Earlier this year, an extremely clever married couple named Catherine Herdlick and Gabe Smedresman celebrated the latter’s 30th birthday by throwing a citywide Logan’s Run-themed chase game. What a perfect motif for a night out in San Francisco: A pastime for beautiful young adults in this city of beautiful young adults re-creating a movie about beautiful young adults enjoying a lavish, indulgent — and extremely temporary — existence.
In that film, the beautiful young adults of a dystopian future earth lived it up before aging out in the most extreme manner possible: They were vaporized to make way for more beautiful young adults.
Here in San Francisco, that would violate the city charter.
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Joe Eskenazi is a staff writer and columnist for SF Weekly.