Frith O’Steen

So a couple of weekends ago, I went with my family to catch the Upright Citizens Brigade at the SF Sketchfest over at the Eureka Theatre. The show was awesome - they are so damn funny. I’d gotten to see them once before at their regular location (a theatre under the Gristedi’s grocery store in NY), and it was really cool to see them again. Rachel Dratch and Amy Poehler are hi-larious. Very funny women. (And quick on their feet! Much more fun to watch than the disastrous planned improvs of high school drama days gone by).

Anyway, we had parked in the Embarcadero area, and we were walking over to the Ferry Building to meet my sisters, when we crossed over through the little park across the street from Safeway. From a couple of blocks away, we could hear what sounded exactly like someone jumping up and down on a big box of squeaky toys (which would be my idea for a performance art piece, albeit probably not a very good one). We get closer and realize that the trees there are jam-packed with bright green parrots! I thought they only hung out at the Filbert Steps, but they must be moving out to the birdie suburbs because there were over 100 of them, easily, and they were squawking and picking all the cherry tree blossoms clean off of the trees. I love SF - no way would you see that anywhere else!