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     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 646 Registered: 05-2005 |
I can't believe how accurately this reflects my experience of cities, right down to the choice of sandwich! http://www.theonion.com/content/node/53599 | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 633 Registered: 03-2005 |
Hey! They're making fun of us! I wasn't in another city but following one of my most recent pilgrimages to Amoeba, I stopped at a place to buy a smoothie and while they were mixing it up I sat down at a table and happily tore open the packaging on an anthology to read the annotations. Gotta love the Feelies plug. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 647 Registered: 05-2005 |
Yeah, I do love the Feelies plug. But the MO of the person in the story is so accurate to me it's spooky! I was also not in a different city on Monday, just a different part of Sydney, and my five-year-old was so patient while I was trawling through record shops that I rewarded her (and myself) with a big gelato afterwards. I went through the CDs in the gelateria too to make sure I'd been given the right discs. Later on I was hoping to go into two other record stores but both were closed as it was a holiday in most of Australia. My daughter literally whooped for joy and danced a jig of happiness upon finding them both closed! She loves music; record shops not so much! | ||
| Cichli Suite Member Username: Cichli_suite Post Number: 179 Registered: 08-2004 |
I have to admit that when I am travelling, I do check on the Internet to find the closest second hand CD shop to where I am staying. However, there are less and less shops secondhand places these days, it seems. I recall the fantastic places I found in the US in the eighties and nineties with absolute nostalgia. Randy, everytime you mention Amoeba, I'm envious. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 919 Registered: 05-2005 |
Country bumpkin alert!! Whats a smoothie? Whats a gelato? | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 634 Registered: 03-2005 |
A "smoothie" is a cold drink made out of fruits and other things run through a blender. The particular place I stopped at happens to be a raw vegan joint so the ingredients were exclusively raw fruit or vegetable but more normally a certain amount of egg and sometimes even cream will be used as a binder. And, no, I'm not a vegan. A "gelato" is an italian ice cream. Or, at least that's what it is in the U.S.. Padraig? | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 648 Registered: 05-2005 |
What Randy said. |