north park produce = ethnic market

North Park Produce is in el Cajon Blvd, very close to the North Park (o well the name duh) and Normal Heights area, very close to the 805 freeway and of my house (the important part, 15 minute walk and I am there, canvas bag and sweaty bills on right hand, like a lost child just found mom inside candy store… ahhh)

This charming store is a bit “unsophisticated” but as I have found that, almost all good produce stores are. And! And and and!, you can find everything from everywhere that you might want, from middle-eastern, Indian, Mexican, and south American items. You can both buy tortillas or pita bread. They have a convenient meat market and deli section too with fresh falafel and tabouleh to go! Their selection of cheeses: amazing, the only place I can find decent queso panela in San Diego

A good advice, unless you are buying a lot of stuff, do NOT use their shopping carts since they are quite outsized for the aisles' sizes.

North Park Produce, 3551 El Cajon Blvd., in North Park, San Diego

nerd test

how do you know if you are a nerd?
when all your closest friends (well just 3 of them) are on their way to the hypest musical festival of the year
and you are going, alone, on a friday night
to the closest borders...

at least is to exchange a birthday gift card
thank god my friends do know i am a geek
and send good presents
books, a record, even a concert ticket

i might be a nerd
but the good kind

the notorious MSG

with names like
DOWN-LO MEIN (the yello gigolo)
HONG KONG FEVER (the ringleader)
THE HUNAN BOMB (killing machine)


the notorious MSG makes its appearance in this world
these bad kids from China Town New York are here to
rap your steamed buns!
with songs like Dim Sum Girl and Egg Rollin'
they are so funny and they don't care for stereotypes
at all!
of course they are in myspace too

portuguese folk "romerita"

here a little video from the normal heights roots and folk street festival this past weekend
these two handsome men rocked on with their portuguese tunes (this is the only complete song i have, but i have more clips, the festival was a lot of fun, my first one in normal heights)



(unfortunately the video quality from youtube.com is not as great as a movie attached, but hey! they are making a great deal letting one upload such memory suckers as movies are)
what are you waiting for? make your little movies and send them to me, i'll watch...

gates and hu

on the meeting of bill gates (please check his auto-page at microsoft, hmmm?) with chinese president hu jintao here some old news. and it seems that bill does need the mircrosoft's office clip help (here how to get rid of him, just in case) taken from the daily show of jon stewart, comedy central ha-ha still stupid tv attemptthis was funny though

diseño, señor

design, this tea kettle/tea pot from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

read on the magnificent three tea pots

Hay máquinas
you know?
Ya hay máquinas
Para todo hay máquinas

Unas para hacer esto
Otras para hacer aquello

Asi que para que te esfuerzas?
hombre
no te rompas la cabeza?
Si puedes quedarte ahí tan fresquesito fresco
Ya hay máquinas, hombre, te dijo, que hacen esto…

morrissey

monday
i don't know what i would be doing without the newest morrissey album
Ringleader of the Tormentors
right on!
have been listening for a week or longer
then dropped on the weekend
and today

monday me BIG
no make up
just waking up
as promised chio here we go!
need my 100 bucks now

funny mind sets
funny freedom strange

no sex no sex wasn't that
would have been easier though
why not? the sex
'cause you are not here, today
lonely prevalence
pleasure just to cure concerns
but

hello! good bye! and farewell
you are there
i am here still today

lunacy, listen to morrissey then
or the smiths for its glorious defect/effect

monday! gracias morrissey

the ghost writer

"... for she felt quite weightless, and might as easily have been floating up as down."

-the ghost writer, john harwood
a lovely very rich book so far

as i finished in julian
in perfect time, another of those strange/astonishing coincidences place-meets-time
murakami's a wild sheep chase
another life-changing story thrown at your feet by mother chance

highly recommended! both

desinflado

Sinuhe copies and pastes

many many years ago i read Sinuhe The Egyptian, a novel by Mika Waltari
today here at work and not sure why

all of a sudden Sinuhe and his descriptive walks on the arid desert
also the battlefields, came to my mind
i think i read it at least 15 years ago... never thought of it until today, right now

but while here at work i am dealing with HTML, stupid Cold Fusion and Fusebox that I don't understand
I ended doing a little process that requires a lot of simple old fashioned
COPY and PASTE

now i feel that for Sinuhe his job of walking those dusty battlefields
was as pasty and boring as my COPY/PASTE
but just his walks, not the rest of his life, no, just the dusty walks
but at least both me and Sinuhe have a job
and a job is sometimes, a lot of boring work

do i need help though? maybe just a chat with old Sinuhe would be fine
too bad i don't have Mycroft's Prose Portal to at least make an attempt...


not related but check this out pictured below, avant-garde experimental 20's precious stuff