From: DeadHead@cup.portal.com (Bruce M Ong)
Newsgroups: ba.singles
Subject: Re: Driving people from the net
Date: Wed,  7 Oct 92 14:07:16 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: ba
  <1992Oct6.210531.2501@netcom.com>

>Ron Drake (Jawara@AppleLink.Apple.COM) wrote:
>
> 
> Coyote Creek Park, Vasona, Club Oasis, Los Gatos, the Santa Cruz mountains,
> Alum Rock Park, Mt. Hamilton, Shoreline, Ravenswood Wildlife Preserve,
> Palo Alto/Stanford, Baylands Park, Rancho San Antonio, Skyline, Stevens
> Creek Park (especially after a heavy rain), Niles Canyon, Mirassou,
> Ridge, Almaden, Mt. View Center for the Performing Arts, any Hobee's,
> Coffee Society in Cupertino, Mountain Charley's, PJ's, San Jose Live,
>.....
>

Thanks for puttin in the effort to compose such a list! I'd like to add few
more: Roscrusian museum and  Miyake's on university on friday nights (love to
drop that little sake cup into the big glass of Kirin beer and guzzle it
all down in one shot while the waiters and your neighbors yell, "GO! GO! GO!
Go! GO! GO! GO!") -- you dont get that in SF, and San Jose State Important
Writers of Our Time series -- So far, Allen Ginsberg, Margeret Atwood, Lawrence
Ferlanghetti (sp?), John Barth, Sharon Olds, Maxine Hong Kingston, etc.-- they
got a great english department, and everytime there is such an event the
music building's auditorium is packed...(makes me kinda proud to be an alumni)

But i think the night life is pretty bland in south bay. First of all, the
only decent place to eat is Original Joe's late at night. Mt. View built a 
great Performing arts center, but they kinda forgot thatyou need some cool
latenight places for snack or food AFTER the shows... what on castro offers
any decent stuff after 10:30 or 11pm? In SF after the opera or symphony 
Star's or Spuntino's are right around the corner. 

And i think things around here are pretty much crowded into the middle 
section of the Gaussian distribution curve. Nothing extremely sublime or 
extremely mundane can be found... there isnt a slacker culture -- the youth
pack that sleeps during the day and come out at night like gargoyles hanging 
out at night clubs really late. There isnt any sense of fashion (I suppose
the weather doesnt permit it --it's always  too hot to wear anything
sophisticated. SF isnt good at it either, i'd admit. Paris and NYC are much
more fun for that), There isnt much for artistic stuff that are on the 
cutting edge -- nothing like industral light & magic, or Artist Television 
Access can be found... And -- what's more -- there are no fun clubs and bars.
They dont have much character. Where can i find a Noc Noc in south bay???

Yes... there are things to do, but they are a bit boring after a while. That's
what happens when all things seem to be crowded in the middle of the Gaussian
curve, and one cant experience the whole spectrum of life -- i dont know if 
it's because people here are all crowded in the middle of gaussian curve and 
everything around kinda has to follow that in order to cater to these people
or not. But, after 6 years in south bay, i got the "been there, done that" 
feeling and i got bored with it. So I moved to SF.

Jack London once said, "If you are tired of London, you are tired of life."
And to which I might add, "If you are tired of south bay, you are just 
beginning to live." (gawd. i am sure i will get flamed for this statement).

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/bruce "Triangle man, triangle man, triangle man hates particle man..."
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