I stumbled across Clarion Alley purely by accident after coming back from a day of shooting pictures of Balmy Alley in The Mission.
I could easily spend the rest of the week just taking pictures of this place and still feel like I didn’t do justice to the alley.
Ha!
Someone gave Alex Jones some airtime. Awesome…
2009 was on like Donkey Kong!
Although this was the last year as a renegade event. Next year the promoters will have to cough up $10,000 (ouch!) for permits and paperwork. But for now it was on.
These guys were awesome. I was talking to Super Mario and was all
“That game is a classic! I just bought Super Mario on the Nintendo 64 for my girlfriend’s daughter. She had it as a kid and lost it so I picked up a copy on Ebay and that game is going for up to $50. People still love and aggressively bid on those old Super Mario 64 cartridges.”
And Super Mario was all “Yeah, Ebay is weird.”
The Princess did the entire race in character and with the dress. That’s what I love about this event; it’s not a sausage fest. There are a lot of girls and kids that race.
I biked all the way from The Outer Sunset through Dolores Park and over to Potrero Hill in under an hour and a half. I rule. It’s pretty essential to get to BYOBW early to get a good spot. I was at the bottom of the hill at the second to the last curve. It was a bit shady, but there was a small wall to stand on that was perfect protection from all the carnage.
I stuck around for an hour and then biked back over to Market and Noe where The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence were having a free block party. Chances are, if you have a free party with a sound system in this city I will be there to rock the house.
Hey, Mike! You wanna go get annihilated and rock out with a bunch of queens and bears?
The streets of San Francisco were very kind to me this Easter Sunday.
Thank you.
The Outer Sunset 