SFist: A Night at the Museum, Every Friday at the New de Young

glasskey

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 14:36:03 -0800

Dude it's totally a sandcrawler. I like to sneak up behind Dede at events and whisper "uttini!", if you can whisper with an exclamation point. I think she likes it.

SFistJim

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 13:35:10 -0800

I think the fact that we're in earthquake country also played a role in the razing. The voters rejected kicking in lots of public money, the voters didn't reject private financing. The building DOES look like a sandcrawler though, huh?

glasskey

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:20:20 -0800

Doesn't change the fact that Dede "Yesss it iiiiiiis!!" W.'s legacy to society is razing our history (against the will of the voters, who rejected the museum twice) and erecting monument-to-herself sandcrawler in its place. Ugh.

SFistJim

Sun, 20 Jan 2008 16:25:10 -0800

They were too well-dressed to be bloggers, who tend towards wearing underwear all the time.

KWillets

Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:54:31 -0800

or bloggers.

SFistJim

Sun, 20 Jan 2008 14:07:29 -0800

That's how hoi polloi was used in this thread. The first commenter was making a reference to the recent swearing in ceremony where 3000 people RSVPed and 3800 or something showed up. In this case, the hoi polloi were the people admitted tinto the museum but denied access to the infamous de Young tower. In lesser city, such as Portland, these hoi polloi would be the elites. Hoi polloi (Greek: οἱ πολλοί) usually used in a derogatory sense. For example, "I've secured a private box for the play so we don't have to watch the show with hoi polloi." Synonyms for "hoi polloi" include "...commoners, great unwashed, multitude, plebeians, proletariat, rabble, rank and file, riffraff, the common people, the herd, the many, the masses, the peons, the working class".[1]

chisel_von_tisel

Sun, 20 Jan 2008 12:30:39 -0800

arg... why do people seem to always misuse this word? hoi polloi

SFistJim

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 21:28:44 -0800

That was a lot of well-dressed hoi polloi the other day during the swearing-in reception. They did go after the horsey derveys like a pack of seagulls, though. Don't see what the issue is about keeping the museum open late when it would otherwise be closed.

SFistJim

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 21:26:49 -0800

Thanks for the info about the quintets - got them mixed up.

BayTaperDotCom

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 21:09:48 -0800

That photo is not of Mitch Marcus +13, it's actually Ben Goldberg's band. And as someone who's documented tons of the local jazz scene in the City for the past couple of years, I can't believe you didn't mention that this Friday opener featured some of the best young local jazz musicians the City has to offer, and all at once and all at one event. Even more impressive is that the night featured one original composition inspired by a piece of artwork in the museum by all eight bands -- a project that was funded in part via grants from the de Young in collaboration with Intersection for the Arts. MAJOR KUDOS to those organizations for directly supporting to local jazz scene!

BayTaperDotCom

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 21:09:36 -0800

aj

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 10:45:58 -0800

Was there any art? As far as I could tell when I went, the de Young is a big party palace disguised as a museum, with the hoi polloi in the big atrium downstairs and the VIPs in the tower.