New VIP Benefits: even MORE reasons to support your Kinky Coffee Shop!

Tue, 30 Mar 2010 23:21:15 -0700

We are so excited to announce that our annual Very Important Pervert package has TWO new benefits! Not only does it still have all the awesome benefits it used to have, there now another reason to become a Wicked Grounds VIP. For the paltry sum of $300, you get all this:

• ***NEW BENEFIT*** PRIVATE VIP AREA for FOLSOM STREET FAIR: chill out, relax, and escape the craziness of the Fair in our private, air-conditioned VIP lounge. Be waited on by sexy guys and gals! No standing in line to get served! Get a massage!
• ***NEW BENEFIT*** FREE SLICE OF CAKE ON YOUR BIRTHDAY*
• 10% off ALL FOOD DRINK for the WHOLE YEAR
• Swanky VIP membership card (it’s laminated and everything!)
• TWO FREE 15 minute chair MASSAGES with Randy Chaitkin of Knowing Touch Massage Therapy on our regular Thursday or Sunday massage night
• Mention on our SUPPORTERS WEBPAGE, including a LINK and BANNER of your choice!
• A FREE Wicked Grounds T-SHIRT
• An unwashed, worn pair of panties/underwear from a chosen member of staff (OPTIONAL! Subject to the staff member's approval)
• A Wicked Grounds BUMPER STICKER
• A copy of each of our EXCLUSIVE COLORING BOOKS, signed by the artist
• SIX FREE Red Blossom teas, Ritual coffees, Ghirardelli hot chocolates, or Boylan’s/Dry Sodas
• EXCLUSIVE Thank You parties EVERY SIX MONTHS with special guests and awesomely sexy and kinky performances: COMING SOON

* If you are currently a VIP and your birthday has already passed during your membership, please come in with your VIP card and ID and we'll have a belated celebration for you!

Click here to become an annual VIP through Paypal, or mail a check to 'Wicked Grounds' at the address below, together with your email address.

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10 REASONS YOU SHOULD SUPPORT WICKED GROUNDS

1. There is no cover charge or entrance fee: you can come and go freely, hang out, and use our free WIFI without having to pay simply to get through the door.
2. We are open, welcoming, and accepting: we are the only café in San Francisco where you can talk freely (no children!), have your slave sitting on the floor on the end of a leash, and get your milkshake in a dog bowl. Our doors are open to all, whatever your gender, orientation, or role.
3. Home to more and more of your favorite munches: Wicked Grounds is host to over 15 monthly munches - that's one every other night! At WG, there's no need to limit your conversation, hide who you really are, or dress in any particular way. What better place to hold or attend a munch?
4. We are not a bar or nightclub: no loud music (if it is too loud, just let a barista know!), no leering drunk people, and no cruising pressure (though it's the kind of environment where starting a conversation with that cutie you've been eyeing isn't weird!).
5. We just became members of the Green Café Network: we compost and recycle everything we can, we pay a little extra for compostable cups, straws, and Green Planet bottled water, and try to limit our overall use of packaging.
6. We serve premium, local food and drink: Ritual Coffee, Red Blossom Tea, Double Rainbow ice cream - the list goes on. We take pride in the taste and freshness of our food and drink, and choose to make our drinks with organic Clover milk, our sandwiches fresh, and never keep coffee sitting stewing before serving it to you.
7. We're trying to be ethical employers: from April, we're offering health insurance to our full time staff, which obviously means higher costs for us.
8. We showcase local artists and craftspeople: we hang work from local artists (which is for sale, by the way!), and stock toys and jewelry from members of our own community, who may not have any other outlet.
9. We were totally screwed by city bureaucracy trying to get open: and 6 months later, we are still struggling to recover. The city bureaucracy's aftercare sucks...
10. We are part of the Community: we have worked hard to make Wicked Grounds an important part of San Francisco, as well as the wider Leather Community. We have sponsored community events (Folsom Street Fair, IMsL, NWLC, Sacramento Valley Leather, Shibaricon), donated to charitable causes, as well as being a meeting place for many organisations' meetings.

