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Going up further there's a postcard shop called Tilt which also sells prints by Coop and Kozik (!). There's also an X-Large outlet nearby (yawn). The best comic shop I've ever been to, Comic Relief, is almost at the top of Haight. Helpful staff, had an answer to every question I asked, cats in the place, had ever comic I looked for.... Then there's a bowling alley with a bar and grill attached, and the club Nightbreak. Blag Dahlia played there, but I didn't make it. Haight St. dead-ends at Golden Gate Park and right by the entrance is a McDonald's! I was eating there around 4:00 one afternoon and all of a sudden this torrent of crusties starts pouring out of the Park like flocks of birds migrating in fall! Weird. [ed- Are you sure it wasn't 4:20?]

I mainly stayed in the Haight and Mission Districts (if you're going to the Mission from the Haight, catch the #33 bus, it's a super scenic ride). In the Mission there's Epicenter Zone which ties with Sound Exchange as the best record store I've shopped at. They won't play new LPs for ya, but they are non-profit, so everything is only a bit over cost! There's a 'zine library, couches, a fucked-up pool table, racks of new 'zines, employee picks (including the Teen Titans EP!), descriptions of the bands written on the record bags. I saw a Japanese group, Hi-Standard, there. I thought, "Great, another cool Japanese garage band!" Nope, they sounded just like Green Day! Amoeba Records in Berkeley comes highly recommended, but I didn't get over there. Taquerias are everywhere in the Mission. For about $4.50 you will come away stuffed. Huge burritos with chunks of avocado, free chips and salsa (2 kinds), agua frescas (fresh fruit drinks).... My favorite is Acapulco on Mission St. Oh, there's a place here called Beano.

Golden Gate Park was rad!! Museums, aquariums, planetariums, botanical gardens, acres of lush, green land and trails, buffalo (seriously?). The weather was also an asset, especially in the Haight/Sunset where it's almost always windy and overcast, or foggy. The Mission, on the other hand, is notorious for staying sunny, as the fog forms a ring around the area. Yuck! Anyhoo, the upshot of this is that SF is a great place to visit, but I'll be damned if I'd live there. Go with a friend.

Post script: Bands - Missed Queers/Muffs show. Local bands Ripoffs and Bimbo Toolshed broke up while I was there. Trashwomen and Brentwoods didn't play, though I did meet the Car Thieves (Dave and Dylan), Danielle Pimm from Trashwomen and Brentwoods and Darren (Linwood?) Supercharger at a get-together at Darren's. All really nice people, but I didn't see one show aside from Hi-Standard.

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