San Francisco…shame…SHAME!!!
June 30th, 2008 by carol the aphid eaterFuck gay pride and fuck gay shame!
What about San Francisco Pride? And what about San Francisco Shame? Yesterday, at our 38th Annual Gay Pride Celebration, some friends of ours who came up from Los Angeles to take part in the festivities, to spend their hard earned dough on nine-dollar beers and five-dollar corn dogs, attended a party at The Phoenix Hotel. The oh so still trying desperately to be trendy Phoenix Hotel. Well, after having paid THIRTY GREEDY DOLLARS EACH, to attend this “exclusive” party, that’s NINETY dollars collectively, and no sooner had they entered these faux-hipster digs that suddenly they were all immediately and not so kindly removed from the premises by no less than FIVE ham fisted thugs with protracted brows, without cause or reason, whatsoever!
This from the Phoenix Website;
How many hotels can claim that Keanu Reeves, Joan Jett, Vincent Gallo and Little Richard have graced their mattresses (no, silly, not all at the same time!)? How many hotels are the crash pad and launching pad for world-renowned bands like the Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Psychedelic Furs and Pearl Jam; and up-and-comers like The Killers, Bloc Party and The Shins? With so much creative energy swirling around you never know who might be strumming a guitar, posing for a photo shoot or just kicking back by the pool.
I suppose I would seem naïve to not expect such vulgar displays of violent idiocy coming from a hotel, which boasts the likes of Keanu Reeves and The Red Hot Shitty Peppers to hock their wares online!
This is the kind of stupidity that shames this beautiful city of ours and makes visiting tourists from say…Helsinki…say to themselves, “ah…on second thought, maybe we should just have our holidays in Oslo or Stockholm.”
I mean honestly, these friends of ours? Not burning man burnouts, not pee in the pool pugilists from Petaluma, not loud, hardly security risks! Unless of course management at The Phoenix Hotel finds kind, sweet and genuinely interesting people threatening.
And this from Rolling Stone Magazine;
“The Phoenix Hotel has fast become the hotel of choice for the rock community, with a fancy swimming pool, jungle sounds piped into the courtyard…this could be your ticket to hanging poolside with the likes of Radiohead or Sonic Youth…”
All the fancy and no doubt expensive ads in the world, all the cheesy quotes from boring magazines are never going to exonerate your repugnant actions yesterday. Perhaps we here at World Famous in San Francisco should contact the corporate entity, Joie de Vivres Hotels, that owns you, and demand an apology. It is shit like this that makes San Francisco, in the words of my friend Mark who’s from Halifax, Nova Scotia say, “San Francisco is so…provincial.
July 2nd, 2008 at 11:54 am
As one of the guests that were cruelly ejected from the Phoenix I must say that it killed whatever semblance of pride or festivities I was feeling and instead replaced it with Carrie-like rage. Our group was shown no mercy in not seeing the signs that supposedly said only guests in the pool, since most of the people in the pool did not have the correct wristband. I should have read the sign at the entrance that said remove all feelings and lose yourself to Meth because that is all I saw. $90 for 3 artists to spend less than twenty minutes at a party is one that I knew beforehand was not for me. WEHO in SF is NEVER a good idea. I hope the money went to charity and not to more blow for the “fabulous”.
July 2nd, 2008 at 6:13 pm
I know those who were so rudely evicted and I am appalled for everyone involved in this situation. The people who were removed are renowned and talented individuals, artists, and visionaries that not only deserved to be there, but should have been comped to begin with. They are movers and shakers of the San Francisco scene and everywhere else, bringing you the best in music and art, architects to the stars and around the world, and landscapers of renowned acclaim! I have seen the human trash that is Mortville (San Francisco) and to know that (once again) the talentless, methed out & coked up, fat, self important, hackney, stilted, boring users and losers sat around the pool hiding their unbanded arms in the water, makes me sick. For a city that beats down anything having to do with LA, you people sure do try your hardest to act like the papparazzi’s image of what Los Angeles is, adding “wanna-be” to your list of adjectives. This incident confirms my opinion, that the “it” scene of San Francisco is nothing more than douche-bags that have grown an ability to pat themselves on the back. This, at a time when everyone was supposed to come together in the spirit of friendliness and celebrated diversity. Pride, my ass! Congratulations on your de-volution as a city.
July 3rd, 2008 at 12:26 pm
I just love that people expect anything else but this shit to happen at some “fabulous” party in a “fabulous” hotel.
July 3rd, 2008 at 1:09 pm
i wasn’t even ‘cool’ enough to be invited to this party so you guys are obviously ‘cooler’ than me. rock on!
and aren’t all ‘it’ scenes full of dough-bags? isn’t that what make a scene ‘it’?
July 4th, 2008 at 5:13 pm
no.