The president of the Hells Angels of San Francisco was shot and killed in a bar brawl. Mark Guardado, 45, was found with multiple gunshot wounds around 10:30 p.m. outside a bar about a mile from the group’s clubhouse. He was taken to San Francisco General Hospital and died shortly after.

The suspect left the scene on his motorcycle after struggling with Guardado and eventually shooting him. There is suspicion linking the shooting to rival motorcycle club, the Mongols.

The Mongols have feuded with the Hells Angels for a long time. The San Francisco chapter of the Hells Angels is one of the oldest in the country.

Post # 2 “Take it from the Top”

I landed in San Francisco with a precise picture of the future; a collegiate digi-diva in an international port. Take about options! That is, until I saw the giant fat lady peeing a waterfall through her pants around the corner of my new apartment. I live in the dirtiest part of the city where, NO LIE, every step outside is like playing hopscotch over dirty needles! Not quite the picture that my real estate broker had painted…

Soon enough, though, I got this phone call from BlinkerActive and I was all excited because I just KNEW that I had found my in. Finally, the chance to put all my education and logged production hours to good use. I was super excited…and I had no idea what they even did. So we schedule a phone interview and it goes something like this: all the music that we now get off on iTunes, Napster and Rhapsody - among hundreds of others - comes from someone who placed it there. OBVIOUS. Rather then searching EVERYWHERE for that new goddamn mix CD your “best-friend” gave you, you walk over to the comp in your underwear and say to yourself, now what was that jam I heard last night? Pop on the computer and after a few clicks, you’re listening to the whole album. So easy, we take it for granted, right? That’s because of digital marketing companies like BlinkerActive who use their music industry prowess (word-of-the-day) to navigate through 100s of digital retailers and promote music online. Sooo, we get instant access to the new jams, and the bands ACTUALLY GET COMPENSATED!! It’s pretty neat huh? So, anyway, that’s what they do and in turn what I do these days.

It’s funny because I used to work for Newbury Comics - big time comic and CD retailer - and now I get to see music sales from both sides of the street. Biggest difference is that during the Christmas season, no one is going to pull up to my office desk and hold me at gun point. Uh, yea a little bit safer here…And no snow!

Anyway, here’s what we’re tapping our feet to…

Hed PE don’t give a fuck. For that matter, neither do I. However, virtually hundreds of other people do, and VideoMatt was there in San Francisco over the weekend to catch it all on film.

I especially like the behind-camera blabbering at 2 min… Luckily, I don’t give a fuck.

These days, the term “homeless” has become something of a misnomer, used to describe basically anyone fucked up enough to spend most of their days out in public bothering people. However, the majority of tax-payer funded relief programs targeting these “homeless” take the term quite literally, funneling millions of dollars into housing and shelters that become nothing more than safe havens for bums to come down off meth or sleep off their Mad Dog hangovers. The epicenter for this sort of bureacratic idiocy has long been San Francisco, who today announced, that BY GOLLY! MAYBE ALL THOSE HOMELESS PEOPLE AREN’T SO HOMELESS AFTER ALL!!!:

The mayor and others are now admitting what the grand jury reported - that a majority of those on the streets are not homeless. The head of the city’s homeless program, Dariush Kayhan, estimates that 50 to 75 percent of street people live in supportive housing.

“We just warehouse addicts,” said the grand jury’s Stuart Smith. “Granted, it is a nicer place for them, but it doesn’t address the problem.”

In short, the jury is reflecting the views of many San Franciscans who made the choice to live here. They understood that housing and taxes would be higher, and so would the cost of a meal in a restaurant. They understand and believe that the city needs to provide for its poorest homeless residents and don’t begrudge what the grand jury says is $186 million a year in city funds spent to finance homeless programs.

But, they ask, can’t someone stop the panhandling? And, given all the programs and services, is it unreasonable to ask those who are being given supportive housing to start making some effort to be self-sufficient?

“People’s conduct has to be held to account,” Supervisor Bevan Dufty said. “They can’t engage in conduct that is hurtful to them or others.”

ACCOUNTABLE?? You mean they should try to not be complete, abject fucktards? WHERES THE COMPASSION IN THAT??????????????!111/1/1/1

Opio is a member of underground legends Hieroglyphics and Souls of Mischief. His upcoming album, “Vulture’s Wisdom Volume One” is set to drop July 15th. You can listen to tracks before it hits stores on Opio’s MySpace and I recommend listening. Straight outta Frisco, Opio is on the Freshly Dipped Tour this summer so check the dates, get dipped in sauce and roll to see his mad lyricist skills. This boy knows what he is doin.

Dates and more information on the Hiero site!

Why ‘Reka?: Nine times out of 10, when you tell someone you’re going to Eureka (hopefully, you’ll never have to say “I’m going to Eureka” more than 10 times in your life) they figure you’re probably talking Yreka, the humble piss-stop town off of I-5 North on the way to Oregon. But true scions of Northern California know that Eureka with a “eu” is a very, very different place than Yreka. The word Eureka is greek for “I have found it,” but a lot’s changed since the time someone was excited to find Eureka. The gold that gave it it’s name ran out a long time ago, and the other two rape-able natural resources that have kept Eureka from becoming a complete waste of time and space, timber and fish, are both quickly heading that way too. In fact the only things that Eureka seems to have in abundance these days is weed and crazy ass homeless people, and not necessarily in that order. (more…)