Every fucking bar on Alberta Street, every night this week, full of fucking Australians. Salt & Straw's been a tourist draw...
Every fucking bar on Alberta Street, every night this week, full of fucking Australians.
Salt & Straw’s been a tourist draw for a while, but mostly Americans (haven’t overheard the line recently), now even Pine State Biscuits on a Wednesday afternoon it’s 2-3 person groups speaking in Korean, in German, in eastern european stuff I don’t even recognize.
But Australians, who knows, maybe we made the cover of Rugbyfucker Monthly.
But what’s the alternative, “the new Alberta” of Divison? Been going to Scoreboard recently (decent pinball lineup, the only Fireball I remember in town that’s for sure) and it’s a little rough out there still, people walking in circles talking to themselves on the street. But feh, is that more than one or two years worse than Alberta was when I showed up three years ago and The Nest was still open?
Went to a birthday barbecue today at 94th and south of Powell. Damn nice house on a big lot. On the other hand there’s that voice going “we can’t live here, this is juggalo country”.
LA style gang grafitti too (3-4 character tags, and I even recognize some of the ones they’re franchising off of), but a little halfassed I can tell. The dude making an effort of looking all hard in front of the local girls on his bike in his wifebeater also made an effort of looking back and pulling off to the side to let me overtake him.