Patience please, plus a crappy restaurant review
There is mildly raging debate chez Rytz over whether or not I should ask for permission before attending the show shown in The Stranger listing shown below:
But, as I point out, regardless of whether I'm told I may attend, I intend to be there so what, really, is the point of asking? Thus, oh iheartleaven, you have less than 24 hours to persuade me not to show. Since I'm pretty sure you're eschewing LJ these days, I figure this public posting of the banns is safe.
In other news, Brian and I checked out a new-to-us restaurant this evening, having determined a few days ago that we need to replace Pasta Bella in our mythology. Thus, this evening found us at El Chupacabra on Phinney. It is, as it happens, more of a bar than a restaurant but it was fine, in its way, and relatively cheap. Would I rave about the margaritas or the food? Not so much, no, but I was charmed by the waitress/bartender's craning of her neck before answering Brian's question about whether they had coffee. She paused; she turned; she craned; she squinted; she said "No, but there's tea." I like that utter unfamiliarity with what she may or may not have behind the bar. Oh, I'd be less charmed if she had been equally vague about the availability of tequila but she seemed on top of that aspect of things. It is likely a better place to go for drinks than for dinner but it's nice to know that there's a decent bar, with more than a nominal nod towards a kitchen, on the 5-line.
Speaking of 5-lines, or 6-lanes of traffic, there's an article in this week's Stranger about the viaduct-replacement. It seems the tunnel will be a stutter-step sort of affair, with six-lanes of traffic appearing briefly just south of the existing Battery Street tunnel and then six-lanes reappearing at King St. Dedicated public-transit sort though I am, I can't see the "just don't replace it at all and commuters will change their ways" argument prevailing-does Erica C. Barnett have any idea how many city buses run along the viaduct currently? or what shifting some percentage of the current viaduct traffic onto surface streets would do to the viability of bicycling downtown/south of downtown?-but I do like to pretend that just replacing the existing viaduct with a similar structure will seem a reasonable alternative. I like to think lots of things.
But, as I point out, regardless of whether I'm told I may attend, I intend to be there so what, really, is the point of asking? Thus, oh iheartleaven, you have less than 24 hours to persuade me not to show. Since I'm pretty sure you're eschewing LJ these days, I figure this public posting of the banns is safe.
In other news, Brian and I checked out a new-to-us restaurant this evening, having determined a few days ago that we need to replace Pasta Bella in our mythology. Thus, this evening found us at El Chupacabra on Phinney. It is, as it happens, more of a bar than a restaurant but it was fine, in its way, and relatively cheap. Would I rave about the margaritas or the food? Not so much, no, but I was charmed by the waitress/bartender's craning of her neck before answering Brian's question about whether they had coffee. She paused; she turned; she craned; she squinted; she said "No, but there's tea." I like that utter unfamiliarity with what she may or may not have behind the bar. Oh, I'd be less charmed if she had been equally vague about the availability of tequila but she seemed on top of that aspect of things. It is likely a better place to go for drinks than for dinner but it's nice to know that there's a decent bar, with more than a nominal nod towards a kitchen, on the 5-line.
Speaking of 5-lines, or 6-lanes of traffic, there's an article in this week's Stranger about the viaduct-replacement. It seems the tunnel will be a stutter-step sort of affair, with six-lanes of traffic appearing briefly just south of the existing Battery Street tunnel and then six-lanes reappearing at King St. Dedicated public-transit sort though I am, I can't see the "just don't replace it at all and commuters will change their ways" argument prevailing-does Erica C. Barnett have any idea how many city buses run along the viaduct currently? or what shifting some percentage of the current viaduct traffic onto surface streets would do to the viability of bicycling downtown/south of downtown?-but I do like to pretend that just replacing the existing viaduct with a similar structure will seem a reasonable alternative. I like to think lots of things.