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.
aaahhhh two hour hazardous waste class! FML
ReplyDeleteI am so old that I remember when Black Flag played at the Whole Earth Festival & being a kiddo when Wavy Gravy would show up with the Whale Bus and be MC all three days. Oh and when I was 11 and the Karma Patrol warned my relatives that my aura was too dark and was bringing everybody else down. These days it seems like the point of going is to buy a raku fired mug or handmade soap as a last minute Mother's Day gift.
ReplyDeleteCan we turn your comments into a beer trading forum? Cool, thanks. I'll give a Logsdon Cerasus and an Oak Aged Bretta for a Peche N Brett. Anyone?
ReplyDeleteNew Edible came out great. I love when the passion of the writers/editors is evident on the page. Great work!
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I haven't eaten at the WEF in ten years probably. There used to be an Ethiopian cart I loved. I feel like it was from Berkeley. Of course 10 years ago I was still a vegetarian so pretty much any novel cuisine that was vegetarian made my day. The veggie corndogs were good too.
ReplyDeleteella told me about a indian cart that's good but i don't think they were there. i should have gotten a veggie corndog. i was pissed i blew my dessert wad on that banana cuz they had rootbeer floats with homemade root beer!
ReplyDeletehopefully charles will read the thing about black flag at the whole earth festival. has anyone milked more out of less in the 60s than wavy gravy?
ReplyDeletethat reminds me of something I heard in a chem waste meeting: they had a thing here where professors could get rid of all their super old chemicals for free. some of these guys are real old timers. turns out there was a jar of the original lsd from switzerland. disposed of, sigh
ReplyDeleteIt was when I was in high school, can't remember if Black Flag was one of the bands that played the same year as Camper Van Beethoven. Wavy would dress up as a clown, which in my family meant a lot of John Wayne Gacy jokes. I was actually reminiscing with the old days with my sisters the WEF being boring these days is likethe Coffeehouse used to put on these amazing shows and doesn't do it anymore.
ReplyDeleteCan't wait to find out where that torta chilaga's from! Was it from Tortas Chilangas La Differencia in West Sac??? Is that place really a place? I see the sign in the parking lot, but then I look at the place, and it doesn't appear to be open to the public.
ReplyDeleteshh....no. you'll fine out in a couple short weeks. let me just say the gorditas are the real reason to visit. tha bomb!!!!
ReplyDeleteCould be on North Watt, I think. The only place with "Chilango" actually in the name.
ReplyDeletezip it, rick. jk I know it's not like my reviews are hotly anticipated
ReplyDeleteOscar's super tortas chilangas! I love your reviews.
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