PM "PMPope" P.'s Profile

This place gets mixed reviews and deservedly so. If you know NOTHING at all about computers and walk into this store you may be intimidated by the brusk manner of the glorified helpdesk technicians. If you know a little about computers you may think of it as a fairyland toystore with the cutting edge 'warez' @ below market price. 75% bad attitude of techy cashiers turn me off to this joint. I will often avoid it if i REALLY need parts. Just head down Mission to Sweet Mem mainly... Overall: sucky attitude & moderate prices will do in a pinch but definitely NOT THE MONEY SHOT! Kirk out, baby

This IS a coffee shop. The people that come here are people of the SOMA neighborhood who rely on the SOMA cafes to fuel them before jumping back into the high weirdness  that is SF/CA. This is not a 90210 cafe. It is called SOMA Coffee as it is located 'south of Market'. As a matter of fact, I have this on very 'high' authority, the original owner is the actual human being who coined the term 'SOMA' forall posterity. If you are looking for a bed and breakfast, there are ****loads a few short blocks away. You can find plenty of poodle parlors and depliation spas all within a stone's throw (re: Hayes Valley, Castro, Noe Valley,...) but as you're cruising through in your gas guzzling, oil warring, elitist, silicon cars, I would ask you to consider for a second... a place without pretensions whose name, indeed, sez it all...

I hope I can give this place ZERO stars for all the sickness they have brought upon my person as well as my friends. I got sick after eating a vegetarian dish in this joint. Let me put it this way, my stomach started to act up.Heavy gastric Flux, ya know?I didn't think too much about it. I do have the stomach of a goat and consume edible food with all due haste. I figured -'Probably vaccuumed it down too lickety-split.- then she,starts to wimper and moan clutching her belly. I figure Spanish people have no EXP.with the Thai so maybe it's a cultural thing. See how I am? I try to give that place every consideration because they are in my neighborhood. I try to be neighborly... BUT THEY WOULDN'T LET ME!

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Couple Days later: Rats! Rats running everywhere. Through the walls!
Out of their cellar! The workers of King of Thai Noodle House right here on O'Farrell, were starting to get word of this local outbreak of medical emergencies so they RAT BOMB the joint and then the local hotel industry has to deal with the overflow of rodents. (BTW- do you think they took the time to clean the veggies before you and your visiting family members went to that 'cute little Thai place in Union Square'?)
Think about it
breathe...
Think about it

Check out the menu for the Haight Ashbury Food

Program Graduation

Haight-Ashbury Food Program
June 26, 2006 -12:11pm

1525 Waller Street
http://www.thefoodprog...

the Haight-Ashbury Food Program congratulates our

Graduates of Class# 26

MENU

MEAT:
Roast Loin of Pork with apple/basil dressing

VEGETARIAN:
Portabello Parmagiana

SIDES:
Wild Rice with Pine Nuts
Asparagus with Red Pepper Coulis
Greek Salad
Rolls & Butter
Blueberry Croissant Puff

DRINKS:
Sparkling Water

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The graduating students served 70+ diners.

food began @ 12:30pm and the
eager people were ready to chow. The glitteraitti
of the local homegrown press were there It was a
great feed. The graduating class got up and gave
a few speeches concerning how Chef Dan and the
program really changed their lives. Unfortunately
one of the graduates spent a little too much time
in the can (re: kookoo for co-co puffs)
but the meal went off without a hitch and
everyone was slapping appendages together.

Keith Haliday - Dining Room/Kitchen Manager

Prophets of the Infostructure.

BY-LINE: Yelp Party
June 21st, 2006
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Did not see Nish @ Yelp! party (though his name was certainly bantied around by all the boys & girls). I did, however, get some alone time with a couple YELPstars who are not robots BUT keep everything running so machine smooth it may seem the Nish has employed some spiders to send out autoresponse.

I'm sorry I am not able to remember each and every beautiful name I was so eager to consume. God! Wasn't that fun?

Key moments (for me) -

Having a smoke with POE - She's funny and smart. She lives in the inner Richmond. She loves flowers and bitching. She recieved a FREE RIDE
from our loverly friends at Zipcars around

9:30-ish.

The beautiful Russian girl... I only got [re:

video] a little of your boot {up to your knee}

but was seriously inspired by the joy in your

eyes.

The Lebanese girrrls in the wine cellar, writing

is as important as the moving image. Look at me.

I pick up my PALM and I'm off to the races.

Hey Everybody! Here's a condensed list of

vitamins sold @ Trader Joe's. I frequent the

North Beach location and I think they have pretty

decent prices on these.

PS100MG - COGNITIVE & MEMORY
(PHOSPHATIDYLSERINE) $19/60tabs

LUTIEN, LYCOPENE, SELENIUM -$15/180tabs

METHYL-SULFONYL-METHANE (MSM)

EUPHRASIA OFFICINALIS - SUPER VISION

ALPHA-LIPOIC-ACID

BLACK COHOSH

S-ADENOSYL-L-METHIONINE $15/36

YELP*
attn: Hippies, Love Children, and other free

wheelin' lovers of sumptuous vittles from Mother

Earth
byline:July the 6th in the year of the Lord 2006

store: Other Avenues Food Store

hardway: If you take the N-Judah line out to Ocean Beach  & you get off by the Golden Gate Restaraunt [which is in that weird little 7-11 shopping center @ 46th & Judah..] and then you walk one block east, you are gonna find yourself  smack-dab  in front of  the
Other Avenue Food Store.

simpledirection:  It is simply located btwn 44th & 45th on Judah.

organicstyle: Go on in, Oh traveller of the ancient & mysterious outer sunset. Check it out. The people are friendly and knowledgable. The prices go into the pockets of the workers. If that's still something you're interested in supporting.
As a matter of fact, I once carried a fine bottle of wine up to the on-duty manager and asked if he would open it for me. I assured him I would not consume this fine organic wine on the premises. He handed me a fine antique corkscrew and bid me a good day.

rustic end: If you're ever out that way stop by and say 'hi' or 'howdy' or 'how do?' or whatever appellation the young ones are using these days. Purchase a bit of organic grub, something to drink and head on out into the surf and sunset. I betcha'll be glad you did.

