Hey man we’re gonna come up and see you, for the third Wonkette Drinky Thing and Meetup Happening. It’s far out! When, where, why? Let us find out together!
It will be at 7 p.m., Friday, July 13. The dive bar has not yet been confirmed, but we’ll put that in our reminder post a few days before our party. We will be meeting at the 540 Club, 540 Clement St., at Seventh Ave. Your Wonket does not know where this is! Maybe it is horrible! We are super-excited.
In the meantime, San Franciscans, you do not have to donate to our Beer Fund since you are already getting a party, but don’t you think it’s the right thing to do?
Now let us all get in a groovy mood!
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I left my heart in San Francisco…..
Seriously, has anyone seen it? I had it on Lombard Street.
That's nothing. Somebody left their lungs on a sidewalk in LA.
(OK, they weren't human. But nobody knows what species they WERE from!!!!)
Check the local vendors. I saw something sitting next to a broken toaster….
Could be in the Castro District by now. When did you lose it?
Good thing you didn't drop it on Polk Street. You'd have to have kicked it over to Van Ness before you picked it up.
Was Cheney in the neighborhood? Because, if so, I have a bad feeling….
If it's on the west side of the hill, it's covered in tranny fluid (any kind). If it's on the east side, probably brake fluid…
This has a different meaning here in SF.
Of that, I have no doubt, which is why I said “any kind”
Here I thought you were talking Dexron v. Mercon rather than appletini v. mimosa.
Or, y'know…
Wow. Way to play down stereotypes, Wonkette. What next, a trip to a Portland coffee shop to read Trotsky?
MAYBE.
Do you have Trotsky-dar or something!?!
Trotsky was the good Communist.
It must be opposites day.
(T being a Nazi collaborator and all).
from Wikipedia:
An early advocate of Red Army intervention against European fascism, in the late 1930s, Trotsky opposed Stalin's non-aggression pact with Adolf Hitler.
Hardly a collaborator.
The non-aggression pact was to stall for time while building up defenses against Hitler. A necessary and life-saving move.
Meanwhile, my understanding is, Trotsky was cutting a deal to give Ukraine to Hitler in exchange for setting up Trotsky as ruler of the remaining USSR.
Temporarily, for sure, in Hitler's mind.
I put in a "2.5x sawski" for Portland.
Now I'm off to a tea house to read about raising chickens!
"I knew Trotsky. Trotsky was a friend of mine. You, sir, are no Trotsky."
Stalin: Hey Leon, can I pick your brains.
Sounds awesome!!
I've lived in Portland long enough that this happens often enough to be called Trotsky Tuesday.
But it can't hold a candle to Mao Maondays.
Is that on the Portlandian calendar?
Yes the updated calendar was sent out early January from the Great Patriotic Center of the Proletariat. Did you keep your address up to date?
I can smell the B.O. in that pic from here.
Ew.
Oh…and I'm laying out my leather chaps as we speak.
Is it okay if I donate when the Wonkette party comes to DFW? (I bet I never have to donate, right?)
You might be eating those words. I've got an aunt (who used to be an uncle) in DFW. I love that town!
How 'bout Pahrump? Most people can't spell or pronounce it.
Darn it. This means I have to wash some socks. Hey, I will buy a round or two. I might "drink" those words!
You'll never come to Phoenix. Le sigh.
No one willingly goes to Phoenix.
Well Tucson, then. Hmmph.
NO.
Tell them to stay away!
Absolutely under no circumstances come to Tucson.
Fucking hippies….having more fun than me…enjoying life….not hurting people….HOW DARE THEY!
Welcome back, —
*reads profile blurb, it's been a while*
— "French Bitch from Hell" and kudos – you're not dead!
Happy to be back.
Castro or GTFO.
Fidel or Raul?
Oh, wait …
Don't know if Mechanics is still open, by that name. Was very trendy in the late 70's early 80's and had a great out door patio overlooking the Delores Mission.
If you'd come to SF 27 years ago, you could have stayed at my place.
Mr. Peabody and I will be right over.
No problem. I saw an ad in the local classifieds looking for a time travel partner. Be right there (been right there? willen have beening right there? time travel grammar is hard)
This is why it's called TENSE.
I don't know, man. San Francisco in the mid-80s? That's just askin' for trouble.
Last Saturday was in the mid 80s, but it's cooled off since then.
WORDS & NUMBERS SHOULDN'T HAVE DOUBLE MEANINGS.
