Welcome to zpub.com

A San Francisco website since 1994 … and now based in the Bayview of SF  … an area of the city with good weather, parking and a neighborhood vibe.   

The only message I have to the World is … the better off people around you are doing the better off the rest your Life will be.  And I support the US Postal Service in the 6 days a week they deliver mail (down with the term “snail mail”.  Best to all in the New Year of the horse.

  • Gratta Wines/ with Bar & quality Food   5273 3rd St. / 2022 Lane St.  Saturday trash cleanup 4PM … work for an hour cleaning up trash and get a $20 comp and meet people in the neighborhood  grattawines.com  

Senator Alex Padilla actually responds to mail sent to his office … CAL Gov Newsom does not … A major audit of the $100 million FireAid concert fund has exposed Governor Newsom’s disaster relief scheme, but revealing how fire victims were denied direct cash assistance while politically connected nonprofits received millions.  Not to mention 4.6 mil$ per month of state money for phones that were not even used by state employes.  Not exec material … just a pretty Getty boy. Will he run for president in 2028?   

Willie Brown while mayor of San Francisco actually answered letters sent to him … former mayor Breed never did.

MTA’s idea for Underwood between Lane and 3rd St … removing parking and trees, creating a space for homeless tents, and a place   for drug and illegal alcohol selling … plus more trash dumping.  And they did not even include a trash bin in the proposed plan.  Bad planning and glad it was voted down.   
Thanks to Pallavi from SFMTA for taking my concerns into account and wish you the Best on this Project.  Look forward to street improvements in the Neighberhood as the project evolves.  


The Arts in San Francisco and the Bayview …

11/16 Go Zohran Mamdani … the new mayor of New York.  Wish you the all the Best Zohran … you may be the future of the Demo Party.  Your  campain was the only one I contributed to in 2025.

And they want to stop the T-line on 3rd Street for 2 years for a bridge that seems to be working just fine?  Is this the best SF city gov can do? Or is a way for contractors to make money and make kickbacks to city hall? see article in the SF Standard.  Islais Creek Bridge Rehabilitation Project at sfpublic works.org

in memoriam …

Nikola Tesla (1856-1943 (aged 86) … interesting guy – no wife or kids

Lenny Bruce (1925-1966 age 40) 1 kid Spouse  Honey Bruce  (m. 1951; div. 1957) Stand-up comic

Alberto Rangel  51, was fatally stabbed on Dec. 4 2025 by a patient at Ward 86, where Rangel had worked since 2021. He died two days later. He was slain while working as a behavioral health clinician at SF General Hospital.

Agatha Christie (1890-1941 age 85) Novelist with 66 books.

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941 age 59) wrote A Room of One’s Own (1929)

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959 age 91 – 7 kids 1 wife) and Frank Gehry (1929-2025 age 96 – 4 kids 2 wives)  Architects of their times.

Andy Warhol  (1928 – 1987 age 58 years) “Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art”. He also stated that “Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art”.

Kate Steinle – July 1, 2015, 32-year-old Kathryn “Kate” Steinle was shot and killed while walking with her father and a friend along Pier 14 in the Embarcadero district of San Francisco. The guy that fired the shot that killed her (José Inez García Zárate of Guanajuato, Mexico, was an illegal immigrant who was deported from the U.S. a total of five times, most recently in 2009).  And he got off scott free thanks to a George Soros (1930 – ) 3 wives, 5 kids with a net worth of over 7billion US$) district atterney – Memo to Soros:  … what are you thinking/doing about the war crimes going on in Gaza right now?.  Last words from Kate to her father, “I am dying” … so sad for what happened to a human being killed by an “illegal” in the USA all with an unsecured US gov issued firearm.

Ansel Adams  (1902- 1984 age 82) Photographer and on the board of the Seirra Club.

Eugene E. Petersen – (1924 – 2005 age 81) UC Berkeley professor of Chemical Engineering and  Kathryn Petersen  (b.1919)

Clarance Towers.  (1943 – 2021 age 78)  Photographer – His Rodeo images are on the wall in the Jazz room on 3rd St in the Bayview.  A Wonderful human being and miss him.

Halyna Hutchins (1979 – 2021) age 42 … shot and killed by Alex Baldwin on the set of his movie “Rust.” so Sad.  Alex (b. 1958 age 67) … you are a great actor – but think you should be more careful when you aim a gun at a filmaker on your set.

Kevin Moran – killed by the National Guard in Iala Vista in Santa Babarba in the 1970s.   article about

Richard Johnson (1928 – 2009)  age 81 … math teacher at Miramonte High School in Orinda CA. Great guy … Still miss him – part of the old school that still believed in teaching.

Emperor Norton  (1918 -1880) age 61.   … had a currency created for him by local printers … and if he did not lose it all trying to corner the rice market and lose it all no one would remember him. 

Charlie Kirk  while not a supporter of his views – do not think he should have been Killed for voicing them.

The real Bob Black wrote The Abolition of Work

update 1/30/2025  
Wish everyone the Best in the New Year ... the year of Fire Horse.  Bob bob@zpub.com
This site is dedicated to Rodney King (b. 1965 died June 17, 2012 (aged 47)  "Why don't we all just get along"