Monday, May 11, 2009

McLovin
Drinking is one of the favourite hobbies for young people here in San Francisco. Unfortunately there is a law that no alcohol is to be sold to anyone under 21. What some of the poor bastards do is getting fake ID’s with a birth date that makes them exactly 21. Whoever saw the movie “Superbad” will know what I am talking about. A young and funny looking guy gets a fake ID with a birth date that makes him 25. One little problem is there though with the ID- the name on it is changed to McLovin.
I found this ID in a Souvenir shop here in San Francisco and tried it. No joke! It works! The other day I went to the bars and showed it at the door- I got in. Then we went to Safeway to get beer and vodka. So we show up at the counter with the ID. I hand the ID to the guy behind the counter and he looks at me and at the ID again. Once. Twice, Three times, then he hands the ID back to me and says: “Thank you Mister Lovin.” We had to leave Safeway as fast as possible to avoid choking from our suppressed laughter.


USA and the media
The media and specially TV is a strange thing in US. You have about 60 channels but every channel seems like a derivate of MTV. All you see is half naked celebrities or movies, which lack every kind of shame. I want to point out a special example that describes what I mean. There is a show called “Favourite celebrities body parts”. What first sounds like a Quentin Tarantino movie ala “Hostel” turns out to be a description of hot and sexy bodies of Mathew Mcconaughey and co. First talking for hours about the six-packs and butts of male actors and finally arriving at a close up on the boobs of Mariah Carrey it gives the impression that there are no other troubles in life that that. Or the other day we saw a nice movie about people in College and their adventures. Whoever has been to Bangkok and knows what a PingPong show is will be able to figure out what I mean by saying: This is nothing against US-College movies. And I do not talk about porn- it’s Wednesday afternoon program. At the same time the media pretends to keep up a certain kind of standard- but they still want to show those things so what could be a solution? A blurry spot on every cock! Great Idea! So you sit there and watch a movie where half of the screen is blurry and the other half shows alcohol, drugs and people puking. What a Brave New World!


Begging Indian style
Walking down the roads of San Francisco offers you many opportunities to do good and donate money. Actually when walking down the roads here people beg as much as in Mumbai. Maybe someone should think about that when taking into account that the US is the 8th richest country in the world and India is a development country.


Project Route 66
Oh… you are still here! Good, because here comes the really great news! This is my new ride: It is a Suzuki V-Strom 650. I did my maiden voyage over the Golden Gate Bridge in shorts and Flip-Flops of course! Some might say there is a better way to invest all your travel budget, as riding a bike across the USA can be dangerous, lonely, expensive, exhausting and risky. But…you know…it’s a Motorbike, baby!!!!!
So from now on I will sleep in a tent, eat bread and water and look for opportunities to Fix your computer for bed and breakfast. So if anyone knows anyone here in US where I could stay for a night and do something for it (I would do anything!!) tell me! (post a comment) My route will be San Francisco- Los Angeles- Las Vegas- Salt Lake City(maybe) and so on.
So please everybody wish me luck and a safe journey, as I have about 5000miles in front of me.





By the way.... My new San Francisco girlfriend!!!!

just kidding...LOL

3 comments:

Victor said...

Ei Perro!!

Estas aprendiendo espanol???

Ich hoffe so... Ich werde ab 13 Juli in Durango (Mexiko) bis Ende Dezember. Wanna come? Ich brauche keine Hilfe um mein Laptop zu reparieren aber du kannst da kommen, wenn du Lust und Zeit hast.

Mach's gut und viel Spaß!!!
Victor

Anonymous said...

of course I offer you to stay a while in my appartment and drink some beers & talk. (Maybe we can sing some "Otto"-songs - just like in old times)

writer:
"Guess-who" from Philadelphia

P.S. Please post your skype name!

Anonymous said...

Dude! I heard you bought your bike from this awesome sales guy named Bruno! Haha... have a great trip brotha!