Look for this sign to show you're on the right track

[sovay]

Due to the buses of the MBTA running with their usual fine precision, we made it to Swiss Watchmaker on Church Street five minutes before they closed, so I have left my watch with them overnight and will pick it up tomorrow after noon. It is very weird not to have its weight on my left wrist; I kept shaking back my sleeve to look at nothing. I feel I did an admirable job not being spooked by the profusion of clocks in close proximity after recent viewing experiences.

Because we had been talking about Alex Cox's Revengers Tragedy (2002) on the way into Harvard Square, I pounced as soon as I saw his autobiography X Films: True Confessions of a Radical Filmmaker (2008) in the film and TV section of Raven Used Books. I am sad that I could not get my usual durian shake from Le's, but a lychee shake is still pretty decent and nobody has prohibitions against taking lychees on public transit.

We walked home circuitously, by way of Porter and Davis Squares. spatch thinks we were passing Bartlett Street when he spotted a fox running into a streetlit yard. (Look out, delicious rabbits.) We wondered briefly whether foxes had been the cause of the spectacularly weird screeching noises we heard a couple of nights ago, but recourse to the internet suggests it was a family of raccoons.

All things considered, this has been a really nice day. I am going to catch up on politics (and decompress with Sapphire & Steel) and then I am going to bed. Have an ancient Roman transit map.

Comments

[nineweaving]

I hope you admired the Swiss Watchmaker's ithyphallic minute hand.

Now I've got "Rimini" running in my head.

When you go by the Via Aurelia
That runs from the City to Gaul...

Nine

[sovay]

I hope you admired the Swiss Watchmaker's ithyphallic minute hand.

I had no idea what you were talking about, but after perusing their array of clocks this afternoon, I take it you mean the one with the athlete-figure behind the hands?

Now I've got "Rimini" running in my head.

I wish Bellamy had set that one.

[nineweaving]

I take it you mean the one with the athlete-figure behind the hands?

Yes, the gigantic watch behind the counter. With the prick of noon.

I wish Bellamy had set that one.

Hell yes.

Nine

[gwynnega]

It's nice to know I'm not the only person who still wears a watch!

I didn't know Alex Cox had written an autobiography.

[sovay]

It's nice to know I'm not the only person who still wears a watch!

I have worn a watch since college and I don't plan to stop! I find it very useful.

I didn't know Alex Cox had written an autobiography.

Maybe I should have called it a memoir? It's a combination of shooting diaries, retrospective, and autobiographical information. So far it's wonderful.

[asakiyume]

I would definitely not turn up my nose at a lychee shake.

And that transit map--brilliant!!

[sovay]

I would definitely not turn up my nose at a lychee shake.

It was good! Maybe next time I'll get the jackfruit.

And that transit map--brilliant!!

It makes me happy on so many levels.

[umadoshi]

Lychee shake...! *starry eyes*

[sovay]

Lychee shake...!

Come to Boston! We have lychees!

[umadoshi]

*wistful* I would love to see Boston properly sometime. Hopefully the political nightmare will end and I'll feel okay about crossing the border again.

[sovay]

Hopefully the political nightmare will end and I'll feel okay about crossing the border again.

No, that's fair. I don't want to trap you here for the sake of a lychee, like some especially hellish variant on pomegranate seeds or the food of Fairy.

[umadoshi]

Although I'll note that if I were up for being trapped for the sake of a fruit, lychee would be a pretty excellent choice.

[ethelmay]

You could definitely trap my husband with lychees. Unfortunately his stomach no longer handles most dairy very well, so a lychee shake is probably out.

[sovay]

Unfortunately his stomach no longer handles most dairy very well, so a lychee shake is probably out.

I don't believe it had milk in it. I don't process dairy all that well, either. Tell your husband to stay on his guard.

[ethelmay]

On his guard against dairy, or against tempters bearing lychee? :)

I will keep my eyes open for lychee shakes around here. There's gotta be someplace in Seattle that does them. I know there's lychee boba to be had, but that's different.

[sovay]

On his guard against dairy, or against tempters bearing lychee?

The latter! You never know when someone will hand you some and then boom, it's seven years later and you can speak only the truth. This never helps as much with explaining where you've been as you really feel it should.

There's gotta be someplace in Seattle that does them.

Seattle really feels like it should. I don't even think of lychee as a mainstream-unusual flavor anymore.

I know there's lychee boba to be had, but that's different.

I like lychee boba (I don't like the regular, tapioca kind), but agreed.