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Holy fucking shit!! Pitchfork treatment for the Singles

helmet law suck, apparently

Got some NSFW (not that bad) pics from some vinatage Easyriders that the Audacity dudes left at the house along with the smell of stale beer. What thoughtful gifts! After the j ump

It had to be Jew

Pretty exciting night last night...planted tomatoes, tomatillos, and basil in the garden, took a walk around my beautiful neighborhood, cooked a crapload of chard from the garden and the last of the lettuce, which all bolted. Watched intervention and hoarders on my computer.

I don't mind saying that I've been kinda depressed the last couple months because my new job is such a scary change and I guess I don't deal with change that well.  My life hasn't changed much in the last 7 or so years, and they were the happiest years of my life, so it's hard to leave that chapter behind, especially with 40 looming.  All in all, I'm absurdly lucky, especially when it comes to the best husband (and cat) in the world. 

So anyways, doing that stuff last night kinda represents an upturn after a couple of months of not enjoying the things I usually enjoy, which I'm stoked about.

I was looking up Woody Allen's description of "anhedonia" from Annie Hall to describe what I'm talking about, but when I found it I saw it's  pretty harsh and and doesn't really apply. But I found this golden bit of trivia:

Allen's working title for the film was "Anhedonia", a term for the inability to experience pleasure.^[17][18] However, United Artists considered this unmarketable, as were Brickman's suggested alternatives: "It Had to Be Jew", "Rollercoaster Named Desire" and "Me and My Goy".^[19] An advertising agency, hired by UA, embraced Allen's choice of an obscure word by suggesting advertising in tabloid newspapers using vague slogans such as "Anhedonia Strikes Cleveland".^[19] However, Allen tried several titles over five test screenings, including "Anxiety" and "Alvy and Me", before settling on "Annie Hall

torta chilango

This is a clue to my next review. I am very excited about this place.

Wow is the whole earth festival bullshit! A bunch of ugly crap and hideous tie dye, and super expensive food.  I am PISSED that I got tricked into buying a chocolate covered banana for 6 dollars. Not a frozen banana, mind you, those I love and they are my state fair jam.  No just regular banana on a stick and half didn't even have chocolate on it so it was just...a banana.  Yippee

Then there were all these hippy food booths with like tempeh and veggie burgers and stuff.  I hit up three and they were not ready.  At 1230 on Friday! Thereby missing all their lunch business.  That is soooo hippy, that's why they will never get anywhere in life, unless you count really long dreads as an accomplishment.  So I paid like 650 for a pupusa and there was raw dough involved and just cheesecheesecheese, some of it not melted. My friend paid that same for a quesadilla with unmelted cheese. So pissed.

Saw Great Gatsby, which I hadn't planned on at all but was in the mood for a movie and a friend wanted to go.  Terrible.  I don't really like Baz Luhrman.  I was kind of snickered at the novel with smiller before I went, but since there's narration right from the book of some of the most famous parts, my cynicism melted away and I remembered how much I loved it in high school: essay topic, the use of the theme of eyes and seeing (something like that) cuz of the billboard of eyes that watches over everything.  Daisy sucks so bad.  What a bitch.

Farmersmarket on Saturday was so fun again! I passed out tons of Edibles and it was very gratifying, especially since many people were like "I love this mag". And every week I use it as my excuse to day drink at Low Brau on the patio.  I think I've personally bought 4 of those Logsdon saisong.  Which is over 10% of the total that Clay ordered.

beetle bailey?

 for those of you not on fb, this is my new profile picture courtesy of dp. love.

 can someone explain this beetle bailey to me?

 you can tell because his face is shooting off in droplets? is that his brain? is it sweat marks that were mistakenly colored in because that still doesn't make any sense

 destop setup

just random. This tshirt really scandalized me when I watched Teen Wolf ONE MILLION TIMES.  I had a huuuuge poster of  just a closeup of Michael J. Fox's face.



Jah help me I have 3 hours of safety classes today. Laser safety and chem/lab safety. I am so fucking safe!!!

comedians of comedy

omg, this is the funniest thing I've read in the Onion in years. And the whole article is funny!

Last night's comedy open mic at Bows was funny but too long! Ray Molina is the host and I told him that and he said he knows but that he cut four people and it was still too long and he gets shit from the comics for cutting anyone.  Nice story bro.  No Steven Ferris and that was a bummer. The main bit for at least three of the comics was getting dumped by their girlfriend recently. I like Ferris because he's just completely creative and isn't just narrating whatever happened to him that week and dick jokes.  Plus, people I don't care how fucking nervous you are you cannot read from notes!! This is not a powerpoint at work.  It saps the funny out of everything.

Tonight is Missy's night at old I.  I hope to go

pic post

 

 This is graffiti from Sulzip Ann, a Korean restaurant in Korea town.  It's another one of those teen hangout type of places and it has even more graffiti than Sarang Bang

 Calling someone immaculate is high praise

 cute picture from the sour bar opening at Panaea. These guys are the best

 Having a beer at Capital Tap Room

 This is a fridge juxtaposition with a picture of Nate taken by Doug Biggert. I know it's not a surprise to anyone but Doug is a fabulous photographer.  That's me as a teen punk on the right. Note the suit.

 Revisited Pho King II for the first time in a while.  They advertise their tendon as "soft tendon" and I really think it might be the best tendon in town (The SNR should give out that award for best of).  Not to mention the off-the-menu cold tendon salad we had once (which they tried to claim was the cow dick salad I wanted until I busted them on it)

The lady remembered we like this raw beef salad.  I know I'm gettin pretty gnarly here but recently I ran over a huge snake on the freeway (probably a rattler as I hear there is a bumper crop this year) and watching it writhe in pain in my rearview made me vow to be more conscious about the meat I eat.  It made me really sad.  I have gotten too used to ordering meat dishes when I could have vegetarian.  So no more meat at lunch on weekdays at the very least. I only eat breakfast meat like once every two weeks, and I rarely cook meat.  Too bad Red Rabbit took their veggie burger off the menu!

Beer gossip: the rumor is that a Bevmo might go in The Beat space.  Which means the single bottle law will be a problem.  I don't know how the ABC works, but if they get a single exemption I am going to be SUPER PISSED, considering on how many small business bottle shops we have missed out on on the grid.  Davis Beer Shoppe guy considered opening here but was thwarted by that law.

inspiring

 I was completely inspired by Sacramento and the ladies I know there this weekend.  Sacramento is really getting pretty amazing.  New Edible issue out and it looks beautiful.  OK, so Ryan D. is not a lady, but he's still inspiring. Ran into him at the Good Market and got to introduce him to Steve Hansen and give him the new issue. Hansen's a fan. More after the jump