At a dinner in her honor at Hakkasan on Friday night, hosted by Lisa and John Grotts, a restaurant staffer displayed excitement at meeting the advice columnist. Phillips swiftly interrupted her own conversation with another guest to pose for a picture with her fan. [...] when talking to Phillips, Dagmar Dolby stumbled over the time element in her description of how long ago Ray Dolby had died (seven months), Phillips, with swift instinct, said, "But it seems like seven minutes, doesn't it?" Phillips, who took over the advice column from her mother, Abigail Van Buren, was in town to be keynote speaker at Friday's luncheon for Compassion & Choices. The group lobbies for expanding the options around end-of-life issues for the terminally ill, and Phillips is a believer. The City in Its Own Words is filled with images of people you know, perhaps not by name but definitely by sight. A section of the book based on a two-hour Muni ride not only pictures the passengers, but notes also that of the 300 who were aboard during that time period, 17 of them said "hello" to the operator when they got on, and five said "thank you" when they left. Lower Haight has lost tourists, Upper Haight has tourists; Lower has small dogs, Upper large ones; Lower has hipster punks, Upper has hippie punks. Listening to Mike Krukow on the radio, Risa Nye heard him saying Wednesday was Underpants Bobblehead Day.
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