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― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:15 (twenty years ago)

Fuck that shit!

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:16 (twenty years ago)

you guys have bad attitudes

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:17 (twenty years ago)

I'll regret this, I'm sure. But I'll just file it with all teh other regrets and it'll get lost somewhere.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:17 (twenty years ago)

Anyway, it sounds like we might be going to see Moolade' on Monday night.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:18 (twenty years ago)

Is it still raining? I want to go for coffee.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

anyway, to follow from the last thread, no, he is not "the one". I think he's probably a good drummer though and I want to horde all the good musicians I can for my hundreds of side projects.

oh well I won't be seeing a movie with you on monday! but if you're drinking something fist I might be up for that.

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

hahahaha "something fist" my typos kill meh

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:20 (twenty years ago)

How does one woo a drummer?

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:20 (twenty years ago)

Put a van down your pants.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

In college I wrote a paper for some stupid class in which I used Ambrose Bierce and the author of Leisure Town as my two main examples in an argument that SF makes you really, really cynically pessimistic about the human race in the way that no "dirty" town like NYC or LA or even Vegas can.

Good fucking times!!

― TOMBOT, Friday, 7 January 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

Or maybe it's only an English cliche that the drummer always drives a van???

xpost TOMBOT you love it here.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:22 (twenty years ago)

Tombot, I want to read your paper!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:22 (twenty years ago)

Also you need to spend more time here if you don't consider it "dirty".

You're still my friend though.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

the american cliche is that the drummer is always a pothead, which in the case of my current band, is almost true (he is, at least, my new found W33D connexion!)

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:24 (twenty years ago)

CYNIC, n.
A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. Hence the custom among the Scythians of plucking out a cynic's eyes to improve his vision.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:24 (twenty years ago)

Tombot mentioned Ambrose Bierce aka My Hero of American Lit and so much more is clear. :-) I want to read that paper too!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:25 (twenty years ago)

(But for what it's worth, I am finally planning an SF trip in late February for a weekend...)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:25 (twenty years ago)

I wrote some papers:

1. Dogme 95 and authorship theory (ouch!)
2. Some stuff about The Magnificent Ambersons
3. 20th C Berlin and urban theory

college is hilarious!

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

oh great ned, you can hang out with my parents!

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

Whose only recognition here is a short, dark, alley redolent of the fetor of urine. How appropriate somehow.

xxpost

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)

All the Marina-types I know (which is like 3) insist that SF is much much dirtier than NY is.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:30 (twenty years ago)

Depends where in NY or SF but post Giuliani Manahattan definitely feels cleaner and safer (except for you-know-what). Also, I believe the trains run on time.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:32 (twenty years ago)

Also WTF San Francisco has a largely unrecognized noir tradition easily the equal of NY or LA! Dashiell Hammet Hitchcock Exoperiment In Terror Lady From Shanghai WTF WTF?

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:32 (twenty years ago)

I could go on!

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

Hahaha! I sound like gygax!

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)

Where is Mr. Gax btw?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:36 (twenty years ago)

My gf used to live in an apartment Hammet lived in on Leavenworth and Hyde. When the tourbuses drove by she'd put on a recording of someone whacking away at a typrewriter. To this day, we have a copy of the Falcon on our mantelpiece.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)

On the noise board or at work or playing PSP.

xpost cool!

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:38 (twenty years ago)

i can't wait to visit sf!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

I can't remember if you said you had been before or not? And your friends/business partners?

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)

no never ever!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:42 (twenty years ago)

It is kind of out of the way, but from what I know of your tastes the Tonga Room would be a suitable venue for a meetup.

http://web.meganet.net/kman/donh3.jpg

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)

(That's from the last FAP)

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)

which one is you? (haha xp)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)

There are great free City Guide Tours of most of downtown SF. I think one of them is a Noir tour too. They are really informative and you get to see all this amazing architecture and weird rooftop gardens and such that you would never know existed otherwise.

http://www.sfcityguides.org/descriptions.html

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:45 (twenty years ago)

cool! but they should call it the "noir toir"

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

has anyone taken the Vampire Tour? It must be hysterical/sad and pathetic!

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:47 (twenty years ago)

Actually, I was just watching a KRON news "piece" about SF noir/movie tours and telling Sarah we should do one!

There's also this which is great if you love Hitch like I do:

http://www.footstepsinthefog.com/

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

My parents have done the Hitchcock tour. They liked it a lot.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

Haha Kyle, I once wrote a bad story about a woman who falls in love with her guide on a "ghost tour"! ROFL

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:49 (twenty years ago)

The Hitchcock family home is/was near Los Gatos.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)

Close to Leee!

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)

When are we going to House of Shields?

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)

We went! Adam's and my table was MUCH lusted after!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:03 (twenty years ago)

Table fetishists? How did you beat them back?

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:04 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, it's true. We had something everyone wanted. It felt like power, watching those folks being forced to stand, drinks in hand.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:04 (twenty years ago)

BTW, is anybody else remined, at the Tonga Room, of the little fake thunder + rainfall at Safeway's produce section?

