San Francisco and what to do in it

there's some dope food in Vegas iirc

there's a brilliant and cheap BYO thai place in a front of shops which i try and get to whenever i go. other than that i tend to scramble between whatever's least bad from standard casino fare, punctuated by occasional higher end client meals.

colleague is taking me up for a trip to zion park on sunday. which sounds good. otherwise it's trade show/sales people hell.

Clooney's used to be a cop bar iirc

that makes sense based on banners i saw above the windows when i went past it earlier this evening - didn't see exactly what they represented but saw "thanks to sfpd" on one.

didn't quite sit easy with the locals banner on folsom i've walked past a few times now commemorating the person shot by sfpd in a doorway there. US is one of those places where i feel extremely wary of the police. i mean, certainly it's something worth bearing in mind wherever you are always, but some places the violence inherent in the system feels s little closer to the surface than others.

Blackout in the Bay Area? how bad is it?

I was unaware of it but sounds like it's hit a sizable amount of the city north of Market St

fire at the Larkin St substation

shit, apparently LAX and Midtown Manhattan are down too

p sure that's just coincidence

😰

lol this is a p huge area
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C99BN0_UwAABTb4.jpg:large

I am just outside it, but now I don't have anywhere to get lunch!

what do you order at nan king ?!

whatever the chef recommends that day. he'll ask if yr a vegetarian or not and how much you want, if you like things spicy etc. I've always deferred to his judgment ever since the first time I went there and we were ordering various dishes and he said "oh you don't want that, I'll bring you something else". never been disappointed!

ooh baby

I love that restaurant.

bit more of a sedate day today. continuing heavy reliance on ilx recs went to house of nanking said recommend me something and got a large plate of whatever everyone else was having but it was great and i ate. it. all. walked back thru chinatown and power cut. drivers are so (comparatively) considerate here! noticed this while cycling yesterday too. the all stop intersections wdnt be observed in a million years in london.

went for a wander down valencia and had a couple of evening drinks. got talking to some complete prick from chicago who wanted me to endorse far right views of no go zones due to muslims in the uk. refused. and made an effort to say what he was saying was comically stupid and incorrect. left. went to elbo room. wasn't great. took a hint from upthread and have gone to benders. excellent and, as mentioned, grebt jukebox.

tho my selections haven't come on yet. v reminiscent of youth - forgotten all the jukebox ins and outs.

also, and am not sure of the long provenance of this:

https://twitter.com/hautepop/status/855544990600220673

any food recommendations walking distance from Kaiser on Geary?

you're near the Fillmore area and iirc Divisadero used to have patches of good places. It's been too long for me to rec anywhere tho...

in that immediate area: eliza's (chinese) on california is nearby and solid. awesome sustainable sushi place is on that block between fillmore and broderick, forget the name. as is my fave bakery in the city, b patisserie. a burrito joint called the city taqueria (formerly ocean taqueria) is actually really good - if you like spicy ask for the habanero salsa! lastly there's a great sandwich shop owned by the b patisserie people on the northeast corner of cali/fillmore (now that i think about it, on a monday only the burrito joint and eliza's will be open. japantown's nearby with a few options, too

awesome, thanks for the recs.

def some decent stuff in Japantown. Dosa is a block up from Fillmore and Geary and is a good upscale Indian place if you wanna get fancy.

"any food recommendations walking distance from Kaiser on Geary?"

I actually really like Korean place that's literally 100 feet away from the northside Kaiser.

the cheesesteak shop!

you folks are great, all the suggestions will make visiting Kaiser for a few days much easier

well this is odd

http://hoodline.com/2017/04/cafe-du-nord-on-market-street-to-transition-back-to-full-fledged-music-venue

Huh. Weird.

I was walking by there yesterday when I heard someone say "hey did you know Cafe du Nord is closing down?" and my mind went into a gentrification black hole for the thousandth time.

So yeah, weird.

reverting to their previous setup, but still under some configuration of the new ownership, is the headscratcher. I never understood their "let's make this into an upscale bar/restaurant" strategy, seemed strangely myopic about the layout and history of the place.

will be interested to see who does the booking and what their new setup is. Apart from having to cart gear up and down those goddamn stairs, it was def one of our favorite places to play

wasn't particularly fond of it as a venue, but if SF can be plus one music venue and minus one awful upscale bar with generic ambiance and drinks/food, that's a victory.

http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/Rich-SF-residents-get-a-shock-Someone-bought-11738236.php

Busted a gut laughing at this line:
“I was shocked to learn this could happen, and am deeply troubled that anyone would choose to take advantage of the situation and buy our street and sidewalks,”

Make that $$$$$$ Tina and Michael!!

fkn hilarious A+ troll

I'm sure they'll get steamrolled by the even richer people of the HOA but it's still amazing.

I mean, I dunno, I kinda love that the tax collector's office was pretty much openly trolling the homeowners even more, they were pretty much flat out saying "Most everyone here knows how to do this and to heck with you if you can't change addresses."

holy crap at the final 2 paragraphs. also lol

Ours is a wonderful city

https://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/ofc/6256376954.html

idg why I'm seeing this all over the place, is the fact that there are entitled assholes here news to anybody

I think for me it's the insane specificity throughout. But 'The Solution' section might be my fave.

(dry senses of humour need not apply)

http://i.imgur.com/undefined.jpg

COME TO MY TAPE RELEASE SHOW, EVERYONE. ALSO REVIEW MY TAPE (how do ppl get stuff reviewed i so confused)

WHOOPS

http://i.imgur.com/nWzvtZx.jpg

COME TO MY TAPE RELEASE SHOW, EVERYONE. ALSO REVIEW MY TAPE (how do ppl get stuff reviewed i so confused)

Will it be an all night rave

will there be psychedelic drugs

no and no! short sets, and bart friendly lol.

seriously though im all about short sets. no one wants to see more than 20 minutes of anything.

ha I think it's within walking distance for both me n Ned

I'll see if I can get the wife to go/get babysitting

Yeah for me it'll be a matter of staying awake. (Flippant but: usually out by 10 pm these days.)

I'm gonna try to make it just b/c that flyer's so rad.

And b/c Chaki.