A Bay Area radio talk-show host has launched a mission to bring down San Francisco’s official flag, calling it an eyesore and uninspiring.
Roman Mars, host of the design show “99% Invisible” on KALW, said the city’s banner, adopted 115 years ago, carries all the “big no-nos” of flag design, and he believes it’s long overdue for a makeover.
Mars said most San Franciscans aren’t even aware the city has its own flag. It’s only visible in a few select places, most notably City Hall and the Ferry Building.
“It’s ugly,” Mars said. “It’s mainly just not used. I think that’s the biggest tragedy of it.”
Fuck you, Roman Mars. A lot of people like the San Francisco flag. I like it a lot. A lot of other people like it a lot. Now I wish I had never donated to your pledge drive. I want my $20 back.
It's got a cool phoenix. It's got the badass motto in Spanish. So what if you can't read it from the ther side? Step around to the front and stop being such a fucking baby.
What's more, Roman Mars doesn't even fucking live in San Francisco. He lives in Kensington. I had to Google it just because I always forget where Kensington is. It's apparently "an affluent unincorporated community and census designated place located in the East Bay, part of the San Francisco Bay Area, in Contra Costa County, California, United States." If you want to redesign flags of cities you don't live in, Roman, why not pick San Diego or Houston or, for God's sakes, Huntington, West Virginia? (Scroll down and gag.)
Maybe it's because, as far as I can tell, Kensington doesn't have its own flag! That explains why Roman wants to meddle in flag business in cities where he doesn't live. Let's fix that! Maybe if we design a flag for Kensington, Roman will just leave us alone. God knows we have enough problems already.
My first inclination was just to go simple.
Or maybe something that reflects the local populace.
But to attract the jaundiced gaze of Roman Mars away from our beloved San Francisco and to his own municipality's flag, we had to go big. Here it is, your new Kensington, California unincorporated community flag:
I like it! It really says "Kensington" to me. LOOK OVER HERE ROMAN MARS!!! WE'RE READY FOR YOU!!!!
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As a former Berkeley resident, I can assure you that Kensington is a garbage pit and not even a real city -- they're just too uppity to admit they're part of El Cerrito, the same way that Piedmont is too fancy to be part of Oakland. Train might even be *too good* for Kensington, honestly.
DAAAAAAMMMMMMMMNNN that is some serious shade GG. Hope Kensingtonians don't hold a grudge.
oh snap
Hear, hear.
This goes very well with my constant running twitter joke of Train hatred. (The hatred is not the joke, but the discussion of Train is.)
Additionally, because of my job (no, I don't know how I got here), I once had to research what one must do to make a city/municipality "official" flag, and the answer is...nothing. You can just declare it so. So I think this is enough, legally, to make that Kensington's flag. It is thus. Good work, TK!
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