“What brought you to San Francisco?”

“I moved here in 2002. It was one of those perfect summers where everybody had free time, and nobody had much money, so we found the cheapest bars to go to. We would just go to parks and hang out. This one night we found a bar in the TL that was showing free science fiction movies. We watched this horrible movie, left at the end of the night, and these guys were like ‘What are y’all doing?’ and we were like ‘We’re gonna go home and drink some absinthe I guess’ and they were like ‘Ahh, you should come to these slides with us’. They had found these concrete slides up on the hills of Market and Castro, they’re pretty well known but I’d never heard of them. We all go there are have this epic evening of sliding down every way we could think of. On wax paper, on cardboard, on our stomach, on our back. Luckily no one got hurt.”

“Cool.”

“Yeah, it was fun. I’ve been outta town for awhile, it’s interesting to see how the city has changed, how people’s attitude has changed over the last few years. There’s a lot of anger, a lot of bitterness. I still love the city for all the possibilities and options it offers.”

“What do you think people are angry about?”

“I think there’s this disenfrachisement. People that have been living here for 10 years plus feel like they’re being pushed out by this new wave of people. It’s not just the techies, it’s everybody, everybody wants to be here again. We’re having this amazing warm winter. And people are feeling like they can’t stay here because it’s too hard. I feel like that’s what’s San Francisco is about. It goes through these cycles of being easy to live and hard to live in. The people that were excited to live here aren’t so excited anymore. Like for Bay to Breakers for instance, it used to be this funny thing that San Francisco did and now it’s just a bunch a people that come from all over, get wasted as possible, and then pee on your doorstep. So it’s kinda weird.”