We want to continue to grow and give back, and with your support, we can do that.

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OTHER WAYS TO SUPPORT WICKED GROUNDS

We have plenty of alternatives to our VIP membership. We would like to introduce our 6 MONTH VIP MEMBERSHIP! For $150, you get the following:

• 10% off ALL FOOD DRINK for 6 months
• Swanky VIP membership card (it’s laminated and everything!)
• TWO FREE 15 minute chair MASSAGES with Randy Chaitkin of Knowing Touch Massage Therapy on our regular Thursday or Sunday massage night
• Mention on our SUPPORTERS WEBPAGE, including a LINK and BANNER of your choice!
• An unwashed, worn pair of panties/underwear from a chosen member of staff (OPTIONAL! Subject to the staff member's approval)
• A Wicked Grounds BUMPER STICKER
• A copy of each of our EXCLUSIVE COLORING BOOKS, signed by the artist
• SIX FREE Red Blossom teas, Ritual coffees, Ghirardelli hot chocolates, or Boylan’s/Dry Sodas
• EXCLUSIVE Thank You party with special guests and awesomely sexy and kinky performances: COMING SOON

Click here to become an 6 month VIP through Paypal, or mail a check to 'Wicked Grounds' at the address below, together with your email address.

You have the option to GIVE WHATEVER YOU CAN. We sincerely appreciate every single donation, and want to give an opportunity for people to give at a level they are able. Every donor receives a thank you gift in the mail, which includes free drink(s) and bumper sticker, with other items included depending on the level of donation!

Click here to choose an amount to donate through Paypal, or mail a check to 'Wicked Grounds' at the address below, together with your email address.

Finally, supporting the cafe with YOUR PATRONAGE is, of course, highly encouraged. Having all you wonderful people enjoying yourselves at Wicked Grounds really does make all the hard work put in by our staff and supporters completely worth it.

Thank you for reading this email, and for supporting Wicked Grounds.
Mr and Mrs Wicked Grounds

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This week's truly exciting events! Giveaway! Fakir!

Tue, 30 Mar 2010 20:59:48 -0700

Hello all!

This will be the first of two posts we will be sending out this week. Apologies for this, but they concern different topics, so it didn't seem appropriate to send them in the same email! I hope you can forgive us!

This week, we have not one, but two of our regular munches:
TONIGHT, Tuesday, March 30, 7pm: Polyconscious Group Share: come talk about all things poly!
Wednesday, March 31, 8pm: SF Fetish Munch: get your glad rags* on, and meet and greet like-minded people before going to Bondage-a-Go-Go.

And we have TWO SPECIAL EVENTS!

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BLOWFISH EASTER GIVEAWAY
Thursday, April 1, 7pm - 9pm

Come to Wicked Grounds and take part in an Easter Giveaway! Win candy, coupons (including for Wicked Grounds), and even an awesome toy. The Blowfish team will be demoing some of their items, as well as making them available for sale - buy someone special something sexy for Easter!
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FAKIR'S GENDERFLEX EXHIBIT GRAND OPENING
Sunday, April 4, 6pm - 10pm
Opening and Artist's Reception 6pm - 10pm

Meet some of the models in person! GenderFlex was first seen in 2009 as part of the Femina Potens IDENTITY show, National Queer Arts Festival and Gay Pride Celebration. Fakir's GenderFlex exhibit features 24 unique color portraits of local and community trans persons, F2M and M2F: those who feel out-of-place on either end of the gender spectrum and have found a more comfortable place in the middle or opposite end.

The exhibit can be seen through April, May and June. For more information and sample images go to Fakir's web site www.fakir.org.
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We truly hope to see you all this week!
Mr and Mrs WG

*Mrs WG here. Mr WG doesn't think this is a recognized American term. However, it is part of my normal parlance as the English one. If you're confused, Google it. Except when I just did, the first couple of results were, um, confusing. Maybe not really work safe either. What we mean is dress to impress...

