After a couple of halfhearted attempts, I finally made it to the Attic last night to hang out with Gone Postal, who was spinning soft, melodic 60s pop for a surprisingly busy crowd.

GP and I have many mutual friends. He's been spinning all over the place and I kept missing him, mostly because I suck. A friendly chap, that GP.

It was a nice night, though I had to stumble drunkenly home in a mist that was worse than actual rain. Still, I could be in Minnesota...

Protest your asses off, please.

'Cuz we can't really do it here anymore.

With some glee, I report that the culture wars in Noe Valley continued over the weekend. Found today posted on the Real Foods storefront were two new flyers, both amusing:

"MY DOG WAS STUDENT OF THE MONTH AT THE LOCAL NOE VALLEY PUBLIC SCHOOL."

and

"The Real Axis of Evil
BARBARA BOXER
NANCY PELOSI
HILLARY CLITLER"

Commentary to come.

Another boring Saturday night for me.

The culture wars are alive and kickin' in the Noe Valley neighborhood of San Francisco, where I live. The saga began with the sudden closing of the local Real Foods store on the main 24th Street drag. The ostensible reason for the closing was an urgent need for sudden renovation; the real reason, according to many, was the push for unionization by Real Foods workers, who were let go the night before Labor Day weekend with no advance notice. (The workers apparently have a blog now, if you're interested.)

Hijinx ensued. Posters and photocopies of news clippings began to decorate the windows of the shop. Over the next couple of weeks, the storefront began to serve as a de facto community billboard for Noe Valleyans: next to critical articles from the Chron and the weeklies appeared ads for massages and flats for rent.

Local conservatives were apparently unhappy at this spontaneous outpouring of anti-corporate opinion. Recently a series of very amusing flyers have appeared on the Real Foods storefront. All of the flyers criticize "liberalism" in some way: opposing the resumption of relations with Cuba, deriding the liberal quest for socialism, etc.

To the credit of the community, it seems that these flyers have not generally been ripped down in anger, even though they are quite ridiculous. (Really? Liberals coddle Castro? Like, um, the liberals in Congress? You want serious coddling of dictators? Check out Bush's relationship with Uzbekistan -- yikes.)

I'll do my best in the future to get the text of these flyers for your continuing amusement.