You know those religious cult flicks and books that talk about the rapture?
Where folks depart this earth in a flight towards heaven and then there’s the chaos left on earth for those “left behind?”
Come on, of course you do. It’s referenced in 6 feet under, the simpsons, and most other pop culture commentary/cleverati specials that are in the media.
Well the Parking Rapture is iminent for San Francisco.
For you see — everyone is heading out for Burning Man.
And I, with my aversion to huge crowds and penchant for heat rashes is staying in SF.
Which makes the city during the week when everyone else is out in the desert absolutely deserted.
I can find parking ANYWHERE in the city.
I can go anywhere and find the crowds decidedly less furtive.
I’m left behind in the company of little Chinese ladies and fuddy duddies who don’t like sweat and dust.
It’s a land bereft of geeks & hipsters, hoopers, clubbers, teens, nerds, nouveau chic geek, and what not.
I’m left behind.
And seriously, I don’t really mind it.
Oh god me too.. This is my favorite time of the year. Things are so pleasant, and it always seems to be so perfect weather wise when they are gone. I think pretentiousness is the cause of global warming.
i feel the same way about Christmas day. we like to go around SF parking in places like right in front of Macy’s and at 22nd and mission and right on the corner of haight and ashbury. the city is eerily calm and definitely feels like one of those weird rapture movies where the end of the world happened and you’re the only 2 people left.
if pretentiousness were the cause of global warming, i think there are still plenty of people left in SF to keep it going, particularly the SO PRETENTIOUS that you’re even too cool for burning man crowd that i know stays behind out of spite. i saw nary a sign of white-belted hipsters on the playa, so i know that there’s still a whole slew of them left in SF, reveling in their anti-burniness. it’s when all those people go home for the holidays that the city is really nice and quiet.