Bay Bridge Closed=Rad San Francisco Weekend!

Don’t you see what this means, San Franciscans? With the Bay Bridge closed, it means no bridge and tunnel. Okay, maybe tunnel, but probably not so much. Sure, there will be those ambitious folks who make the long trek all the way around to the Golden Gate or Dumbarton Bridges but, likely, with the Bay Bridge closed, it’s going to keep a lot of people away.

Everyone knows that the weekends in San Francisco are a time of partying, but for whom? Besides the usual weekend warrior crowd (about which we can do little, unless of course we can find a way to make the banks fail further without completely destroying our own livelyhoods), the real trouble is the rough crowds that trickle in across the Bay Bridge. Perhaps these are the same people who turn the Mission into Disneyland, North Beach into a drive-by circus, and our dear Marina into, well, the Marina. (Probably not, as I think it does that on its own.) Maybe it’s taking this theory a bit far, maybe I’m just being super City elitist, but I figure that at least some of the crowd who have ruined our ability to have a decent Halloween, the people who made the Castro into a gun toting, knife brandishing carnival of shame, are the same people who are stuck across the Bay.

Okay, forget that line of thought. It’s very negative. Either way, with the Bay Bridge closed, we have an opportunity to really get out in our city tonight and Halloween tomorrow, with little (or at least less) fear of being completely inundated with the crowds.

I’m interested to see what people think, what there experiences are. If you knew that the east-bay crowd wasn’t going to be there, would it change how you went out in this city? I, for one, am going to head straight downtown, turn a sharp left, and hit up every strip club along Broadway. I’m going to finally wear my own stripey, collared shirt, dawning it for the first time in public since the 90′s, with no fear of being cliche’ or commonplace. Maybe even Delirium will be hip again.

Hurray for an isolated weekend!