Comments on: A Pirate in the City

By: ruth gutmann

ruth gutmann — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:08:58 +0000

Your little pirate bears some resemblance to snoopy.

By: ht

ht — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:08:08 +0000

is there any way i can post flat Howdy pics to your website? we have a bunch. he had some great adventures in oregon and seattle, and is off to the warmer climes of hawaii….

By: avoice

avoice — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 16:05:34 +0000

Thank U for introducing us to your little friend.

By: dc

dc — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 02:39:42 +0000

jabel: I suggest putting on some Beatles at times like those. Better to have them stuck in your head — and they will get stuck — than nearly anything else.

ng: well, maybe he’ll come back someday for round two.

Carol: I thought about visiting Jack’s cabin in his eponymous square, then taking the ferry to SF, but BART is cheaper and faster, so the pirate missed both Jack London and the nice views from the water. I’ll add it to the list for next time. Now that you’ve reminded me about the police van, I have some vague recollection of David Simon saying that it had really happened to some hapless police captain. Could just be my memory playing tricks on me again, though.

By: jabel

jabel — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 21:58:37 +0000

Great after reading the Pirates adventures for some reason I’ve got that song Brandy by Looking Glass from the early 70′s stuck in my head now.But that may be a good thing because this morning my Trader Joes was playing Tammy when I walked in the door.

By: ng

ng — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 09:55:36 +0000

That little pirate would LOVE the Musee Mechanique!

By: Carol

Carol — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 07:44:10 +0000

Flat Stanley is the character in the book and the (new?) movie, but he has inspired a whole generation of primary school teachers. In the last three years I’ve been visited by “flat Riley,” “flat Regan,” “flat Jayme,” each looking for some item about SF to share with their class. I was buying city maps with an ancient picture of my house (before the damned city tree in front got so big), but that gets expensive, so Ive reverted to Palace of Fine Arts postcards.

The police van is taken by the longshoremen very early in their struggle about the stained glass window, and they ship it all around the country. The police captain gets pictures of it in the mail from various ports of call; it keeps his anger at the union secretary at the boil.

Did your pirate know Jack London?

By: dc

dc — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 02:23:27 +0000

I just noticed that I capitalized “Taqueria,” twice. That’s not its name — must have been the German part of my DNA controlling my fingers as I typed.

By: dc

dc — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 02:19:56 +0000

ng: We’ll have to await further dispatches from the pirate. I’m sure he’ll keep in touch some way or some how.

Carol: A little more than kin and less than kind. Stanley is the flat kid’s name. He doesn’t hold a candle to a pirate, imho. I don’t remember the police van in season 2 of the Wire. I don’t remember much about that season except the bar the longshoremen hung out in before, during, and after work.

gabriel: I only touched on San Francisco’s numerous sights. If the pirate ever visits again, I’ll take him to Golden Gate Park and the Musee Mechanique and maybe a Giants game, for starters. And yes, I rode my bicycle that far. It was only about 12 miles, but the hills were steep and there were a lot of them!

By: gabriel

gabriel — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 00:39:32 +0000

You did a lot of cool sightseeing. I’m surprised you could find so much in one town! At first I thought it was a real pirate, but then I figured it out. You rode your bicycle? That far?