'Bred Crumbs

07:03 PM Why I Love San Francisco, cont.: Today was the election of the San Francisco Imperial Court. The camp-aigners were out in force, crowding every corner in the heart of the Castro with balloons, big wigs, colorful outfits, and admonitions about whom to elect Emperor and Empress. Meanwhile, with California hurtling toward a primary election in two weeks, State Assembly hopeful Harry Britt, assisted by top city supervisor and oughta-be mayor Tom Ammiano, also held fort at the key 18th-and-Castro Bank of America corner. "You realize how many votes Harry Britt's going to get for Emperor now, don't you?" I said to Ammiano when I passed. Being a successful politician, he pretended to be amused.

Dining across the street later, I spotted at that corner a man wearing a sweatshirt, leather panties, and hip waders. (And I doubt he'd just gotten back from fly-fishing.) He was standing between the Empress stumpers and the Britt backers. Here's the great, San Franciscan part: he could have been working for either campaign.

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