ita, I know I've seen dutched chocolate at the Ralph's near me. Want me to buy some for you?

ita and Burrell, want to go to the Lush in SM next weekend?

It was just your name I wailed as I went back over the shelf again and again.

That is a fun image. "Ple! Ple! Where's the dutch chocolate? Why is it hiding from me?!?"

Next stop, Wholefoods.

Don't bother, at least don't bother with the one near me. I had to settle for unDutched baking chocolate. The irony is that I'm sure any regular ol' market has it.

Next stop, Wholefoods.

Our Whole Foods doesn't have it. The bastards.

I've decided your L.A. groceries are just weird, because I can get Dutched cocoa in Safeway, so long as I don' t mind that it's the cheap stuff.

ita have you tried Surfa's? That's where we got Dutch processed chocolate?

Have you ever been to Surfa's?

Basically, there's a city-wide election in BH next week. There's a measure on the ballot to approve a new hotel, the Montage, with some parking facilities and a park. But some people are freaking because the parking facilities are going to charge people to park there. And there's all this stuff about how it's somehow part of a secret conspiracy to start charging at all the BH parking garages.

So you have all these ads to VOTE YES ON THE MONTAGE because it's GOOD FOR BH. And then you have ads to VOTE NO ON THE MONTAGE because it's BAD FOR BH.

And, now, in the most recent, and frankly hilarious development, there is a new ad suggesting that the Citizens Who Hate the Montage So Much They're Buying Ads to Make People Vote Against It are not citizens at all but, in fact, The Four Seasons and The Peninsula. The two hotels that, coincidentially, would probably be most affected by the new hotel.

There's also some related stuff about fire and police and schools but I'm not entirely clear on how the new hotel affects all that.

ETA: Also, ita, if you can't find something at Gelson's, they'll track it down for you.

Surfas is Da Bomb. I'm drinking tea from there right now. AIFG.

ita - Did you take her to Olvera street? Or is this a different relative?

Okay, to be clear: I don't think abnormal people ride the train, or something. I was just wondering about Syd's conviction about everyone with a normal job riding the train. It seems to me, and this gets a giant grain of salt, of course, since my commute involves walking and that's it, that the norm for commuting in LA is a car on a freeway. That's all I meant.

You guys are KILLING me with all the cupcakes mentions. I am going to have to go buy cupcake stuff tomorrow because I simply can't take it anymore.

I'm not interested in nightclubbing. I actually don't love places with dim lights and people who have been drinking, since I seem to have a knack for drawing creeps into my personal bubble, without any sort of conscious encouragement. So I avoid those types of places. I've never had fun at one. (Well, the exception for that rule is the one time I went to a club in Cambridge, and it was basically just other students there, and a classmate from Spain pointed out how much the lyrics that Sean Paul was singing reflected King Lear's tragic state of mind. It was possibly one of the funniest moments ever. It was that song where he's all, "I don't care what people say..." I don't remember other lyrics other than that, since I don't really follow Sean Paul religiously, or anything, but if the song came on, I could probably sing along. And even then, there was one creepy guy, but he was easy enough to avoid.)

Which leads me to the fact that I sing like Jesse. I love singing, and I have definitely caught myself singing aloud (quietly, at least) at the grocery store. And with that said, I've only been to a kareoke place once, and it was super fun, but we were asked to leave after a bit because we were underage, and thus not buying up their liquor. I'd totally go again, but most people don't like going to kareoke.

Anyone watching Super Milk Chan ? Two robots are on a date at an Italian restaurant, where whey are eating pasta that was accidentially made with cocaine.