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.
― kurt schwitterz, Thursday, 13 April 2017 19:01 (seven years ago) link
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.
― sarahell, Thursday, 13 April 2017 19:03 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 13 April 2017 19:04 (seven years ago) link
also they always buy my grateful dead books that i can't get through.
― kurt schwitterz, Thursday, 13 April 2017 19:25 (seven years ago) link
yup, Hamilton Pool. They're pretty short waterslides but it's amazing how fast you end up going.
― Uhura Mazda (lukas), Thursday, 13 April 2017 19:26 (seven years ago) link
xp - damn was looking forward to that 29 hour long punk show next weekend
― sarahell, Thursday, 13 April 2017 19:30 (seven years ago) link
it's an experimental hip hop show!
― kurt schwitterz, Thursday, 13 April 2017 19:42 (seven years ago) link
dope!
― sarahell, Thursday, 13 April 2017 19:43 (seven years ago) link
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
― kinder, Thursday, 13 April 2017 20:06 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Fizzles, Thursday, 13 April 2017 20:26 (seven years ago) link
I live to serve
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 13 April 2017 20:30 (seven years ago) link
I've got an extra ticket to Whitney at the Independent tonight if anyone wants to join me.
― DJI, Monday, 17 April 2017 14:59 (seven years ago) link
arrived yesterday, by luck rather than judgment found i was staying around mission - coming out of the transit at 24th was an immediate "yes!" moment. found a place to have a beer - quite appealing down-at-heel place - Clooney's? - with a bunch of people who looked like they'd comfortably checked out of worrying about too much shit. Played some dice game for a dollar. didn't win. went somewhere else much less appealing on 24th. asked where i shd eat a burrito. barman said papalotes was good. went to papalotes, had burrito. it was fine. not mindblowing, but fine. large. met a friend in town at somewhere much worse called... mirkeller is it? because friend was playing a gig nearby rather'n choice. that central area didn't really grab me. by now beer plus jet lag was making me feel like a creature from another planet, saw two songs of the gig and then decide i must immediately go home and lie down forever.
which of course meant until about half three in the morning. got up at half six and went for a walk to the top of bernal heights, which was great at that time in the morning. didn't see the coyote i was warned about.
went to aardvark books - great shop! - spent about an hour and half in there picking books up and putting them back because i can't carry them all home. did get a late edward dorn. no idea what he's like outside of Gunslinger, which i loved. Adobe books on 24th is pretty good as well? Picked up a book about Brecht and a Dashiell Hammett, and a book on philosophy by Arthur C Danto and cd easily have picked up more.
Went for a swim in the mission pool - thanks again for the rec Οὖτις. It is a bit narrow, as you say, but it did the trick. then cycled down through Golden Gate Park and the colossal haze of dope smoke. really enjoyed that ride, tho the bit up to Land's End is a bit of a killer.
Went down to China Beach and did end up having a bit of a swim in fact cos i was hot from the bike ride. felt extremely refreshed and had a fairly full throated rendition of edinburgh man by the fall to entertain/horrify the sparse beachgoers.
being taken out to Al's place tonight, tho i'd probably prefer something a bit more informal.
any current eating recs for chinatown? thinking of heading there tmrw. will sleep like a dog tonight i suspect.
― Fizzles, Friday, 21 April 2017 02:56 (seven years ago) link
jfc dude
― Uhura Mazda (lukas), Friday, 21 April 2017 04:27 (seven years ago) link
i mean, well done! really all that's left is to join a burning man camp. do you have any interest in building a giant inverted pyramid?
and yes that climb up to the legion of honor is no joke
― Uhura Mazda (lukas), Friday, 21 April 2017 04:28 (seven years ago) link
oh for chinatown - Z&Y is my favorite, it's better with > 3 people. but you could go alone and get the explosive chicken and not regret it. make sure to focus on sichuan specialities.
― Uhura Mazda (lukas), Friday, 21 April 2017 04:29 (seven years ago) link
thanks lukas. right now it feels *absolutely necessary* i have the exploding chicken. i felt i shd probably have gone into the legion of honour to see the monet exhibition and almost did but i was knackered and just wanted to go downhill on the bike for a bit and go in the sea.
might see if i can fit in berkeley as well tho. hmm. will have a think.
