Just reading this week's Bay Guardian and stumbled upon this beautiful, poetic, piece of writing:

"They (the artists) serve as an indigenous piece of the Bay Area's art history in the unstudied way they incorporate the experiential drive of Bay Area conceptualism (see Tom Marioni's 1970 The Act of Drinking Beer with Friends Is the Highest Form of Art), the revered Bay Area figurative school, and perhaps a gentle counterbalance to the scarier politicized street robotics of Survival Research Laboratories."

But wait, it gets better....

"While the funky, assured projects the current generation of artists creates may not suit everyone's tastes – this is material rooted more in an "up with people" spirit, and sometimes a messy, childlike ethos, than in the shiny, distanced intellectual aura of art theory and media critique that informs much other contemporary art – no one can argue the fact that the generous neighborhood spirit of their work is appealing. Whether it's "Think globally, act locally," or the same process in reverse, there's a certain bumper-sticker enthusiasm to this ad hoc
artistic movement, which is being called everything from "urban rustic" to "The Mission school."

As I don't speak masturbatory wank-off, I have no idea what they're talking about. Can someone please explain it to me?