At the Tenderloin Museum.

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Sam Whiting: Strange de Jim, San Francisco quipster for Herb Caen and Leah Garchik, dies at 81

"Strange de Jim was a full-time spinner of quips, a career that did not pay beyond the reward of seeing his pseudonym in Herb Caen’s column. This was also the reward for Chronicle readers who associated the name Strange de Jim with a clever take on the human comedy.

Strange, as he was known, even to family members, did it better than anybody over the course of 25 years and when Caen died, in 1997, he was selected as a speaker at the memorial for a man he’d only met once. Staying in character, he solemnly strode to the pulpit at Grace Cathedral wearing a paper bag over his head, one last joke to protect the identity of his alter ego — Jim Riffe, a systems analyst originally from West Virginia."

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