YOU DON'T HAVE TO SHOUT! *sobs*
Dr. WHO?
Or my dorm room in Berkeley back then. The kids on our floor used the floor party money to buy weed. It turned out to be bad stuff. Not that I partook. True story.
…and for the all-important I-29 corridor, Fargo, Sioux Falls or Omaha?
Damnit, buttsechs wins again :(. Guess racism and illiterate hillpeople aren't the same draw they use to be…
If buttsechs wins, the tear wrists have lost! Rejoice!
I have nothing snarky to say. I'm just excited. I puked a little of my mushroom tea up in my mouth.
so then mushroom tea is a real thing?
oh, indeed it is, an old Northwest favorite!
'tis indeed! An old Northwest favorite!
Boise! Boise! Come to beautiful Idaho and we can all go TP Larry Craig's house!
I am going to be in Boise next week!
What kind of toilet paper do you think Craig prefers…the same kind as they have in his favorite airport bathroom stall?
What's the brand of toilet paper the Koch brothers sell?
Nice segue: Here's a list of common Koch brothers products to nevah, evah buy:
Angel Soft toilet paper
Brawny paper towels
Dixie plates, bowls, napkins and cups
Mardi Gras napkins and towels
Quilted Northern toilet paper
Soft ‘n Gentle toilet paper
Sparkle napkins
Vanity fair napkins
Zee napkins
Georgia-Pacific paper products and envelopes
Lycra
Stainmaster Carpet
I have family in Boise.
You say Boise. I say Hailey. Let's meet in Mountain Home.
Yeah, down by the river
Down by the banks of the river Charles
Aw, that's what's happenin' baby
That's where you'll find me
Along with lovers, buggers and thieves
Aw, but they're cool people
Well I love that dirty water
Oh, Boston you're my home
Oh, you're the number one place
i always thought it was Lovers, Muggers and Thieves.
i stand corrected…
I think it depends on whether it's the original or Dropkick.
It may very well be. I grabbed the lyrics off of a lyrics site, and they often have misquotes.
Dirty water, bitches…go sox!
That might be worth a drive up from LA
Is Nepenthe still there on the PCH?
Oh fuck, NEPENTHE. Big Sur is my favorite place in the entire world. And I got so wine-drunk at Nepenthe I couldn't eat my ridiculous delicious dinner. :(
Not that you need the upfist on this, but, yeah, Nepenthe.
Oh right, and yes it's still there.
Miss Editrix, a quick question if you will:
Can we pay a donation in person? My pitiful, inconsistent, and generally unreliable income does not allow me to make use of these newfangled "credit cards" you speak of…
Yes, it is.
Sis, I will be in California in November. Will you be there?
Baby, if you are here I will be here. Natch!
Take me with you? I'll chip in for gas and such…
Callyson, that would be the best!
I have tickets for the Chargers v Ravens game and we could get together that weekend.
I'm in!And I hope it's OK to root for the Chargers (Pittsburgh native here, root for my Steelers and whoever plays against Baltimore…)
Check out my reply to Limeylizzie on this thread to make this happen. This could seriously be fun!
Sure, where do you live?
Silver Lake, but I can come to you. We should totally do this!
Shit, I am in Silverlake as well! Franklin Hills to be specific.
Do it! You can wear your french resistance outfit…
As a decorated veteran of the Detroit "event", I can assure you that it will be worth the drive.
PLUS SEVENTY!
"The coldest winter of my life, was the summer I spent in San Francisco".
–Mark Twain
Or not. (Iwas also heartbroken to learn, a few years ago, that Twain never said "History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes" or "Wagner's music isn't nearly as bad as it sounds" (which he did occasionally say, but always attributed to its originator, Bill Nye)
Bill Nye, Science Guy? He must be the guy looking for a time traveling partner…
I have found, after a decade out here, the best way to explain the weather here to folks from Back East(tm) is that August and October are switched out here.
It's warm today, I didn't even wear a jacket!
It hit 98 on the waterfront in Jersey City today. Blistering with all that humidity we have there.
Yeah, and it always rains in Portland.
Now we are never gonna be able to out-gay this.
Just have a get-together at the republican convention.
Tampa Airport Bathroom Bingo
Convention Center Luggage Lifting
Fire Island libel!
