SF Adventures

I mentioned our Cotogna dinner on my last post. My wife and I stayed over that night at the Hilton on Kearney and did some wandering around Sunday morning before heading back to the suburbs. We had a nice little outdoor breakfast at Reveille on Columbus. I had to eat my eggs out of a box, but we enjoyed ourselves.

I took a few pics. The Basque Hotel has a long history, but unfortunately their restaurant shut down in 1996. I’ve spoken of the feasts that the Wolv and I would have there in the 80s. You would get a multi-course meal with soup, bread and salad for $10.

We were tempted, but didn’t try any of the dim sum.

We went back to the city on Wednesday to meet up with #1 and Barbie at The Anchovy Bar, which made Esquire’s list of best new restaurants.  We had a 5:30 reservation, as they are hard to come by, but we relished the fare.  Our favorite was the oysters. We even ran into The Wig’s kids as we were leaving. I was decked out in my new jeans. My wife took me to a personal shopper at Nordstrom. I have to admit that the clothes I got look better than what I had, but I have a couple concerns.  One is taking fashion advice from a twenty-something with a man bun. The other is paying close to $200 for a freakin’ pair of jeans.

I’m glad I was able to get this post out.  I’ve been downcast regarding the Shawn Mendes/Camila Cabelo breakup. And this came up just as I was coming out of being emotionally wrecked by Taylor Swift’s 10-minute video. On the bright side, Kim K. and Pete Davidson will be together for a couple months.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/taylor-swift-all-too-well-10-minutes_n_618ea5efe4b0c621c5ccc50f

I should probably not talk about politics, but I gotta.  Kevin McCarthy rambled for eight hours yesterday. I cannot understand these clowns.  Even scarier was Michael Flynn saying we should have one religion.  Which one should that be Mike?  Presbyterianism?  Pastafarianism? Mike can consult with JFK Jr. the next time he sees him. And since that punk Rittenhouse has been acquitted, maybe he really can get coffee for Matt Gaetz.  You can pause now to puke.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/matt-gaetz-kyle-rittenhouse-congressional-intern_n_6195d238e4b0451e54f494ae

I got my booster yesterday. There have been no side effects, like achiness, fever, glowing etc.  Fortunately, the nurse asked me if I wanted the dose with or without Luciferase. She also pointed out that if I have a change of heart, I just need to take a borax bath.

Since I just mentioned The Wolv and he is one of my most loyal readers, I wanted to point that the wolverine is also referred to as the mountain devil, the quickhatch, the carcajou and the skunk bear. It is amazing what you learn on the internet. Now I have various ways to greet him when I email him or when I see his sorry ass in NOLA next year.

Since we are on the subject of names, I want to go back a few posts to when I told you about a celeb’s kid name of Rumble Honey.  I’ve been trying to think of what she could change it to in order to sound normal.  For example, Nic Cage’s kid Kal-El can simply become Cal. And when he comes of age, he can have it legally changed and tell his old man to piss off.  The other reason I brought up Rumble Honey was because I once confused it with the Met’s Double A team in Binghamton, The Rumble Ponies.

My daughter is pretty financially savvy.  She’s already contributing to her 403b, but she wants to put some additional money away.  I advised her to open a David Lee Roth IRA.

#2 is staying at my house Monday night.  Please give me a call Tuesday morning to check in.

Here’s the week 11 picks.  I got crushed in week 10, going 5-9 and slipping into a 25th place tie.

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Follow Up

Were you disappointed in that last post?  Join the crowd.  That’s what happens when I’m left unsupervised.

I’ve seen a bevy of articles about celebs with toned abs and toned legs in my go to news source, Yahoo.  I have also seen a lot of Paulina Porizkova, speaking her truth, often without much clothing on. She also thanked Sarah Jessica Parker for embracing her gray hair.  I’d like to thank SJP as well.  I’ve decided against a dye job on my next visit to my hairdresser.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/paulina-porizkova-reveals-why-her-122228003.html

Should we talk about the Republicans?  Why not?  The execrable Paul Gosar is at it again, posting an edited version of a violent anime cartoon.  I’m sure those in his caucus will censure him.  No, they are saving their scorn for the 13 Republicans that voted for the infrastructure bill. As Charles Pierce said, Republicans must really hate bridges.

Shitbird Chris Christie has a new book out.  As soon as I’m done with this post, I’ll run out to get it.  In the below article, a Republican strategist states that “He’s traveling the country, saying what he learned and saying he’s not afraid of Donald Trump." You could have fooled me.

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/11/12/chris-christie-donald-trump-president-2024-521006

Did you know that there is a DJ impostor on Twitter?  His name is #1.  He recently was talking about nindification.  I had to correct him, as the word is nidification.  My extensive study of the Spanish language helped me in this.  When I was in Madrid in the fall of 1980 one of the big movies was El Nido.

Here’s a restaurant recommendation for you: Cotogna.  It is right next to Quince and has the same owners.  We took our nephew and his girlfriend there because my in-laws gave us a gift card.  All the hip restaurants we go to is because my sister-in-law has a finger on the pulse of the SF restaurant scene. I ordered a prosciutto appetizer before realizing my nephew was a pescatarian, but he did not go hungry.  We also had a couple bottles of a good Italian wine.

My wife is pushing me to get my COVID booster but I’m a little concerned that I’ll start glowing because of the bioluminescent markers in it.  The crackpot that started that crap, Emerald Robinson, has been pulled from Newsmax and permanently banned from Twitter,

By now, you’ve had sufficient time to study my week 10 picks.  Based on last night’s result, I’m off to a bad start, but of the 42 people in my pool, nobody chose Miami.  It looks like I’ll only go 13-1 this week.

My wife sent me an evite for a big holiday party at our house celebrating SB1 and his fiancé.  I responded “maybe”.

Abandoned Luncheonette

She’s gone, as of about 7am today, off for a long weekend in PDX.  I’m trying to hold it together.  I want to post more, but sometimes it’s hard. Please give me a few more days.

In the interim, you can mull my week 10 picks.

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