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Men and women alike are invited to slap on a wedding dress (preferably from a thrift store) this Saturday, March 15 at 2:30 p.m. and meet other like-minded brides pretend at the Tunnel Top Bar (601 Bush Street) for the 10th Annual Brides of March gathering:

"We'll have a few rounds of drinks at the bars and wait for late arrivals. By 3:00 PM we'll be suitably liquored up for a stroll down Grant with a stop at our favorite diamond importer ... After stopping for a photo op at the gates of Maiden Lane, we'll race across the street to Union Square and gather around our edifice of desire, the monolith of John Dong Long."

Eventually the whole booze-stained procession will end up at the Gold Dust Lounge (247 Powell) "for an orgy of cheap champagne." And for those of you who think you can't find a wedding dress that fits, there's even a how-to page on hacking the perfect dress. Face it, you have no excuse not to go. (via Laughing Squid)

Photo courtesy/Richie Leeds on Flickr

Prepare to freeze, San Francisco. This Saturday, Feb. 23rd at the Powell and Market Cable Car Turnaround, if everything goes as planned, at precisely 3:15 p.m. a group of loosely coordinated people will freeze in place in a flash-mob-esque version of the Improv Everywhere Frozen Grand Central event last month in NYC, where 207 people froze in place inside Grand Central Station for five minutes. Check the video here, in which confused tourists and staff wander around gawking at the temporary human statues.

But as Laughing Squid points out, the SF Freeze will attempt to stir up the routine a little by directing participants to freeze and then unfreeze, perhaps more than once, at the sound of what looks to be one of those annoying air horns. Sounds like a blast. For info email sffreeze@gmail.com.

-- Brian Bernbaum

Next time you’ve got the clap, don’t man up and tell her. Web site inSPOT.org has got you covered. Reuters reports on the brainchild of Oakland-based non-profit, Internet Sexuality Information Services. The site allows users to send anonymous e-cards to their sexual partners (up to six at a time because they know you’re a slut) warning them that they may have contracted an STD and to get checked out. Users have a choice of six cards that include a link to the web site that helps the receiver find a testing spot. ... (Continue Reading Worst E-Card. Ever. by clicking 'More')

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Who likes marching bands? Everybody, that's who. Now tell me, who likes mostly unorganized marching bands who may not know how to play their instruments? Again, I think you'll have to agree that everybody likes them too, which is why you should be sure to check -- or better yet, join in with -- the Public Marching Band being organized by Transtagonist. All you need is a hat and an instrument of some kind (I assume pots, pans and kazoos count). It's happening this Sunday, Feb. 10th at 1:00 p.m. on the corner of 18th & Church, by Dolores Park.

-- Brian Bernbaum

An altruistic literary Web site allows me to rekindle a youthful passion (and give away things I don’t own)

By Joe Eskenazi

When I was a child, a favorite activity was to scrawl my phone number on a card lashed to a helium balloon and release the lighter-than-air sphere into the wild blue yonder. I nursed fantasies of receiving a phone call from exotic environs as remote as Lafayette, Orinda, or even Pittsburg.

Yet, if I was lucky enough to receive a call at all, it usually came from a neighbor six houses down who seemed impatient for me to come retrieve the damn balloon.

These days, kids probably don’t even experience that sort of limited joy; releasing balloons with numbers on them sounds a bit al-Qaeda-ish and would probably result in a stern talking-to from the local police sergeant and his little police sergeant bear.

And yet, adults need not give up upon the joy of releasing an object into the wild and waiting to hear back from far-off strangers. Except instead of balloons, you can do it with books.

When BookCrossing.com hit the scene a few years back...

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The tickets get you in free at Kirkwood. Good for one All Day Adult Ticket any day. You must be a member of the SFWeekly Insider (ie give us your email and password). To Repeat:

First Commenter on This Post Wins a Free Pair of Lift Tickets to Kirkwood. Go get some pow-pow this weekend!

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First Comment On This Post Gets Free Pair of Concert Tickets To Any Show at Cafe Du Nord

Next week we'll give away lift tickets to Northstar at Tahoe in the same fashion.

Cheers!