― Fizzles, Friday, 21 April 2017 04:50 (seven years ago) link
oh explosive not exploding. still.
― Fizzles, Friday, 21 April 2017 05:01 (seven years ago) link
if you're around this weekend, you could go to the Buchlafest thing that geeta helped organize. I have to work Saturday night, but should be there Sunday.
― sarahell, Friday, 21 April 2017 05:08 (seven years ago) link
i would love to but sadly must go to vegas for work on saturday morning. a place i do not love. maybe unfairly idk.
― Fizzles, Friday, 21 April 2017 05:10 (seven years ago) link
there's some dope food in Vegas iirc
― sarahell, Friday, 21 April 2017 05:23 (seven years ago) link
I have Buchlafest tickets I can't use if someone wants them :(
― Uhura Mazda (lukas), Friday, 21 April 2017 05:25 (seven years ago) link
One of my favorite chinese place is right in the edge of chinatown: house of nanking. Dont order off the menu. (Cheg jia's next door is also good)
― Οὖτις, Friday, 21 April 2017 05:26 (seven years ago) link
Hmm wonder if i can get babysitting for that buchla thing on saturday...
― Οὖτις, Friday, 21 April 2017 05:27 (seven years ago) link
Clooney's used to be a cop bar iirc
― Οὖτις, Friday, 21 April 2017 05:28 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Fizzles, Friday, 21 April 2017 05:34 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Fizzles, Friday, 21 April 2017 05:38 (seven years ago) link
Blackout in the Bay Area? how bad is it?
― flappy bird, Friday, 21 April 2017 18:01 (seven years ago) link
I was unaware of it but sounds like it's hit a sizable amount of the city north of Market St
― Οὖτις, Friday, 21 April 2017 18:03 (seven years ago) link
fire at the Larkin St substation
shit, apparently LAX and Midtown Manhattan are down too
― flappy bird, Friday, 21 April 2017 18:08 (seven years ago) link
p sure that's just coincidence
― Οὖτις, Friday, 21 April 2017 18:09 (seven years ago) link
😰
― flappy bird, Friday, 21 April 2017 18:10 (seven years ago) link
lol this is a p huge areahttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/C99BN0_UwAABTb4.jpg:large
I am just outside it, but now I don't have anywhere to get lunch!
― Οὖτις, Friday, 21 April 2017 18:27 (seven years ago) link
what do you order at nan king ?!
― kurt schwitterz, Friday, 21 April 2017 19:06 (seven years ago) link
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!
― Οὖτις, Friday, 21 April 2017 19:11 (seven years ago) link
ooh baby
― kurt schwitterz, Friday, 21 April 2017 19:12 (seven years ago) link
I love that restaurant.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Friday, 21 April 2017 19:22 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Fizzles, Saturday, 22 April 2017 03:05 (seven years ago) link
tho my selections haven't come on yet. v reminiscent of youth - forgotten all the jukebox ins and outs.
― Fizzles, Saturday, 22 April 2017 03:06 (seven years ago) link
also, and am not sure of the long provenance of this:
https://twitter.com/hautepop/status/855544990600220673
― Fizzles, Saturday, 22 April 2017 03:39 (seven years ago) link
any food recommendations walking distance from Kaiser on Geary?
― that's not my post, Monday, 24 April 2017 04:41 (seven years ago) link
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...
― kinder, Monday, 24 April 2017 11:49 (seven years ago) link
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
― freedom is not having to measure life with a ruler (outdoor_miner), Monday, 24 April 2017 14:52 (seven years ago) link
awesome, thanks for the recs.
― that's not my post, Monday, 24 April 2017 17:50 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Οὖτις, Monday, 24 April 2017 17:51 (seven years ago) link
"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.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Monday, 24 April 2017 18:20 (seven years ago) link
the cheesesteak shop!
― kurt schwitterz, Monday, 24 April 2017 18:46 (seven years ago) link
you folks are great, all the suggestions will make visiting Kaiser for a few days much easier
― that's not my post, Monday, 24 April 2017 21:12 (seven years ago) link
well this is odd
http://hoodline.com/2017/04/cafe-du-nord-on-market-street-to-transition-back-to-full-fledged-music-venue
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 25 April 2017 16:37 (seven years ago) link