.

Somebody give this kid a flats t-shirt.

Shout out to PALO CEDRO

2010-02-06T16:17:00.001-08:00

According to my Analytics someone in Palo Cedro has 12 visits to the blog this week, very cool, but who are you?

Spotted today on theFlats..

2010-02-06T15:58:00.000-08:00

Hair.. if you think this might be yours let me know and I'll be happy to direct you to it.

spotted today on theFlats..

2010-02-04T10:09:00.000-08:00

A good reason not to lock your bike by the quick release front wheel..

Shout out to Sunlamp Film Festival

2010-02-02T16:47:00.000-08:00

I had the opportunity to check out Part 1 of this four part film festival series last weekend. The Sunday afternoon screening of "OUTSOURCED" a romantic comedy set in India, was an amusing first feature-length effort by director John Jeffcoat. John, who was on hand for Q&A afterwards, was charming as he shared anecdotes of his travels and the challenges of shooting in India. Adding to the experience was the amazing spread of Indian cuisine laid out by chef P.R... popping samosas and dipping fritters into housemade chutneys sure beats popcorn (although there was plenty of truffle-popcorn as well). The event went off seamlessly in the capable hands of MC J.B. and I'm looking forward to the next installment of "Sunlamp".

Watch "OUTSOURCED" here.

Free Milk!

2010-02-02T15:36:00.000-08:00

Anyone want to get down on this free milk with me? I was thinking we could pre-funk with some expired milk and then maybe hit up some stale cookies..

"flats strategy"

2010-02-02T13:16:00.000-08:00

Check out what I had to enter randomly to post a bike on Craig's list..

Really bad pictures of a really good time..

2010-01-31T10:40:00.000-08:00

I vaguely remember breaking into Woodland Park zoo after this..

Happy Sunday!

2010-01-31T10:13:00.000-08:00

The Journey is the Reward

2010-01-29T16:06:00.000-08:00

Hell yes it is.

Couch

2010-01-28T13:04:00.001-08:00

Courtesy of N.B.

More here.

theFlats track of the day

2010-01-27T18:27:00.000-08:00

Listen here.

Spotted today on theFlats..

2010-01-26T23:10:00.000-08:00

I've seen a few of these excellent decals on the hill. If anyone spots any more around let me know where..

Keep up the good work whoever you are.

Call your mom she worries!

2010-01-26T23:03:00.000-08:00

Good advice spotted today on theFlats. I called my mom, I recommend that y'all do the same.

Welcome back to theFlats

2010-01-25T21:31:00.000-08:00

B.W. thanks for these great snaps from your trip to Oahu..

Glad you're home. (prints available)

theFlats track of the day

2010-01-25T16:29:00.000-08:00

Listen here.

thanks mo.

Spotted today on theFlats..

2010-01-21T11:17:00.000-08:00

A pack of shopping carts. Poor guys were spooked by the lightning storm last week and separated from the herd. Get on home now little doggies!

Spotted today on theFlats..

2010-01-21T11:10:00.000-08:00

The sun, or a UFO, it's been too long since I've seen either one..

Either way I'm glad to see it on theFlats.

Barefoot Bugular featured in Outdoor Magazine

2010-01-20T09:13:00.000-08:00

I've been following this story for a while now, and Outdoor Magazine has a full length feature story appearing in this months issue. This is the most comprehensive account of the Barefoot Burglars exploits I've seen to date and I recommend checking it out.

San Juan Islands-

"His name is Colt, carrying the gunslinging resonance of the Wild West. He's escaped a jail (albeit a baby jail) and evaded several sheriffs, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and even the FBI for 20 months. He's underdogging it alone in the Northwest wilderness, yet he's followed by bloggers and Facebookers worldwide, the modern equivalent of yesteryear's sensationalized dime-novel hero. During his many close calls, the cops claim Colt has "vaporized," "vanished," and "ran like lightning." When the posse does close in, he allegedly rustles luxury cars, boats, and even planes. And something no one's mentioned is that one of his hideouts on Orcas Island, Madrona Point, is an honest-to-God, can't-make-this-stuff-up ancient Indian burial ground. Hell yeah, this looks like the birth of an outlaw legend."

"Ever the opportunist, Colt found that, along with cans of tuna, people leave all kinds of property in their weekend homes. He helped himself to laptops, cash, jewelry, camcorders, cell phones, a telescope, a GPS unit, iPods, radio-controlled toys like boats and a helicopter, and a Trek mountain bike. There's not much evidence that he pawned the loot, just collected it. Sometimes the homeowners left behind credit cards. Another Colt innovation: Simply punch in those numbers online and you get custom burglary, with overnight delivery of such on-the-lam necessities as bear mace, aviation magazines, a police scanner, and "evidence eraser" software. This was a risky escalation, though, because Colt now had to return to the scene of the crime to collect his packages once they'd been delivered."

