RABBIT RABBIT APRIL 1, 2026

Rabbit rabbit. For reasons unfathomable I am reminded of Dildo Bob (whose nickname came about because he was a pain in the dotdotdot), and his pet dog. Which had digestive issues. And gas leaks. If any dog should have been put on a yogurt and Beano diet, dotdotdot. Why some dogs like pockets of stale air is a mystery. Stay out of that corner of the drinking establishment.

Tat Yee, who is five years older than myself, was seated at his usual spot when we arrived.
I think he had been there for more than five hours, unless he had stepped out for dinner between when I passed by after late lunch. I do not advocate spending that long in a bar unless you are old, retired, and have absolutely nothing going on in your life.

Lunch had been good. Very slightly inclement weather at that time, so instead of my usual cane for clobbering random people I had an umbrella with me. Umbrellas are also useful in that regard, but not as much as a good hunk of wood. In San Francisco carrying a good hunk of wood is pro-active. Whereas those metal thingies with the four suction cup like terminations simply advertise dodder and instability.

A stout cane is a stylish accessory, and says "here is a man like that Scotsman, what's his name, Sean Connery, with whom you do not want to mess, no sir".

I have never had to clobber random people.
There are less of those than you'd think.
So the cane is definitely working.

While smoking my pipe fewer of the neighborhood familiar faces passed by, more German tourists. A surprisingly large number of folks carried pizza boxes. Nothing says rainy day comfort food than pizza, apparently. I did not know that Germans like pizza so much.
It's probably the karmic equivalent of bratwurst mit kartoflsalat.

When you're hiking the hills here you work up an appetite. Pizza is energy food. Everybody knows that. it restores the tissues. And there is no bratwurst mit kartoflsalat here anyway.
San Francisco is sadly lacking in that regard.
Es ist furchtbar schade.

I feel for them. I too have lamented the seemingly utter absence of bratwurst mit kartoflsalat, many times. It's a tragic lack. Sadly, none of the chachanteng to which I regularly go have bratwursts OR potato salad (德國香腸配薯仔沙律 'tak gwok heung cheung pui syü jai sa leut'), wich distresses me.


You can definitly get pizza in Chinatown.
Also pizza flavoured potato chips.
Imported from Hong Kong.
No bratwurst.


Rabbit rabbit.



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