The past weekend was uncharacteristically full of activity. Saturday night I had dinner with Matt, Buddy, and a few of Buddy’s crazy Canadian friends at Patxi’s Pizza in Palo Alto. While I was walking from my car to the restaurant, a couple of guys stopped me and asked if I knew anything fun to do in the area. Sadly, I had no answer. After dinner we went to see Spiderman 2. I went in with extremely low expectations (the first movie greatly disappointed me) so I thought this one was pretty good. There were definitely some amazing action sequences and the story was all right, but Lord help me, Kirsten Dunst’s “MJ” character made me want to stab my eyes out. Good times.
Sunday night Peter, Walter, Mike, and Justin had a good ol’ fashioned all-American 4th-of-July barbeque in their swanky campus apartment. Afterwards we headed up to Redwood City to see a nice fireworks show. I was just excited that they had the smiley face fireworks that I had first seen in New York a few years ago.
Monday, Mariel and I met Nathaniel and a couple of his friends in San Francisco. First we went to Dolores Park and saw the opening day performance of the San Francisco Mime Troupe. Before you conjure up images of people with painted faces being trapped in invisible boxes, let me explain that this particular mime troupe is actually a left-wing group of actors that puts on satirical musicals about current events. ….Okay, so maybe the invisible box is better. But it was fun, and we had a nice light picnic lunch while we watched. Afterwards we wandered around Castro (or is it “The” Castro?) where I finally got my cartilidge re-pierced (my previous piercing got pulled out during a particularly vigorous haircut). You can sort of see it in this picture from Nathaniel’s site. The prodigal piercing returns. We ended the day with a great dinner at the Crêperie Ti Couz in The Mission.
Finally, in a completely unrelated note, Becky sent me this. It’s so….I don’t know: MarryYourPet.
Tags: food, holiday, july 4th, movies, patxi's pizza, piercing, san francisco mime troup, spiderman 2, ti couz
dude, I live in the mission at 22nd and Capp (which is 2 blocks east of Valencia…TiCouz it as 16th and Valencia)
give me a call if you’re up here on a weekend, ok? Otherwise, can we hang out soon? perhaps this weekend?