Zoot Suit Riot June 7, 2008
It’s been a few days since I updated this blog. Since starting my jobs I’ve been exhausted most of the time (I got pretty lazy over the last few weeks). My job at the Natural History Museum has been fantastic. I have been handling some really awesome material, including notes and illustrations from the Challenger expedition, and books from the Charles Darwin collection. If you want to see exactly what it is that I’ve been doing there the last few days, you can go to my work blog A Librarian in London.
Last night I went out with my friend Tova to a bar in Soho called The Black Gardenia. It was an awesome little place that was made to feel like a Speakeasy. It was down in a basement, and most of the patrons were dressed in twenties flavored outfits. They had a band with a standing bass and saxophone, as well as a dancer in some kind of weird bikini thing. It was super cool, and I felt very much at home amongst the Austin-looking rockabilly folks.
Today I went out to dinner with Kathleen and to see a play in Leicester Square called Haunted. It was pretty good, and made me jump a few times. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a scary play before, so it was unusual to be frightened by something that was right in front of me. Well, something besides the scary man on the bus with a saw and hammer in his bag (that actually happened to me tonight).
After the play we went to go eat Mexican food. Hoorah! We ate at a place that had supposedly received good reviews (that I can’t remember the name of now), and it was certainly a valiant effort. The chips were still tostada like in form, not greasy and as thin as they should have been. And nothing was spicy. But all in all it definitely hit the spot.
no doritos?