Man Has Much To Learn From The Moose
Farmer's Market - Opening Day
Originally uploaded by Ghostly Penguin Display. It being the month of April 2012, I had the sudden realization that we have lived in Redwood City for 4 years, the same amount of time that we lived in Mountain View. I feel like I should commemorate this in some way, even though I still consider it "the new place". Here's a small photo gallery that doesn't really explain anything.
Things that have changed or not changed in our neighborhood since 2008:
*My favorite coffee shop, The Daily Boost, is now out of business.
*Our favorite Thai restaurant, Ladda's, is gone.
*Both video rental stores have gone away, which is not surprising considering the obsoleteness of physical objects. (Except for vinyl records, which are still a hipster novelty. The Record Man on El Camino remains open.)
*The downtown area still has many empty storefronts, but we've recently seen the opening of an Old Spaghetti Factory, a fancy Vietnamese cafe, a cook-at-your-table Japanese restaurant, an upscale burger joint, an Ike's Sandwiches, a Pier One Imports, an In-And-Out Burger, and a store that sells combo cowboy/skateboard clothing and accessories.
*There are now not one, but three farmer's markets.
*We have city-wide composting.
*After living in self-imposed poverty for a couple of years, our monthly mortgage payments have now decreased to the point that we are paying less per month for our entire house than we would be if we rented a 1 bedroom apartment in RC, according to the latest Craigslist figures.
*You still can't get a gig here unless you play in a tribute band.
Speaking of gigs, I'll be playing at this tomorrow.
I haven't kept up with the King Arthur movies, but thanks to jimmi_vacant's connections, we scored free tickets to Spamalot at the Orpheum in San Francisco which we went to on Wednesday. It was OK, but slightly disappointing. Most of the jokes from "The Holy Grail" are so well known that the audience could pretty much recite along with the cast, and the new comedy bits were kind of lame. Really, is it still funny that Jews and gay people love Broadway? No. Maybe if it had the delivery of the real Monty Python guys, but maybe not even then. I think I laughed harder at the fake "playbill" than I did at the actual show.