What the penis, no Wonkette staff are coming to Seattle but they're all gonna go to San Francisco, the literal ass-crack of the US? I mean seriously, if the Northeast is the US head and Florida is like the forearms, San Francisco and LA are right at the butt. Pacific Northwest is the tail.
Didn't you pay attention in geography? Florida is the limp dick of the nation, not the forearms. Crikey!
Even then, San Francisco is the butt! It's even got that open bay going for it.
Ok, fine, SF is the cloaca. Butt, you do realize LA and SF are 400 miles (640 km) apart, don't you?
You didn't give us much notice on Seattle before you just cold organized it yourselves!
Well it's one of our faults and it's not Seattle's!
Ha! We've got bigger faults.
'SOK. Weejee has the Editrix No Be Here thing covered. At the very least we will have some pictorial representation of you. We'll make sure said likeness is placed in all manner of compromising, er, situations, in the sidewayz pics. Don't worry, your likeness will have a great time. It's the no-hangover way to completely lose an evening.
We're just that awesome. And what I mean by that is, Weejee is just that awesome.
I am seriously impressed. Spontaneous self-assembly rocks.
That's how we roll, man. It's How. We. Roll.
Consider the chootspah you'd show by infiltrating Brownbackistan! You can even do it the low-risk way by DrinkyThinging in Lawrence, the blue island in the Red Sea!
Woo Hoo!
MissTaken is doing her happy dance!
You are a vision of loveliness, MissTaken.
Naked?
If only they had done this while I was out there with you last week.
A Wonkette party in San Francisco is like a pimple on an elephant. Maybe it is interesting, but who is going to notice?
Dermatologists?
Well, yes, those sick perverts.
Skin freaks. Along the lines of all shoe salesmen being foot fetishists.
James Gumb will be at San Francisco Wonketting?
But they have such beautiful words, like "rosacea".
Veterinarians?
The attendees?
Hitler? All of'em, Katie?
Say, will Ken drive up from the rancho?
He'll walk.
Awesome. Friday the 13th and a few days before Mercury goes Retrograde, so the vibes should be interesting. Can't wait.
Oh, c'mon! You're ignoring the low-hanging fruit! Uranus will be stationary!
Is that a butt joke?
In a posting about San Francisco? Would I stoop so low?
I'll bring one of my telescopes! Saturn on a Friday!
♫Stoop a little lower now♪♫
Would it require bending over?
It seems like every gosh darn day that there's some kind of once in a lifetime event going on up in the sky.
Nah, Mercury goes retrograde alla time.
Is this the dawning of the age of aquarius? I am an aquarius. I'll take some dawning; but hold the age.
Dawn you now your gay apparel?
The hippies used to wear flowers in their hair. Now they're so old, it looks like they're wearing flour in their hair. Sigh.
I thought the flour in their hair was from the money with bad vibes – sourdough.
do not talk about me like that. It is true- I used to paint flowers on my face with Yardley eyeshadow, wear suede fringed vests and wide bell bottoms- now I have a wide bottom and flour hair
L to the O to the L!!!
I vote for Martuni's on Market Street. Soup bowl sized martinis for 6 bucks or so.
" The dive bar has not yet been confirmed…."
I know a nice little place in China Town that also has an excelent Jasmine tea for the designated drivers. It is the best outside of the real China, I'll bet.
There are still dive bars in SF?
Hmmm…Ms glasspusher and I are celebrating our 15th anniversary around then…better to go to Tahoe the weekend before so as not to miss this…
Here's a good place to check out. They're always doing parties.
http://21st-amendment.com/
Good beer!
There's a 21st amendment bar in SW DC. It's a crappy hotel bar.
"Fireside Chat" beer! Damn libs.
Good beer but not necessarily a dive or conducive to large crowds – unless Wonkette can score the upstairs bar?
DULCE!
If anyone is interested I'll organize a Bukowski Memorial Bar Crawl in the dives of San Pedro.
I'll come!
Last night/I dreamt of/San Pedro…
Hell, with a couple weeks notice, I'll drive down.
Damn, I'm in Palm Springs but that might be worth the haul. Would we run into Mike Watt?
Mike Watt and the boys would love to come! I'll call Raul the drummer now.
And I'll call Mike!
We can go to 'The Rebel", "The Indian Room", "The Spot", "Godmother's", "Harold's", "June's Bar" – and read Bukowski poems!
Smuggler's Cove!
Seriously (well, not very) anybody coming to The City for this event (or for any other) be sure to visit the Tonga Room. It was going to be closed when the Fairmont went condo. That's on hold – but in my heart of heart's it's only a matter of time.
