San Francisco and what to do in it

Tiki bars are basically nonexistent back home so that sounds perfect

I have no idea what any of you look like. I guess I should be easy to spot if you follow I Love Style on the reg

(orange blazer with elbow patches. wool chucks)

what time should we meet?

chaki are you coming and bringing erin!!!!?

6pm? Oh hey look I successfully resisted the urge to say 1800

Are you at the show rn?

i worked until 9:15.

i wouldn't be able to make it until 7pm at the earliest, but that's just me

I would love to be there but a couple things are conspiring against me - 1) it's the end of the month and I have no drinkin money and 2) coordinating support stuff for a buddy who just a cancer op and is on his own

Allow it. Boo, though.

7's great for me.

7pm at Pagan Idol! For all those who may be concerned about drinkin funds, one round is on me

it's on Bush St. b/w Kearny and Montgomery, so, very transitable

Sounds great, but I'm also spent from this week, and I'm gonna have to pass. Don't swallow any umbrellas!

Working (just a couple blocks away) til 8ish but will swing by afterwards.

OK, heading over in a bit. I just had dinner around the corner. Today the blazer is khaki.

i had to be home with kid tonight. one day I will see more of you en masse instead of randomly in spurts and drabs

That was (expectedly) nice and (unexpectedly) epic. Lesson? You stay in a tiki bar past 10pm, things get weird.

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I'm From Oakland, Bitch

This all sounds plausible.

One day I'll figure my shit out.

Ha! yes, you need to.
Sarahell, you were heroic last night.

glad you guys had fun. i was with the rest of the losers at the regency watching the genesis tribute band lol.

you missed the performance art

In addition to having clipping. tonight, Tuesday night (aka Mardi Gras) Brick+Mortar has MJ's Brass Boppers (best nola-style brass band in the area) and before that a second line around the mission with MJ's and some other folks. Should be some good dancing going down.

Chaki's doing another Prince night at Elbo Room tomorrow (Thursday).

It's a benefit for Planned Parenthood.

Wire at Slim's tonight, apparently show's at 7, there's an opener ... any guess on when Wire goes on stage? 8? 8:30?j

question for SF ilx mind - is there anywhere you'd recommend for decent swimming in SF? preferably outdoor/natural sea/freshwater but decent swimming pools will do as well?

i'm there for a few days next week and looking to get a bit of energetic activity in my day. i don't run unless sorely provoked, which leaves cycling and swimming.

internet suggests preponderance of pool party pools rather than places to actually swim (mission pool? north beach pool?)

(i will of course be mining this thread for the far more important places to eat/drink etc.)

I've been to a few public pools because we have my kids in swim lessons. Here's the ones I know:
- Janet Pomeroy Center. This pool is actually the best because it's both heated and indoors. It's clientele is largely (as far as I can tell), old people, kids, and the developmentally disabled (since that's who the center was built for). So there's a lot of "therapeutic swim" hours and whatnot. It's at the total ass-end of town out by the zoo/ocean beach.
- Rossi Pool. This is a great indoor pool in the inner Richmond. Not heated but pretty big, maybe the biggest public pool I've been in in the city.
- Mission Pool. This one is, oddly, open-air even though it's in a building, and is not heated. Long and narrow, best for swimming laps. My daughter takes her swim team lessons here.
- Garfield Pool. This one's allright, I haven't actually swam in it but my daughter had lessons there for awhile. Might have the most open hours/be the easiest to get in to. It is indoors and unheated.

I wouldn't recommend swimming in the ocean at the beaches in SF in general - water is freezing and there are often crazy rip-tides/cross currents. Unprepared people drown on the regular.

that is awesome Οὖτs, thank you. i swim in freshwater in U.K. all but jan and feb these days so temp not a problem, rip tides not so much tho. Rossi sounds up my street. Will pack my bathers. thanks again.

I used to go to Hamilton pool every Friday morning and it was nice and quiet. looks like it's been refurbished since. then used to go to bun mee for lunch. those were the days

i'm guessing they are the days no longer?

(oh also recs for second hand bookshops.)

Golden Apple, Borderlands (if yr into sf/fantasy/genre fiction), Adobe, Aardvark

There's a pool near Fillmore and Geary that has a couple sweet waterslides, I can find out more if you want

Hamilton...? http://sfrecpark.org/destination/hamilton-rec-center/hamilton-pool/

I've never been there but seems like I should check it out, kids love waterslides

If you are interested in 2nd hand bookshops -- you should venture to the East Bay and go to Moe's in Berkeley, which is my favorite, followed by Green Apple, which is in San Francisco.

lol Golden Apple duh I meant Green Apple

xp

My fav used bookstore is Aardvark Books on Church. They always have EXACTLY what I want and I find some amazing treasures every time I go there. Also it's run by rad old gays that love Fairport Convention and there's a rad store cat.

Aardvark is always one of those places I drive by on the way somewhere else that looks cool, but I never stop because parking sucks.

Aardvark really is a bit of "old" Castro, v cool. Dunno what fortuitous circumstances have enabled them to last this long when so many others have tanked.

also they always buy my grateful dead books that i can't get through.

yup, Hamilton Pool. They're pretty short waterslides but it's amazing how fast you end up going.

xp - damn was looking forward to that 29 hour long punk show next weekend

it's an experimental hip hop show!

dope!

ya sadly I'm not living the footloose and fancy-free life in SF any more and God today is one of the days I really wish I was...
Sometimes I daydream my agenda for a weekend in SF, mainly based around what food I'd eat

one thing i can say, regardless of amenities, is that SF people are the most immediate and best for recommendations. i feel i've got enough already for three days of flaneur-ing and general dicking about already. thank you all!

also a) i also love waterslides and b) yes, science-fiction second hand sounds great. will be checking all of these out. Aardvark sounds a must, and also Green Apple.

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I've got an extra ticket to Whitney at the Independent tonight if anyone wants to join me.