Email Author Katy St. Clair

2011 Stories by Katy St. Clair

• Bouncer Finds DaDa Doesn't Live Up to Its Name

  published December 28, 2011

  I have many lifelong friends, but my memory is longer and clearer when it comes to the nuts I have known. I am generally docile and sedentary,... More >>

• Bouncer Talks Occupy with The Man at Sutter Station

  published December 21, 2011

  I like bars for the same reason I like Facebook: I can come face-to-face (literally and metaphorically) with people who have different opinions... More >>

• Bouncer Gets a Pre-Flight Glass of Reality at SFO's Vino Volo

  published December 14, 2011

  For people-watching, airports are second only to hotel lobbies. In fact, they might even be better, since there is a larger mixture of human... More >>

• Bouncer Gets Charmed (!) by Melt!

  published November 30, 2011

  My favorite line from Vacation is uttered by Cousin Eddie: "I don't know why they call this stuff Hamburger Helper. It does just fine by... More >>

• Bouncer on Missing Jesse Morris, SF's Punk Rock Johnny Cash

  published November 23, 2011

  At times I find myself preoccupied with thoughts of suicide — not my own, but other people's. I visit suicide memorial websites and read... More >>

• Bouncer Steps into the Twilight Zone at the Saloon

  published November 16, 2011

  I have a few personal earworms that periodically run through my head. Every time I turn on the furnace at home, for example, I sing Glenn... More >>

• Bouncer Makes Caffeine Pals at Starbucks

  published November 9, 2011

  All the Starbucks-haters can suck it. Where else can you buy a muffin and get a receipt for a "pumpkin muff"? Sure, there is generally one... More >>

• Bouncer Ponders the Afterlife in Buckshot

  published October 26, 2011

  When it comes to near-death experiences, I'm torn. I'd love to believe that they are windows into an afterlife, where you are bathed in... More >>

• Bouncer Meets the Panhandlers Outside Hobson's Choice

  published October 19, 2011

  Hobson's Choice is a great name for a... More >>

• Bouncer Spies the Clipboard Peeps at House of Shields

  published October 12, 2011

  I found it ironic that I was walking to the More >>

• Bouncer: A Cockney Apocalypse

  published October 5, 2011

  Rainy Sundays in San Francisco are always lonely. No one is out and about. Normally I would relish such times, but the older I get, the more my... More >>

• Bouncer Watches the Neighborhood at Mix

  published September 28, 2011

  I pass the Mix all the time, and every time I... More >>

• If Bouncer's Date at Andalu Was an Episode of "The Wire"

  published September 21, 2011

  I'm the only person I know who didn't get into The Wire or Treme, shows that have been dubbed "city symphonies." They remind me... More >>

• Bouncer Imbibes Among the Marina Girls at the Tipsy Pig

  published September 7, 2011

  The Marina gets a lot of flak for being a meat market for dumbasses, but it's really no different than any other area of the city. Every bar's... More >>

• Bouncer Goes Apiary at the Fairmont

  published August 31, 2011

  You may not know this, but there is a bar besides the Tonga Room in the Fairmont Hotel. It sits at the back of the Laurel Court restaurant,... More >>

• Bouncer: Onetime Dive Grasslands Now a Tourist Spot

  published August 24, 2011

  Anyone who has been following this column knows that I don't abide fools who throw around the word "dive" to describe bars that are decidedly... More >>

• Bouncer Laments the Lack of Maniacs at Glen Park Station

  published August 17, 2011

  When you start to spend a lot of time with people who are on the autism spectrum, it becomes quite clear that we all have quirks, foibles,... More >>

• Bouncer Critiques the Hilton's Urban Tavern

  published August 10, 2011

  No one seems to be watching The World According to Paris, so I have had to take up the slack on my lonesome. The premise of the most... More >>

• Silence Is Death at Cobb's Comedy Club

  published August 3, 2011

  I just made the mistake of reading all of the comments that followed a Yahoo News article on the legalization of gay marriage in New York state... More >>

• Bouncer Examines the Friendliness at Zeki's Bar

  published July 27, 2011

  I have always been fascinated with why we believe the things we believe. Initially I got caught up in the impossible-to-answer question, "How... More >>

• Bouncer Tries to Sort Out the Crowd at Churchill

  published July 13, 2011

  It took me a long time to figure out why Winston Churchill was not re-elected in 1945, after World War II. It is hard to imagine something like... More >>

• Bouncer Holds Forth at the Wal-Mart of S.F. Breweries

  published July 6, 2011

  All bars are great. Every last one of them, even the nightclubs that advertise on the sides of Muni buses. I have my favorites, of course, and... More >>

• Bouncer Encounters a Jokester at the Page

  published June 29, 2011

  I have spent a fair amount of time talking about bars in this town that seem to have an eerie presence, as if they were built on an Indian... More >>

• Bouncer Breakfasts in Sin at the Pork Store

  published June 22, 2011

  A couple of weeks back I went to a barbecue thrown by evangelical Christians. If you ever have a chance to do such a thing, I highly recommend... More >>

• Bouncer Drowns on a Date in the Food Court

  published June 15, 2011

  I recently plunged back into the world of online dating. "Plunged" is a good word, because you become immediately immersed, struggle to find... More >>