This one's for you, Ali
Just got an email from my friend Ali who's been in London for the past several weeks. As happy as I am to be back in SF and as resolved as I am to stay here for a while, it kinda felt like someone punched me in the stomach when she told me about sitting on Charlotte St. eating our beloved 1/2 price pizza treat that we could only afford once a week (on Tuesdays).
And so, young Ali, sometime during your last 2 days I ask that you enjoy a slice of said 1/2 price pizza on my behalf, allow yourself to be overserved at a pub which has a sign out front of a man wearing a wig (which pretty much means on any corner) and dance at one of the 131 convenient London area Walkabouts where you should then make out with a 21-year old boy who speaks broken English. (The Walkabout's really more of a throw-in for Emily, but since I vehemently opposed going there on the grounds of feeling like a child molester, I thought I'd mention it.)
Most importantly, have a delicious meal. In a RESTAURANT (no, Pret a Manger does not count). Charge it. I'll buy you a burrito when you get to SF to help offset the cost. No more stalking diners through windows and staring at their meals with a forlorn, hungry face. You're better than that, Ali. We all were. Right??
Say hi to my favorite British gentlemen. Mouth. Still. Watering.
When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford." — Samuel Johnson
And so, young Ali, sometime during your last 2 days I ask that you enjoy a slice of said 1/2 price pizza on my behalf, allow yourself to be overserved at a pub which has a sign out front of a man wearing a wig (which pretty much means on any corner) and dance at one of the 131 convenient London area Walkabouts where you should then make out with a 21-year old boy who speaks broken English. (The Walkabout's really more of a throw-in for Emily, but since I vehemently opposed going there on the grounds of feeling like a child molester, I thought I'd mention it.)
Most importantly, have a delicious meal. In a RESTAURANT (no, Pret a Manger does not count). Charge it. I'll buy you a burrito when you get to SF to help offset the cost. No more stalking diners through windows and staring at their meals with a forlorn, hungry face. You're better than that, Ali. We all were. Right??
Say hi to my favorite British gentlemen. Mouth. Still. Watering.
When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford." — Samuel Johnson
posted by Single, Party of One at 1:06 PM
5 Comments:
Gawd, I want to move to London. I have never been there, but I feel the need to go. Now you are making me sad you aren't there! We should all caravan together and get our asses to London soon! We can just set up our hip chick lunch table at Pret a Manger.
History on every corner. Art on every block. Dry Blackthorn cider and chips with salt and vinegar. Waterloo brigde after dark. Irish whiskey and a fire on Guy Fox day. The haze and hum of the Tube. My own language sounding better than I've ever spoken or heard. Belsize Park in the morning. Hampstead Heath in spring. My first cigarette that didn't hurt. I still get letters (to which I never reply) from my last bit of innocence that have a stamp with the picture of the queen.
"Meet me at London, then
Twenty days hence, and thou shalt see
Me fesher, and more fat, by being with men,
Than if I had stayed still with her and thee."
-John Donne
hmm...london. minus the mexi packed flat and 6 to a bathroom, i miss london.
Ali! Where are you girl!? New York misses you already :*(
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