15 December 2000
Submitted by eve on Fri, 12/15/2000 - 5:27pm. Scenes
Seen, on a dark December afternoon:
A man walking down Telegraph Ave with a woman on each arm. Not just any women though -- they seemed to be drop outs from Bond girl school who had found refuge at the Playboy mansion. Clad in 70's sunglasses, bikinis, and fur coats... you get the idea.
The beautiful part was, everyone was gawking at the fact that there was camera following them, and not at the three themselves.
Ah, Berkeley.
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Posted by Anne Onymous on Tue, 02/20/2001 - 8:33pm.
Archived comment by Strawberry:
if it was december, wouldn't it be kind of, oh, i don't know, COLD to be walking around in outfits like that?! Or is Berkeley warm in the winter or something. all i know is that where i live, we get about 3 feet of snow every time it blizzards. . .
Posted by Anne Onymous on Mon, 12/18/2000 - 11:10pm.
Archived comment by Jon:
Glitter boys: you know your gun is
overpowered when it causes a sonic boom!
(Sorry for the Rifts tangent)
Posted by Anne Onymous on Mon, 12/18/2000 - 1:43pm.
Archived comment by Michelle:
Matt,

I must say, when you said you found those things mildly interesting, I thought, "How sad." You have been so inundated with "alternative" things, that nothing strikes a chord with you. It reminds me of rich people who get bored with life because they can do anything they want. Or is that a function of a person who doesn't see beauty and wonder in everyday things?!?!

A thought just crossed my mind...I wonder if anybody that gets "spotted" ever reads this and thinks, "Hey, that was me!"
Posted by Anne Onymous on Mon, 12/18/2000 - 8:13am.
Archived comment by Sarah:
Let's all sing together now, boys and girls (as we watch the threesome move down the street)

I'm too sexy for my cat, too sexy for my cat, yes that's where it's at!

And I'm too sexy for my . . . .
Posted by Anne Onymous on Sun, 12/17/2000 - 3:21pm.
Archived comment by dfresh:
Heh, the talk of liberal cities reminds me of when I visited my sister-in-law in Kansas, and she told me she lived in a VERY liberal city, extremely out there. My brother had to explain to her that a few guys with long hair, and a few psuedo-hippies (people who wear tie-dye and have listened to the Dead) doesn't make a city liberal. All in all, I think that the real meaning of liberal (care for others) has been widely replaced with liberal meaning being able to just do what you want (sexually, artistically, etc.) Some of the most 'liberal' cities I have lived in have basically waged war on the homeless.
Posted by Anne Onymous on Sun, 12/17/2000 - 1:31pm.
Archived comment by Larry Hosken:
Berkeley seemed pretty conservative when I was there. Then again, I grew up in San Francisco. When I spent some time in Albuquerque, Berkeley was looking pretty liberal.

I think I saw the Pink Man a few months back, though he wasn't in pink and he wasn't on a unicycle. Maybe it was just some really happy guy who was doing a lot of side-to-side motion as he walked.
Posted by Anne Onymous on Sat, 12/16/2000 - 1:19pm.
Archived comment by Yermom:
Over the last few years that I've lived here, I've begun to doubt that Berkeley still deserves the liberal reputation that it earned years ago.

Sure, you've got some street vendors, some students who dress funny and there a dozen or so oddballs who run around on the southern edge of campus, but so what?

The once rabble-rousing hippes have all grown up and moved to the hills where they've become established, child-rearing conservative hippies. They want to keep out the future and protect the Berkeley that was.

Why else do you think you can't find an eating establishment that's open at night? (The only one that is even close, Top Dog, is filled with years and years of right-wing propaganda.) Why else do we have those horrendous flowerpots blocking the street everywhere? That's the reactionaries trying to keep their precious neighborhoods quiet.

And free-speech is all but gone. Political protests at talks as of late have gone so overboard that the speakers couldn't even be heard. Who is stepping on whose first ammendment rights again? At least our mayor is right on this one: http://www.dailycal.org/article.asp?id=4168

Posted by Anne Onymous on Sat, 12/16/2000 - 12:34pm.
Archived comment by Erik Trent:
Berkley is the last bastion of liberalism in America. Maybe on the west coast. Spend some time in Cambridge Mass dude. You aint seen liberalism till you been there. And we got all those crazy charachters on the street too.
Posted by Anne Onymous on Fri, 12/15/2000 - 10:53pm.
Archived comment by Matt:
Site Goddess,
I miss that guy who dresses up as a Native American (maybe he really is; I can't tell) and dances around, in women's platform sandal, no less, while playing a fiddle.
Or Preacher Eddie. Preacher Eddie was cool.
Stoney Burke's always good for a laugh, but his act gets old pretty quickly.
I saw the piano player guy on Sproul the other day.
And last semester I saw Chuck one day, who is this really, really overzealous overweight, mid-30's, White, balding, preacher guy. He yells a lot.
Southsi-eede is where it's at, yo. ;-)
Posted by Anne Onymous on Fri, 12/15/2000 - 10:10pm.
Archived comment by IP Admin:
Matt, when I first arrived at Cal I was surprised that there was more diversity in the dining hall staff than there was in any of my classes.
But then again, I was taking engineering classes. In my physics lab two semesters in a row, it was a class of 29 asian guys, and me -- I _was_ the "diversity." And that was strange.
That's chaned somewhat, even in my CS classes now there's more diversity of all sorts.

Berkeley _is_ home to a colorful set of characters, such as the aforementioned Rick Starr, and a few others I haven't seen in a while. (I keep hoping pinkman or the happy-happy-happy guy will show up so I can write about them.)
Posted by Anne Onymous on Fri, 12/15/2000 - 9:49pm.
Archived comment by Matt:
Red,
I go to Cal, just like the Site Goddess (IP Admin: whatever).
Cal's an interesting place. Take 34,000 students, add 120,000 full-time residents, mix in the fact that the city of Berkeley is generally considered the last bastion of liberalism in America, bake for 30+ years of nostalgia for "The 60's," and you can understand why I find bad James Bond re-makes, androgynous African Americans, and scantily clad glitter girls (no relation to Glitter Boys, "Rifts" fans!) only mildly interesting.
It also doesn't hurt that it's a public school where tuition runs about $5,000 a year, which means unlike that homogenized, wannabe Ivy League Stanfurd down the street, where all you need for a diploma is Daddy's checkbook or the ability to run 40 yards in under 4.3 seconds, Cal is hanging on to a little something called "diversity," even if it's true that most of that diversity now comes in the form of the non-students who populate places like Telegraph Ave. to get a little "atmosphere."
Short question: long answer. Don't blame me; I'm an English major.
Posted by Anne Onymous on Fri, 12/15/2000 - 9:03pm.
Archived comment by RedRidingHood:
Matt- where the hell do you go to school??
Posted by Anne Onymous on Fri, 12/15/2000 - 7:58pm.
Archived comment by Matt:
I'm surprised people were even watching the camera. With a local news van on campus almost every weekday (I'm really not exaggerating), cameras are very much a "been there: done that" kind of thing.
And 70's sunglasses and fur coats? Sounds like some of my friends on a typical day. Booooring.
Now if _he_ were wearing a bikini under a fur coat it would be worth watching. Or at least putting on film.
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