San Francisco and what to do in it

i used this thread a few weeks ago on a little weekend trip, went to dotties(we stayed around the corner, as it happened) and while in line we chatted with a dude who owns a cabbie school. After breakfast he graciously offered to drive us around the city and we graciously accepted; we hit the civic center, opera house, that big dome by the lake(forgot what it's called sry), across/above the golden gate, the presidio, robin williams' house, north beach and then he had to go and dropped us off in front of our hotel. he was fucking awesome, he said doing the tours are actually fun for him even after all these years. I owe it all to you guys and him and san francisco and myself.

Goodbye, SF. It was fun knowing you.

(I soooo want to go back. Hopefully when I have a traveling companion who is of legal drinking age/isn't a teetotaler. That city is fucking brilliant. Oh, and that cool Temple/Dome-ish thing is the Exploratorium.)

I want to go back too :(

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Oh, and that cool Temple/Dome-ish thing is the Exploratorium.

actually no, it's the Palace Of Fine Arts. The exploratorium is housed in an exhibition hall around the corner.

http://www.danheller.com/images/California/SanFrancisco/Buildings/transam-coit-01-big.jpg

City Lights Bookstore

I don't know if I'll make it back before then, but I'll definitely be there next August. I'm going to make a work trip to the CA State Fair and fit in side trips to SF and possibly Redding. Although going to Redding just to see the Sundial Bridge may not be worth it.

Redding is roughly 5 hours away and has little to recommend it in the way of tourism

He used to live there, Shakey. He knows.

God, do I know. Even so, there were hundreds of better meals there than here in franchised-to-death Amory.

I want to come to SF during Dungeness season and get a case of crabs.

Also, Redding city limits to Bay Bridge = 2:30.

haha don't mind me! sorry

im moving there in about a week, ilx.

I think I want to move there at some point in my life.

K so I live here now. Anyone know of a good temp agency?

What kind of work do you do?

oh yea, i'm going to San FranciscoPalo Alto for a week starting tomorrow. i'll have to mine all the old SF threadz..

I think I want to move there at some point in my life.

my wife wants to move there NOW until i remind her we're priced out of fucking Tujunga much less the Bay Area. I am a good man and supportive husband otherwise.

I used to book shows at me and Max's college. I also do boring office work well.

had my big SF day today. i didn't have a map or the addresses of any of my destinations, so there was a lot of wandering.

took the Caltrain into the SF station, walked to Union Square and tried to picture where opening scene of The Conversation took place. walked through Chinatown and ate at the least touristy looking italian place i could find on Columbus, some sandwich counter. found City Lights and bought 'Blood Meridian' and then clerk suggested that I return it and get 'Heart of the Lonely Hunter' instead. declined, went to washington square park. walked aimlessly through posh hilly region in search of mission st and ended up at tenderloin police station. had this exchange with an imposing homeless man:

HM: Got any change?
PT: Yes.
HM: ......... you do?
PT: (fishing in pocket) Here you go.
HM: .... i'm gonna beat the shit out of you.
PT: .. what?
HM: I said, 'HAVE A NICE DAY!'

then found mission at 5th st. and walked to 16th. considered getting spontaneous tattoo at very feminist tattoo parlor on guererro before finding out you need an appointment a couple weeks in advance. more aimless wandering in search of bar. found cool sci-fi/fantasy book store and bought 'the moon is a harsh mistress.' looked again for bar. finally went into some metallic place near mission & 20th called something like Lazlovacs. another homeless dude encounter (feat. bartender):

HD: ..excuse me.
B: LEAVE.
HD: ..please, i've been working all day, i'd just like to wash my hands. see my hands?
B: okay. bathroom is back there.
HD: (passes female patron at bar) THERE SHE IS! (goes for embrace)
B: I SAID FUCKING LEAVE.

asked (cute) victim if there was another cool bar in the area. she directed me to The Mission Bar, said she was going there after this drink. went there and had two Fat Tires ( !! mythic beer for Oklahoman; strange liquor law forbids its sale in the entire state) and waited for the girl to show up. never did. ate at taqueria next door and caught BART to train station. had to wait 1h45m for next CALtrain.

i wish i would have written some of these suggestions down :( although i had a decent time. i think i had to catch the train too early (10pm) and it was before people started going out.

might try again tomorrow, though.

legs very tired. NYer walk long distances, but not at that angle.

i am going to san francisco tomorrow. am i crazy that i dont really care that much about what to eat while i am there? i just want cool shit to look at and good places to get drunk. YAY

wow feel sorry for the dude above who was so excited about drinking a fat tire

on the plus side he found Borderlands (best sci-fi bookstore in the state) and got a copy of Blood Meridian (McCarthy's best and most harrowing novel)

sci fi bookstore sounds like it needs me to visit it.
friend i am going with aint gonna be happy bout that.

and bought 'Blood Meridian' and then clerk suggested that I return it and get 'Heart of the Lonely Hunter' instead. declined,

this is hysterical!!!

woah where is sci fi bookstore?

what kind of places do you want to go to?

they have a hairless cat named Ripley

rad im so there next paycheck

i wanted to go to alcatraz because i heard they had actors in the cells pretending to be lost, lonely prisoners who tell their tales to people who go on the tour. now i hear thats not TRUE. so now i dont want to go there.

recommend a good wax museum

there's an awesome museum near pier 45 called the musee mechanique. old arcade games and weird shit like that. http://www.museemechanique.org/

i took this picture there!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v200/chakisaki/78a7re2.jpg

that's by where all the seals sit on the pier

hopefully i'll be able to get drunk there. drinking at a high altitude all the time makes it so hard when i am somewhere else.

http://www.toronado.com/

I saw so little when I was there since it was for a work conference, I need to make it back

hoegaarden on draught yaaay!

the musee mechanique is great

that hairless cat is gross. alex touched it a little too long imho

i am bringing my gournal in case i get struck with inspiration

hopefully i will come home and tell everyone i know that i am planning on moving to SF

its cool here

also expensive

we love it!

Last Tuesday:

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I can see my office right about...............................^^^^there

(font dependent of course).

wau