[berkeley]

>>Look at me, I'm as helpless as a kitten up a tree<< Ella Fitzgerald's "Misty"

The Castro
I went to San Francisco's ever popular lgbt neighborhood on Saturday.

*this is an excerpt from an email to a friend. So Andrea, sorry if you're checking this out and it sounds familiar :o)

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In addition to "Hot Cookie" (where I had a California Chip cookie (coconut, almonds, and chocolate chips)), I also checked out "RoCocoa's Faerie Queene Chocolates", a place owned and operated by a ventriloquist sporting Santa Claus' beard plus blush, plucked eyebrows and rainbow suspenders.

Hmm, I wanted to go to "Thai House" on Noe and Henry, but it was closed, and I wasn't very hungry after eating RoCocoa's Tiramisu gelato and a piece of marzipan (my first ever). The Thai place is supposedly the best Thai cuisine in a three neighborhood radius-- next time for sure. Who wants to go?

Having grown up in the Bay Area, I'm ashamed to say that today was actually my first foray into a part of San Francisco other than Union Square and Embarcadero center. Where else will I find "Disney Bedtime Stories" (on sale) six feet away from a book about erotic pleasure for lesbians?