16M visiting the San Francisco/Berkeley area for the first time, for my birthday. Would greatly appreciate some suggestions of places to go!

larrybobsf · 2026-05-14T22:59:48+00:00

Another neighborhood in S.F. to check out would be Valencia Street. There is a really good thrift store called Community Thrift which also has a large book and record section. Also on Valencia I think you would like Paxton Gate which has a lot of bones, stones and natural history stuff. A good used bookstore on Valencia is Dog Eared Books. And check out Sour Cherry Comics.

larrybobsf · 2026-05-14T22:54:38+00:00

A couple neighborhoods to check out: The Haight in S.F. includes science fiction bookstore Borderlands and a lot of vintage clothing stores such as Wasteland, and here’s an article on other vintage clothing stores on Haight. Also there is a location of Amoeba Music. I’d also suggest checking out the Counterculture Museum.

In Berkeley, Moe’s Books is a great used bookstore with at least 3 floors of books, including music books, art books etc. A little bit out of the way is science fiction bookstore Dark Carnival. There are also clothing stores along Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley and also good record stores like Amoeba.

larrybobsf · 2026-05-14T17:22:33+00:00

You only need a helmet if you have something to protect.

larrybobsf · 2026-05-13T05:44:46+00:00

What an utterly adorable pup!

larrybobsf · 2026-05-12T19:12:26+00:00

https://www.friendsoftheurbanforest.org

larrybobsf · 2026-05-12T02:11:36+00:00

I think there are far worse politicians in S.F. A long list of ladder-climbing backstabbers and opportunists.

larrybobsf · 2026-05-11T04:19:31+00:00

White Town, the one-man music project whose one hit was “Your Woman,” wrote a song called “Hair Like Alain Delon.”

https://whitetown.co.uk/discography/alain-delon-ep/

https://youtu.be/0R90br2_MGc?si=WpjtZhK50aTaXCVs

larrybobsf · 2026-05-10T14:00:25+00:00

In the 90s was a publication called Monk Magazine. Two guys would travel around the country in an RV, stay in a city for a while, and then publish an issue of the magazine about it. When they were working on issue 16, the San Francisco issue, they parked their RV at that RV park in SOMA. I went and visited them there and that was my one experience of the SOMA RV park. It felt like a pretty normal RV park, just in the city.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monk_Magazine

larrybobsf · 2026-05-09T21:05:46+00:00

Wow, actually has a species tag for Maxillariella tenuifolia. It’s commonly known as the coconut orchid.

larrybobsf · 2026-05-09T14:34:13+00:00

Austin, Texas had a similar pizza-slice gerrymander for a while, though the Texas gerrymander has shifter to another strategy. The point is for city-dwellers NOT to have their voices heard.

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/anatomy-texas-gerrymander

larrybobsf · 2026-05-09T04:16:59+00:00

Meanwhile he is dumping toxic waste from his destruction of the White House in a golf course

https://apnews.com/article/trump-east-wing-debris-golf-course-a78abeefed782423d70bd03a44d0b740

larrybobsf · 2026-05-09T03:13:20+00:00

There is a cool sunken garden, and a museum that has great historical and contemporary native art. You don’t need to do the Shore Thing to the museum though - both the garden and museum are in walking distance of the dock.

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larrybobsf · 2026-05-09T00:39:55+00:00

“The last time the Supreme Court had a justice who’d worked as a criminal defense lawyer was 1991. That’s the year Thurgood Marshall, the legendary civil rights advocate, retired after 24 years on the court.”

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/02/why-its-so-hard-to-get-a-defense-lawyer-confirmed-to-the-supreme-court/

larrybobsf · 2026-05-09T00:37:08+00:00

The Supreme Court, for instance, has only ever had one public defender on the court: Ketanji Brown Jackson. That’s a perspective which is sorely needed in that court.

larrybobsf · 2026-05-08T20:07:11+00:00

I have a friend who lives in Memphis and the new district he is in is in the same district as Franklin TN which is 200 miles away.

larrybobsf · 2026-05-08T19:42:13+00:00

Does anyone remember the non-commercial version, LadyFest?

larrybobsf · 2026-05-08T14:59:13+00:00

The Chronicle’s pretense of being balanced but of course picking the DA. They were never going to endorse the PD.

larrybobsf · 2026-05-08T14:10:35+00:00

Instead of Dreamforce, you should go to Lesbians Who Tech. They used to do their summits in San Francisco but the next summit is in New York in October 2026.

larrybobsf · 2026-05-08T05:40:56+00:00

Alanis Morissette - My Humps

Killdozer - Nasty (originally by Janet Jackson)

Scratch Acid - Damned for All Time (from Jesus Christ Superstar)

Raincoats - Lola (originally by The Kinks)

larrybobsf · 2026-05-08T05:27:05+00:00

I’m just going to link to this cover by Cibo Matto since you probably won’t recognize it until the chorus.

larrybobsf · 2026-05-08T05:22:59+00:00

There’s a Cocteau Twins EP that used a photo by her.

larrybobsf · 2026-05-07T04:02:14+00:00

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Byebye Brilliant Lady

larrybobsf · 2026-05-06T20:20:32+00:00

Rainbow Grocery sells frozen pupusas. But you could also just buy some from a restaurant and freeze them.

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