A Weekend Without Point

[mishalak]

Well I tried "The Mix". It seemed an all right place for a bar. I felt weird there after about an hour so I left and now I'm at my computer, obviously. Maybe I'll go downstairs and hang at the coffeehouse. Having a job is good, but other than that I don't know what I'm doing in this city. OH and I was wrong, Apocalypse Now is playing tonight at the Castro and Vertigo is playing Monday with Edward Scissorhands on Wednesday. So no movie tonight for me, just not in a mood for revisiting the Heart of Darkness.

One more thing, there was an amzing amount of marijuana use on the patio of the bar. I guess I don't give off a cop vibe so people were doing it right in front of me and offering me tokes. San Francisco is a very different town. But maybe I'll just go crash for the night. It's not like I'm having a particularly fun night on the town.

Comments

Welcome to SF

[flotsomnjetsom.livejournal.com]

What you experienced at the bar is not unusual. SF cops are more likely to be found responding to domestic disturbance or rape calls than they are to a couple of harmless potheads toking up in public.

BTW- you will really get an eyeful if you are around at the end of September for Folsom Street Fair. Life in this big city is even more different than most.

Re: Welcome to SF

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

Something about what you just wrote rubbed me the wrong way. I assume it was not intended, but it felt like you were attacking the police in Colorado (and somehow me, though I cannot figure out how, and it is funny how that works) as moral troglodytes. I would expect that here in San Francisco that the police are much the same mix they are everywhere, especially in large cities. It is more a difference in culture than it is a difference in the substance of what people do because as far as I know outside public places people don’t get busted for marijuana use in Colorado either. I doubt the pot use rate is lower there either, in fact I seem to remember some statistic that put Colorado at number one and certainly I knew plenty of people who used. It just was not done in bars on a Friday night.

Re: Welcome to SF

[flotsomnjetsom.livejournal.com]

Wasn't meant as a rub. SF culturally is sometimes referred to as the bubble by people who live/are social in the area. There are many things that we take for granted in SF that I have never experienced in any other metropolitan area. In SF and Santa Cruz there is a high tolerance of usage of pot in almost any space (I am given to understand this is also the case in Humboldt county but I have never been there so can't speak to it). While it is not technically legal in either city, the law enforcement tend to honor medical cards being carried by users. In my experience they also often look the other way when large groups are partaking.

The Folsom Street Fair reference had to do with the fact that people often have sex VERY publicly and there are many guys who just walk around in little to nothing at all and masturbate all day. The cops can be standing a few feet away and have never, in all the times I have witnessed this, stopped them. I think the only time they will intervene is if someone non-consensually gets ejaculate on them and directly complains to the police. This happens at Pride and some other street fairs as well. I have not heard of, or witnessed, this in any US city outside of SF.

Re: Welcome to SF

[tharain.livejournal.com]

Folsom Street and Dore Alley Fairs. It's all about the nakedness and masturbation, etc.

I took some friends from the East Coast to Folsom last year (poor, frightened creatures). They were doing okay until they saw a booth in which a woman was tied to a table, pants down, being paddled by a leather daddy, while fellating a purple gel dildo on the end of a long stick.

Needless to say, they had MANY tales to tell when they got home to Allentown. And what was funny: people were vaguely interested in the trip, the coast, the Alcatraz tour, etc, but EVERYONE wanted to hear about the Folsom Street Fair. In. Detail.

It's an amazing place, the Bay Area.

Re: Welcome to SF

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

Well Boulder was that way, but not so much anymore, about marijuana. And New Orleans is like that for female nakedness at times. Already went to the Up Your Alley thing. Saw a fair amount of nakedness there. And it was the size of pride in Denver.

[mroctober.livejournal.com]

I recommend you say hi to tharain who is a terrific fellow in SF.

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

I just did. We'll see how it turns out. If anything.

[tharain.livejournal.com]

It turned out. =) If you'd like to get together for coffee or a movie or summat, let me know. I moved here from Pennsylvania seven years ago, and knew not a soul, so know that feeling of "What am I doing here?"

"Knew not a soul"?? I've been memorizing Shakespeare too long. I'm starting ti *think* in iambic (something not necessarily pent)ameter

D.

Postscript. The Mix (that was Uncle Berts, if I'm not mistaken)has always had a heavily stoner patio. I was floored the first time I met friends there, and didn't stay long, so as to avoid the contact high.