My interest having also been piqued, I looked at other entries in the online log maintained by the police. Exactly a month ago, for example, on Dec. 11, "Service to Citizen" was the description for the police response to a variety of circumstances, including "Reports his friend put him in handcuffs and lost the key" (assistance was provided) and "Citizen reports seeing 4 juvs in the middle of the street walking SW w/ toilet paper in their hands" ("area check negative").
As to other police activities, "Suspicious Circumstances" was the description of an incident that began the day, with a report filed just after midnight from "the bridge that goes over the freeway. Male keeps walking back and forth for past hour. WM, dark jacket, scruffy, all dark clothing." The denouement: The man "was practicing his juggling act."
Saying he had done most of the planning of the project nearby, Duane Baughman, producer-director of the documentary "Bhutto," invited friends to the Clay on Friday night to watch the movie.
Baughman's long-standing expertise is in political direct-mail firms, and his company developed strategy for Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign, and for the election of New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg. He was "being vetted for Bhutto's third run for prime minister" when she was assassinated.
The movie, which serves as posthumous endorsement of her idealism, is narrated mainly by Bhutto herself, a feat made possible by Baughman's discovery, just "sitting in an attic," of 67 hours of microcassettes the Pakistani leader had recorded for her first autobiography.
All along, said Baughman, "It wasn't going to be about Sundance, it wasn't going to be about it being shown in 66 cities, it was going to be about seeing it here, down the street from my office at Peet's."
-- Michael McCourt has presided over many a North Beach bar but is changing careers; Garry Graham, who presides over his Fairfax club, 19 Broadway, has a background in law. They'll both be performing at Pier 23 Cafe on Saturday. McCourt is making his singing debut with Graham's five-piece band backing him up (Graham will be singing, too). This is planned as a monthly gig for McCourt.
-- If you're having a drink at Toronado, the beer bar in the Lower Haight, you can order a burger from the neighboring Rosamunde Sausage Grill, and the Grill will deliver it to the bar.
Jason Bennett was at the Grill one night when he heard a man who'd been quenching his thirst next door stop by to check on his order, the delivery of which had been delayed because the Grill was busy. "It's loud over there," said the customer, wondering whether he'd missed the calling out of his name, "and I'm drunk."
Taking a friend to the Berkeley JCC seniors lunch, Bill Schechner noticed a woman handing out "not-so-perfectly hand-lettered" New Year's cards, hoping for a year "filled with compassion, comradeship & contemplation." Said one of the recipients, "Compassion and comradeship I get. But constipation?"
Schechner, who is producing a "Jewish Jokes" show, with open-mike segment, at Freight & Salvage on Wednesday night, says this gleaned remark, gathered in the company of his girlfriend's mom, was authentic and not just a plug for the show.
P.S.: Laura McCabe (her real name), overheard two aging docs (herein with aliases) in a California Pacific Medical Center elevator:
Doc 1: "Aloysius! Are you still practicing? How long has it been?"
Doc 2: "Engelbert ... is that you? I thought you were dead!"
"I feel so safe the next time I go in for surgery," observes McCabe.
Public Eavesdropping
"I had plastic bags tied at the knees and my goulashes over that."
New York snowstorm survivor telling gym pal about innovative way to use Hungarian stew in place of rubber shoes, overheard by Jaime Caban
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This article appeared on page E - 8 of the San Francisco Chronicle
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