Friday, June 4, 2010

Gay to Breakers 2010

During college I spent 2 years living in the San Francisco, yet I somehow managed to miss Bay to Breakers both times.  Given the fact that it starts at eight in the morning its probably not that hard to understand for anyone who's ever been to college.  Anyway, fast forward 2 or 3 years and I somehow managed to get up 6:00 AM to take BART out there. 
I got up quickly and early and all I had time to grab for breakfast was a couple of bananas and a water.  Not very satisfying to say the least.
We arrived at Lafayette BART and lined up to buy tickets for the ride.  I was stoked though because Bay to Breakers hadn't even started yet and I had already found Waldo! 
BART always seems to take forever, but when it finally arrives I'm always pleased
I slept on the train
Yep, we've arrived in San Francisco all right! 
Satoya loves Damien.  Damien says fuck them hoes.
 There were signs like this all over the place
After dropping Sara off at her friend's house so she could run the marathon, I headed over to where the action was.
These stoop people were raging.  Normally this wouldn't be weird, except for the fact that it was 8:30 in the morning.  Rage on party people!
The police presence for the event was heavy
The goal of my journey was to make it to Jonathan's house where breakfast was being served.  On my way there I passed some street DJs.
Kyle greeted me in the hallway in his bunny suit 
Jonathan greeted me with coffee...
And a smorgasbord of delicious breakfast items
Then it was straight to the window to view the procession outside his house.  The lucky bastard lives right above the whole thing.
 I caught these law men checking out this girls behind
The Tetris people had the best costumes
I wonder how much Chipotle had to pay these people to walk around with this giant burrito float
This guy obviously loves the chronic
I entertained myself with this water gun and took aim at some costumed douche bags 
"Yeah bro, I went as a porn star!"  Blasted!
The twister guys were pretty cool.  I liked their costume
 Kyle grabbed his camera and we went to where the real action was
The roof.  The view from here is awesome
 Kyle took to the vantage point and started snapping away
 Welcome to the madness.  These are your front row seats.
"Wait, is that what I think it is?" 
Yes, it was a butt.
The nudity of some people knew no bounds
This was probably the most sacrilegious of all the costumes I saw all day.  Surprisingly though, he was not the only cross bearing Jesus I saw in the crowd. 
And the prize for the best sign of the day?  Definitely going to tolerance guy.
I stepped down from my rooftop perch momentarily to mock the law 
Then it was back to the roof.  These guys are fucking bananas. Get it?  They're dressed up like bananas and their sign says w'ere fucking bananas!  Like their crazy but dressed up as bananas!  Real clever guys.
"TAKE THE PHYSICAL CHALLENGE! THE PHYSICAL CHALLENGE!!!!"
This lady chose the wrong day to take her baby for a walk.
Jonathan went downstairs and checked out life on the street for a bit
The village people climbed on top of the bus stop and performed their classic hit single "YMCA"
Wow, look, sluts cage dancing... what a cool float...
Then, like all good parties, the cops rolled in and shut it down.  This idiot decided to go for the photo op
"Move along, nothing to see here"
The street sweepers came shortly after to clean up
And then then the Porta-Potties left too.  What a bummer of a job it would be to have to go grab the shit filled bathrooms after an event like this
People were still hanging out after the marathon was over
Allison likes to party with her legs open.  I mean that in the least sexual way possible.
Then after all was said and done, the squirt gun was brought out again to clean up the stragglers.  Jonathan put on his pretty face to celebrate the event
"We got that fucker good!"