Wednesday (did I mention that it's on Wednesday?), June 6 5:30 to 7:30 PM, or whenever they kick us out
The Hearth (also, The 'New' Hearth, according to the sign outside) 4701 Geary Blvd / 11th Ave. - take the 2, 28, or 38 bus Lots of restaurants nearby for later

SOCK PUPPET PLAYHOUSE

This will probably be one of the silliest things we could pursue in a public bar, but we'll do it anyway. We're going to construct sock puppets, and then create short plays that express the current state of the human condition. More likely, we'll probably wind up chasing each other around the room with the damn things while saying things like "You must make me a better nose! I cannot smell your aura!"

Bring white tube socks (clean, please) and yarn, colored markers, googly-eyes, glue, and anything else needed to make a one-handed drunken menace.

Don't tell your family or co-workers that you do this kind of stuff. They'll never understand.

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Here's a reminder for this upcoming bit of sock puppet madness. I went to Pearl Art on Market Street and bought 20 pairs of googly eyes, some pom-poms, a small glue gun, and other crap for making the puppets. We still need socks (I'll try to find a cheap 3-pack today, but you should definitely bring your own). They don't have to be white, but remember that you'll probably want to draw on them with markers. So bring markers - lots of them. And bring other material that will make for an interesting sock puppet experience. (But please remember that we have to clean up afterwards, so no glitter or gunk that will really mess up the bar. I'm planning to have a designated glue gun area so that doesn't get out of hand.)

Then, if we're not too drunk or sick of this, we'll attempt to stage a few one-minute plays using the puppets. People can split up into groups and go over their dialog, and then we'll put on the weirdest show this bar has ever seen.

And one note about The Hearth - it's not your typical grungy dive-bar in the Tenderloin sense, but it is a working-class kind of place with no real redeeming features other than booze and some table space. The bartender is a nice guy and eager for new business, so the night I was there I said I'd be back with a bunch of 'artists' who specialize in community-based interpretive theater. So let's make sure we don't let him down.