frostie on my mind

this soda has been on my mind ever since i went with m.v.f. to galco's soda pop shop. if you haven't been there, you have to GO! this shop is classic LA at it's best.

http://losangeles.citysearch.com/profile/71749/los_angeles_ca/galco_s_old_world_grocery.html


this place sells soda pop, wine, beer, candy and they have a simple deli in the back. i have been told that their sandwiches are amazing. this place sells many sodas that you can't really find anywhere else. i felt like a kid in a candy store. matt recommended this one pop to me and i didn't really dig it at first for the fact that it's blue. i have a weird thing for anything that's not suppose to be blue, purple or a funky color. it took me a long time to eat blue m&ms. i know it's only food coloring, but still...it took awhile ok? :P

i didn't think that this blue soda was going to knock my socks off. i bought one, along with the list below....

1 dr pepper made with real sugar, like in the ol' days

1 moxie cherry cola (too much for my taste)

1 curiousity cola - best cola i ever tasted in my life!!!



1 plantation style mint julep soda - this was crazy...didn't love it...but it was pretty sweet. along with m.v.f. joking around, saying that he's been picking cotton all day and loved his plantation style mint julep soda. heh. :)




both m.v.f. and me left the soda pop shop like bandits with a bunch of soda pop. before we left, he insisted for me to try the blue cream soda. even though i was making fun of it's blue factor, since i never did have any blue soda at all in my life and felt 12 years old for a minute...i tried the frostie blue cream soda....

right with the first sip, i knew i was having the best cream soda in my life. everything about it was just right. the cream flavor, the crisp taste because it was in a glass bottle. it was the shit and i realized that i can really love more than one thing. :) i've been thinking about this soda for two weeks now i can't get it out of my head. i am driving myself crazy and i can't drink any other cream soda without frostie lingering in my mind.

we will meet again frostie. i can't wait to have you again. :)

falling

i remember trying to test him
i wanted to make him tick
i wanted to freak him out
queer chicana born and raised in SGV
i didn't want him assuming shit
about me
i didn't want to speak any truth
to his igorance of latina grrls
he never met a woman like me before
i never met such a gentleman
who open his car door for me on the first date
and made a comment saying that he did that
jester to all the girls in his life and asked if
i wouldn't take it the wrong way
and for the first time in my life
i didn't take it the wrong way at all
my guard wasn't down and i couldn't tell you why
he was a complete stranger
something in my gut told me that he was being honest
someone in my head was cheering for him from afar
i didn't know him at all, but yet i was ok with it
i wasn't expecting to meet anyone positive
i didn't know what to expect
he took me by surprise
i thought i was in love with someone else
i thought i was in love with someone else
i thought i was in love with a guy
who didn't feel the same
i cried for him for when
i got back to LA in 08/2005
whining, crying, i got depressed
and he REALLY didn't care
2006, i had a complete stranger
treating me to pie in los feliz
and opening the car door for me
along with having a heart of gold
straight 25 yr old black man from the IE
months later, walked with me
and my co workers at LBC Pride
passing out sex toys and wearing a company shirt
meeting my family and peeps and throughout
those moments, i felt like i knew him for yrs
now it's only been less that 3
he makes me happy in a way that
i never thought was humanly possible
we compliment each other
he make me a better person
i know that i have a future with him
the sheer though of that still freaks me out



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MTA and the LA Sherrifs

I LOVE Streetblog LA and their awesome posting about anything about LA's public transportation. I found this blog today and I found it rather interesting.

http://la.streetsblog.org/2008/11/14/metro-considering-temporary-renewal-of-sheriffs-contract/


First of all, I was shocked when I moved back to LA in August 2005 and witness the unnecessary sheriffs presence in the MTA red and especially blue lines. I've been riding both since I've been back and I can tell you that their presence is not welcomed or appreciated! I've seen the sheriffs being very condescending and fucked up to many folks. They even have fucking patrol dogs with them. Is that shit really necessary..I mean REALLY? I have also noticed that the sheriffs are ONLY located at where all black/latino are the majority. They aren't located anywhere on the Gold/Green line or any stops passed Hollywood/Vine of the red line.

For MTA to hire the LACS to ask people for their fare tickets and MTA not taking blame for their faulty admission to the Red/Blue/Green/Gold lines is fucking ridiculous. The LA County Sheriffs have already made themselves look bad recently arresting an innocent photographer at Pershing Square last week.

http://la.streetsblog.org/2008/11/10/bus-bench-blogger-arrested-for-taking-pictures-at-pershing-square/


I am starting to think that LA sheriffs are even more racist than the LAPD...and that's really saying a lot. When will MTA finally get their act together and do something productive about this. Doesn't it cost MTA more money to renew this sheriffs contract than to try another method?

I only hope folks show up to the mtg next week and speak their mind about the racism/classicism that the LA Sheriffs implement onto folks who are really just trying to get to work. Not every black/latino person getting on from the Compton Blue Line Station is trying to skip their fare! So get your fucking patrol dog off me already! Ugh.

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Finally got the internet up and running!!

I moved out in 1999 from my parents place and finally got the internet in my home! Good bye to all those gnarly internet cafes and using the internet at work. :) I can write what ever the hell I want without looking behind for a supervisor, a work narc or a crazy hollywood type person with a fake tan, locked in their own bubble of reality. ;)

It's very surreal to finally have this luxury. I keep logging out of certain web sites thinking I am at work or a cafe. I finally uploaded some recent photos of myself on my facebook/myspace profiles. I finally can email my family photos of them that I had in my camera for months. I can FINALLY get free music and porn. :) I can start a real blog about myself and my adventurous in LA and beyond.

I am going to use this blog to talk about local/national news, along with dashes of my personal life with peeps, family with discretion. Mostly more about what folks are talking about in society and what we should be talking about! :)

If you want to know more about myself, I included my "myspace" profile link and that really says it all. www.myspace.com/rachel80

I am a 28 yr old queer/bi chicana woman getting by in Los Angeles, CA. This is the jump off y'all....hope you're ready for it. :)


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