Here's the posting I made back in October. Seriously, sombody get this kid a Flats t-shirt.

theFlats track of the day

2010-01-20T09:02:00.000-08:00

listen here.

theFlats track of the day

2010-01-19T17:54:00.001-08:00

listen here.

Spotted today on theFlats..

2010-01-19T17:42:00.000-08:00

A person in a tree..

and my breakfast..

which looks strikingly like the amulet worn in the Neverending Story..

theFlats track of the day

2010-01-18T17:53:00.000-08:00

Listen here.

Spotted today on theFlats..

2010-01-18T11:34:00.000-08:00

excellent little car. I want one.

On the Slog

2010-01-18T11:30:00.000-08:00

the same red pumps I saw, on the slog one week later.

Spotted today on theFlats..

2010-01-18T11:25:00.000-08:00

Fair question..

On the Slog

2010-01-07T16:47:00.001-08:00

"the Eastlake Zoo.. It's a heavenly place to laze through the first Sunday of a new decade: drink a little whiskey.."

If I know one thing it's who has whisky and who doesn't.

Spotted today on theFlats..

2010-01-07T16:43:00.000-08:00

Red pumps.

Spotted today on theFlats..

2010-01-07T16:38:00.000-08:00

Red Oval Classic Lager.

Thanks for the beer and the home game gentleman, enjoy my money you secret hand-shaking sons of bitches.

God Save the Queen!

2010-01-04T22:16:00.000-08:00

Shout out to Flats bike featured on Brooks England.

Thanks to Flats tipster P-dub of theFlats. Beautiful 'God Save the Queen' edition Specialized track bike, decked out in the 'Brooks/UK/G.S.Q." colorway. Keep up the good work and God save the queen.

Spotted today on theFlats..

2010-01-04T11:10:00.000-08:00

10" x 10" pastel and resin on canvas board.

Hello! Please offer Rose a shower tonight.

2010-01-02T11:20:00.000-08:00

It's nice to be offered a shower.

Good work Beth, whoever you may be.

Happy .010 Flats!

2010-01-01T11:37:00.000-08:00

Here's a view of the Space Needle from theFlats.

Spotted today on theFlats..

2009-12-13T13:54:00.000-08:00

Santarchy! I probably saw 50 santas over the course of the day making there way around the hill.

Shooting on theFlats

2009-11-22T23:15:00.000-08:00

This shit went down right outside my window. Heres the story..

"SEATTLE - A man in his 30s suffered a gunshot wound to the chest in a shooting in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood.

The man was walking along in the 700 block of East Union Street when he was shot just before 6 p.m. Friday.

"I heard a bang, and then a pause, and bang, bang, bang," said Matt Irvin, who was outside his apartment at Boylston and East Union when the shots rang out.

Irvin says he saw a man stumbling and ran to his side.

"I told the man to lay down and I could see he had a dime-size bullet hole in his chest, so I tried to keep him calm," he continued.

Other passersby stopped to help until police and medics arrived.

Seattle Police spokesman, Jeff Kappel, says the man was shot at least once in the chest.

The suspect was seen speeding away in a dark sedan.

While there is no official motive for the crime, Irvin says the victim said it was a robbery.

"He said they wanted my watch," said Irvin. "And I looked at the watch on his arm and it was a cheap watch."

The victim was taken to Harborview Medical Center with life-threatening injuries.

The suspect is still at large."

Spotted today on theFlats..

2009-11-18T15:59:00.000-08:00

Very glad to see our neighbors are being responsible.

Spotted today on theFlats..

2009-11-18T15:54:00.000-08:00

I have no explanation for this sign, but apparently if you're looking for coyote, go that way. I dig the funky hand-painted style.. good work Mr.cOyote.

Mac up for grabs..

2009-11-12T14:48:00.001-08:00

I'm posting this 13' white Mac PowerBook for a friend. If anyone needs a project computer, there's a lot of potential in this machine, and for only $200.00 the price is right. Shoot me any email if anyone is interested.

Shout out to 20/20 cycle

2009-11-10T16:42:00.000-08:00

Excellent bike shop just off theFlats. Big thanks to Ben who put a new front wheel and front break on my bike.

View from my window..

2009-11-03T23:44:00.000-08:00

taken at 5:45pm today. Thanks daylight savings!

Spotted today on theFlats..

2009-11-03T23:40:00.000-08:00

Excellent finger-painting.

Tandem bike for sale

2009-11-01T11:33:00.000-08:00

Anyone want to chip in on some tandem awesomeness?

