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omg you guys i want a margarita from the hat soooooo bad right now.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 22:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I am curiously not craving anything right now. Which is strange for me.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 22:26 (twenty-one years ago)

sushi. in a serious way. help me.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 22:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I recommend Spider Roll

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 22:29 (twenty-one years ago)

i recommend generous servings of raw fish. for my stomach.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 22:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I recommend and endorse this one sushi place on Grand in OAKLAND.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 22:34 (twenty-one years ago)

there is one of the best in the east bay on COLLEGE AVE in the ROCKRIDGE NEIGHBORHOOD of OAKLAND

UZEN

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 22:37 (twenty-one years ago)

gin & tonic, lime-rimmed iced glass.

― cºzen (Cozen), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 22:38 (twenty-one years ago)

the silly thing is that the hat is like 10 minutes from my house. i should get one later before i meet my friend instead of whining on the internet.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 22:43 (twenty-one years ago)

im going to have a margarita party at my house.. right now

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 22:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I am going to ROCKRIDGE on THURSDAY to see TEH METALLICA MOVIE

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 22:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Do the cravings have to be for food?

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 23:08 (twenty-one years ago)

:-O

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 23:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Was very THIRSTY twice today. Drank WATER.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 23:16 (twenty-one years ago)

HOLY SHIT MY MARGARITAS RULE

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 23:48 (twenty-one years ago)

HI CUTTY

― dean? (deangulberry), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 23:58 (twenty-one years ago)

DEAN YO MAN I MISS U

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 00:27 (twenty-one years ago)

SEX!!!!

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 00:33 (twenty-one years ago)

well, maybe.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 00:33 (twenty-one years ago)

you should share the margaritas, cutty.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 00:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I bought a sixer of Anchor Steam but could only finish one.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 00:42 (twenty-one years ago)

How much did it set you back? It has to be the most overpriced local swill in town. But DO take their free tour when you're in SF (weekdays, by appointment only).

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 00:53 (twenty-one years ago)

The night is still young stence! Give it the old college try. I haven't even cracked my first yet.

I'm kinda partial to Sierra Nevada as far as Cali stuff goes. Is that SF? I can't remember.

― Monetizing Eyeballs (diamond), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 00:58 (twenty-one years ago)

HSTENCIL, you get endless love for drinking Anchor Steam. Another reason why I miss NORCAL.

― dean? (deangulberry), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 01:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I bought it at the grocery store so it was probably $8 like all sixpacks in NYC.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 01:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Sierra Nevada is from Chico, California, an idyllic riverside college town about 3 hours north of SF.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 01:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Fatouma the cash register lady was soooo mad that one of the younger cash register ladies didn't show up and they got busy, let me tell you.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 01:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Chico ain't that idyllic.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 01:02 (twenty-one years ago)

haha, you're catching on to my romanticizing of central california cowtowns.

vacaville (20 miles west of Sacramento) = "cowtown" en español.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 01:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Anchor >>> Sierra

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 01:08 (twenty-one years ago)

"idyllic riverside college town" != chico's reputation

― dean? (deangulberry), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 01:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Chico is central? Seems pretty north to me.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 01:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Sierra >>> Anchor IMO.

jingleberries, did you miss my screed on how coalinga charted #1 on that silly "TOP FIVE CITIES" thread a few weeks ago?

i'm referring to the mighty san joaquin valley that borders the western ridge of the sierra nevadas as "central"... chico, maybe even points north, all the way down to bakersfield (bakersfield is technically southern cal but noone would blink if you called it central either).

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 01:12 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah but how is SF "Northern California" when Chico's farther North, if it's "Central California?" You Californians confuse and scare me.

Also, I had a lousy Mexican dinner in Chico.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 01:13 (twenty-one years ago)

i guess it's all relative to where your looking (and SF is kinda near the center of the state if you look at the map).

I had a friend in SD who half-seriously called LA/OC "northern california".

if you are truly interested in what i'm talking about (altho i highly doubt it), click here for a detail of the san joaquin valley, the big brown blob in the middle. this valley defines central california, as you see it stretches south nearly latitudally with LA and far north beyond chico. maybe the "center" that people are referring to when they're talking about "central california" is less "inbetween northern and southern california" but more of a "this area comprises the center of the state". but what do i know?

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 01:20 (twenty-one years ago)

dude we took I-5 from SF to LA.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 01:21 (twenty-one years ago)

then perhaps you are aware of the glory that is CoalingA?

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 01:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I was asleep and missed it! I'm pretty sure we ate in Bakersfield, though.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 01:23 (twenty-one years ago)

also I thought Chico was on 101, near the ocean?

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 01:24 (twenty-one years ago)

okay, I am confused, where the hell did I eat that lousy Mexican dinner?

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 01:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I imagine that you are confusing Chico with the idyllic seaside collegetown of Arcata*.

