santa barbara, ca

Turns out this is a v. nice town, corpses and Oxbridge undergrads notwithstanding.

If you want Banana Republic and tattoos then State Street is for you.

Yup, sounds about right. My cousin went there.

I saw another dead person. I was on this train : (((((

http://www.contracostatimes.com/california/ci_11429916

when we are in santa barbara (or even just passing through between the bay and so cal) we stop at pierre lafond for breakfast.

http://www.pierrelafond.com/

I ate there. It was good!

p.s. http://lafd.blogspot.com/2009/01/woman-struck-by-amtrak-train-dies-in.html. What a trip.

that place looked nice but we went up the street to zia cafe

caek visits america, sees dead people

this is reminding me of when friend of mine had a french foreign exchange student in high school and after the semester was up he took a bus tour of the country - upon returning he told us abt how he witnessed a shooting like it was the most normal thing in the world because he was lol french and thought americans just shot each other all the time no big deal - of course none of us he was telling the story to had ever seen a shooting

my favourite eats over the weekend was whail tail deli: http://whale-tail-deli.com/default.aspx. cheap for sb, and hearty fare indeed.

xp, two dead people in four days has to be some kind of record, right. central california is perilous.

I was making a video on the train down from sb, planning to edit it into a sort of time lapse thing of socal, but i don't know if I will now, because it gets really weird with all the firemen and the not moving and the people crying on the edge of LA. I was in the one car outside the tunnel. I can see my window in those LAFD Flickr photos.

In Santa Barbara, little concern over rising body count

It may be picturesque, but this upscale village of red-tile roofs and stunning seascapes is sending a huge number of lost souls to the county morgue. Bodies show up on the beach, in parks, along railroad tracks and in the heart of the business district, steps from four-star restaurants and boutique hotels.

Sometimes it's murder. Usually it's a case of used-up bodies giving out under the swaying palms.

"We just had another one," Santa Barbara County social worker Ken Williams told me Thursday morning. "He was probably in his 50s and played steel guitar on State Street by the museum. They found his body yesterday."

That was No. 18 for the year, said Williams, the same number of homeless deaths the city saw in all of 2008.

Santa Monica, with roughly the same population as Santa Barbara, averaged about 14 homeless deaths a year between 2000 and 2007. Los Angeles averaged 170 a year over that same period, which sounds like a lot. But it's a far lower rate per capita than the one Santa Barbara has had the last two years.

Certainly my experience of that perilous coast.

it now snows ash in santa barbara on a regular basis

lol coming back to this town. how many dead people will i see this time?

got sunburn

seeing up in the air tonight, which feels like the santa barbara of this year's best picture contenders

got a phil collins song in my head now

caek's reports on the cityscape of Isla Vista will amuse.

haven't seen any oxford/cambridge varsity ski trip hoodies yet this time, although i did just see a canadian national polo team shirt (horse, not water). what a town.

have a blenders 4 me

also if yr driving to LA you can stop in carpenteria and have a burger @ The Spot. Julia Child used to eat there apparently and they had, at one point, the finest burger I had ever had

blenders rules
get blue-banana

fuck that noize. orange banana w spirulina

in an alternate universe blenders is national and jamba juice is regional. never underestimate a sugar bomb's ability to go national

sooooooooooo otm

also the owners of blenders were shot by richard avedon and the picture is hung in every blenders; you can tell that avedon was totally phoning it in

haha I know what picture you're talking about

it's so weak

yeah I had no idea it was supposed to be anything but a cutesy local photographer type thing

but yeah, I don't go to juice places anywhere outside of santa barbara. jamba juice is horrid. I imagine it's healthier than blenders, though...part of the reason why blenders drinks taste good is that they're practically ice cream.

is the cajun kitchen still around? serious good times there 15 years ago.

yeah it is w/ a buncha locations

i will be here from jan 12-25, let's party/see dead people.

Any given Saturday night in Isla Vista they'll be one and the same.

btw i am only briefly passing through LA on this trip now ned, but thanks for responding in the LA thread

pretty scared that I'm gonna die sometime in the jan 12-25 interval now. please pass over me santa barbara death angel caek. I will put the goat's blood on the door mantel, etc.

These days I'm giving a tour of the local "Fieri Hot Spots" for extra cash. The tour includes food from those places featured in Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives and ends with frosted tips at Aveda.

wait where was on ddd

Norton's, some fish n' chips place that was open for all of 1 year before Guy soiled it, and some Mexican place on upper state that I've never heard of.

There's enough good mexican food that I can believe it's good, though. I'm somewhat glad he didn't just go to super rica, even though it seems to fit the show perfectly.

yeah milpas makes a lot more sense than anything downtown

true. I live over by the bowl, so I am biased toward milpas.

including los agaves, the cheaper evil offspring of los arroyos

I was in sb like two weeks ago, state st is getting so depressing

it's shifting towards super super high end and super super low end stores at the same time

sorta a microcosm of america I guess

ha, that description is kind of true. but I learned from this thread that you grew up here, so a bit of hometown depression is natural. you should check out el cielito next time you're in town. it opened in la arcada and is the best new thing imo.

oh yeah I looked at it curiously

according to http://www.santabarbara.com/dining/best_of_sb/ , 2012's best korean restaurant in town is "New China"

chumash casino should have everything you want and more

haha unless you want a mojito

Tower of Power on Jan. 17 at the Chumash

caek should get funkifized