Comments on: What Happens In SF Stays in SF

By: claire

claire — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:50:24 +0000

i am sitting here in cultural anthropology (which is a wonderful class, but hard to stay awake at 8 in the morning) and catching up on reading your blog. so … quiz! here goes …

question #1: yes. i am so sorry. *kiss* now you’ve received a san francisco kiss from a female human.

question #2: i have to go with the beef with bokchoy.

question #3: it’s all about number C. take it from a woman … it’s always the article of clothing’s fault, never yours.

question #4: ah, jeremy. i wouldn’t be surprised if the answer is c) 20. and i don’t even want to think about the extra credit right now

question #5: c. it’s all about food. period.

question #6: picture of said room?

By: Doug Palmer

Doug Palmer — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:31:51 +0000

Long winded intros are best endured by reading Balzac

By: Ryder

Ryder — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 07:21:48 +0000

Maybe it’s not as hip as the alley on Linden St, but Blue Bottle is also served at the Velo Rouge Cafe in the Richmond and Saturdays at the Ferry Building Farmers Market…

By: Heather

Heather — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 07:20:52 +0000

I’m skipping the quiz! C’mon, I just played the concert of my life!!! Jeremy!!!!! If you were at the Huntington you could have easily walked to BLUE BOTTLE! And the only reason answer to number 1 is “true” (well, hell, everyone else seems to think so…) is because you didn’t meet ME! ME!! Who could send you pound after pound after pound of your very own Blue Bottle exactly when you needed it. Maybe even, when you were on tour. (You do know the man at the heart of Blue Bottle was once upon a time a clarinetist? Ah yes, he and I go way back…) And as for what to do during the orchestra’s long winded intro? I sure hope your mind was at Union Square, dreaming of gnocchi… Or not. Just as I did not fantasize one iota for Veloce or ‘ino or MarieBelle or anything New York during my MEDICALLY INTERRUPTED INTERMISSION tonight!!! Wow! Ambulance! What a concert!

By: suzanne

suzanne — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 10:32:00 +0000

for scientific purposes, how, exactly, does one preserve egg?

By: brent

brent — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 03:33:10 +0000

Q.1. True. I’m sure this was an issue more of choice than opportunity. .
Q.2. b) Have to blame the burger. extra credit c) the coke if it was luke-warm and flat; that really works.
Q.3. c) Give ‘em hell, Jeremy.
Q.4. c)$20.00 extra credit: Check’s in the mail, although I advise you not to make Blue Bottle coffee too available to yourself. Much of your enjoyment might be in the lack of easy access to that brew. As much the chase as the catch.
Q.5. This is a trick question, right? You NEVER “stride out there, all blustery and full of confidence.
Q.6.I’m imagining something a la Steve Reich here. Maybe a simple melody taken up by two instruments, let them get a little out of phase and see what happens.

By: eliz.s.

eliz.s. — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:54:18 +0000

1) guessing true.
2) b.

Extra credit: should be c. Spinach will not settle your stomach, and chocolate doesn’t help much either.

3) c, totally.
4) c.
5) a. or b.
6) n/a

What do I win?

By: sfmike

sfmike — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 07:17:21 +0000

Question One: “True or False: The only entity Jeremy made out with all week was a French Bulldog named Noe.” TRUE, or this would have been an altogether different post.

Question Two: What made you sick? a) Beef with BokChoy lunch in Chinatown. I’ve only been seriously food poisoned twice in my life anywhere in the world, and both times it was in San Francisco’s Chinatown, during lunch.

Question Three: Of course you return the jeans. If you have buyer’s remorse before you can even wear the damn things, go make a scene, and be sure to tell them that you’re a world famous pianist while you’re at it. Divas don’t deserve to be treated this way! And Atkins isn’t good for you.

Question Four: What Steven said above. You should have stayed in a hotel in the neighborhood and you could have hung out in the hipster alley only a block away from Davies Hall and been ennui’d and energized to you heart’s content, and maybe kissed by somebody other than Noe. As for your actual question, remember Oscar Wilde’s dictum. You don’t want to be one of those people “who know the price of everything, and the value of nothing.”

Question Five: It is obviously ALL OF THE ABOVE: tectonic plates, meaningful glances, gnocchi, professionalism, and dog slobber.

Question Six: What Steven said, even though I’m not sure what it means.

By: Steven

Steven — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 03:08:59 +0000

Ok; I have a question for you. If you’re obsessed with Blue bottle Filter Coffee, why don’t you just order a sealed bag of their blend every once and while, sent to your New York hipster pad, and get the spiffy filtercoffee machine and grinder they have, and make it at home? It seems like you’d be saving yourself oodles of money in no time.

Question One: True.
Question Two: b) Medium to extremely rare burger from hotel room service just before concert;

Burgers are usually the culprit, and most room service dens keep a little jar of e coli on their table to spice things up a bit.

EXTRA CREDIT: a) chocolate macaroons and filter coffee from Blue Bottle;

All of the above is just too much. I could be wrong.

Question Three: c) brazenly return to the shop and claim the jeans were defective?

Obviously!

Question Four: c) $20

What? You didn’t pick your hotel on the basis of how close it was to Blue Bottle?

EXTRA CREDIT: Sorry; too rich for my blood. I guess I’m getting a B.

Question Five: d) Wonder what the piano will sound like, since you haven’t been able to try it out for hours;

Well; that’s what I’d do. I do that even in those moments when I “stride out onto the stage.”

Question Six: I think you’ve overestimated the importance of rhetoric in Beethoven.

-Steven