i will never be young again or any younger than i am today. i will never be faster or more flexible. i will never win competitions against 22-year-old wrestlers in my weight class. i will never be a black belt. none of those things will happen, but none of that matters anymore. i took a walk through this beautiful world felt the cool rain on my shoulder found something good in this beautiful world i felt the rain getting colder san francisco is changing. we all know it. you can t stop it. were you born here? yeah, both generations of my grandparents are from san francisco. my dad s side came out after the gold rush, so came here in the 1850s. author john birdsall grew up in this town, and he s a close observer of the changes happening here. you know, when i first came out to san francisco, i was making all the same sort of tired jokes that everybody from new york that comes out to san francisco the first time makes. you know, i thought it was all
gold rush, so came here in the 1850s. author john birdsall grew up in this town, and he s a close observer of the changes happening here. you know, when i first came out to san francisco, i was making all the same sort of tired jokes that everybody from new york that comes out to san francisco the first time makes. you know, i thought it was all sort of granola and politically correct. yeah. yeah. in fact that s really nothing can be further from the truth. san francisco is like a righteously dirty town. it s grimy. you guys have actual street hookers in the center of town, you know. it s a two-fisted, heavy drinking, three-martini, big steaks, heavy smoking, old-school 20s mentality town. still. yes, still. but it s vanishing. you know, google is not too far from here. according to many locals, the whole character of the city is being leached out by an invasion of tech people. a flood of tech money. it s the triumph of the nerds. out with the old, in with the new.