*Probably familiar to many of you who enjoyed the mid-era Raymond Carver.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 01:28 (twenty-one years ago)

fuck, I was thinking of CRESCENT CITY. I have never been to Chico.

Arcata's where we stayed. I got high.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 01:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Did B|11 take you to his former residence of Guernville, CA?

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 01:30 (twenty-one years ago)

no, I think we sort of drove by though.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 01:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Dangleberries, I think I stopped reading that "TOP FIVE CITIES" thread once people started naming unimportant rural cities.

I think part of the confusion comes from people thinking that SF->Sacramento is the focal point of Northern California, as opposed to merely where it "starts." I personally think that central California is from Santa Barbara to San Jose, and even THAT may be a bit too low. It might come from the perception that there is nothing important above SF->Sac, which is common, I think, in LA and the southland.

― dean? (deangulberry), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 01:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Fresno is sort of all vaca-ed out, isn't it?

― Monetizing Eyeballs (diamond), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 01:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Fresno has one of the highest crime rates in the country! It's a huge city for how unknown it is (aside from that 80s Carrol Burnett soap-parody and uh... sunmaid raisins).

dean? do you buy that "tootsie-roll" center definition that i threw out up there as opposed to strict latitude?

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 01:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw a lot of Northern California above SF on I-5, 299 and 101.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 01:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Why is Bakersfield "technically" Southern Cal?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 01:45 (twenty-one years ago)

hmm. I just remember when Fresno St. was playing UCLA or USC in some game, they were taunted for being cow patchers or something like that.

― Monetizing Eyeballs (diamond), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 01:46 (twenty-one years ago)

i guess it's all relative. You wacky Californians.

― Monetizing Eyeballs (diamond), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 01:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Fresno State's mascot (like neighboring UC Davis to the north) is The Aggies, who fundamentally are thought of far less civilized as the UCLA/USC collective.

gabbneb, Bakersfield is about an hour outside of LA which is pretty much as SoCal as it gets! it's the attitude in the paragraph above that would cause a rift in the geography i'd imagine.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 02:01 (twenty-one years ago)

(btw, you can get to bakersfield in less than an hour if you have:

#1 a car that can traverse the grapevine with deft and skill
#2 no fear of CHiPs)

(plus in bakersfield, people affect a full-on "country" accent (which if you know me is very funny!) even though they are about 90 minutes from malibu (with no traffic)))

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 02:03 (twenty-one years ago)

gabbneb, Bakersfield is about an hour outside of LA which is pretty much as SoCal as it gets!

ok, but that doesn't sound very 'technical'. my brief google says it's in the Tulare Basin, which is as much part of the central valley as Chico in the Sacramento Valley. but I asked because I remembered (perhaps incorrectly) reading something about it being geologically separate from the rest of the valley and didn't remember why.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 02:07 (twenty-one years ago)

there is a large range of mountains and forest (san bernadino mts./angeles national forest respectively) which may divide "bako" from LA. but akin to what the mason dixon line served pre-revolutionary war, a lot of people draw lines as to what latitude defines northern/southern california (and bakersfield will nearly always fall below that line). but what i was trying to articulate upthread is that "central" may not refer to a north/south latitudal debate but rather a center in terms of the true middle of an object.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 02:17 (twenty-one years ago)

do you really think the Bakersfield accent is "affected?"

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 02:18 (twenty-one years ago)

well, all accents are affected but it is strange how people in Bakersfield "cowboy up" when the need calls.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 02:20 (twenty-one years ago)

wait, you think all accents are conscious?

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 02:32 (twenty-one years ago)

dean? do you buy that "tootsie-roll" center definition that i threw out up there as opposed to strict latitude?

post-computer freeze thoughts ... i think that some people use that definition but if you're going to be that vague, why even bother? also, i'd say that the "tootsie-roll" center analogy works for me primarily in terms of explaining the places in California that I try to avoid, that "center."

― dean? (deangulberry), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 02:37 (twenty-one years ago)

i meant tootsie-pop, not tootsie-roll. ef me.

i think all accents are cous-cous. i just think it's funny when Californians say "y'all" or something equally suspicious to me.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 02:41 (twenty-one years ago)

when I first heard your voice I thought you were from California!

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 02:42 (twenty-one years ago)

my Kentucky lilt has been flattened to the point of destruction.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 02:43 (twenty-one years ago)

i got what you meant with the tootsie-roll/pop. also, that definition seems to work pretty well if you wish to divide california based on ideologies.

― dean? (deangulberry), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 02:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Chico is north of SACRAMENTO and south of WEED.

VACAVILLE IS between OAKLAND and SACRAMENTO.

I KNOW

― adam. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 02:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I have to call Vacaville now and again for work.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 02:57 (twenty-one years ago)

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