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SanFranlandia? Send Us Your Finds

If someone's recently suggested that you "put a bird on it," it's likely they've fallen for Portlandia, the hilarious new IFC series that pokes fun at our neighbor to the north.  We know San Francisco can give Portland a run for its plaid shirts on this whole self-parody thing, so we're on the hunt for SanFranlandia items ripe for the teasing. Seen a fixed gear bike swim against the stream on The Wiggle? Listened in on an attachmnent parenting conversation at Cafe Gratitude? Been collateral damage of a coffee war? We want to hear about it in the comments or at tips@7x7.com.

We'll be posting a series of SanFranlandia items as they come in (photos, overheards, videos), starting with this gem from VeganKitchenTV. We love our vegans and all, but watching these two dissect a vegan Paxti's pizza is straight sketch comedy.


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Who is Andrew Zimmern? The funny part is all the weird San Franlandia people on this thread talking about "all the rich people" as if they are somehow separate from this. HELLO - IF YOU LIVE IN SAN FRANCISCO, YOU ARE RICH!! This city is expensive as sh*t. I am so tired of middle class people in SF talking about "the man" when they are actually the man themselves. Give me a break, and take a look in the mirror, and be able to laugh at yourselves. You folks take yourselves way too seriously.

I think a cool sketch would be one where really rich people use their smartphones to hunt down 100 things that make them fat and that this magazine told them to eat. They could do those semi-orgasm faces and noises that Andrew Zimmern does.

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You could parody the people that actually MAKE the things that the magazine appropriates for their version of San Francisco culture. I mean, yeah that could work too and it would probably make your readers feel better, cause you know, the first one would make them look lame.

Um laughably.... people like fat Wanda are sooo San franlandia. They take themselves way too seriously lie the folks Carrie brownstein and Fred armisen parody. Ok so a few other things ripe for sf landia:

Gorilla running shoes
Urban farming
Self righteous Noe valley parents
Composting
Coffee vigilantes
Rich middle class people that live in the mission and consider themselves "authentic" and "down"

The super powers of the average vegan pictured in the video - to bore non-vegans to death with their veggie-r-than-thou tastes.

San Francisco is a post-college town and these two are proof positive. Oh my God, I had to pinch myself to stay awake...

Ha, these hypersensitive comments and digs at 7X7 completely prove the point. Talk about self-parody.

Why don't you come to bayview and hunter's point and point out some of our tired stereotypes? I'm sure it will go over great.

OMG! Here's one: I recently saw this trying-too-hard magazine that attempts and fails to walk a line between being Crate & Barrel upmarket and "hip" and "with it."

Like, the magazine just ends up looking like the magazine equivalent of a junior PR rep in an Anthropologie dress looking uncomfortable while hunting for a seat at Zeitgeist? You know?

Sooooooooooooooooooo SanFranlandia!

Really, 7x7? How about a parody of the Marina? Or the FiDi? Or culture that you're actually part of? Because that MIGHT be funny? Maybe?

You're not vegan, you're not bike culture, you don't know these people, and so you're attempts are just lame and embarrassing.

I actually came across this blog/club by way of the featurette you just ran about "power couple" Derek Fagerstrom & Lauren Smith...so I don't know if you want to poke fun at people you just recently heaped with praise and admiration, but come on - a whittling club?! This HAS to figure on the SanFranlandia list:

http://bleedingthumb-sf.blogspot.com/