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ABC 7 has this report about Halloween in SF, sans bridge traffic, and it turns out business was still strong at places like Rouge on Polk (which has $500 bottle service at the booths!) and Teatro ZinZanni, which both depend heavily on their East Bay following. The turnout in the Castro -- while still festively large with many gays doing their one night of drag for the year -- was not as huge and unruly as in previous years (one reveler in the video notes the lack of "riff-raff"), and there were plenty of cops on hand telling everyone to stay on the sidewalks.
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Did my supergirl costume for 'Critical Mass' and last night was in drab down at the Embarcadaro. Even managed to take a few tokes while I was checking out the costume's.
My best costume winner is Spidey in the Symbiote costume.
Rouge?
You mean Nick's Crispy Tacos?
That place is so ugly/trashy/tacky I couldn't imagine paying anything for bottle service there.
That rouge space is disgusting. Everything inside is broken down, busted, crusty, smells funny and is generally repulsive. It would take $500 worth of booze to blur your vision enough to think that is a nice club. Then you get the wedding reception DJs and and drunk dudes humping poor drunk girl's legs... Ew.
Love Lou Perry from Pittsburg who comes to the Castro every year "even though it's the uh, the gay central, uh, know what I mean, uh . . ."
Perhaps Lou should have headed to dental central rather than gay central. Has the toothbrush fad not made its way to Pittsburg yet?
These video clips are not very representative of the tons of people packed on the sidewalks, the cops yelling at anyone who strayed off of said sidewalks, the water trucks hosing off the streets every few minutes (why??), the firetrucks randomly coming through and asserting authority.. The streets never closed, at least up until midnight when I left. However, all in all, it was a pretty fun time, given all the authority displayed. There were 90% of people in costume, which was way more than I remember last year, and spirits were high.
It's moronic douchebags like Lou who ruined Halloween in the Castro. He probably wandered around pointing and laughing at all "teh gays" with his douchebag friends. He and his stupid friends can fuck off. I think the best solution is to actually organize a huge in your face GAY Castro Halloween event like Pink Saturday complete with gate admissions donated to gay rights organizations, a large Sisters presence along with hot guys gogo-dancing with each other at the gate so that jackasses like this won't want to attend and only fun people who don't care about who's gay or straight will come. I don't care if you're gay or straight or East Bay or whatever, don't go into a neighborhood and mock it's residents. Respect the culture of the neighborhood or go fuck yourself.