Campers,

I like to apologize as fast as I can when I fuck up.

I’m probably spelling the good Sergeant’s name wrong but if so, it’s accidental.

I was cleaning Clarion … actually, taking a break and sitting smoking some pot with my new intellectual Alley looker-on for last decade or so he says and he wouldn’t say anything for couple of months as I cleaned around him then he told me that his IQ was 99 but then after we get to know each other turns out he’s Navy vet like myself only few decades later and in EW (Electronic Warfare) where you have to be a genius and he finished all 4 years plus 3 days and he had to go tell them while on a ship at sea that he was supposed to get out three days before and later they asked him to sign a waiver not to sue them for the three days …

lol

Clarion can be a hoot.

Sometimes a little scary if you get scared and for some reason I don’t and share my big rubber Spiderman Pot pipe with pretty much anyone and I did today after the Sergeant left.

What happened was that I came into the Alley today from the Mission Street side cause that’s always worse and I barely did anything day before.

Noticed as I started stomping on 12 pack cartons (always Modello?) …

I smash most of the containers and on a usual day of cleaning up after the nightly party in the alley I get a half dozen or so containers and the heavier cardboard ones can be sliced into makeshift dustpan or pooper scooper and can be used for glass too but only when you have half a beer carton to put broken glass in or otherwise you’ll cut your fucking leg like I did for a few years in similar situations carrying tools and the like …

So, I’m looking up the alley and seeing what I think is a big stack of trash up ahead that’s gonna take couple of orange bags to clean up and as I get closer I realize it’s a sleeping guy whose got his foot where it could get run over.

Didn’t think much of it but did greet (I always wear my orange cap and vest to indicate to tourists that I’m OK) …

I greeted tourists coming from where they’d have passed the guy in the alley and according to the cop, someone said that a guy flashed the kid the tourists were parents to, I guess.

Hey, before the cop said that he came to inquire about the flasher, I was rude to him.

Afterwards, I totally sympathized and told him so.

I kept pushing him to use his influence to get a porta potty in front of the cop shop and down at the Mission end of Clarion and he said that he knew that it was bad but that he wouldn’t look cause he had 33 other things to do.

I really do sympathize with the guy and Chuck agreed at what a total professional the Sergeant was.

It boiled down to my telling him that I wanted him to be a witness to the need for toilets here and his answer was that there was one two blocks away at 16th and Mission and for the record, there isn’t.

Used to be.

Those big long complicated things come and go.

Breed won’t repave Clarion Alley but sent a big water spray truck to clean only in front of the business side of the Armory facing 14th that she had paved in a weekend overtime emergency a month or so back.

My, my, my …

Anyway, my apologies to you Sergeant.

Talked to 3 different politicians over last 2 days.

They all call me for advice and I lie my ass off.

Wouldn’t you ??

Actually, I give excellent advice.

I know the businesses and schools and I’ve been in court with the heroes and criminals here for a quarter century and taught gangsters on that hill over there, Potreros and I slept on job sites there too and house and critter sat in mansions for months at a time for years on end while running for Mayor and BOS and School Board … lol

Yeah, after 42 years in the Tenderloin and Mission and 3 San Francisco brides …

even gave one of the candidates advice on what to do if his spouse tells him it’s ok to drill her best friend …

I do

I give advice like that along with political wisdom all for free.

lol

I talked to that kid in Clarion after to the cop left to see if he was crazy.

He was truly fucked up physically far as filth on hands and feet but seemed to be doing more conscious self degradation than uncontrolled insanity.

Watched him with a guy doing meds for paranoid schizophrenia for couple of decades and atween us we have pretty good eye and we’ll see.

I smoked a bowl with him and he was lucid but evasive but not physically spastic in any way and he had all the paraphrenalia for crack and I asked him how long he’d been on crack and I used to do speed for years and got nothing outta him.

But, he got outta me that I’m here and I’m a serious human being and that the guy sitting next to me ain’t no ordinary drunk.

No, sir.

He’s an extraordinary drunk !!

Go Niners … we’re gonna win 15 in a row then the Super Bowl !!!

h.