http://fogcityfog.com/blog Fog Noir tales of San Francisco . . . Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:05:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So Sweetie and I are in North Beach, after seeing Valeriana Quevedo at Amante, and I'm trying to catch a cab off Columbus so we can get home at a reasonable hour. A Dark Haired Girl, just walking by, stops and says "Are you trying to get a cab?" "Yes." [since it ... http://fogcityfog.com/blog/2008/08/19/funny-thats-where-i-stand-to-get-run-over/ Far from the Barbary Coast, all the way over in Oakland, is a great old (really old) waterfront bar called Heinold's First and Last Chance. Made from the timbers of an old ship and with a slanted floor, courtesy of the big one back in '06, it was the ... http://fogcityfog.com/blog/2008/08/14/deadfall-with-recipe/ The Elixer Saloon in San Francisco's Mission District: not just the deadfall of the week but also one of the coolest places in the world. Why? Because they have a Bloody Mary bar on Sundays that features Bacon. That's right: BACON. BACON, BACON, BACON for your ... http://fogcityfog.com/blog/2008/08/12/deadfall-of-the-week-elixir/ You see and hear a lot around San Francisco about how progressive the city is, and events that support this narrative (like 1934 West Coast Longshoremen's Strike) get played up, but the foundations of the city are greed, vice, and free wheeling capitalism. A song supposedly still being sung ... http://fogcityfog.com/blog/2008/08/07/song-of-the-city/ One half of a cell phone conversation on the back of the 22 Bus: teen girl talking. Teen Girl answering phone: I'm on the 22 Bus pause TG: Then how'd you get home? pause TG: He threw you a BART ticket . . . he THREW you a BART ticket . . . pause TG: You ... http://fogcityfog.com/blog/2008/08/05/dont-throw-the-ticket/ The Lusty Lady is a unionized, worker owned strip club, the only one of its kind in the US, located in San Francisco. Here's their float in this year's Pride Parade: To paraphrase Groucho Marx: Union Strippers are to strippers what military music is to music. In 2006 they ... http://fogcityfog.com/blog/2008/07/31/jumbo-shrimp-military-intelligence-and-union-strippers/ I like the Buddha lounge, I really do: I just can't recommend it. Buddha lounge is in the heart of Chinatown. It's got good Chinatown decor, a nice Buddha tapestry, a bartender who's poor English is more than made up for by her good service and agreement to turn up ... http://fogcityfog.com/blog/2008/07/29/what-would-buddha-do-or-not-the-deadfall-of-the-week/ The Robert C Levy Tunnel, better known in San Francisco as the Broadway Tunnel, is some serious urban tunnel, a little spooky to walk through, and an art canvas. "Reverse Graffiti" is done by selectively cleaning parts of a dirty area to show designs / patterns / art, whatever you want ... http://fogcityfog.com/blog/2008/07/24/hip-edgy-urban-art-brought-to-you-by-the-clorox-corporation/ Here's a photo of the San Francisco Medical Examiner (not the coroner) contingent in the Pride Parade awhile back: I like the skull and cross bones motif: it's like they're the pirates of pathology. They are, however, a tad touchy about the whole "we're not coroners" thing, which seems a ... http://fogcityfog.com/blog/2008/07/22/pirates-of-pathology-show-pride-plus-pique/ I met Dan on Market Street. You will note the sign, which explains that he needs money "four" a cat show entry fee and grooming (presumably for the cat). To his credit, Dan seems to be taking better care of Samantha than he is himself. She actually ... http://fogcityfog.com/blog/2008/07/17/bum-de-jour-dan-and-his-cat-samantha/