Still in Beta but OOOOhhhh Mama! what a beta! This browser is incredible. With more extensions than they could pack on a MUNI through the Stockton Tunnel into Chinatown. (I've personally put the Developer's toolbar on mine and I can get so much info on so much code passing through...(i've had 10 tabs open at once without performing CPR on my CPU). It's Easy, RSS friendly, User-centric and makes the perfect compliment to any FlockStars* toolbox. Get the Beta, baby!

639 Hyde Street - Ed the Laundromat Manager of Coin-Op Laundromat - What a good thing it is to get some clean clothes. It leaves a fella with the feeling that anything is possible. There are, however, urban laundromat horror stories that could turn a person against the very idea of stuffing their clothes into a sack and trudging through the shuffling masses of malcontents just to watch junkies dropping their rigs and blood all over the floors of these neccessary establishments for the common good. Believe me when I tell you, as an SF urbanite, I have paid witness to the foul stench of animals holding up in the darkened corners of certain un-name-able joints 'round this city. Sweet Mother of God, have I ever. Thus said, it shouldn't come as a shock when I say I have seen the perfect laundromat and it is located at 639 Hyde Street (between Post and Geary). A simple blue and white sign reads : Coin-Op Laundromat and Ed is the keeper. The red brick exterior suggest a sturdy space. Ceramic tiles on the floor are generally pretty clean (as can be expected in a heavily trafficked location).  Faux wood paneling and 2x4 struts keep the interior humble and reduce the overhead of the operation. Ed passes the savings on to the customer. I'm a penny pincher by nature so I don't mind telling you, this place has the most economical load you can find around Union Square or the TL. Besides if you're trying to get a load washed and dried for less than $3.00(USD) you probably won't mind having a gathering of half naked, junked out, mutant, freaks sweating and banging all over the tables and crawlspaces while your folding your underwear into crisp little triangles. But try this one out for a break from the usual crap. Ed is cool. He'll make your change. He'll buy your soap! He has even been known to watch your laundrybag while you run around the corner to get a coffee. ---I'm friendly to friendly people.- This is Ed's motto. He's one of the good ones.

SF Weekly Summer party @ Pier 23 -

shrimp and fried calamari & chillin' on the Bay. Sounds like a Jimmy Buffet song,... I know,... I know. It is actually a Summer party sponsered by our friends @ the SF Weekly. Where to begin, where to begin...6:15 and a decent buzz ...A few 'Whatever' girls grouping under a partly cloudy sky. A few suits checking the Bay, the babes, and the booze.

I talked to one guy in a suit. I actually petioned him for a square seeing as my supply has grown suspiciously low to non-existent.This man was a pilot of some form of aircraft. He had one eye on the birds and a cocktail in his hand. Seemed rather cool, but with a tone of melancholy in his eye. I put it down to  the expansive blue stare that grounded pilots sometimes get on knowing of how time moves down here on good old terra firma.

The mowhaked busboy grabs empties lickety-split. Guess there ain't no half-steppin'.. I grab two more Peroni as fast as my dulled reflexes will allow. SF Weekly guy walks around with a digital point & shoot (I'm keeping my good eye on him).

A monstrously proportioned man, with a ponytail & goatee, puts on a brown blazer before delicately spearing  shrimp with his pinkies @ right angles. I look up and there's a clone of the same man but in a bulging white tee-shirt. Some rock & roll station is giving out Glen Danzing memberships to the gymnasium it seems.

I turn my head and am accosted by a platinum number with throbbing turqoise eyes. She wants to know who I am. What am I doing here? I'm not saying anything yet. I keep clam and tight lipped as a catholic bay fish. Sounds like the beginning of a noir commercial for deep fried seafood.

The line moves quickly on the free eats aisle. The working girls pull up their skirts, while  non-challantly measuring the ratio of their expanding wombs with  skinny steno-pool fingers. Unringed fingers to be sure. These are the women of the mythic Endless Summer conundrum. They are hoping to be well off and happy with a 200k man before the bodies go south and they finally move into the deep, piney woods of the great northwest.

The guy with a mowhak is back. He's everywhere. He watches the backporch like a kite or a rock lobster.

A Lebanese couple wins a couple of tickets to the ballpark. They want me to know they are getting married. -That's great! My 1st wife was Lebanese.Can I blog your wedding?- They seem kinda put off I should even mention such things. Seems they don't want to spoil the sanctity of their nuptial bliss. What would the AI or (as Megan suggests) test tube children think to know their mommies had a blogger at the hootananny?

A serene Japanese man with long gray hair is studying to be the next Foo. He sits alone at a blue & white checkered table cloth.

Guy- unknown guy overheard- sez 'God, it looks like sometin' outta a sci-fi movie.' Welcome stranger. Welcome to my world.

This is my 1st SF Weekly party. It seems unfair to compare and measure it against all the fabulous Yelp functions I have attended in SF (esp the 'Hot Summer Nights gig over @ Roe. God, that was only like a week ago. Guess the spacemen aren't the only thing flying around this place)
Sidenote to Yelpers*: did you check the visuals yet?.
In all fairness I'll give it a 7 outta 10, hoping I'll get another chance to attend.

Whether it's SF Weekly or my pals @ Yelp* I enjoy communing with the people of SF. They are diverse and passionate people. I feel right @ home.