Also – for that WW II I'm-going-off-to-War-last-night-in-town vibe, check out the Top of the Mark. What a view!
Rebecca – in the interests of keeping Wonkettes alive, please pick a spot downtown and near BART! SOMA is full of neat bars.
Can't wait!
Top of the Mark is kind of "elite". Last time I was there they required men to wear coat and tie. Plus I don't think this crowd is in the mood to spend $20.00 for a martini. But the view is fantastic, so you never know.
http://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/f0c44sTsuLDmJO7tPC…
You mean like the Palmer House in Chicago ("No Jacket Required")?
I'm old enough to remember when people in San Francisco really dressed. The weather allows it. Noadays you see people in the Financial District going to work in their pj's.
Go to the Top of the Mark for Happy Hour. Savor one drink. They have the coolest drink menu. Old timey cocktail vibe.
John's Grill, dead downtown, turned a few lines in "The Maltese Falcoln" into a lifetime promotion. Can't recommend it for dinner – but a great place for a Manhattan.
Also, too, if anybody comes to the city for the first time, they gotta get a drink at the Top. What a view.
When they close the Tonga Room, the heart of SF will take a shot.
Question: does the lobby bar at the Fairmont still make the world's most lethal G&T? I've not been for five-six years.
CAN'T YOU PEOPLE GET CLOSER TO KANSAS CITY THAN 700 MILES???
Quitcher bitchin — they can't get within a hundred years of Richmond. It's lonely back in time.
What's wrong with Denver? They have hippies. The alcohol hits better at altitude, or so I'm told. And, I could drive there in less than a day. San Francisco? What a jip!
Upthumbs for Denver! But wait til the fall. It's like 451 degrees Fahrenheit here these days.
And it's less than a day's drive for Barb!
Isn't Denver like, on FIRE right now?
LIke I said, it's like 451 degrees F here. I think Biel came to town without telling anyone.
I remember one time in Denver (2002?) when suddenly it snowed fucking ash all day. I got super-respiratorily sick and feverish shortly thereafter, not sure if coincident or cause. Seriously, Ash Snow — it ACCUMULATED on my car.
That would be the Hayman Fire. I don't remember ash fall where I work in SE Denver, but it definitely smelled like there was a fire on the next block, not 90 miles away, and it was harder to breath than usual.
And there is medicinal mj. We could meet at El Chapultepec, which was a fave of the Beats, as well as Miles Davis and other jazz greats.
Have fun at the fern bar, yuppies!
"Norm Slick" just died – remember Henry Africa's, the First Fern Bar? Drank himself to death.
Towards the end he lived in the front window of Eddie Rickenbacker's (this is not a joke, by the way) sucking oxygen through a tube. Not a pretty site. Remarkably enough, it didn't put a damper on the festivities. Did give me a start one morning when I walked by and saw him in a huddle of blankets.
I lived in SF in the early 80's, and one of the first things I was told by the locals was if I had any self-respect I'd avoid Henry Africa's like the plague. Do you know if Ivie's (behind the Opera House) is still around? That was a nice joint. One time, the pope drove right by in his popemobile and all the queers and straights rushed out to cheer, wave and/or flip the bird, and il papa waved back. Don't know if he cheered back, since he was in a bubble.
More rambling: My fave SF dive bar back then was Dick's, a little family-owned place in Eureka Valley across from the library. All the 60's underground cartoonists hung out there; even R. Crumb came down from the mountain once in a while. Most warped pool table ever, but also the most fun pool table ever, and where I played my best game of my life against the house champ, both of us coked out of our gills. Good times.
Ivie's was nice. Don't know if it's still there — haven't been to the ballet for ten years.
Speaking of San Francisco, if none of you have seen the documentary We Were Here about the early day of AIDS in that city, DO SO. But there's a good possibility that you'll become a crying mess during parts of it.
It was a plague. I worked in the party and event business and we lost an entire generation of remarkably creative people – set designers, lighting experts, costumers, caterers,waitstaff and bartenders, entertainers, et. al.
Remember Studio West?
All gone now…
It's all fun and games until some dude gets killed at Altamont.
This is so disappointing. I was sure other people would join me in selecting the OK Panhandle because of, you know, the dust thing and the Ken Burns doc and probably Jesus. I had the tent ready to pitch over the site of the formerly busy but now ghost town, Beer City, too, hoping we could use wonkette-voodoo to conjure cowboy zombies who could not catch us because they are drunk and then we could laugh at them stumbling and falling on the ground.
