Shots from the Lip

 If I were not such a pathetic technophobe, I'd have transferred the picture I took with my iPhone of a Whole Food stack of Deadfish Ale with the Grateful Dead logo prominently featured.......at a sale price for a 4-pack which we purchased - how could I refuse??  First 12 oz can:  wasn't good/wasn't bad - tasted 'flatter' than US beer (lager).  Second can ; first poured 6 oz of tomato juice, then the ale......and BRAVO!!!  This tastes better than tomato beer (which I discovered at Hardy's Ham House in Glendale, Arizona in 1964 and re-discovered at Bremen in Tokyo in 2025!!!!!!!   see two pictures above - these I was able to transfer........ and on the 4th of July I ate a chili-cheese dog, fries and a vanilla shake......how patriotic!!  From Big Tomy's........and after, I walked a block to the WLA ERBA dispensary where not only was there 30% off today but they were giving out bowls of cut, fresh fruit.....which I brought to Katherine, a block north...

 It was overcast outside.  Still, I went out for an hour this morning, dodging traffic roadblocks set up on the routes and immediate alternatives I would take because of this morning's holiday parade, 90 minutes hence.  But it was a good ride and I 'qvell' at being able to do what I am doing at my age. Later on we will go to Sawtelle and Nijiya Market.  Before that, though, I have to decide which restaurant to go to:  Nina's for Mexican food or Big Tomy's for a hamburger (or hot dog), fries and a shake - I'm leaning towards this as it is Americana on America's birthday........ Not much to write about now - will try the toilet plunger on the clogged second toilet now......happy holiday!

It is Thursday morning at 11:13am. We slept in late this morning with my getting up and going for a Thursday morning beach bike ride - and it was nice!   Yesterday's History of Comedy class (11 of us in class, 50+ on Zoom) covered vaudeville and burlesque in the development of American laughter. After, I dropped off a pound bar of Belgian dark chocolate at Chase Bank, ordered a cake at Whole Food for the birthday party we were going to, had my weekly bowl of soup and rice from the Chinese-Thai take-away (with tables), got some ink drawing pens from Blick and then went next door to the Laemmle Royal art house four-screen movie theatre (with a museum-quality wall of Laemmle memorabilia!!!!) for a French comedy starring John Malkovich (as Mr. Blake) - who spoke his role entirely in French! Would I have normally gone out of my way to see this movie? Probably not but hey, with a $7 senior citizen's first showing of the day price combined with ease of getting to the movie by bus...

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