A Virgo Tragedy
The other afternoon she was having a lovely luncheon with two of her lady friends, and just as she was about to take a bite of her strawberry shortcake, she noticed a large fly on her plate.
She will NEVER return to this establishment....La Porte Verte....and she has asked me to warn others not to set foot in this popular downtown eating spot.
posted by jm at 4:50 PM
23 Comments:
Quel dommage!
It was a place to eat cheaply, be seated with total strangers and have a great and unusual evening, i was complete vegetarian then, never noticed anything resembling a pet in any of my food.
Virgo moon (mine) must function differently in the stomach stomach department. and it's square my sun...hmmm, a passel of planets in Libra too..
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~ The Green Door in Vancouver BC circa 1970's was well know as a place to stay away from...it was rumored that they managed Van's homeless animal problem.
I ate there often and found it delicous...
Well Aunt Hildegrde IS fussy.
That's wild Tseka!!!
OMG!
Are you making this up?
One of my great great aunts fired her cook for serving the turkey with only two legs. She also went to a hotel and ordered a dozen lobsters. The waiter asked if she was sure and she was very huffy, "Yes, of course. I know what I want." So they wheeled out a huge platter with a dozen lobsters. And she said "Oh my god, I meant oysters."
Hooray for aunts...
These stories are unbelievable.
true story jm, what i think is the locals perpetrated the rumor to keep the tourons (tourists)away.
I lived in Chinatown in Vancouver for a year. My mastiff and i would walk to market and buy tofu weighted with a plate and a brick in big cans that vendors carted around on wagons.
Ya had to get up early to get the fresh vegetables. Pretty soon all my elderly neighbors were walking to market with us. Sam, the dog, was the local hero. I'd get polite nods but Sam would get all sorts of "treats" wrapped in cloth....i never wanted to know....We used to pass the RCMP zipping people into black plastic body bags. Chinatown was a rough place at night. Early morning clean-up not for the faint of heart.
Ha Ha Juju what a great story!
there's that word again -- "Virgo". I have quite overdosed on Virgo. Eve has been completely officious and annoying for several weeks now. I'm ready for Libras now.
Vegetarian restaurants I have known and loved:
The Hare Krishnas used to have a vegetarian restaurant here a long, long time ago. It was lovely food.
Then there was Friday's Child. We had my father's wake there.
But the oldest (although it burnt down at one point) vegetarian restaurant in Houston is the Hobbit Cafe (used to be the Hobbit Hole). Dark beer and yummy avocado sandwiches. Make mine the Bilbo and Nancy's was always the Gandalf (avocado, mushrooms, and melted Swiss cheese).
Nice beer garden patio too.
A couple more days, Casey and we're out! This is it with the Virgo Moon taking us into lovely Libra.
Tseka, Great story. I always thought if I ever left Colorado it would be for Vancouver. Don't know why. Never been there.
I remeber the macrobiotic phase and the veggie restaurants. Not generally too appetizing, but the Paradox in NYC was great.
There are a lot of wonderful new vegetarian retaurants cropping up but most of them now are a mixture which is the best.
It is a beautiful city jm and multicultural. In many ways more European than the other big west coast cities. I love Vancouver. You can take a city bus, go skiing, or one to the beach. In a half and hour you can be in wilderness. I miss BC.
Gotta warn you about the rain tho - i grew up around Puget Sound, the Seattle area, thought i knew rain. Noooo. The rain in Vancouver comes in off the Straits open to the Pacific and it can pierce right through you. 32 degrees and raining...it can be slightly below freezing and still rain because of the warmer seawaters...pretty miserable and 65 in slummer has people sweating, 80 they think they are gonna die.
Great report, tseka. After the American West experience I don't think I would like a rainy climate, although I thought it might be good for night life and I figure the music is really good there.
I've thought a lot about happiness and the arts. Whether or not a more challenging environment would make the arts more desirable.
Juno may be able to give a better report on the music nightlife.
As far as painting and fine art goes it's surprisingly conservative. They consider me to be Very Contemporary, and abstract. It may be more the owners of galleries as my La Conner gallery sells to a fair number of Canadians. I've not been too sucessful in Canada, dang it. Actually you may like Calgary. I did. The Rockies again and a huge Eruo community when i lived there, who knows now but the oil capital of Cananda and lots of money sloshing around.
Van tends to be more British in it's approach to life - or at least that's my take.
You know what. I think I'll stay put. Thanks tseka!
When exactly are you hitting the road and will you have a computer to check in with?
In the end I don't think the place matters. The artist has her own destiny outside of these things. A lot of French painters did great work living comfortably in the country. Magritte painted dressed up in formal attire.
Magritte is one of my favorites. The Menil Collection here (which is one of the loveliest of the small American museums) has one Magritte where the twilight sky is so luminous.
And 80 is hot? The whole city of Houston celebrates when the high is only 80.
Magritte is one of my favs too.
I love the baguettes floating in the sky like mini-Hindenbergs.
I love the bowlered men.
I love the train coming out of the fireplace.
I love the humor.
Well, i'm looking at Hildegarde, then i'm looking at Myrtle Rae...thinking there's some distance here. Bet your family reunions are a hoot.
Our reunions are wild.
Hildegarde is Myrtle Rae's cousin. They actually get on well. Myrtle Rae designed and built her kitchen cabinets and Hildie was quite satisfied.
kj!!!!!!!!! You know Virgo!!!
You are hilarious!
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