Call It Frisco

We’re proud to report that the local chapter of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club Calls It Frisco. And while none of us at callitfrisco.com are actually members of the Hells Angels (in fact, we don’t even ride motorcycles because our moms would kill us) we can only imagine how they might respond if you told them not to call their beloved chapter Frisco:

Tire iron thrashing

Moustache flaying

Leather smothering

Emasculation via scowling

Lightning smoking, heavy metal thundering

Live to Call It Frisco, Call It Frisco to live.

Giving you a nickname, but not an awesome biker one like ‘Triumph Viking’ or ‘Gypsy Jack.’ Instead, it would be a wimpy one like Little Miss Fluffy Pants.

Rock concert pummeling

To-your-butt motorcycle boot applying

Riding around you in a circle until you were really, really dizzy

Pink belly!

So ride on, our asphalt-loving brothers. Keep calling it Frisco. And if you happen read this post, please don’t hurt us.

No politics today, just this poster we found for Frisco brand vegetables. Now, before all your haters out there start flooding us with comments about how we called out the Don’t Call It Frisco Laundromat for naming their business after what they think our city should be called, and now we’re apparently supporting a business for doing the same thing because it fits our agenda, consider the following:

This poster is wicked cool.

And yes, we know it’s for a company in Salinas. And no, we don’t care, because that doesn’t take away from the sheer wicked coolness of it.

As we learned in the last post, Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi Calls It Frisco.  Now his career is going swimmingly, and his support from the Call It Frisco delegation has never been stronger. But what happens when a supervisor doesn’t Call It Frisco?  Just ask Ed Jew.

On the Board of Supervisors website, Jew unabashedly states:

“My vision for San Francisco is one where you can buy a home, start a family business and send your children to neighborhood schools, and live on clean and safe streets.”

The unfortunate result of his vision for “San Francisco” instead of what he could have called a vision for Frisco?  Ed Jew is currently facing nine counts of felony charges including four counts of perjury, three election code violations, voter fraud, and providing false documents when he claimed in candidacy papers that he was a resident of the Sunset district.

Additionally, in a recent statement directly on Ed Jew’s behalf, his defense attorney Bill Fazio, said,

“[Prosecutors] are trying to prove he lived in one location, and we are trying to indicate that no, that is incorrect, his home was in San Francisco, always has been and always will be in San Francisco.” 

If only Ed Jew’s home had always been and always will be in Frisco, this entire debacle could have been avoided.

Well, Ross Mirkarimi, District 5 supervisor sure does.

When I emailed him asking his support for our noble cause, he had this to say:

Now that you reminded me, I may be one of those people who joined the
classes of “Don’t call it Frisco,” I guess I better reexamine the attitude.

Hooray Ross! You’ve got the Call It Frisco contingent’s vote!

To get your supervisor to reexamine his or her attitude about Calling It Frisco, email them today. 

We’ve been getting an awful lot of mail lately from the haters out there saying that even though we love Frisco and call it home, we still have no right to Call It Frisco because we’re not originally from here.

What can we say? This is clearly a piece of ironclad logic, and impossible to argue with. And so we acknowledge defeat in the face of truly superior reasoning, and fully endorse the view that you shouldn’t listen to anyone’s opinion on Calling it Frisco who was not born and bred in our fair city.

Incidentally, Herb Caen was from Sacramento, and didn’t move here until he was 20.

All of us at Callitfrisco.com would like to congratulate Barry on becoming the all-time MLB home run leader. And this historic winner knows another winning cause when he sees one, as evidenced by this officially sanctioned MLB T-Shirt:

So let’s hear it for Barry, borrowed interest, and Calling It Frisco!

Normally, we let comments live in the comments section. But we recently received a comment from someone (identifying him or herself only as “one of them surly natives”) on the Frisco Manifesto that we thought so perfectly illustrated the reason to Call It Frisco that it deserved its own post:

And we live in Frisco. Like so many other Friscans, when we first moved here…

What was that? Yes. Exactly. You moved here.

Probably, oh, 6 or 7 years ago? When everyone on earth was moving to San Francisco, diligently jacking up our rental prices and then (after their beloved dot coms kicked ‘em to the curb) snatching up all of our jobs? And now that you’ve been here for awhile and you’ve figured out the fine art of layer-wearing, you think you own the place?

Don’t trivialize our history. Don’t trivialize our local pride. This is about more than “a madman” and “1953 values.” This website is ridiculous. I miss the days when there weren’t so many idiots on the internet using predesigned dime-a-dozen layouts, and when there weren’t so many transplants parading around San FranCISco like big self-righteous jerks.

Yes we happened to move to Frisco during the dot-com boom. But none of us moved here for the dot-com boom. We moved here because we wanted to live in a fun, vibrant, open minded city. And unlike so many other people who deserted Frisco after the boom (and despite being out of our jobs) we stayed because Frisco was our home.

And it is intolerant comments like the one above that makes us want to shout Call It Frisco from the hilltops.

Imagine, if you will, that the so allegedly enlightened poster of the above rant, instead of referring to the little ol’ fun-having Call It Frisco crew were speaking about Mexicans, Blacks, Italians, Irish, Jews, Gays or any other group that has been persecuted for “snatching all of our jobs” or “jacking up our rental prices.” And yet we’re the ones “parading around like big self-righteous jerks,” indeed.

This attitude is precisely why we should all embrace Calling It Frisco and celebrate the culture of tolerance and fun in the city we love.

And now, back to our regularly scheduled programming.