Room Review: So You’ve Been Invited to the Purple Onion
You shift uncomfortably from foot to foot, queued on the sidewalk adjacent to a steamy Italian cafe. Quickly losing patience, which you’ve arguably never had, you’re inundated with idle conversations in a quagmire of unified strangers. Ostensibly waiting for comedy, truthfully you’re here for a single comedian, whom, is actually your charismatic co-worker, or your drug dealer, or your unhinged grandmother with a new lease on life. The Purple Onion straddles the coasts of the jostling Chinatown and North Beach’s unchecked vitality. Slinky couples clutch and shuffle through the habitat of urban smear mired in San Francisco’s classic, cellophane gray. As the proxy collective pulses forward, around and down a cumbersome staircase (very safe), and each individual is tolled by the ticket taker, the night’s makeup couldn’t be more smeared.
![Strippers don’t like it when you get change for $20 from the stage.
- Jerrod Carmichael @ Purple Onion [Paraphrase]
[Photo by Kyle Mizono]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m68nilMLqP1r8grwbo1_500.jpg)
![I’m celebrating an anniversary tonight. You better give it up for my 100th day of depression!
Sam Weber @ Portal’s Tavern [Paraphrase]
[Photo by Imran G]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8gkn4crRX1qcxc43o1_500.jpg)
