Cruz

[Drunk Monk]

Well, fuck.

I was cleaning up a bit and found a $12 credit for Logos. I rushed down there, but I was a day late and a credit short. It's dark and the day-glo banners lie crumpled at the bottom of the window displays. Fuck.

Cafe Pergolese closed too. That used to be my go-to hangout when I lived here 30 years ago. I still hit it up on occasion because it's across from the Well where Stacy works part time and for nostalia's sake. But their coffee and tea where mediocre at best. Still they had a funky old skool cafe atmosphere, the kind starfux can't replicate at all (btw, I pass the new starfux on my commute and it's always busy - if Verve goes down due to it, we all go down). Semi-fuck.

O'mei closed because it came out that the owner was a David Duke supporter and his staff walked out. I haven't eaten there since my grad school daze (menu too meaty & glutenny for us) but I used to train at O-mei Kung Fu (omei is a Chinese sacred mountain) and have a lot of school shirts. I'm stowing those with my Shaolin stuff that has swastikas. Fuckin nazis.

Don Quixotes (technically Scotts Valley but still Cruz) is changing to Flynns. They still promise to stage concerts and are upgrading their menu. I'm hopeful here because the old menu was greasy inauthentic Mexican - the new menu will be organic, gf, farm2table, and half veg although it will be a steakhouse. Jury is out on that one. Fuck pending but maybe not a fuck, maybe a yay.