Daily Archive for October 25th, 2008

1. Make Salsa Not War: Those of you that know me, know I’m a salsa
fiend. But, for some­one who loves salsa so much, sur­pris­ingly I don’t
make it much. But I got inspired the other night (since it seems like most local sal­sas here are weak — no offense SF). This batch came out
pretty good and was pretty fla­vor­ful for what I had on hand. I think the next round will have to have some­thing special…I just need to fig­ure out what that is.

To be continued…

2. Da Mys­tery of Chess­boxin’: My friend Justin is a Chess instruc­tor at a
cou­ple schools in the city, so we’ve been play­ing a lit­tle when we have
down time. I hadn’t played in a long time, but Justin’s upgrad­ing my skill, teach­ing me all the moves! I’m also con­sid­er­ing cre­at­ing an account over on WuChess — any­one want to start a Clan? Wait, scratch that idea, shit costs $48!?! C.R.E.A.M. indeed!

3. Mis­sion Bur­rito Hunt: Not only am I a salsa fiend, but I’m also a
bur­rito con­nois­seur. I’m still on the hunt for my favorite Nor Cal
bur­rito spot, and so far this adven­ture has been great — very excit­ing! So much vari­ety! So many fla­vors!
This beauty comes from Taque­ria el Buen Sabor over on 18th and Valen­cia
in the Mis­sion. Every­one I’ve talked to keeps say­ing The Mis­sion is the spot for legit bur­ri­tos, but really, I feel like The Mis­sion is the only place you can find bur­ri­tos. Maybe I’m not look­ing hard enough.

And don’t be fooled, while this photo gives the
impres­sion of that puppy being small, it cer­tainly had some girth! And
it was filled with the goods: Black beans, guac, salsa fresca of some
sort (the hot, not the mild), cheese, and rice. I’ll give it a 8 out of
10. Maybe a 7, actu­ally — the rice did give taste hints of Rice-a-Roni at times (but that might of been because it sat for a moment, dur­ing the trip back to Twin Peaks by foot/bus, which might of caused the fla­vors to seep into the rice).

I like to con­sider this type of thing research for Bur­rito Mikeo.

4. Sup­portin’ the Peo­ple: We thought there was a “No
on Prop 8″ rally this morn­ing, so Justin and I headed to the Cas­tro around 10 AM to
go be active with our peo­ple. But, turns out, it wasn’t a rally, but more of a party at The
Look­out or some­thing. Damn. (Justin and I are still uncer­tain about what his poster is sup­posed to mean)

Well, what­ever, we moved onto num­ber 5…

5. Hangin’ Tough in Dolores Park: This has def­i­nitely become one of my
favorite things to do since I’ve been up here, and I was just think­ing
about it ear­lier, about how much I really enjoy the fact that SF peo­ple
use their parks. It seemed like back in So Cal no one ever wanted to
hang out in the park and just “chill”. Here, every­one does it — and
they do it all day! So, after our plans to rally didn’t hap­pen, we did
the next best thing and bought a six pack of Heinekens and sat on the
grass and just…well, hung out. Sweeeeeet.

Oh, and some other great things I’ve recently come across:

1. Saw two guys fist fight­ing the other night while walk­ing to the Cas­tro MUNI sta­tion headed for the Nosaj Thing show.
2. Last night, while walk­ing through the neigh­bor­hood heard some “man-moans” from a dark dri­ve­way cor­ner, and of course I fig­ured “oh shit, I’m about to walk up on some dudes going at it”, and to my sur­prise when I walked by it turned out to be two heavy­set men eat­ing brown­ies. L0lz.
3. And last but not least, a shout out to the black tranny danc­ing on the cor­ner with her walk­men, in the mid­dle of the day, in the Ten­der­loin. Work it, girl!

‘Tis all for now. See ya!