The best defense against the zombie Apocalypse is derision and scorn. Since you want to be in prissy SF, you are just going to have to take my word on that.
Have fun without me, traitors. (Only on this site would I edit to correct a split infinitive. Are you happy, English majors?)
I'm thinking the panhandle itself is a slightly tough sell because of the transportation thing. Could you do Denver? Obviously, it'd have to be an overnight, just like me coming down from my foothill exile. Just thinkin'.
BTW, I was a physics major, but I take grammar seriously. And even when I went to school, they told me splitting an infinitive was acceptable if it avoided an awkward construction. ;>)
The rule sticks around because of the prominence of EB White. This is a fun read which explains why we should ignore most of White's grammar advice.
Lucky 13 in the Castro and Zeitgeist in the Mission both have outdoor areas, just sayin'…
buttsechs, also!
I'm so there! Can we have a kissing booth?
I'm bringing a change of underwear.
I'm going commando
Wear a box on your head, Sheriff Volunteer.
P.S. Put a hole in the front. Turns out it works better that way.
Mm, who's gonna have boxes on their hands?
Are you telling him to cut a hole in the box? I wonder what he could put in that hole in the box…
Peach Schnapps.
Can I send my nephew who lives in SF as an alternate, Commie Girl? He's a writer (= unemployed trust fund baby) and a librul, too, and is a snarkster, also, too.
I never saw an answer to "The Name Tag Question."
Do we wear our avatar? I think I volunteered to be someone else – was that you, Miss Taken?
This is so embarassing – I'm too excited to think clearly. Must be the fumes. Picked a heck of a week to stop sniffing glue…
If only we could play "To Tell The Truth" and have the real avatar "please stand up".
Or "Match the Avator."
We each bring a copy of our Avatar and it does into a big bowl – like a business card drawing.
Then Rebecca pulls them out and the crowd tries to pick who it is.
Wait! If you play MissTaken do I get to play Tundra Grifter? This is all so confusing.
MissTaken:
I was befuddled with excitement. I'd promised lisawines to be her if the party ever came to The City. I can't be you because I have already promised another.
However, since I won't be me you can be me. Just don't try to cash a check anywhere downtown.
To be or not to be…
Someone needs to tune their guitars in that hippie footage.
If you ever come to Minneapolis don't do it in the winter unless you really hate yourself.
Even with its wind-sheltering buildings, downtown barhopping can be a vicious and bitter fight for survival.
May, nah? Or early October.
Don't go in spring, summer or fall either. Trust me, I used to live there once upon a time.
Last chance, Mr/Ms/Mrs/It Wonkette, to have me, the deposed Nigerian prince, pay for your drinking habit. Remember that you will receive half of my vast fortune if you help me recover it. The Brothers Koch and the Trump are showing serious interest, so you must hurry. Credit card and Social Security number urgent quick and drink drunk for free in Saint Frandisco! Your friend, N.P.
will there ever be another Dc meetup?
I would fly in from the wild, wild west for that one. Hometown, more or less, although I haven't lived there since Jeer-old Ford was Prezdint.
OK – I just spent about half an hour trying to figure out who I had promised to be if Wonkette ever came to San Francisco.
I felt even more like a jerk than usual because I couldn't remember whom I had promised. A promise to a fellow Wonketter is sacred. Like a blood oath, only serious.
Well, I figured it out – our American in Paris, Lisawines.
I'll be there, and I'll be you!
He/she's not a witch, Lisawines, he/she's YOU!
Our American in Paris, who is currently in Mexico.
LMAO
GTFO
LULZ
WTF
Declassified document contradicts Cheney’s claim of Iraqi connection to 9/11
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/06/20/declassifie…
Didn't we know this nine years ago?
Um, this cannot be "news".
From the article:
"Okay, next question: 'Do you believe that the U.S. found clear evidence in Iraq that Saddam Hussein was working closely with Al Qaeda?' Uh huh. Okay, then I have two follow-ups: 'Really?' and 'How do you feed yourself?'"
True fact: I supported Obama over Hillary in the run-up to the primary (after slimeball Edwards dropped out) for one reason: She had said, when questioned about voting for going into Iraq on the basis of lies, "How could we have known?". Um, maybe by reading multiple news articles on the internet at the time, maybe? That left me with two possibilities: (1) ignorant, or (2) lying, war-mongering bitch.
