Sometimes I love SF so much my eyes get suspiciously watery:
The faith leaders, wearing religious garb from various denominations, had earlier stood in front of the courthouse doors, singing, “If you come for them, you’ll have to go through us.”
https://missionlocal.org/2025/12/faith-leaders-chain-immigration-court-san-francisco/
@evacide Quite some time ago, I was standing outside the War Memorial Opera House, across the street from City Hall , in line to get standing-room tickets for Götterdämmerung during an SF opera performance of Der Ring des Nibelungen. Someone walked up to us and asked what we were protesting. I said, "We are protesting the lack of Ring cycles". If I had had time to think for 5 seconds longer, I would have said, "Madam, we are protesting Italian Opera," a far better wisecrack.
@evacide I actually like both German and Italian opera. I just thought such a wisecrack would be funny and wasn't being serious. I once saw Turandot in SF with Luciano Pavarotti and Montserrat Caballé. It was sold out & you couldn't get standing room, so I talked some guys into opening a window
in a stairwell facing Van Ness and climbed up the outside of the building to get in. Years later, I told people who work at the opera and they laughed.
@bzdev I am very jealous! I have been going to the SF opera for most of my life and I never got a chance to hear Pavarotti, not even through an open window.
