Hundered Year Old Earthquakes are the new awesome

This week, San Francisco marked the centennial of the 1906 earthquake and fire. You know - the huge quake that killed hundreds and burned most of San Francisco to the ground and left a quarter of a million refugees homeless? If you read the papers, they will tell you that we remembered the occasion with "a ceremony and a parade that mixed somber reflection of the past with a celebration of the city's present."

Everyone got up at 4am (since that is when the big quake of 1906 hit) and marched down Market Street to commemorate the earthquake. I decided to stay in bed, and now I am glad I did, because all the photos I have seen look like every other parade San Francisco has ever thrown - scantily clad women kissing hundred-year old men.


San Francisco never was very good at that whole being somber thing.