I continue to tumble down the rabbit hole of the blogosphere.
I seem to have arrived back in Wonderland unscathed and late for a very important date (seeing as the following events occurred back in July). I guess I've been celebrating too many very merry un-birthdays.
And now, for something completely different.
Have you ever been around a seemingly friendly dog that wags his tail when you pay him notice but, as soon as you reach down to pet him your arm becomes a threat to the dog and he thus proceeds to devour your hand along with your good intentions? ("Dahs youh dahg baht?")
The employees of the store-not-to-be-named (pictured above) are the dog in this scenario.
Some of the decor in this store was awesome. They had huge mod vogue-esque paintings, gigantic 1960's James Bond posters, and even some art installations. I was excited to give them some publicity here on my blog (even if I only have 2 consistent readers) so I asked the suave looking gent at the front entrance if I could take some shots of the shop, he replied: "Sure, no prob."
I guess I got a little trigger happy because, while taking some stumpy shots of my reflection in the store's large mirror a woman of comparable size came over and informed me that I absolutely could not take photos in their store and needed to leave right away. (I felt kinda like this.)
This was ironically, the last photo I took in the store. I contend that they don't do as the photo says.
After "the confrontation" I dropped by Thai Dishes for a lunchy snack.
The coconut soup was a little too sweet for my taste.
Crispity wontons,
Spicy Beef,
And creamy curry.
Thanks to my OM-10 I got a decent number of black and white film shots of the day.
After a few hours of window shopping and returning some items to the Santa Monica goodwill (mentioned in my last post) I sought some din din, and resolved to dine at Wolfgang Puck Express.
I had the Chinois Chicken Salad with crispy wontons, cashews, ginger and sesame.
It was delicious.
The bro had the Meatloaf sandwich with melted provolone, bacon, tomato chutney, horseradish cream and crispy onions.
It was unbelievable.
To top it off we split the Fennel Sausage Pizza with mozzarella, pesto and sweet peppers.
And I managed to be groped by a plastic train conductor.
I got over it.
If you've never been to the Sweet Rose Creamery in Santa Monica you seriously need to scoot your butte on over there because, they're amazing.
They Have fresh ice cream made daily and it reminds me of this awesome ice cream shop that I used to frequent in Seattle.
I got the salted caramel flavor, a perfect blend of smooth, sweet, and savory.
To end the day right I drove up to Malibu and took a stroll by the water.
I finished the day by cranking out the rest of my roll of film and setting it aside to process later, which reminds me I still have yet to do that.
Until we meet again... assuming the Queen of Hearts doesn't behead me before then.
