Comments on Today in Black Houses

Is the Dark Dentist a member of the Church of Satan?

We're gonna want those condos.

Another relic of cartoon San Francisco bites the dust. The most self-mythologized city in America continues to be eaten away by reality.

This seems a little misleading, Ari. The Black House itself hasn't been condofied, since, um, it was torn down approximately seven years ago.

It would be more accurate to say that the property where the BH once stood has been condofied, instead.

More importantly, have they put up condos on the ruins of the Sutro baths, where Anton found unearthly beings when he was a "paranormal investigator"?

His autobiography is like listening to a crazy old dude in a bar gleefully lying about his entire life. Yeah, Anton, you totally dated Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield and were a lion tamer.

The lion tamer part is true. I'm pretty sure he kept a lion IN THAT HOUSE. Ah, Frisco.

He was also a master theremin player.

That house was down the street from on of my first apartments here, and I remember when they started tearing it down.

"Sadly" torn down? Hardly, it was a dump and had sat empty for years. This city needs the housing more than another con artist.

@6: I don't think anybody's called it "Frisco" since 1948.

natives certainly dont call it frisco. it makes us think of people in the midwest eating some kind of melt sandwich on sourdough at arby's called a friso melt.

Right, natives call it "the city".

A lot of the beat writers called it "Frisco" in their day, unfortunately. Of course most of them were transplants from New England. If public schools insist on teaching Kerouac, I'd like to see a special aside in those printings like they've done in Twain's works for racial epithets, educating future generation on why "Frisco" is antiquated and unacceptable.

It's worse than WARshington, which oddly seems perpetrated by native Washingtonians exclusively.

it is "the city"! thank you comte! you are on fire this week!