WELCOME, IMPORTANT PEOPLE!

In slightly less than three weeks this city will be awash with foreigners eating our food and enjoying our hospitality. Bless their hearts. The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting will be going on, and because of the need to insulate those people from us -- seeing as we're all violent drug addicts here in San Francisco -- traffic will be a nightmare, public transit will be re-routed, and certain streets (including in my neighborhood) will be high-security no-go zones. Which, of course, thrills me no end, because like you I am an immense fan of people from Malaysia, Brunei, The Philippines, and charming Latin American malaria zones.

[Stuk voor stuk azijnzeikende kankeraars, schorem, en alles-wetende etterpuisten, maar ja nou.]

As well as their unending quest for unfettered access to the largest market for hot sauces and chilipastes this side of Mars or her outlying dependencies.

Honest. Would I kid you? Heaven forfend.

Heaven forfend!


Like you, I sheerly love judgemental outsiders and their deepseated urge to find fault with our city. We seek their wise corrective insights and deep wisdom regarding the proper way to run a diverse metropolis filled with reject slobs from all of their countries.

SOMEWHERE SOUTH OF MARKET STREET

We'll probably be off somewhere protesting something, like climate change in the Maldives, sexual slavery in London and Amsterdam, or the lack of career opportunities for bigoted Swedish high-school drop-outs who are vegans and very opinionated.
So we'll be somewhat pre-occupied. At best.


As we often are.


Fortunately it only lasts a week, then we can go back to mixing our pronouns, snifffing patchouli and glue, and advocating beatnik free-love and meaningful tattoos.


With a bit of luck they won't have eaten all the tofu.



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