Only girls sit at tables in bars.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:05 (twenty years ago)

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and Court TV anchor Kimberly Guilfoyle Newsom have called it quits after just three years of marriage, citing the demands of their "respective careers." As the one-time "It" boy of the Democratic Party, Newsom, 37, made headlines last spring by granting same-sex marriages, and in September he posed with his 35-year-old wife - who has lived in New York for two years - for a glossy pictorial in Harper's Bazaar, entitled "The New Kennedys." Was their marriage, as some have speculated, a publicity stunt? "That's a ridiculous rumor," mayoral spokesman Peter Ragone told Lowdown. A Court TV rep said: "She's devastated by this, and I don't think she would be as devastated if that were the case."

― Carl Winslow and Jeanne-Claude (deangulberry), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:06 (twenty years ago)

My predictions: Gavin marries a man and I marry Kimberly.

― Carl Winslow and Jeanne-Claude (deangulberry), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:07 (twenty years ago)

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Talking Even More Smack In SF

― Don't Bitch Out in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 3 February 2005 05:06 (twenty years ago)

ten months pass...
is it normal for the male prostitutes on polk to freely, verbally solicit women? yes i said women...

"oh girl, you gorgeous! won't you talk to me? okay girl you come back here if you decide you want to talk to me, you know i'll be right here." this was hollered at a woman walking alone. by a dude you would have expected to be soliciting dudes.

― nein Socken (nein Socken), Saturday, 24 December 2005 04:14 (nineteen years ago)

When I was 16 I drove into the city to go to some movie at the Lumiere and I parked in this area that was like male hooker central. My car got rammed from the back while it was parked and I ended up having to wait for a tow truck at 1:00 AM. My g/f and I met some special people during that TWO HOUR WAIT for my dad to come into SF to pick us up. I can still smell the urine. I really haven't went back down there since then and I live in SF now :). That was back when NaNa's was stuck inbetween those porn shops.

― svend (svend), Saturday, 24 December 2005 05:32 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...
Fuck JT Leroy and his bullshit. He lives here in the Mission with Argento, Adam.

-- Alex in SF

I guess that turned out to not be true

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 00:16 (nineteen years ago)

Oh dear. Alex hates being wrong!

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 04:05 (nineteen years ago)

This thread is a year old?

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 04:06 (nineteen years ago)

time to retire it. maybe there's another one?

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 05:55 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, new SF thread plz, k thx bye

― JT LEROY (Drew Daniel), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 07:33 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...
I hear great rolling thunder-like cacophony from here in my aerie and looking out, realized it's the firecrackers reverberating through the streets of Chinatown. Gung hay fat choy, everybody.

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 30 January 2006 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

I've never understood how they can have firecrackers and I can't. It's part of my culture, too.

― andy ---, Monday, 30 January 2006 19:52 (nineteen years ago)

It might even be more a part of my culture 'cause I used to blow up shit all year long when I was a kid, not just for New Year's.

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 30 January 2006 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

I read in SF this is a school holiday. True?

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 30 January 2006 23:12 (nineteen years ago)

No, it isn't true. Kids didn't go to school on Friday though.

http://portal.sfusd.edu/template/default.cfm?page=calendars.instructional.q2

― svend (svend), Monday, 30 January 2006 23:15 (nineteen years ago)

anyone can get firecrackers, yo! it's called chinatown.

GUNG HAY FAT CHOY! GUNG HAY FAT CHOY!

― nein Socken (nein Socken), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 02:46 (nineteen years ago)

The Washington Post is a liar.

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 02:50 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/03/09/MNG29HLABU3.DTL

Anyone have any more news on this? My g/f was down about that area and sez that it's crawling with CIA/FBI types.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 9 March 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

holy shit!! I work right near there, but I got to work about an hour earlier

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 9 March 2006 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

I got off at Montgomery but I didn't see shit. I left the station at 8:50 though. DID THE TERRORIST DO IT?

― andy --, Thursday, 9 March 2006 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

maybe its a V for Vendetta promo stunt

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 9 March 2006 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

I've had a couple incidences in the last two weeks where BART trains were held up because dikwads were running through the tunnels... everytime some jackass runs through there, they have to send an inspection crew.

― andy --, Thursday, 9 March 2006 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

I get off at Montgomery too. But I start work at 7:30.

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 9 March 2006 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

my first instinct would be that a fire is not terrorism-related - explosion, strange gas okay maybe, but a fire has plenty more pedestrian explanations that seem more likely.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 9 March 2006 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

Terrorists are never going to give a shit about SF!

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 9 March 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

well in Cali San Diego is the primo military target, and LA is more high profile (but also more spread out and thus harder to severely cripple) - SF's only real targets are the bridges...

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 9 March 2006 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

Well, hasn't there been a few PG&E underground explosions in the last couple years? They're the real terrorists.

― andy --, Thursday, 9 March 2006 18:58 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah there was a previous one at Crocker-Amazon.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 9 March 2006 18:59 (nineteen years ago)

xpost Plus SF is all liberals... why would you wanna bomb liberals?

