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The streets ran red with green…

At best St. Patrick’s Day is a problematic holiday, celebrated more upon the basis of benevolent boozy pop culture myth than upon an accurate understanding of Christian Irish history. But whatever. Green is green and beer is beer, and if you hoisted a few yesterday when everyone was Irish I hope you went all in and, like this stylish gent, didn’t fuck around with your holiday attire…

 San Francisco, California, St. Patrick's Day 2019

(Photographed on Clement Street between 5th and 6th Avenues in San Francisco on St. Patrick’s Day 2019. See my other work here and here.)

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    • San Francisco is so hipster I barely even see it anymore. And my man here reminds me most of a fully-bearded Bun E. Carlos from Cheap Trick.