Chocolate Salon, Obama lovefest and a donut party - Your Monday Morning Hangover
Well that was a gluttonous weekender filled with street eats, more chocolate than most could handle, pints of hefeweizen and yes, donuts. The weather was otherworldly, especially for those packed tightly together for San Francisco’s Obama delegate caucus on Sunday. Ah, the sweet (or in this case, not so sweet) smell of democracy. G'morning, San Francisco. This is your Monday Morning Hangover.
All Shook Down started the weekend off at The Independent, where Brooklyn's Dirty Projectors were busy pimping their latest record, "Rise Above," which our Oscar Medina describes as "an album that has confounded critics and listeners alike with it’s oblique combination of disparate strands of musical DNA, referencing everything from Congolese pop to the work of Gustav Mahler to early R n’ B and Soul." Read Oscar's review and check out some photos here.
Saturday's Fillmore bus (which was filled with some really rude folks) drove us to Japantown for the Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival, where we ate too much Sakura Popcorn and spent too much money on cool trinkets because everything was so amazingly cheap! Paper crane earrings made of Yuzen-shi (printed rice paper) and lacquered to perfection for $10? Nice to see the street scene kick Etsy's rainbow ass once in a while. (Photo under the fold. Slideshow to follow.)
Since we mentioned really rude folks, here's a slice of a conversation we overheard on Haight and Masonic:
The scene: Elderly lady in pink cardigan smokes a cigarette and approaches a man with a senior's Muni pass slung around his neck.Lady:
Hey, how are you?
Man: Good! *insert blah blah happy small talk here*
Lady notices man's bottle of iced green tea: Hey, can I have a sip of that? I'm really thirsty.
Man: Uh, no.
Lady: But I'm really thirsty!
Man: I'm allergic to cigarettes. *points to the smoking stub in the lady's hand*
Lady: Oh, so you'd rather I drink vinegar! Just like they gave Jesus vinegar when he said "I'm thirsty."
Man: What?!
Lady: Some friend you are. I tell you I'm thirsty and you won't give me a drink. Well screw you! They did the same thing to Jesus...
End scene: Lady walks off and we notice she's holding a Bible with an embroidered cover. Yeesh!
Sunday was all about the chocolate at the International Chocolate Salon at Fort Mason. We skipped to the front of a some-hundred person line and heard one guy remark "must be nice to have press access for this one." Understatement of the year, buddy. We had so much chocolate we made ourselves a little sick. But at least we found the answer to the age-old question "If Barack Obama were made of chocolate, what would he taste like?" The answer, as well as photos of our favorite Salon treats AND a video of the chocolate body paint demo (do we love you or what?), is over here.
Speaking of Obama, The Snitch's Joe Eskenazi spent a chunk of his Sunday smelling sweaty BO (ahem, Barack Obama, not body odor - though you could have fooled us) supporters at the Service Employees International Union’s Potrero Hill headquarters. Find out which three won the delegate election here.
ASD wrapped up the weekend at the Bottom of the Hill, where our Liz Iversen caught Enon's Donut Party. Pictures + live review over here.
We don't know about you, but we really want donuts all of a sudden. --Janine Kahn/Web Editor
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