Russ the Muss
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 |  Subject: Re: CAN'T HELP BUT FEEL PROUD  Tue Nov 03, 2009 2:16 pm | |
| | Blakops wrote: | California, you would sell me on the weather. Sunny with a chance of.....Sun.
Stopped in L.A. once, had 7 hours to kill before a flight. Went to Venice Beach, got robbed by a taxi driver & walked on the pier, watched one of the most lurid sunsets, I have ever seen. Got dark, everything closed, everybody disappeared except loads of young hispanic men in LA Raiders jackets. I found a bus & it cost me a dollar to get to the airport, the taxi had charged me $60 & he wanted a tip. I told him "dont take a taxi in LA." He didnt think that was funny.
Rus, can you not order some, online? No speciality t-shops in Washington. I would have thought it is awash with foreign dignitries.
Ahhhh. Having a cuppa now. |
nice story. it reminds me of when i ate sushi at an overpriced place, and one of the maki
rolls tasted like it had colgate toothpaste in it. they were so nasty that they were the only
thing i didn't eat--and i've eaten sea urchin for fuks sake. when the astronomical bill came,
you guessed it, i offered up the pricey toothpaste rolls as a tip--needless to say they too did
not see the humor in it.
as for tea, every so often i get to an out of the way indian grocer--only for the indian community with many
decent goods, including ribena. i get this collosal bag of assam loose leaf tea that is spot on. i'm happy for about
a month, and then the sadness sets in as i get the next best thing that is available to me 
i dream about the fookin assam tea--in all of it's leafy loosey goodness. my american born--irish nonetheless,
wife just thinks i'm mental. doesn't understand the whole tea ritual, my seeing godstone as mecca--basically,
and could do without chips at all. there are just those times when a cultural broker is essential. my last year
of school in england--when i didn't care much for some of the fare in the dining hall [i was about 17] could be
described as chips-n-milk, in short...and occasionally some nicked toasting slices and some gov't cheese, all of
which would sit on my window ledge [of my dorm]. i miss all of it. i especially miss the full english breakfasts.
the other meals just sort of fizzled and never represented the magic of breakfast.
i remember coming here calling my meals: breakfast; dinner; tea; tea...people were like, "huh?"
country boy, me.
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| | Subject: Re: CAN'T HELP BUT FEEL PROUD Tue Nov 03, 2009 3:02 pm | |
| I'm drinking a pot of Assam Extra Fancy loose leaf tea as I write this! ...and just FYI, LA is really not like northern CA - it's much nicer here on the San Francisco Bay 
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