San Francisco is My Home

09
Oct

Fairy tale central

Author: kris, Category: News

Measuring seven miles by seven miles, this city is the perfect size to act out urban fairy tales in, and the local merchants help by obligingly offering fairy-tale-esque props. Where else but Bi-Rite Creamery can you get scoops of honey lavender and salted caramel ice cream? Where else can you find a series of impassioned love notes stenciled in paint on the sidewalks, like a trail of breadcrumbs left for one person to follow?

Your homework today is to play out a fairy tale of your own. You might lurk, troll-like, under the foot bridge at Golden Gate Park and jump out to demand a toll from the kickball team that practices there. Or try dropping your golden ball in a fountain at the Yerba Buena gardens and see what kind of animal retrieves it for you. Or make up your own tale: go on a quest to bike up Buena Vista, rescue a dreadlocked princess from her panhandling in the Upper Haight, or promise Newsom you can slay the pernicious, ongoing media stories about his hair in exchange for half of his city.