B.A.R. Hopping
Wow, it's been quite a while since my last update, and I apologize. No doubt you have ideas about how I've been keeping busy, but mostly it has been a combination of work, home stuff, and my side-gig filling in for the writer of the "Business Briefs" column in the Bay Area Reporter. Last week I published my second column, which is available online here. The topics I covered this go 'round are:
- Salon Baobao, a new haircuttery, has opened between Eros and Mecca. (Extra points if you can remember what was in this space previously.)
- Mecca checks in with news on its recovery from its recent fire.
- Another opportunity for self-indulgence has presented itself in the form of the Tao Boutique Day Spa.
- The Metro bar has packed up its shakers and scooted down to occupy the space formerly known as the Expansion bar.
- Max Muscles returns to the Castro, taking over the Maximum Strength & Health shop under the (now former) Metro.
Please read up and let me know your thoughts on the column.
And I hope you have enjoyed the column, because I'm happy to report that I'll be taking over the column full-time this month! Currently the plan is to reduce the frequency of the column to once a month instead of every other week, so hopefully it will impact the blog less.
Comments
As for the extra points question, the answer is Astro Computer. That balances out the points I lost for not even knowing that Mecca had a fire and was closed.
Twinkler, I'm not sure I can give you full points because I believe that after the Astro Computer there was a little cafe/sandwich shop here named Cafe Siena. (But I could have the order of these two businesses backwards. Neither was very memorable.) But because you were so complimentary, I'll give you full points anyway. I'm a sucker for flattery.
However, skidMarks, no points for you!
;^)
I actually patronized those businesses, one time each. The day after Election Day 2000, I somehow wound up spending a few hours in Siena drinking coffee and watching TV in growing disbelief. And Astro actually proved useful last year when I was trying to track down an elusive problem with my PC; they sold me a used ethernet card for $10.
Like the Bullshead location, that spot has always seemed cursed.
Twinkler, your points are in the mail headed your way as we speak. Congratulations!
Henrik, thanks for the kind words! I sometimes think I need another "project" like I need a boot to the head, but then comments like yours make me glad I'm not just spending more time playing computer Yahtzee. Yahtzee!