Part 4: Brixton
Disclaimer: A Curve Across The Pond has nothing to do with Los Angeles, other than the fact that it is written by an Anjealeno.
The Chelsea goal had sent the room into a palpable funk.
Palpable. Heat rises. Surrounded by Arsenal jerseys here. Drizzle outside. Room gets warmer. I go for a beer. They have Red Stripe™ on tap here. Tap! That´s a rarity. There are some arguably skeevy places to watch a match in the south of London and I´d somehow picked the one with the Stripe on tap. Natch. Watering holes like GrAsshopper and Bar Costena have a tendency to condition one for all manner of life. As such I was, for the most part, in my element.
But back to my shins. Was my hotel in fact built by hobbits, for hobbits? Bloomsbury had been treating me right…a visit to the Horse Hospital … the ominous reading room @ British Museum…overly extravagant consumption at the local socialist bookstore…said goodness aside, a stairway mishap on one of said hotel´s tossing (bleeding? blooding?) hobbit staircases Saturday eve had offered both shins massive bruises and swelling. Pulsing. Flesh wounds that would carry into España and beyond. I could already tell.
The match ends one to one and the crowd disperses into the drizzle.
España! Jesuchristo . . . Y ahora?
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All of us back at HQ thank you for this account. Not merely for the excellent virtual postcard note, but also because you have dethroned that hideous pic of Jeff Pocaro from the top of the stack.
BTW, You may lay aside your humble disclaimer. With your passing references to local drinking spots, I’d say this has infinitely more to do with Los Angeles than, say, the TV listings and CD on-sales cut&pastings that pad out so many of so-called “Los Angeles blogs”.
Musing….was it really the hobbity staircases that led to the bloodied shins…or could it possibly have been the Red Stripeâ„¢?? Hm??
aye! most likely a potent combination of both, to be sure.
if you’re getting bloody shins just walking around in your hotel FOR CHRISTS SAKE be careful going to and fro that absinthe bar i told ye about in barcelona.
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