Is it true (as some conspiracy theory lunatics would have us believe) that San Francisco in 2011, will be vying to regain the highly coveted Hippest City in the World Award that it previously had captured in 1967 -- 69, as did Paris in 1926 -- 28?
Is it true that the trophy has engraved upon it, the classic passage by Hunter S. Thompson: " . . . but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world . . . ."?
Whatever.
On Black Friday, the tourists, the shoppers, the protesters, the journalists and the police officers all seemed to be in total agreement with the Hunter Thompson sentiment: "There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning."
Comparing the tumultuous Black Friday celebration in San Francisco with other noteworthy Fog City events from the past, such as seeing the Jefferson Airplane perform free at Golden Gate Park, brings to mind a bit of Sixties philosophy: "Nostalgia ain't what it used to be."
Have a hella-groovy day.
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