Maintenance Day, Knitting, Poly, ART MONTH, oh my!

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:59:19 -0700

First things first though: WICKED GROUNDS IS SIX MONTHS OLD! That's right folks, we've been open for half a year as of March 16th. It's been a tough ride so far, and without you we would never have gotten this far, so THANK YOU! Let's all work together to make the next six months EVEN BETTER!

CLOSED MONDAY MARCH 22nd: MAINTENANCE DAY
We didn't want to start with this announcement, but we didn't want you to be disappointed when you head down to Wicked Grounds. Instead of picking a national holiday - when you're all off work - to close, we picked a random day in the middle of March. We simply have to get some maintenance things done around the cafe, and we're afraid we have to close to do it. If you like polishing floors, and want to donate your time to us, Monday March 22nd is the day to come on down to 289 8th Street ;)

On the bright side though - we'll look all shiny and even more beautiful on Tuesday, March 23rd when it's business as usual.

LIVEJOURNAL
For those of you that want to read these messages on your Friends' Page and not in your inbox, please add Wicked Grounds on LiveJournal. We're working on uploading all our previous blog/mailing list messages as well.

EVENTS
The beginning of 2010 has seen an explosion in gatherings being held at Wicked Grounds. We now host the Society of Janus' Newbie Coffee Social, a weekly knitting circle, and a PolyConscious group share. As always, see our calendar on our website for a complete listing of events. Our Munches are getting too numerous to mention individually here!

Special events for the next couple of weeks include:
March 28th, 8pm: Post CSC/SoJ Class Gathering: come to Wicked Grounds after Dossie Easton and Rae Goldman's class on Switching
April 1st, 7pm: Blowfish.com's Easter Giveaway: get free stuff! We promise this is not an April Fool. At least I hope not as Blowfish.com have some really awesome stuff...
April 13th, 8pm: Wicked Ground's welcomes the Stampede Pony Munch

APRIL IS ART MONTH
Whilst we will be very sad to see our very own Suzanne Rachel Forbes' show go down at the end of March, we will be welcoming a show entitled GenderFlex by Fakir Musafar. More details will follow about the opening reception for this three month show.

However, that's not all. For the whole month of April, we will be celebrating the rich gifts that art provides us with, and will have some special art for sale (though don't forget, the art in our shows is always for sale anyway!) as well as special events throughout the month. Since this is so exciting, a whole message needs to be dedicated to ART MONTH, so keep your eyes peeled!

As always, thank you for supporting us and we look forward to seeing you soon!
Mr and Mrs Wicked Grounds.

Don't suffer from SAD

Wed, 6 Jan 2010 00:41:31 -0800

Yes, we're still selling milkshakes, even though it's the middle of Winter! Being at Wicked Grounds is just so HOT that we need something to cool us down, PHEW!

MONDAY OPENING! WE'RE NOW OPEN FROM 10am EVERY MONDAY MORNING!
We hope that this makes things a little easier to remember - we open at 10am on weekdays, and 11am on the weekend.
Also, as pre-warning, Wicked Grounds will be CLOSED from 10am - 6pm on MONDAY FEBRUARY 1st for a delicious hot porn shoot. The director is looking for extras - watch this space if you would like to be in the background!

EVENTS THIS JANUARY
So, we got through our first full quarter of business and are excited about reaching our six month anniversary. Make sure that we get there by coming down to Wicked Grounds whenever you can - especially when we have such incredible events for your enjoyment!

