Feb is looking Fab

It's a busy work week here at IJS but there's a little time tonight to recap the weekend past. Happily so as it was a cold but happy weekend.

Friday kicked it off with a diverse celebratory tour of the life and nightlife of SF.

Stop 1: Badlands
Two-for-one happy hour to welcome Cristina's new baby gay into the Castro scene.

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The newbie wasn't much for mingling or meeting new people, but the happy hour regulars were perfectly happy reveling in their own, well I hate to use the term irregularity, so I'll just go with jocularity.

Take. Eat. This is Paul Day, broken for you.

Stop 2: Cell Space
Mud wrestling competition to benefit the Bay Area Roller Derby Girls (AKA the BAD Girls)

Awwwesome. I love SF and RMJ and that we can celebrate roller derby/mud wrestling action in a sophisticated manner. Okay, no so much with the sophistry but still. These girls, and the crowd, were so much fun.



Wilson Hardcastle and Lusty Malice
And I was amazed at the absence of attitude in this space. Everyone was just there for a silly good time.



Good crowd
Robert, "contextually flaming" as always, wore a pink glitter scarf in homage to Pinky Tuscadero, whom for some reason he linked with mud wrestling and/or roller derby. She was in a derby, but she was a driver in the demolition derby. I did not point this out as I did not want to spoil his fun.

And c'mon. Pink glitter scarf.



Killer Vee and RMJ(Almost as good as "hey, free dummy.")

They were pretty serious about the wrestling,

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But I appreciated more the backyard quality the magic-marker-on-torn-produce-box-cardboard round signage brought to the event.


And the three-dollar PBR in cans.

We being we, we made friends in the crowd.



Kim, Suzanne and Wilson
And were even featured on SF Station.



And while RMJ loves Derby Girls...


...he loves fishnets more.


Stop 3: Truck
For a little man-on-man drinking action.

And a little quality time with Jarrad Webster/Spaz/Suppository Spelling.



Stop 4: The War Memorial and Opera House
For the Wicked opening night cast party

In it's campaign for the new open-ended run of Wicked, San Francisco has cast itself as The Emerald City, with City Hall, the Civic Center buildings, Coit Tower, and the like have been cast in a green glow. The effect has been pretty fun.

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Robert, you may notice,


exchanged his pink glitter ascot for an emerald one.

Not that I am one to talk.

I wore ruby red slippers.


And that's me on the left.

The cocktails were pretty scary. I opted for the cleverly provided Pete's Wicked Ale.

Flickr sets for Badlands, mud wrestling, and Wicked.