Last Friday, I took a vacation day to go shopping and to
see a show in San Francisco. Sally and Lorene and I worked
together at Atari Research Labs and we have gone shopping
together in Chinatown between Thanksgiving and Christmas
every year since 1982. We have a regular route, starting with
a CalTrain trip up the peninsula, a bus ride from the
train station to the Lion Gate, and a stroll down Grant Street.
We have favorite shops where we usually find silly stuff, linens,
ceramics, jewelry, and toys but we find new places every year
too. We eat lunch at Sam Wo and get fresh cookies at the
Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Factory on Ross Alley. I have been
going to Sam Wo since I was a little girl. The whole restaurant
is about twelve feet wide and three storeys tall. You enter through
the kichen and go up stairs. Orders are shouted down and food is
delivered up the dumbwaiter.
After Lorene and Sally went home, my husband John met me for dinner and
a show. We saw Circo Zero
at Counter Pulse in the
Mission District. Circo Zero presented a cabaret of individual
circus acts of remarkable creativity and physical skill. There were
dancers, aerial acts, spoken and musical performances. Some of the
spoken material was more crude than entertaining but the aerial acts
were awesome. Performances by Circo Zero founders Keith Hennessy and
Susan Voyticky were particularly excellent.
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