In SF, Even the Drugs are Organic

On Tuesday night I went to the Red Vic Movie House for the first time.  The Red Vic is one of San Francisco's great independent theaters. I was there to see Burden of Dreams, a 1982 documentary about the epic struggle of director Werner Herzog to make the movie Fitzcarraldo.  I haven't actually seen Fitzcarraldo, but after seeing Burden I want to.

The Red Vic is on Haight St (of Haight/Ashbury fame).  As I left the theater and got back out on Haight, a lady sidled over to me and offered me some type of illegal drug (hashish, maybe--I heard "hish hash") for half price. Of course I declined; after all, I'm an upstanding member of polite society.  But before walking away, I  thought it was very funny when she informed me that the drugs were "organic."  Only in San Francisco, my friends; that wouldn't even happen in Berkeley.

My one regret--I didn't think to ask if the hash was fair trade too.

Comments

[pollyalida]

Fitzcarraldo! A long forgotten wonderful film. And the documentary too. Saw both of them back way back when and I can still see scenes from them in my mind's eye. Would love to see them again.

Organic hash. what a concept. Wanna bet she would have said it was fair trade had you asked? :-)