Bay to Breakers - 2009
Posted by glen609 on May 17, 2009
So I slapped on my Santa hat, put Dolores in her syringe box and headed on down the hill in my Crocs. The first guy I see is this dude in a skirt, rockin it solo. Dolores starts chiping and so I stop to give her a squirt of mush (in the shade because it’s already getting pretty hot, poor bird) and off we go again.
Passing through the Haight, this dude is already passed out on the corner. Maybe it was from the night before. It’s about 9:00 AM. In the high eighties. Some of the real runners are already coming back down Haight St. from the finish line at Ocean Beach. There were some bumblebees with runners bibs. I guess they flew pretty fast.
just another guy in a skirt, headed for action
already out!
Bubbles
this guy has boobs
Another great GG review: Smells Like Teen Spirit, by Nirvana, touched a generation and it’s still a powerful backdrop to drunk naked people walking towards the beach from downtown San Francisco dressed as bees or salmon (swimming the wrong way and spawning on Howard Street while the cops are trying to clear the area).
“I feel stupid and contagious” is just about the most apt sentiment to frame the annual Bay to Breakers. Also, “a denial”.
Still a great song, still a great “race”.
Dude, back off!
hey, my bird needs a nest
Dead pig?
The cops were out in force, but they didn’t bust anybody (not yet anyway) for nudity or drinking. Yay!
Solid Gold baby!
All blonds are pretty much alike.
They could have busted these naked guys. Do we really need to see this?
self explanatory
pig? cow? bear? beer…
Cop checking out the nudes that
he was supposed to bust,
thx for not bustin’ ‘em.
I stopped in at the Beanbag cafe for brunch and took a bunch of pictures out the window.
Dunkin Dohnuts?
Beanbag Cafe.
A bonafide Monk,
not pretend or drunk
This guy came up to me and said, This is one of only two days a year in San Francisco that nobody asks me if I’m a real Monk. What a sweetheart. I showed him my bird. He didn’t seem that impressed.
Get set, go!
Totes Dunkin Dohnuts.
Wooo! I need some water. It’s hot out here.
Hey, those are my pants, I need to be free!
Hair today, hair tomorrow.
Mindy knits beer cozeys
Hmm, now what? Did you see
that crazy person?
This girl had way too many pants on! After her friend pulled ‘em down she ran around half naked like an animal just set free. Cute and pleasant.
Me and Dolores (in the box)
No ball, bounce a pool.
Many people asked what Santa had in the box. I showed ‘em and then we went dancing and bounced this pool around. Dolores didn’t really like all the loud music. So I fed her again and fled back up the hill.
Massive exodus of drunk lemings.
That thing over there was so funny,
you remember?
smart, magical and efficent
beer drinkers.
These guys had it all goin’ on. Short shorts, wizard hats, long gray beards and a stack of empties. Right on. Magical no littering. I think they gave homeless guy a PBR. What a beautiful magical day.
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