Janis Lives

Top moments from this year's Haight-Ashbury Street Fair:

1. Going down to the fair before it started and buying an official staff t-shirt off a volunteer for ten bucks, which I later used to gain access for myself and eight other people to the stage area, thus bypassing a huge crowd. Also funny was when a fellow "staffer" asked me where Pablo was, and I authoritatively misdirected him up the street.

2. Switchback, a loud and aggravating LA band, was playing on the Masonic Street stage and wanted to know who was having a good time. Steve Cleary began jumping up and down and we all pointed to him, at which point the singer said: "Yeah, that German guy or some shit's havin a good time!" Granted, Steve is 6'2", was wearing sunglasses, and wore a tucked in collared shirt, but the leap to German ancestry was simultaneously over-the-top and hilarious. It took me at least three minutes to stop laughing.

3. Karla Zens purchasing and consuming a large order of green curry in the middle of DJ Lexxus.

4. Watching two guys stumble home on Waller Street and completely wipe out twice.

5. Chatting with the "umbrella boys": the guys whose sole job was to hold umbrellas over the turntables so the vinyl wouldn't get too hot. It turned out to be just as fun as it sounds.

6. Just before leaving brunch, Charles dumped his beer into our silverware drawer. Not exactly a top moment in terms of fun, but very funny.

7. Hearing a Salvation Army girl-gone-wild describe her married name (Nicci Noble) as a porn star name.