Lola at the Coffee House, Cafe 101

@dyslexia,

To put the prices up.

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@spendius,

spendius wrote:

What do you expect in a Coffee House with a clientele like this?

Says spendius who goes every day of his life in this frumpy utter provincial pub
of his.

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@dyslexia,

"I encounter alien californians and other snowbirds who come here bringing with them their cultures, their biases and their attitudes without appreciation of the wonder of this land , they stay close to the malls and their manicured lawns."

Lovely imagery. Tell me all about us, oh you who has been to Studio City, California (!) for two days, plus a ride on a freeway, oh you with no biases or attitudes about a city of many million and a state of many more people and places. Go ahead, tell me all about my lawn.

Snaps at the Dys' mocassined heels.

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@ossobuco,

ossobuco wrote:

"I encounter alien californians and other snowbirds who come here bringing with them their cultures, their biases and their attitudes without appreciation of the wonder of this land , they stay close to the malls and their manicured lawns."

Lovely imagery. Tell me all about us, oh you who has been to Studio City, California (!) for two days, plus a ride on a freeway, oh you with no biases or attitudes about a city of many million and a state of many more people and places. Go ahead, tell me all about my lawn.

Snaps at the Dys' mocassine
Quote:
I am as much a bigot as Okie is an Okie, I am a New Mexican.

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@dyslexia,

That's moccasined, apparently.

And you're all happy about that?

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El Malpais;

Rio Puerco;

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@dyslexia,

Beautiful picture, dys, but I have even better ones from California Twisted Evil

The point is though that one is content wherever they live and make the best
of it. It would be a shame if you were trapped in ABQ and don't like it there
but due to circumstances and for whatever reason could not leave.

So, identifying with the area you live in, learning to like it, is a big part of
being content within your surrounding, even if it happens to be ABQ Wink

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@CalamityJane,

CalamityJane wrote:

Walter, now that I have met Thomas, I must tell you that he's no Bavarian!
His hometown is Konstanz am Bodensee, so clearly I am the only Bavarian
expat among Prussians here.

George, when it comes to the French, us Germans have much to atone for

Are we talking about the same person - having also met Thomas I'm convinced he's from the Rhineland.

He'd know there's NO sense in apologies - Napoleon's armies occupied the Rhineland for half a century, then in 1870 the French invaded it again, and twice they occupied it in the 20th century. And I can't even recall what Louis XIV was doing in that vicinity, never mind Charlemagne - Francis would know, and he's not apologizing, so we might as well drop the guilt subject.

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@High Seas,

Basically High Seas, we're joking here - George, Francis and I have met,
so we had some insider jokes and interaction probably only us understand.

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@CalamityJane,

Joking - LOL, of course, what other possibility WAS there?! You I don't know but I do know most of the other members of this cast Smile

PS I really should explain that I am opposed to apologies for anything done by persons long dead, finding such apologies absurd.

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@High Seas,

Cool it Tea. Calamity was just trying to give me a soft landing: she knows what a sensitive guy I am.

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@georgeob1,

You're a sensitive little flower, George? Sorry for never having noticed it!

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@High Seas,

Well... perhaps not so sensitive .... just a big ego.

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@georgeob1,

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@CalamityJane,

Quote:

Says spendius who goes every day of his life in this frumpy utter provincial pub of his.

I like the provincial life.

In one of the mildest descriptions of life in California I have seen recently Christopher Isherwood wrote-

Quote:

To live sanely in Los Angeles (or, I suppose, in any other large American city) you have to cultivate the art of staying awake. You must learn to resist (firmly but not tensely) the unceasing hypnotic suggestions of the radio, the billboards, the movies and the newspapers; those demon voices which are forever whispering in you ear what you should desire, what you should fear. . . . the least wandering of the attention, the least relaxation of your awareness, and already the eyelids begin to droop, the eyes grow vacant, the body starts to move in obedience to the hypnotist's command. Wake up, wake up.

Horizon 1947

A friend of mine in telecom spent 2 months there working. When he got back I asked his verdict. "They are all mad", he said, "they have looped the ******* loop."

And a character in an unpublished work set in LA ".....launches out into a lyrical paean in praise of advertising. Throwing open the window he points to the city spread out below. Millions of human beings---all blindly craving, all gullible, all ignorant, all stupid. What golden opportunities, what a rich field for an intelligent man to work in!"

Give me the frump and the fusby widows.

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The two quotes are from a book written by a professor at the University of New Mexico. An American.

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@CalamityJane,

Quote:

so we had some insider jokes and interaction probably only us understand.

I understood. Nothing to it.

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@Walter Hinteler,

Walter Hinteler wrote:

Now, don't talk with a German about locus

Walter - do you also know the hocus pocus to make trolls disappear?

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@High Seas,

That's desperation HS. A Coffee House is open to all. Like a pub. Neither are a tight little circle of mutual ego strokers. That's why private clubs charge fees.

You denigrate yourself with such tripe.

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@spendius,

spendius wrote:

The two quotes are from a book written by a professor at the University of New Mexico. An American.

well, I suppose Christopher Isherwood could be considered an american but as he was born in England in 1904 and migrated to america in 1939 becoming a US citizen in 1946 we commonly think of him as an Anglo-American. I am not aware of his tenure as professor at University of New Mexico as he lived his american life in california. He died 1986.

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