This morning I went to interview the editor of Street Sheet, which is San Francisco’s homeless newspaper. Their offices are in the Tenderloin and are pretty run down. All of the chairs available to sit on looked as though someone had wet themselves whilst sitting on them. The Street Sheet is unlike the Big Issue because it is much more politically motivated and the few articles that it runs are about their view on government policies rather than a more magazine style. The vendors also get 100% of what they make by selling the paper. They claim that the homeless problem in SF is 90% due to the lack of affordable, cue some Reagan and Thatcher bashing. The most interesting thing that they told me was that a lot of tourists buy the paper and then send them donations afterwards. I am going to investigate this and see if the same is true for other US homeless papers or the Big Issue. He also mentioned a Dutch guy who had made a video of one of their vendors to try to find him a job, which might be worth exploring as well.
I walked down Market Street to a printing shop to have my photo printed for the show in San Diego. Lunch round the corner, a good American Cobb salad. It was a surprisingly small portion by American standards, I was a bit disappointed. I’m used to being served a whole platter of food. It was a nice day so I walked back home along the Haight, had a disappointing crepe, bought a denim shirt.
A Friday night’s activity I went to the cinema to see ‘Killer Joe’. It is the only film that I’ve seen that I would not recommend. It was weird; violent and sick to the point where it made me feel uncomfortable and I was uncomfortable that people were laughing at it.
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