Flutterby™! : Pride & Cartoons

Last weekend Charlene and I did touristy stuff around the city. A report on Saturday will come when I've uploaded some images. Yesterday, we hit the SF Pride Parade. At first the onlookers were fun, and the energy came up as the Dykes on Bikes thundered by, and then... minutes of gap, waiting. The bike messenger brigade, and more gap, and then they got into the interminable political folks, and the crowd lost its energy. Perhaps I'm jaded, and I probably don't "get it", but it seems that this event has become such a mainstream thing that it's no longer an edgey political event, and in becoming so commercialized it's lost a lot of its sense of celebration of a community.

So we bailed and ducked down to Mission to go to the Cartoon Art Museum. That was pretty good, the featured exhibit right now is the history of Spiderman, and they had lots of originals showing the evolution of the character, both visually, and story wise. And the rest of their exhibits are nicely done too. Especially now that I'm more active in the city, that's going to be a regular stop back.

Tomorrow I'll upload images and notes from Alcatraz (our only complaints were sins of omission), and our North Beach and Telegraph Hill meanderings on Saturday.