Summer snuck in to make big splash
Fireflies, ice cream, thunder at midnight, kids cannonballing into a pool. I have been in Iowa for a few days, and here’s some catch-up:
“Amazon bought Whole Foods for $13.7 billion,” says Norm Goldblatt, “and it all fit in one basket.”
At 2 a.m. on June 10, Adam Michels and Yi-Kuan Lee, who live with their family in the Sunset District, were awakened by their 15-yearold daughter, who said someone had been ringing the doorbell repeatedly. Rushing to the door, they found a drunken man, saying he had rented a room, demanding to be let in and trying to use a key in the lock. Michels called the police, who arrived, talked to the man and related the explanation to the family: He was a Warriors fan so disappointed by their Friday night loss that he’d gotten drunk and couldn’t find the Airbnb room he’d rented, which was actually in the Richmond District. The family’s guard dog, a 13-yearold spaniel, slept through the incident, as did their 13-year-old son.
Woe is me for having missed the seventh Soy and Tofu Festival in the event space at St. Mary’s Cathedral on Saturday, June 17. This event, a fundraiser for the Nichi Bei Foundation, included a dessert contest, a tofu toss for kids and, according to Hoodline, a raffle for a Toto toilet.
“It’s been so hot out,” wrote Joe Mac in the middle of the heat wave, “that straight girls have been coming into the gay bars just for the cold stares.”
And let’s hope this man’s daughter was able to pull off this feat: Combing Craigslist, Mark Sheff came upon a notice that read, “Trying to be the good daughter I am, I would like to rent a monkey for my dad for Father’s Day . ... Price negotiable. Teacup pig will also suffice.”
Also on Father’s Day, Nancy and Paul Pelosi, daughter Christine Pelosi and her husband Peter Kaufman and granddaughter Bella Kaufman, Phil Kaufman and Kelly Sultan had dinner at Tommaso’s in North Beach. Nancy Pelosi got a standing ovation from the other customers.
Tickets for members were available a few hours earlier, but public tickets for the July 5 San Francisco Jewish Community Center appearance of Al Franken — his new book is “Al Franken, Giant of the Senate” — went on sale at noon on June 15. By 12:08 p.m. that day, they were sold out, reported Elaine Molinari.
M.W. spotted Larry David, accompanied by a blond woman, at the June 15 performance of “Hamilton.”
In Washington, D.C., James Patterson attended a recent constituent breakfast with Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who introduced her staff and summer interns. “When staffers praised her to the crowd,” said Patterson, “she joked, ‘Don’t make this like President Trump’s recent Cabinet meeting.’ ”
Dolphin Club member Firat Yener attended the Saturday, June 17, wedding of John Ingle and Renee Kaufman ,in the cove at Aquatic Park. The venue was “the opening,” the name members give to the place where the Municipal Pier to the west and the easterly breakwater open to the bay.
The wedding was at 5 p.m., “with 50 or so of us swimming to the opening to accompany our bride, who was on a board with Ken Coren, who officiated,” reported Yener. Some guests rowed out, some paddled out on boards, others watched from the pier. The groom jumped in at Fort Mason and swam to meet the bride at the opening. When he arrived, she jumped into the water too. “The water was rather textured, with some chop,” says Yener, “but nature cooperated,” and the bride and groom exchanged rings: two life preservers.
P.S. Sounds romantic. On the other hand, Chris Morano spotted a Mercedes with a license plate that read “WAS HIZ.”
PUBLIC EAVESDROPPING “Don’t you ever, ever, ever ask Mama for a pet snake. OK?” Mother to child, leaving the Sonoma Humane Society and overheard by Margo Morton
Cal Zamansky spotted the bumper sticker on a Prius in front of his: “Read a f— book.”
Sign spotted by Kathleen Campbell in the window of PlumpJack Wine & Spirits: “People who wonder whether the glass is ½ full or ½ empty are missing the point . ... The glass is refillable!”
Terry Lesyk supplies a long-needed word for the “crumbs created when you scratch off the latex coating on state lottery scratchers”: dreamdebris.