cool and seething in san francisco

By Todd Stadler · Friday, June 29, 2001 5:59pm

I'm in the Bay Area now, visiting wonderful girlfriend Julia. I got here all of yesterday.

Today was spent wandering around the city, indulging in trite-site-seeing with the disaffected pain only a Gen X'er could evince. Just kidding. Sort of.

It's hard visiting a different city. You want to do cool things, but cool things are by definition those things that not so many people know about. And all you know about are those things you've heard of, which are, ipso facto, not cool.

So like any good young person, you go and do these hackneyed things, but you remove yourself from it all, step back and watch the crowds. You entertain yourself. You convince yourself that you're better than all these lowly tourists.

I am talking about you, not me, you realize. Myself, I had a good time because I was hanging out with my girlfriend. What's your problem, anyhow?

Poser.