We can keep it locked up at the park..

Missed Connection on theFlats?

2009-10-29T18:55:00.000-07:00

I saw this missed connection from our neighborhood on Craigslist.. just doing my part to spread the word.

Read here.

Spotted today on theFlats..

2009-10-24T09:24:00.001-07:00

Good advice..

2009-10-20T02:03:00.000-07:00

More here.

Happy Fall!

2009-10-19T17:54:00.001-07:00

Best-of-craigslist

2009-10-19T17:41:00.000-07:00

"I tried to be a part time hipster, but it hasn't worked out. I so wanted to cruise through Hillsboro Village palping a wool cap and a Che Guevara Tshirt. I've tried to come slay the last few Critical Mass rides, but my kids always have soccer or want to go see Transformers or something. Skinny leg jeans don't fit me right. I'm too old. I'm can't learn how to do a tail whip or a hockey stop because I'm afraid I'll get hurt and ruin my triathlon season. I like Band of Horses, but it seems that it's just not enough. So, reality has overshadowed irony and nostalgia, and I have decided with a heavy heart to sell my fixie..."

Full post here.

Spotted today on theFlats..

2009-10-19T15:47:00.000-07:00

Excellent homemade magnets.

delicious.

2009-10-17T13:25:00.000-07:00

Break out your rain boots..

2009-10-16T14:28:00.000-07:00

This mammoth puddle was spotted today on theFlats.

And according to our official weather source more rain is on the way.

"Barefoot Burglar" Suspected of Stealing, Crashing Planes on Camano Island

2009-10-13T15:03:00.001-07:00

I've been following this story for a while now, it's so theatrically interesting..

EASTSOUND, Wash. —

In the darkness of this sleepy island town, the beam of a deputy's flashlight caught the back of a lanky teenager wanted in a notorious 18-month burglary spree.

The teen glanced over his shoulder - and vanished into the woods. "He virtually vaporized in front of me," deputy Jeff Patterson recalled.

Such encounters have become all too common on the bucolic islands north of Seattle as police hunt for an elusive thief whose crime spree is quickly becoming a local legend. Colton Harris-Moore is suspected in about 50 burglary cases since he slipped away from a halfway house in April 2008.

Full story here. and here. and here. Somebody give the kid a Flats t-shirt.

Just for kicks

2009-10-13T12:36:00.000-07:00

MASH kids having fun..

Watch preview here.

theFlats on Craigslist

2009-10-11T08:30:00.000-07:00

thanks to tipster who sent me this recent craigslist posting that mentions theFlats.

view here.

Spotted today on theFlats..

2009-10-07T22:19:00.000-07:00

Bike Polo! at Cal Anderson park. (not exactly on theFlats but close enough we'll claim it.)

This is the same tennis court they play dodgeball in on Friday nights.

more here.

Spotted today on theFlats..

2009-10-02T15:50:00.000-07:00

Excellent vintage candy machine.

They also had a vintage ice cream machine in working order (not pictured).

Skinhead ass vs. Really calm dude.

2009-10-02T15:46:00.000-07:00

It really gets good at 2:16..

Watch here. Somebody give the calm dude a Flats t-shirt.

If there's something strange in your neighborhood..

2009-09-29T14:02:00.000-07:00

Who ya gonna call? Dig these scary ghost stickers I've been seeing around.

I ain't afraid of no ghosts.

Here's an idea..

2009-09-25T15:35:00.000-07:00

How about instead of covering up peoples artwork all over the flats you crack down on random fliers on every car in the neighborhood?

Shame on Mercedes-Benz? No sir, shame on you!

This is where all the fliers eventually end up..

And I believe you all know my stance on throwing trash on the streets of my town.

theFlats track of the day

2009-09-25T15:30:00.001-07:00

Miike Snow - Black and Blue.

More here.

Not cool

2009-09-25T15:13:00.000-07:00

'the-man' has been busy covering up theFlats stencil in some of my favorite places, including this previously awesome spot.

Thank god the crack team of city officials took a break from ridding around on segues handing out chicken-shit parking tickets and eating beef-nuggets at KFC to cover this artwork up.

Oh yeah grey interior paint is much better! See what was behind the grey rectangle that was so in need of covering up here.

Nice design on theFlats

2009-09-25T15:08:00.000-07:00

Excellent use of typography, clean design elements and stylish color palette.

Well done gays!

I know nothing about the festival itself but it is a swell poster. More here.

Ultra or Fresh?

2009-09-25T15:03:00.000-07:00

Ultra is obviously awesome, but fresh is always good..

