santa barbara, ca

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second trip to santa babs we returned to LA via Ojai, scenic winding drive through the hills to get there but sheesh what a boring town, kinda like nowheresville and a tourist trap at the same time. we had lunch at a hole-in-the-wall mexican place that looked promising yet the food resembled tacos you'd get in the midwest ca. 1970s.

m coleman, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 10:37 (sixteen years ago) link

one year passes...

good to know. what about santa paula/fillmore?

tell me about the dunes.

gabbneb, Saturday, 22 November 2008 17:08 (fifteen years ago) link

i am deeming this a central coast thread

gabbneb, Saturday, 22 November 2008 17:09 (fifteen years ago) link

theres a great board game shop in santa barbara run by a really enthusiastic austrian(?) dude, talking like $60-$80 games, expansion packs, you name it, but the guy is a mensch and will cut you a deal, i bought risk 2210 there and ive unpacked it a lot and it looks real pretty but ive never actually played it

:) Mrs Edward Cullen XD (max), Saturday, 22 November 2008 17:14 (fifteen years ago) link

yeah i bought my bro some crazy version of axis and allies there

omar little, Saturday, 22 November 2008 17:43 (fifteen years ago) link

re upthread, i love ojai but you don't go there for the town. i had a really nice time at the ojai retreat a few months ago, just staring out the window at the mountains, wandering the grounds, taking photos, "meditating" (if you like).

also suzanne's is quite good. we also tried feast bistro -- thumbs up on the food, thumbs down (in my one experience) on the flaky service.

but no, there's not much to "do" in ojai, and that's rather the point.

the birdman from the hilarious "alcatraz" prison (get bent), Saturday, 22 November 2008 17:59 (fifteen years ago) link

hey, the retreat looks nice, thanks

gabbneb, Saturday, 22 November 2008 18:06 (fifteen years ago) link

(btw, that's technically a Scrub-Jay - you don't get Blue Jays in CA)

gabbneb, Saturday, 22 November 2008 18:16 (fifteen years ago) link

SB's also where Jimmy Connors can get arrested.

Ned Raggett, Saturday, 22 November 2008 18:21 (fifteen years ago) link

(btw, that's technically a Scrub-Jay - you don't get Blue Jays in CA)

Steller Jays represent!

http://www.birdsamore.com/_images/jay-stellers_350.jpg

Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Saturday, 22 November 2008 20:09 (fifteen years ago) link

one month passes...

cheap rooms taking sides: hotel state street private room with a shared bath (http://www.hotelstatestreet.net/) or a private en suite at http://www.sbhostel.com/ ? anyone stayed in the hostel?

caek, Friday, 26 December 2008 23:14 (fifteen years ago) link

I had a friend who did said it was one of the nicer hostels he's been in.

iatee, Friday, 26 December 2008 23:33 (fifteen years ago) link

did, said

iatee, Friday, 26 December 2008 23:33 (fifteen years ago) link

likely true

Every Day Jimmy Mod Is Hustlin' (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Saturday, 27 December 2008 01:18 (fifteen years ago) link

thankig u again for retreat, jody; have reserved

a mountain climber who plays an electric guitar (gabbneb), Sunday, 28 December 2008 15:26 (fifteen years ago) link

Was in a bar on state street tonight wondering to myself which students I hate more, Oxford or UCSB, and then I saw a guy wearing an Oxford 2006 Ski Trip hoodie. What a town.

caek, Friday, 9 January 2009 06:18 (fifteen years ago) link

UCSB students like to think that they go to the 'Harvard of party schools' - for the most part, they're the smartest of the kids in California who wanted to go to a party school.

iatee, Friday, 9 January 2009 06:49 (fifteen years ago) link

Breaking news: I just went for a quick walk to the pier and back before I go to bed and saw my first dead body. Police and ambulance stood around a body on the floor in the bushes. Didn't look like a crime scene. : ( Very weird first few hours here.

caek, Friday, 9 January 2009 06:52 (fifteen years ago) link

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.

caek, Friday, 9 January 2009 21:55 (fifteen years ago) link

Yup, sounds about right. My cousin went there.

