{"id":242,"date":"2005-04-23T19:12:22","date_gmt":"2005-04-24T03:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/wordpress\/?p=242"},"modified":"2005-04-23T19:12:22","modified_gmt":"2005-04-24T03:12:22","slug":"san-francisco-graffiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/23\/san-francisco-graffiti\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco, Graffiti"},"content":{"rendered":"

I spent yesterday and today in San Francisco. Friday afternoon I hung out in North Beach, one thing I wanted to do was to check out this place called Tang Fat Hotel. I’m thinking of setting a scene in my novel there, the crazy mathematicians are hiding out there, it’s not really a hotel, more like a boarding house.<\/p>\n

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Stopped by Washington Square Park, I always remember Jack Kerouac’s description of taking a nap there in Big Sur<\/i>. Here’s a little flock of drinkers.<\/p>\n

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Some odd stores on Grant Street a block away, this window was especially spooky.<\/p>\n

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Then I got together with Rudy Jr., who lives in SF. He has a kind big dog named Slug.<\/p>\n

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Slug is vigilant.<\/p>\n

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We went to a little art opening at the the Atlas Cafe and saw Linda, one of Rudy’s friends, she’s almost always cheerful. She says she’s a yea-sayer to life.<\/p>\n

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We went to a surprise birthday party for one of Rudy’s other friends. She had nice boots.<\/p>\n

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Rudy’s friends Jericho and Rafael were there. Jericho organizes these art-carny events involving bicycles, it’s called Cyclecide.<\/a> Rafael and Rudy go way back, he's also one of Rudy's co-conspiritors at Monkeybrains<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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This morning I walked around with Slug looking at the Mission. An interesting mural next to the Southern Exposure gallery.<\/p>\n

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Lots of nice stencil spray-painted graffiti around; used to be I only saw those in Europe. Here’s three in one square. With Slug's paw.<\/p>\n

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This head was in front of the eyeball mural.<\/p>\n

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This infinitely regressing menacing snowperson is fractal and Mandelbrotian. Nice background too.<\/p>\n

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They had a Mission flea market starting up.<\/p>\n

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In the afternoon we went to a very small-scale rock festival in McLaren Park called the Mindzap Festival. They had a big cardboard model of a roach with dry-ice smoke. This band here is called Weed Wolf. I said to the woman with the accordian, “Now all those years of lessons pay off,” and she said, “I just started playing it two weeks ago.”<\/p>\n

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I got a free Mindzap headband from Rafael! To keep my brain from falling out, natch.<\/p>\n

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Good old San Francisco. Thanks for showing me around, Rudy and Penny.<\/p>\n


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