Tonight, 7pm: NEW THIS MONTH! Rope Bite Munch: More than just a Munch, Rope Bite is a CommUNITY, a Skill Share and an Open Mike all rolled into one. More info here. [okay, okay, I know it's too late for you to attend this month, but it's every month on the first Wednesday, so you'll come NEXT month, right? Mrs WG.]
Fri 8, 7pm: Grizzly's "Not Necessarily Single" Kinky Games Night/Munch
Sat 9, 7pm: Screwup: Bootloving
Wed 13, 7pm: NEW THIS MONTH! Exiles Munch
Sat 16, 4pm: San Francisco boys of Leather meeting
Sat 16, 6pm: SPECIAL EVENT! RAVEN KALDERA: The Ordeal Path: BDSM Spirituality: We are SO excited to welcome Raven to Wicked Grounds. For more information click here.
Sun 17, ALL DAY: SPECIAL EVENT! Organ Grinder Atelier (Sweatshop Benefit for Wicked Grounds): How do we explain this event? It's an all day, web-broadcast art event, where you can both tune in ONLINE (more details to come soon!) and bid for pieces, and/or come to Wicked Grounds to see the art being created in front of you. And possibly OF you as well! An event NOT to be missed!
Sun 17, 6pm: Bring your Human Animal Night
Tues 19, 7pm: Bootblacking with Morgasmo
Wed 20, 6pm: SF Adult Littles Munch
Sat 23, 12noon: Grizzly's "Not Necessarily Single" Singles Munch
Sat 23, 5pm: NEW THIS MONTH! Wicked Games Gaming Night: The title says it all. Their FetLife group is here.
Sun 24, 6pm: NEW THIS MONTH! Switches' Discussion Group: Get together and talk about the joys, the challenges, and the fun of being a switch.
Mon 25, 7pm: Bay Area Furries Meeting
Wed 27, 8pm: SF Fetish Munch
Sat 30, 2pm: SPECIAL EVENT! Kinky Comic Carnival: Join a whole host of sexy and talented comic book people [Honestly, I don't know much about this event since Mr WG is the one conspiring with the gorgeous Serena Valentino about it, but I'm super excited anyway! That is, if I wasn't going to be in an 8 class reviewing the Simulated Multi-State Bar Exam that I took the day before... Yes, for those of you that don't know already, I'm off doing Bar Review right now, and will be sitting the CA Bar Exam in the last week of February. Mrs WG.]

Don't forget about our weekly events:
Thursdays, 6pm-ish & Sundays, 4pm-ish: Deep Tissue Chair Massage with Randy: now you can not only get the once over, but a twice over! Double the Certified Massage Therapist fun!
Thursdays, 7pm: Tarot for the Wicked, the Pure, and the Unsure with Anastasia: kink-friendly tarot reading - fortune creation, not fortune telling!

MENU AND FOOD
You'll notice a few things changing on our menu now that it is the New Year! We think it's all for the best, but we really do appreciate your feedback, so let us know what you think. Remember, we source the best possible food that we can: we only use organic milk from CA, our bakery items and bread are all lovingly handmade in the Bay Area, and what can we say about our coffee other than it's made from the best beans in the whole of the Bay Area? Kinky never tasted this good!

KINK.COM
Did you all see the shoot from PublicDisgrace.com that went up on Christmas Day? It was shot at Wicked Grounds! Go look at the hotness now! (Obviously, that link is not safe for work...)

Love from Ryan and Rose, Mr and Mrs Wicked Grounds

Uncle Harry's Shameless Plug

Sun, 3 Jan 2010 00:40:41 -0800

We all have been busy or just out of town with the Holidays. Our favorite Shoppe Owners and their Barista's have missed us. Well and their bottom line has missed us too.

Take a special minute this next week and month to stop into Wicked Grounds. Give 'em one of your best smiles. Then order your favorite drink with a tasty sandwich hot or cold or one of their waffles (they're from home made batter). How about a cookie to go?

Did you know the shelves are full of a new order of Wicked Grounds tee shirts? [Including tanks that fit larger ladies and men - Mrs Wicked Grounds]

Can we make them crazy busy? I think we can! This week right now they need our business.

Lets welcome Ryan back from his family visit and send Rose off to her law school studies with a BUTT LOAD of business. Lets show them how much we all love them.

This shameless plug was brought to you by Daddy Harry Protector and Uncle to Wicked Grounds