At this time next week I will be on a plane on my way to New York. Hopefully I will be asleep on that flight, but you never know with me. I still have a lot to do.
I have to do laundry, organize my jewelry, and start packing clothes I want to take to New York. Between saying goodbye and working up until the last possible minute this is going to be tough. Most importantly I need to make sure I get to the bank and get everything to transfer over to my new account. So many boring necessities to think of, so much stuff I hate doing!
This weekend I'm also taking a road trip with my dear friend Micaela to the Portland Zine Symposium in Oregon. I'm fairly certain this is a fancy name for a zine fest but I know how Portland likes to be fancy and I'm not going to hate them for it. I can't think of a better way to leave California and my bestie than taking a 4 day road trip to promote The Blunt Letters. When I get to New York I want to find places that stock zines and see if we can put some stuff there on consignment. In The Bay you just have to walk in and ask them to do it. Well, unless you're the uppity Rock Paper Scissors collective where you have to have at least 75 cool points and given at least 3 blow jobs to CCA faculty. They're the worst! They're a bunch of posturing dicks. Any time we see these moody hipsters in person they tell us to bring stuff by, but when we do they never get back to us. I wish there was an emoji to show me doing the jacking off hand gesture. Yeah maybe that's rude, but so are they.
Thankfully, there's not much to do for the Blunt Letters to go on the road. We're like a well oiled machine. We have our tabling kits ready to go, an inventory box, and a bunch of fresh zines we printed last week and a car reservation confirmed. The only thing I have to do is change some square stuff but that's it. I'm looking forward to staying with Camden and apparently there's 5 bars in any direction from her house. One thing that Oregon does better than California is no sales tax and super cheap drinks. Like drunk for $20 cheap drinks! They're also great at catering to hippies and nerds; we're having vegan gluten-free lunches delivered to our table! OK, two things Oregon is good at.
Road trip food is also not the best but I do love trying pancakes in new places and These United States have some truly fantastic pancake places. As president of the Pancake Fanclub, I believe it is my duty to try all the pancakes I can whenever I'm on vacation. In fact, I tried some satisfactory pancakes in Long Beach this past June that I have neglected to write about. This is mostly due to the fact that they were fine but not great. However, I was racked with anxiety when I was eating at The Breakfast Bar (home of "alright" pancakes) due to my ATM card being stolen. Although, if they were truly spectacular pancakes I think I would have pulled out of my bad mood faster. Luckily The Breakfast Bar lived up to its name, they had excellent Bloody Mary's with lots of pickles!
On this trip I can't abide by my "If I'm not puking, I'm fine" vacation motto. Not because I want to puke more, but because I should refrain from activities that would cause gastro distress. I know we're called "The Blunt Letters" but I don't want to write another apology song to the state of Oregon. I really wish more places had veggie hot dogs because hot dogs are one of my favorite foods. I know Portland has lots of hippie foods for me to eat but the rest of Oregon is all about the flesh of animals. Fun fact! I learned yesterday that some Rastas don't eat meat because to eat meat is to touch death. They got their problems like everyone else, but I like that philosophy in particular.
Well this has devolved into things I like and foods I want to eat so I think it's time to wrap it up! Laterz.
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