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Ciao Bella
Birthday dinner for Crystal at Ciao Bella. This Italian restaurant, in the redwood forest community of Ben Lomond (California), helps define the word eclectic. Some examples:

1. The parking spaces are all marked RESERVED, such as "Reserved For Elvis", tending to disorient the more anal among us. We were in the parking lot, preparing to leave, when a couple pulled in. They stopped, and would not enter the empty space next to us because they saw RESERVED painted on the ground. We waved them closer so they could finally see for whom the space was reserved. Sigh... and people say I'm anal...
2. There was a small book hanging from a string on the wall next to me titled Everything I Know About Life I Learned On Acid.
3. There was a parrot on a perch on the outside dining deck.
4. Our waitress sang Happy Birthday to Crystal in Italian.
   • <Begin rant> Screw the politically correct crap. I refer to female waitpersons as waitresses and males as waiters. Get over it. Why do I have such a hardon about this? Because my generation perpetrated this whole "political correctness" horsesh*t on America. You feel uncomfortable about something in life? You change the terminology to make yourself feel better? Grow up. Most people get over this in grade school. My generation turned feel-good language into a political movement. You don't need to fix anything, you just change the language to make yourself feel better. My parents' generation has been referred to as The Greatest Generation. My generation may some day be referred to as the Politically Correct Generation. Be ashamed, be very ashamed. <End rant>
5. The waitresses were dressed completely in black, in a lightweight Goth style. The waiters were not.
6. Several small blacklights are scattered around the walls.
7. Records (remember 12" vinyl LPs?) covered every inch of the walls and ceiling in the entry and bar area.

 

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Redwood Asylum Gets A Facelift
Time for a change. After a year, I'm changing the Asylum's design. This is the last post using the Transmitter theme by Bryan Bell. I'm changing the main site to the jenett.radio.simplicity.v2.1 theme by Joe Jenett, the same theme used for my category sites. Thanks again, Joe. 

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