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Last Thursday, after going to pick up some boxing equipment, I decided to stop into the Chocolate Argonaut (the Alfred Schilling restaurant&#41 and pick up some chocolate for the weekend. I think the Schilling chocolates could be the best in San Francisco. The champagne truffles are out of this world!

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By Avery – July 12, 1998

850 Montgomery

Last night while we were at 850 Montgomery, we noticed that someone had rented the back room for a birthday party.  After about 45 minutes of watching hundreds of her overdressed trust-fund-baby friends arrive it was obvious that they were taking over the entire bar.  Then some of  the girls started doing that shrieking thing, where when they spot one another they shriek, then they start talking to one another in some dialect interspersed with shrieks.

My question is, how come when yuppies (and I use the term yuppies because, in a cigar bar with most people dressed in casual Friday clothes, these people had the designer black cocktail dress-strappy-heeled-coiffed hair-and-tons-of-make-up-bright-white-toothy-smile thing going on.  That and the fact that they were either drinking champagne or Heineken from the bottle is a dead giveaway).  So how come when yuppies book a room for a party it’s an event, and when the rest of us do so it’s an intrusion?

Posted in The Barfly Chronicles.

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By Janet – July 11, 1998

Archived Smirk

More concerts! Just got tickets to the HORDE festival… row F at the Shoreline. Don't like most of the bands except for the Barenaked Ladies. If the news on the net is accurate, it should be a great show!

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By Avery – July 10, 1998

The Joy of Micro-Climates

What the hell is it with the weather these last few days? I mean, I love the fog and the chilly temperatures. I also love the blazing heat and sunlight as well (see? I'm not just some computer troll with nothing better to do… I'm a normal [sic] person with nothing better to do&#41. What I hate is when we get both conditions in the SAME DAY!
I left home yesterday for work wearing a heavy shirt and a jacket because it was cold and foggy and drizzly. By noon, it was boiling hot. I mean really freaking hot. So, on the long bus ride home, I was stuck carrying said jacket and sweating profusely into said heavy shirt.
With every unrealistic dumb-ass proposal that Willie Brown has ever tried to get funding for, why not a Department of Weather Control?

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By Avery – July 9, 1998

Archived Smirk

I am one of the world's biggest Simpson's fans — I watch twice a day every day (three times on Sundays!&#41. With this much syndication there are inevitably a lot of reruns, which makes it easier to memorize the really good episodes. We either shout out the lines pre-emptively or recite right along with them. And if it's a really really good line, we just go "Shhh!  Shhh!" and listen with great admiration. Like they just said, "Shhh. TV. Man fall down. Funny."

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By Janet – July 9, 1998

Archived Smirk

The new Barenaked Ladies CD was released yesterday. It's a good CD, and it's certainly going to do well and get 3 or 4 top-10 hits out of it… but it isn't nearly as good as their first CD (Gordon&#41. Though the songs are well written, they lack the playfulness found in songs like "Brian Wilson" and "Jane". Still, it's a great CD.

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By Avery – July 8, 1998