california stuff

[solipsistnation]

Today we visited an affluent open-air mall sort of thing. I mostly wanted to visit a bookstore because I have read everything in the apartment but stophittinyrslf's books about crossword puzzles and people who do them, and I've even started in on one of them out of desperation.

So, off to a bookstore, including wandering around Santana Row (Dude, Santana! \m/ \m/). Today's checklist of California Things:

- a wine bar
- ...located next to another wine bar
- ...with another wine bar across the street.
- a parking garage full of BMWs, Mercedes, and Porsches jockeying for spots.
- ...driven by groups of carefully touseled faux indie kids in calculatedly aged t-shirts
- a stylish blonde woman with tiny accessory dog talking to another stylish blonde woman with a tiny accessory dog. (Different breeds! Collect them all!)
- a beverage store (BevMo! Beverages and More! They aren't kidding, either. Lots of random stuff in there)
- ...that shares a building with a Porsche dealership.

I still crave that falafel, too. THAT, at least, is cheap, but you have to cross a wide region of massive affluence before you reach the place where real people live and buy food and stuff. Plus, it's really good. Fresh hot falafel crammed into a pita, with lettuce and tomato bits and this great thick hot sauce that's just a little sweet. Yum, falafel. Yeah. Totally not obsessed.

Comments

[mangosteen]

I will note that one of the things one can acquire at BevMo is Henry Weinhard's Root Beer, which is the best root beer on the planet. It's typically not sold off of the west coast.

[solipsistnation.livejournal.com]

They did indeed have an extensive soda section. I acquired 2 bottles of Moxie (made with cane sugar, in glass bottles, and not bottled by the Polar Corporation in Worcester). That helped my homesickness a little, since mostly it's available in 2 places-- Worcester and Maine.

I'll keep an eye out for the root beer, too.

[em-yrt.livejournal.com]

Welcome to California.

Didn't they give you your accessory dog when you crossed the border?

I now want falafel and therefore hate you.

[sauergeek.livejournal.com]

And here I thought you got handed the mandatory accesory avocado at the border.

[quaintance.livejournal.com]

What, you mean California's *not* like the rest of the US???

Clearly I've been missing out on this falafel. Thanks for introducing me to new things in my own zone of roam.

[solipsistnation.livejournal.com]

If we get together, we can totally get falafel.

[ninoshka.livejournal.com]

I told you it was the best falafel

[solipsistnation.livejournal.com]

Yes, indeed. And today I shall have it for lunch. Again.