If you find yourself under-dressed on your way to a Giants game, stop in to see Ernesto “Neto” Solis at his new Top Line Apparel gallery and salon / hang at 5009 3rd Street.

as i did

photo by Neto

go giants

edit to add: Giants won the game, 10-4, with Madison Bumgarner garnering the win despite some rough spots. I bought a $6 ticket on the leading online exchange around 11:20 and decided against walking from Peet’s Menlo Park, to Kinkos (to print my ticket) to the 11:44 CalTrain, and instead decided to manage my little white 4-cylinder Chevy up the roads. One benefit, I rationalized, of driving is that I could listen to Marcia Ball “Roadside Attractions” meanwhiles. (And maybe writing about Ball was what had planted the seeds of my impulsive maneuvers, the pun on her name).

As I drove past Candlestick and up 3rd Street, I spied the Bayview Branch of the Sf Library and pulled to the curb, and popped a quarter into the meter (which gets you about 20 minutes in that neighborhood). The library wasn’t to open for another half hour, so I ducked into Topline Apparel to ask around about where else I could possible check my email and print my ducat. I ended up hanging 5000-block of Third Street style, and also procured the coolware.

The librarian was very helpful navigating the free computer and the 10 cents a sheet printing. (I didn’t catch her name).

I ended up parking at South Park (for $14, or $7 per hour) and hoofing it to the game, but not before glomming a tuna sandwich from Caffe Centro — as if anybody really cares what I had for lunch; I did not, for example, eat at Baby Bull’s Barbecue spot.

The game highlight for me was Morse’s homer, breaking his skid of Ks.