2007 May 27 San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO @ The Cat Club
27 May 27 2007
Sunday, midnight!

THE GET GO - I drove up to San Francisco with my 20-year old daughter and a visiting cousin. We stayed at the Hotel Nikko in the Union Square district of San Francisco. We were a quick 15 minute walk away from The Cat Club in the SOMA district. Pretty good, eh?

Well, at midnight , this area somehow transforms to another place altogether. Here one quickly encounters the hard under belly of the city - and I'm not talkin' about feral cats either. More like feral people. Walk fast and with a purpose, my basic survival instincts told me. Longest 15 minute walk of my life. Jeez...

The Cat Club

FOR STARTERS - The Cat Club had several small adjoining rooms each playing an assortment of 80's era music. The back room had a DJ booth and a couple of big screens on the wall showing vintage 80's new wave videos. This room was very crowded - was a bar too- if you could get to it.

THE WAY IT GOES - At midnight, Jane and Gina (our judges) made their entrance onto a small stage area located directly below the DJ booth. They both wore master-of-ceremony type outfits. Very cute.

After a short introduction (and bottomless drinks) our judges were then escorted to a couple of raised chairs on the side of the room. From here they viewed the lip-sync contest which featured our favorite GOGO songs performed by San Francisco's favorite female impersonators. Jeez...

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Our judges then seriously deliberated amongst themselves regarding who should be the winner.

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Sometimes our judges didn't agree.

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Sometimes they strongly disagreed.

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They squabble, they quarrel and they bickered.
They even tussled and wrangled over who should get the prized GOGO T-shirt.

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Finally, the prizes were awarded and everyone was friends again.

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WORTH NOTING - Lots of trannys have good looking legs.

HIGH NOTES - The water skiers singing Vacation.

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LOW NOTES - The thought of walking back to the hotel. So I cabbed it.

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I didn't see any cats.