I can't choose!

nawwwt sweet

2009-09-25T14:55:00.000-07:00

I hope the chicken is made with beef like KFC's chicken.

mmmmmm beefy-chicken

Spotted today on the flats..

2009-09-17T19:15:00.000-07:00

Near the north-east corner of theFlats, acrylic on newspaper.

TheFlats have signage

2009-09-16T17:42:00.000-07:00

Nice re-purposing of this abandoned building's sign.

Dig the red-black colorway.

theFlats track of the day

2009-09-15T20:27:00.000-07:00

Walking with a ghost - Tegan and Sara. Listen.

more here.

Excellent bike

2009-09-11T19:26:00.000-07:00

Spotted today on the flats, awesome SF custom build with white Velocity wheel set.

Nobody throws trash on the streets of my town!

2009-09-11T19:17:00.000-07:00

To the ass-hat who left their entire McDonalds lunch on the streets of theFlats: Its your choice if you want to put this garbage in your body, but at least put your trash in a can afterwards idiot.

Seriously, who does this? Apparently the same type of person who needs 3 large cokes with lunch..

Stop corporate murder by spreadsheet?

2009-09-07T15:10:00.001-07:00

I've been seeing these around..

Bonus point to anyone who can tell me what's going on here.

FlatsPick: Moonlight Cafe

2009-09-06T21:31:00.000-07:00

From the smell inside I knew this wasn't just any viet-sam strip mall pho joint.

The ecstasy-like dreamy smiles on local viet families and vegan's alike told me I was in the right place.

Try an order of shredded tofu rolls ($3) to start with and the vegan chicken pho ($6). More here.

theFlats track of the day

2009-09-06T21:24:00.000-07:00

Rob Sonic - Smoke if you got'um

Listen here.

tisk tisk tisk..

2009-09-06T21:01:00.000-07:00

Paint to pavement in theFlats. I've been noticing these tags sprouting up all over theFlats recently. I've counted 9 so far with varying degrees of legibility.

Anyone thought to make this into a t-shirt yet?

Shout out to theSummit

2009-09-06T20:45:00.000-07:00

Many of us pass you daily on theFlats. Only worth mentioning because I met some badass flats locals who not only work here but also give me food, +1.

Many kosher leftovers have found their way into my diet thanks to tippsters at theSummit.

Anyone need a quick gig on theFlats? here.

theFlats track of the day

2009-09-02T21:41:00.001-07:00

Mumford & Sons - The Cave. Listen here.

More on these guys here. Thanks to theFlats tipster who turned me onto them.

FlatsPick: Oddfellows

2009-09-02T21:17:00.000-07:00

I know, I know, everyone loves Oddfellows and its old news by this point, but they do kick ass so they get a a FlatsPick.

More about Oddfellows here.

What's up with this bike frame?

2009-09-02T21:08:00.000-07:00

Its been sitting in an alley on theFlats for as long as I can remember. Someone has been kind enough to steal everything off it except the saddle. The frame is actually really decent.

And why is there popcorn all around it? Bonus points to anyone who can identify which alley the bike is in.

Our little park..

2009-09-02T21:03:00.000-07:00

It would be remiss not to include at least a photo of her.

park hours don't apply to theFlats residents. And from now on drinking in the park is acceptable. Enjoy!

Shout out!

2009-09-01T22:30:00.001-07:00

Morning Star

Flunk

Blind My Mind

Morning Star

Weekly wine pick

2009-09-01T21:57:00.000-07:00

Cheap and good. Check this out for a great second bottle of wine at a great value.
More here.

theFlats track of the day

2009-09-01T19:07:00.000-07:00

Say Hi - SpidersListen here.

This is not what Kryptonite Locks are for..

2009-09-01T18:08:00.000-07:00

More cyclist's caught up in violence. This comes from a tipster in NYC. See the clip here. A bit excessive unless that dude called the cyclists sister a "cunt". We don't really get the whole story from this clip, but the theFlats generally has a don't beat pedestrians with a U-LOCK policy.

theFlats in the Stranger once again..

2009-09-01T17:56:00.000-07:00

.. ok not the stranger, the slog, but you get the point. If you haven't noticed this on the North/East corner of theFlats you need to get off your ass and walk around son.

Maybe the city is trying to encourage bike polo on the flats.. Read the full story here.

Why not to be an asshole on a bike..

2009-09-01T17:36:00.000-07:00

Another report of motorist and biker violence coming to the attention of theFlats thanks to a tipster at the stranger.

Here's the gist: 'As the cyclist pedaled through the intersection, the Cadillac again pulled up next to him. The driver then got out, walked up to the cyclist, and punched him in the face, sending his helmet flying, cutting his lip and damaging his teeth.'

Can't we all just get along? Read the full story here.