Email Author Katy St. Clair

2007 Stories by Katy St. Clair

• Later, dude: Bouncer waits for no man at Benders

  published December 19, 2007

  One thing people learn about me pretty quickly is that I am ridiculously prompt. "Meet me at my house at 7," friends will say, so I'll show up... More >>

• Bad kissers and Palm Pilot porn: another night out at Elbo Room

  published December 12, 2007

  Do you believe in fate? Or is fate something we ascribe after a significant event happens to us? One month ago my friend walked into a... More >>

• Butter

  published December 5, 2007

  Greetings, cultural elite, limousine liberals, bleeding hearts, environmental wackos, Defeatocrats, surrender monkeys, and those who chose the... More >>

• My Dinner with Dukie: All You Can Eat at the Granada Cafe

  published November 28, 2007

  There is something magical about going out to eat with good friends. Last week I sat around a table with my work buddies, who tend to the same... More >>

• Shipwrecked with San Francisco's Best Bartending Storyteller

  published November 21, 2007

  I've been thinking a lot about the Cosco Busan ship that hit the Bay Bridge, causing that terrible oil spill. I imagine a vessel the... More >>

• The Orbit Room Just Needs a Bouncer's Love

  published November 14, 2007

  There's an old '90s pop psychology saying, probably from Women Who Love Too Much or, like, The Codependent Peter Pan Who Runs with... More >>

• Bouncer's Crush Busses Ex Right in Front of Her -- Sooo Messed Up

  published November 7, 2007

  This week's Bouncer will be a book report of sorts, because what I have considered to be my bible throughout adulthood is getting me... More >>

• Oakland Metal Titans Saviours Are the Real Deal

  published November 7, 2007

  Few music diehards go to as many pains to define genre minutiae as metalheads. For example, within the thin line dividing black metal and death... More >>

• Kiss My Bass

  published October 24, 2007

  Okay, let's begin with a bit of a spoiler: Lance Bass, the deepest voice in the defunct boy band *NSYNC, is gay. If that was a surprise to you,... More >>

• Bouncer and Floyd from Fat Wreck Hit the Rite Spot

  published October 17, 2007

  "Hi!" the bouncy bartender said. "We're closing at midnight." It was eleven. I could deal. She then informed me that it was happy hour "all... More >>

• Bouncer's Friends Help Her Get the Led Out

  published October 10, 2007

  Though I'm not one to brag (ha), I have a pretty sizable record collection. For example, although you only really need one dub album —... More >>

• Bouncer Contemplates Loneliness at the Tempest

  published October 3, 2007

  As I embark on this, my third year of Bouncer, it seems appropriate to define my terms. Specifically, a phrase that is thrown around way too... More >>

• Caffe Shines During Visit From Oliver Twist and Bouncer

  published September 26, 2007

  I have a thing for orphans. My favorite writer is Charles Dickens, and all my favorite stories have orphans in them. That's probably why I like... More >>

• Dragon Lounge

  published September 19, 2007

  Some things seem purely male to me. Take, for example, setting off fireworks. I have zero interest in that activity and I don't understand... More >>

• A Rye Wit

  published September 12, 2007

  Autism is getting tons of attention these days. That's partly because so many children are being diagnosed with it, but also because it's just... More >>

• A vampire bartender sucks the life outta the Ambassador

  published August 29, 2007

  I have always prided myself on the fact that I can handle difficult people. I have friends with qualities other people would find distasteful... More >>

• Fill in the blanks: Bouncer Mad Libs!

  published August 22, 2007

  Gentle Reader, This week I've decided to do something a little different with Bouncer. Basically, I'm feeling generous, and so I invite you... More >>

• Scammin' and scrammin': in search of modern love at Jade Bar

  published August 15, 2007

  Hanging out in bars is all well and good, but there comes a time when you need to start using your time in them more wisely. No, I don't mean... More >>

• War and Woody Allen: the various ways lovers attempt letting go

  published August 8, 2007

  Woody Allen is famous for many great quotes. My favorite is from Annie Hall, where he talks about the idea that we are reincarnated... More >>

• Family gatherings at Grandma's

  published August 1, 2007

  It's pretty great having a job where I get paid to go to bars and write about them. I admit that. It's a fast-paced, cosmopolitan lifestyle, full... More >>

• Paranormal radio and paranoid palm readings

  published July 25, 2007

  Art Bell is retiring, something he has threatened to do on and off for a few years now. This time it's really happening, if the tribute show that... More >>

• Incredibly Strange Wrestlers vs. Japanese tourists vs. the great pinot grigio

  published July 18, 2007

  When last I checked in with Floyd of Fat Wreck Chords fame, we were debating African genocide versus the Holocaust, peppered with Orville... More >>

• Spying on the new Bruno's

  published July 11, 2007

  A good friend of mine who is a booking agent has a theory about club owners, and it's a simple one: Most of them are batshit crazy. They may have... More >>

• Getting a wee bit homesick for B’Snacks

  published June 27, 2007

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• Going on a gender bender at Truck

  published June 20, 2007

  One of the best things about being a higher primate is our penchant for self-expression — opposable thumbs and tool-making notwithstanding.... More >>