28th Jan 2003

Ah, San Francisco

My business travels continue, and frankly I just feel like eating richly and going to bed early, but the blog calls. In the three-plus years since we moved away from San Francisco to NYC, I can’t say I’ve spent much time missing Bagdad by the Bay. I’ve got nothing against it, really, it just never quite took. One thing I’ll give this town credit for, however, is food. Sure, NY has lots of great restaurants. But it also has lots of crappy ones. I’ve had more than my share of mediocre or just plain bad means in Manhattan. Never has that happened to me in this town. Even greasy spoons in San Francisco are delicious. I never understood how the food here could be so consistently good, but it’s a fact. I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised by having a good meal tonight, in the XYZ restaurant affiliated with the super-swanky W hotel (on Microsoft’s dime, spank you very Dutch). What the hell was it? Something like maple leaf (didn’t get that part) duck breast with carmalized onions and brussle sprouts. Most delicious. And a chardonay to, well, at least groan for. Mmmmm.

As the meal wound down, I became aware that for the past 20 minutes or so two guys seated behind me were going on and on about the Super Bowl, something I care as much about as cataract surgery. At a point, I made a stretching motion so I could turn around and get a look at them. My first thought was, my God, they’re gay, what the hell are they talking about the Super Bowl for? I wonder if my gay friends would consider that a slight, like caring about the Super Bowl was somehow mutually exclusive from homosexuality. On second thought, none of my gay friends could give a shit about the Super Bowl, I’m sure. But on reflection, it occurred to me, these guys weren’t gay after all, they just dot-commers. I’d never noticed that before: the styling duds, the short-cropped goatee, the affectely hip tiny prescription glasses… Gay or SF dot-commer? Hard to tell. I think it’s an even tougher call than gay or Eurotrash.


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