Thirty Day LA

After an abortive attempt to do some maintenance on my car and missing out on my original plans to check out the Mar Vista Farmer’s Market and the Melrose Flea Market, I called up ObligatedGirl and she suggested we go on a hipster tour of Silver Lake. Excellent idea, I thought.

I looked in my closet to see if I had anything that could help me pose as a poser. I settled on a blue short sleeve movie shirt over a gray long sleeve shirt. Didn’t quite work. ObligatedGirl offered her brother’s tight burgundy shirt from American Apparel for the next time we go out to Silver Lake.

It started off innocently enough: having a couple beers at a beer garden. But then I drank a little too much, like usual, and we ended up taking on a massive expedition in search of some hipsters to hang out with. Unfortunately, it was a quiet Sunday night, and I guess since most hipsters are pretty chill people who happen to be poor and need to wake up on Mondays to work, we didn’t see too many of them. Here’s what we ended up doing:

• Red Lion Tavern: awesome Spaten Oktoberfest beer, huge plate of fries, relaxing outdoor beer garden
  
• Albertson’s: bought a bottle of Captain Morgan, black cashier asked us if we were Chinese because usually he only sees Chinese girls with white guys there
  
• Coffee Bean: got iced coffee and surprisingly saw zero Asian Fetish couples. Dumped 3 shots of Captain Morgan into each of our drinks.
  
• Drove around the actual lake. Quite nice
  
• Good Microbrewery and Café: told waitress we were Vegan, she was genuinely interested in how it was like. We lied and said it had just been a month for us and it was pretty hard. We looked at the expensive menu and told them we’d be back
  
• Green Leaves Vegan Restaurant: vegan fish sandwich for ObligatedGirl, Pad Thai with tofu for me. Quite delicious, surprisingly. Zero hipsters, two AF couples.
  
• Adult Movie Store: perused, debated about how it was degrading to females, left.
  
• El Cid Flamenco restaurant, was closed so we left. Saw one Asian Fetish couple. Asked bartender where 4200 club was, he said it was down the street one block.
  
• 4100 Bar: Yeah, we got the name wrong. Sat at the bar, hardly anyone there, left.
  
• Gelato store: They let us in even though they had been closed for 5 minutes, gave us one cup of gelato for free, and we sat outside and chilled out with some hipsters. A great way to end the evening.
  

Two drunk wannabe hipsters on a superb tour of Silver Lake: Priceless.