Ned Raggett, Friday, 9 January 2009 21:56 (fifteen years ago) link

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

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

caek, Monday, 12 January 2009 05:20 (fifteen years ago) link

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/

moonship journey to baja, Monday, 12 January 2009 06:39 (fifteen years ago) link

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.

caek, Monday, 12 January 2009 18:59 (fifteen years ago) link

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

banned substance (gabbneb), Monday, 12 January 2009 19:07 (fifteen years ago) link

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

ice cr?m, Monday, 12 January 2009 19:12 (fifteen years ago) link

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.

caek, Monday, 12 January 2009 19:25 (fifteen years ago) link

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.

caek, Monday, 12 January 2009 19:27 (fifteen years ago) link

seven months pass...

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.

Elvis Telecom, Friday, 14 August 2009 07:02 (fourteen years ago) link

Certainly my experience of that perilous coast.

caek, Friday, 14 August 2009 12:48 (fourteen years ago) link

it now snows ash in santa barbara on a regular basis

iatee, Friday, 14 August 2009 13:58 (fourteen years ago) link

two months pass...

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

caek, Friday, 13 November 2009 17:23 (fourteen years ago) link

two months pass...

got sunburn

caek, Thursday, 14 January 2010 02:19 (fourteen years ago) link

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

caek, Thursday, 14 January 2010 02:19 (fourteen years ago) link

got a phil collins song in my head now

A™ machine (sic) (omar little), Thursday, 14 January 2010 02:21 (fourteen years ago) link

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

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 14 January 2010 02:32 (fourteen years ago) link

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.

caek, Thursday, 14 January 2010 06:21 (fourteen years ago) link

have a blenders 4 me

Astronaut Mike Dexter (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 14 January 2010 06:22 (fourteen years ago) link

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

Astronaut Mike Dexter (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 14 January 2010 06:27 (fourteen years ago) link

blenders rules
get blue-banana

iatee, Thursday, 14 January 2010 06:27 (fourteen years ago) link

fuck that noize. orange banana w spirulina

Astronaut Mike Dexter (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 14 January 2010 06:29 (fourteen years ago) link

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

Astronaut Mike Dexter (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 14 January 2010 06:30 (fourteen years ago) link

sooooooooooo otm

iatee, Thursday, 14 January 2010 06:30 (fourteen years ago) link

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

Astronaut Mike Dexter (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 14 January 2010 06:34 (fourteen years ago) link

haha I know what picture you're talking about

iatee, Thursday, 14 January 2010 06:35 (fourteen years ago) link

it's so weak

Astronaut Mike Dexter (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 14 January 2010 06:35 (fourteen years ago) link

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.

iatee, Thursday, 14 January 2010 06:39 (fourteen years ago) link

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

┌∩┐(◕_◕)┌∩┐ (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 14 January 2010 06:43 (fourteen years ago) link

yeah it is w/ a buncha locations

iatee, Thursday, 14 January 2010 06:44 (fourteen years ago) link

Pea Soup Andersen's closes for good on its 100th anniversary
https://www.sfgate.com/centralcoast/article/pea-soup-andersen-buellton-closed-18600570.php

Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 11 January 2024 00:53 (three months ago) link

never have I ever

the loan of Kerr's big ass (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 11 January 2024 02:29 (three months ago) link

Fucking bullshit

Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 11 January 2024 03:23 (three months ago) link

To be fair, it’s not any good.

mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Thursday, 11 January 2024 03:24 (three months ago) link

"the signature pea soup quickly became a signature dish"

the loan of Kerr's big ass (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 11 January 2024 03:58 (three months ago) link

Itisamystery.jpeg

mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Thursday, 11 January 2024 04:46 (three months ago) link

Some more info here: https://lompocrecord.com/news/local/pea-soup-andersens-in-buellton-shutters-doors-property-in-escrow-after-lengthy-buyer-process/article_fea28acc-0ce7-52f9-a9bf-acdf5c443d56.html

Looks like the building is a tear-down. Maintenance of a 100 year old building that sees heavy use is probably impossible to square on a restaurant budget.

Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 11 January 2024 07:40 (three months ago) link

"Guggia Jr., a Central Coast restaurateur, also purchased Pea Soup Andersen's Santa Nella in 2007, which is still operational. His company also owns AJ Spurs steakhouses, Shaw's Steakhouse in Santa Maria, Cracked Crab, The Pantry on Park, and Pappy's Diner."

Suppose serving bad soup and steaks of meat that are usually ground to the ancients is good busjness

the loan of Kerr's big ass (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 11 January 2024 21:05 (three months ago) link


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