Well, what else do you expect her to monger, fish? No wait, don't answer that.
This is, as they say, why we cannot have nice things (because 38% + 15% of our compatriots are functional morons).
You think they're functional?
Aub Zam Zam in the Haight for the dive bar
http://www.yelp.com/biz/aub-zam-zam-san-francisco
Had my first martini there when I was 17. Don't know why Bruno didn't kick me out, cuz I was as much a goddamned hippie as the rest … those were the days *sniff*
Mad Dog in the Fog?
I'll be there—wherever the hell there is—huge-ass fucking donation* in hand.
*(penis?)
Like your new avatar, btw.
This is the last blog post of the night? Should have known when I saw the "DONATE" button.
Wonkette should come to Louisville, KY. It is centrally located and a few hours drive from a lot of places. Yes, we have our teeth & indoor plumbing, yes it's friendly territory and yes….we are a great party town!
And…..it is quite affordable
Speaking of affordable, do you have a line (we say " I know a guy" in Chicago) on da moonshines? Not the made-in-a-radiator stuff either.
It's close to Heavensville!!!! 1!!! 1!!!
@mrpuma2u – Yea, I know a guy.
I can leave work (Vic. 78 and I-5) about 11 a.m. and get there in time for the party, then cruise (wrong word!), er, drive down to Palo Alto where my people will be over the summer and then back home on Sunday. Anyone wants to ride up with me or to be picked up on the way (room for two regular adults and one small one behind me as long as you don't kick my seat and whine about how long it takes to get there) can let me know. You can't smoke (anything) in my car. Similar musical tastes preferred (Zappa, Pink Floyd, etc., anything with a flute, pretty much) but I'm open to new (to me) stuff if it's musical. You'd probably have to stay in the Palo Alto area or meet me there about noon Sunday for the return trip.
When are you fuckers coming to Austin?
Agreed subsum. We can take them to the Poodle Dog Lounge for the most STDs in Travis County or downtown where we drink Mexican Martinis and Tapas.
Girls, keep your legs crossed. Boys, don't bend over….They will trick you and dick you before you can throw them and blow them, just sayin'
This sounds better than Burning Man.
Are the Airplane gonna be there?
Hot Tuna are still playing.
That place scares me a little bit.
1. No
2. The SF Bay is bordered by wetlands. I presume you already know that there are birds there. You know you'd love it.
Nah.
NYC. Now THERE'S a scary, (but wonderful), place!
(And bobbert is right, the birds in the baylands are awesome!)
WHY THE FUCK DIDN"T YOU, NANCY???
I know, right?
I'm sure that seeing ol' baby-head turd blossom in the slammer would have been quite gratifying.
For the same reason she didn't try to impeach Bush* — it would have alienated some of the small number of actually independent voters. There aren't anywhere near as many real independents as those who claim to be, but it's possible that 5-10% of voters really do choose candidates without too much partisan pre-selection.
It was a political decision. Personally, I would have tried to lock the fucker up just to wipe the smirk off his face; but then again, I've never been Majority Leader.
* Also, too, with respect to W, there was exactly zero chance that he would be convicted by a 2/3 majority in the Senate, so it really would have been a giant waste of time. And, I speculate that if Nancy had allowed impeachment to become the "new normal", we'd already be well into the Obama impeachment hearings.
Ehem, Speaker.
Wasting time is still the exclusive domain of the oppo party.
He kept oozing out of the handcuffs.
Southern Pacific Brewing is a cool place.
Is the event going to be 21+? I can come regardless, but my brother not so much.
Doesn't he have a fake ID, like everyone else?
No, though he could easily pass for my twin….
I remember doing a meetup in Oakland at some dive bar where you had names carved into the bar. It also had a stripper pole, which was useful for my stripper friends. Everyone was in town prepping for burning man at the warehouse,, so it was kind of a Seattle people pre-funk.
Might I suggest the 500 Club on Valencia, or perhaps the Rock Bar on 29th & Mission.
I'm excited. I always like to go into town for a few days every year, and this looks like the time (barring an embarrassing senior malfunction).
Nine of the last ten.
Okay, I give up, owls-obscura. WTF?
It's converging on a stable solution.
I wish she were in it.
