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January 2003

Placerville and Tahoe

I didn’t sleep well (even after staking out my own miniature bed), but we got out at a reasonable hour and had breakfast at the corner diner, marvelling at the light fixtures, the space-age sign, and the cheap food. Afterward, we speny way too much money on books and old road maps and other stuff downtown before driving up Highway 50 for a quick look at the snow. We ended up going all the way to Lake Tahoe, with Mark clutching the wheel to avoid black ice all the way back…

Saturday night’s dinner was pizza at this semi-redneck sports bar and pizza parlor, which was at least slightly more appealing than it sounds. After dinner, we explored Placerville some more, watched a little TV, and slipped into our respective miniature beds…

 

Historic spot, historic town…

 

He drove. I took pictures…

 

Fredo is buried somewhere in that lake…

 

Mmmm. Neon…

 

Daunting mountains…

 

The Placerville Penis. I think it was supposed to be more yule than tool, but I’m not sure…

To the Sierra

A road trip was necessary. We both wanted to see snow and pretend we didn’t live in San Francisco. We succeeded. Friday night took us to Placerville, where we decided to rest up and explore before seeing the snow farther uphill on Saturday…

 

Dogs and special service along the way…

 

As it turned out, we didn’t stay in either of these motels…

Nor this one…

 

But we did eat at both these restaurants…

Our motel had the narrowest double beds in the free world, I think, but made it for it by also having full cable and free pastries in the morning…

On Tuna

Does anyone really like canned tuna packed in oil? I’ve never met anyone who admitted to it, and I notice that — when both versions are on sale at Safeway — the tuna packed in water is invariably sold out while there are cases and cases of the slimy, nasty oil-packed variety…

All the same, someone must like the stuff, I guess, or they wouldn’t sell it anymore…

Please note that the above question is purely rhetorical and does not require any sort of email response, be it to defend oil-packed tuna or to tell me how my craving for canned tuna is killing dolphins left and right. Thanks…

New Year. New Show.

If anyone needed proof that the folks at The WB have gone off the deep end, this should suffice. What horrors will we see? Hammer going off to work, gold-plated lunchbox in hand, to do commercials for the credit counseling firm he’s promoting these days? Corey Feldman introducing Emmanuel Lewis to the joys of heroin? Sheesh…

I’ll stick with my “Flintstones” marathons on Boomerang, thanks…