{"id":820,"date":"2002-07-31T14:46:00","date_gmt":"2002-07-31T14:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2002\/07\/31\/a_visit_up_your\/"},"modified":"2024-11-28T01:02:03","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T06:02:03","slug":"a_visit_up_your","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2002\/07\/31\/a_visit_up_your\/","title":{"rendered":"A Visit Up Your Alley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I made a last-minute decision<\/strong> to fly out to San Francisco this past weekend to visit some very good friends and check out the <a title=\"Up Your Alley 2002, to be precise\" href=\"http:\/\/www.folsomstreetfair.com\/alley\/\">Dore Alley Fair<\/a>. Fun time, nice things to see, nothing earth-shattering to report. On the whole, everyone was a lot friendlier than any of the <a title=\"Lots of fun, but not quite as personable as I always hope\" href=\"http:\/\/www.folsomstreeteast.org\">Folsom Street East<\/a> fairs I\u2019ve been to. Somehow I also managed to run into more analog and online friends on the other side of the country than I ever do at the street fair here. Go figure.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, some snapshots:<\/p>\n<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Random view of the crowd on Folsom Street\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/img\/dore_01.jpg\" width=\"160\" height=\"213\" \/><\/td>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"I was trying to show the face of the guy in rubber, who was a total biscuit, but he turned away at the last second\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/img\/dore_02.jpg\" width=\"160\" height=\"213\" \/><\/td>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Michael - 'Mack' from Leather Navigator\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/img\/dore_03.jpg\" width=\"160\" height=\"213\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Victor from v-hold.net and his pals (photo from his camera, not mine)\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/img\/dore_04.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/td>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"The guy in the leather CHP uniform was also at the Loading Dock the night before. Sadly, I never got a chance to talk to him, although there was some mutual checking out.\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/img\/dore_05.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Victor from v-hold.net, representing his Men of Discipline chapter\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/img\/dore_06.jpg\" width=\"160\" height=\"213\" \/><\/td>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"My pal Gus, a fellow New Yorker I ran into\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/img\/dore_07.jpg\" width=\"160\" height=\"213\" \/><\/td>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"My new and hopefully long-lasting pal Mikey - 'leathergearboy' from Leather Navigator\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/img\/dore_08.jpg\" width=\"160\" height=\"213\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Another random view of the crowd on Folsom Street\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/img\/dore_09.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/td>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Another random view of the crowd on Folsom Street\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/img\/dore_10.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made a last-minute decision to fly out to San Francisco this past weekend to visit some very good friends and check out the Dore Alley Fair. Fun time, nice things to see, nothing earth-shattering to report. On the whole, everyone was a lot friendlier than any of the Folsom Street East fairs I\u2019ve been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2002\/07\/31\/a_visit_up_your\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Visit Up Your Alley&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultragay","category-ultraphotographic"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=820"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71589,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions\/71589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}