Sweet sweet sweet galloping Jesus… Thomas Kincaide died and today LeRoy Neiman. Satan must have called them home because he needed a huge mural of Michael Jordan dunking a basket outside a shitty little cottage in the hell cafeteria. Goodbye dear Prince Neiman! May your work soon be worth in money what is culturally.
You know, I never really cared about the vast amounts of money Neiman and Kincade collected for their dreck. The only reason to care would be if you thought that they were capturing dollars that might otherwise have gone to real artists.
But, I think that's unlikely. The folks that bought Tom and Leroy's stuff weren't in the market for art — they were looking for something that matched their decor. There has always been a brisk market in lack-of-surprise.
I'm afraid of what everyone will look like. I went to the Sexy Liberal Show (Stephanie Miller/Hal Sparks/John Fugelsang), and although they're all quite attractive, the audience was… challenged in the mirror, shall we say… and that was SF, ferpetessake,
Well, in my case, Ima look like a 64-yo pasty white guy, so brace yourself.
I too went to the SLS in Chi-town, and it made me feel so young, as most of the aging hippies had age parity with my parental units. I'm no spring chicken but sheesh!
I assure you I do not look like Judy Jetson in real life. But I do have ten fingers, ten toes, and two boobs.
And SorosBot thought I was cute enough to put his penis inside me, so there's that.
I'm so late, and it's so late, and I'm gone for the next week, but I will be there, I will. Thanks!
In memory of my dear old, dearly departed Dad, I'd nominate two (formerly) dive bars he used to tend–Murio's Trophy Room on Haight, and/or the Twin Peaks Tavern in the Castro, which is now a well-lit fern bar, so you might want to scratch that one…
Biff:
Isn't there also a Twin Peaks Bar at the top of Market Street? Near that grocery store in the litte shopping center.
When I lived there, it was on the corner of 17th and Collingwood, across from the old Littleman's Market. I left over 45 years ago, nothing is as it was.
Biff:
That's the place.
Somethings are as they were – and some things never was.
Memory is faulty, turns out it was at 18th. I moved from the 'hood in 1967, so I am
A) entitled to forget minor details, and
2) fucking old.
On another corner was Gertie Guernsey's ice cream parlor. Loved that place…
The Fairmont Hotel has an excellent Tiki Bar in the basement which makes beverages that are ignitable. What a fun experience that could be.
If you are ever in Alameda the Forbidden Island has the yummiest, and flamiest!, tiki drinks imaginable. Last Halloween my friend had one too many Zombies and busted out her two front teeth on the telephone pole outside. Fun times!
http://www.forbiddenislandalameda.com/
Yes! They also run Smuggler's Cove in The City (Gough at McAllister, kinda behind City Hall).
"How do you make a Zombie?"
"Get her drunk."
Sorry to hear about your friend.
Tonga TONGA!
This will be the BEST Friday the 13th EVER!
I vote for Zetgeist! It has same name as that conspiracy movie and there's an outdoor patio at that joint. Yelp description: divey/hipster Blah people (like me) are welcome also too.
Whatever you do, don't fly into/outof SFO, unless you want to be delayed.
Try sunny Oakland, instead.
//Learned the hard way
Yes – SFO has "Tule Fog" in the early morning. Flight delays are very common.
Seriously. It's 1 pm and there's still delays due to fog. Summer in the City indeed.
http://www.fly.faa.gov/flyfaa/usmap.jsp
So were we lucky that my flight out wasn't delayed?
Yup! During the summer it's very common for flight delays due to the fog.
If only Oakland would have direct flights to/from Philly.
If you go there and are a jogger, you MUST jog the Golden Gate. It is an exhilarating and once in a lifetime experience. Walk it round trip if you don't jog; it is safe and awe-inspiring.
CommieMama would be so proud!
I'm hoping to be there!
540? Really? Sweet jesus.
Fucking hell, that's nowhere near BART or anything handy. Can't trust people from LA to understand public transport, I guess.
You're trying to get us all murdered, aren't you? Admit it.
I'll still be there, but I'll MOAN
This will be a good place to meet smart women.
Nothing better than a hottie who can write well…
Here's hoping I don't get tons of spam…e – mail is Callyson2004@yahoo.com. Have one last accounting final tomorrow night but will have time after that to chat. Cheers!
I'm so spamming you!
I think I've had a few nightmares that started that way.
I'm a manual tranny guy myself…
Ahhh, Hey Nineteen, my favorite Steely Dan song.
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