― andy --, Thursday, 9 March 2006 18:59 (nineteen years ago)

No wait it was at the Crocker Galleria. Ignore me.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 9 March 2006 19:00 (nineteen years ago)

There was also an explosion at the Mission St. substation near the old Guitar Center, and it turned out to be the handiwork of an employee. But that was like 6 years ago.

― andy --, Thursday, 9 March 2006 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, that was like a boiler that blew or something.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 9 March 2006 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

Apparently it was a trash fire.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 9 March 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

the terrorists area after our trash!!

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 9 March 2006 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

Not sure if I can swing down to SF after Seattle this year, but if I do I'm thinking July 8:

http://sfeagle.com/MudwrestlingIndex.html

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 9 March 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

Heh the Eagle.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 9 March 2006 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

We could settle this Spielberg beef there, buddy!

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 9 March 2006 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

Haha I doubt it.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 9 March 2006 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

i was invited to the eagle tonight

― team jaxon (jaxon), Thursday, 9 March 2006 20:45 (nineteen years ago)

at the Sunday beer blasts I do things I don't in NY, like chat with strippers. They have bands on Thursday, yeah?

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 9 March 2006 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

the Eagle's great!!

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 9 March 2006 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...
we're playin Cafe Du Nord (I'll also be doin a little DJin) - will hands down be the most happenin thing goin Monday night...

THE SOCIETY OF ROCKETS
THE OTHERSIDE
THE BOARS

Monday, 4/24
Doors: 8:00 pm
$8.00 21+

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 21 April 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

NY Times food writer Mark Bittman went bananas over the eats at the Ferry Building, esp this place... confirmation?

BOULETTES LARDER 415-399-1155; Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Saturday, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.; Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Breakfast or lunch, Sunday through Friday, $20 to $50. Dinner after 7 requires special arrangements.


I wish the place could put in a few more tables and acknowledge our God-given right to eat this food any time of day or night right on the spot. This is no-holds barred California food, done well. The problem is that the place is all kitchen, fully functioning and very capable, and there's no room for niceties like tables (there are one indoor table and seven patio tables).

Despite this, and despite the relatively high prices, this is a fabulous place. If it were a real restaurant it would be unbelievable. There are dark-braised short ribs, cabbage stuffed with pork, seasonal fruit galettes, roasted lamb shoulder with lacinato kale (the best kale there is), rice balls, nettles and other salads pretty much entirely made from northern California ingredients. And great desserts, and supremely rich hot chocolate. And good French press coffee.

Much more, too: the stuff that makes a menu great. It's straightforward but cooked with care and, dare I say it, love.

The shop also sells ingredients, and most of them are delicious: wild pine nuts, near-ideal eggs, schmaltz (outside of New York!), amazing marzipan, house-made English muffins.

And there is, or was on a morning last month, the best breakfast dish I've had in, um, maybe ever. It consisted of freshly made yogurt from local organic milk; hand-rolled couscous (something I thought only Paula Wolfert was nutty enough to tackle); house-made harissa, brick-red and only mildly spicy; and two of those eggs, perfectly poached. Presumably, there was some local butter in there as well. This was a creation that made me happy not only to be in Northern California but just plain alive.

It was served, as I wish all the food at Boulettes Larder could be, at the sole, if large, indoor table, the one that is only set for diners at breakfast, lunch and special-occasion dinners (that is, when you reserve the whole place). Otherwise, it closes at 7 (3 on Saturday and 5 on Sunday, if you can believe that!).

So it's best to think of Boulettes as just about the best takeout food you can get, at near-restaurant prices. And that's the other rub: its not unusual for a takeout meal to run you $30 or even $40 a person, which hurts just a bit.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

Schwantz' wife worked there for awhile.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

my wife had a business lunch there and said it was great.

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

I've never been there but it did sound pretty great - she quit before I could come by and scam for free shit tho. I think she left cuz the Hungarian owner was a bit nutty.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 17:22 (nineteen years ago)

that's outta my price range. but i like the ferry building (especially the saturday farmer's market!)

― something less threatening (heywood), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 22:23 (nineteen years ago)

That place has received very inconsistent reviews, I haven't read any recent ones though since they've opened up table service.

I'm not a fan of the Ferry Building (with the exception of access to the Angel Island Ferry).

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 22:44 (nineteen years ago)

LULU PETITE

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 22:52 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

this long-time lurker's girlfriend needs a place in san francisco badly. anybody need roomates? 25, likes italo disco, tennis, architecture, etc. nice girl.

she actually works right by the ferry building, so i'll get her to go to boulettes larder and give us her verdict..

― babedad, Sunday, 22 July 2007 04:56 (seventeen years ago)

if she's so great why doesn't she move in with you? or did you kick her out?

― akm, Sunday, 22 July 2007 05:12 (seventeen years ago)

it's like complicated man.. i don't have a car and i work in san ramon so it'd be a bitch dealing with that

― babedad, Sunday, 22 July 2007 05:53 (seventeen years ago)


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