Thursday, April 18, 2013

Still Life with Avocado



Well it ain't the Surfing Madonna, but even a simple guerrilla art avocado inspires the spirit.

Keep Baja Leucadia funky!

11 comments:

  1. This is much better than the Surfing Madonna - it's simple, iconic, unpretentious and evokes memories of scrumptious tacos, great soup, warm friends and great surf sessions.......

    the sculpin

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  2. OMG!!! Don't anyone touch it, I feel a miracle coming on any moment now.
    Yup, there it is, I'm gonna ask this avacado be moved to a better location where people can come and worship it as their own. I can see swag with the "avo" logo everywhere. Hallelujah!!! It is a sign from GOD!!!

    (Now to commercially exploit it and create a phony foundation and make some real bucks!!) Ahhh ignore that last sentence.

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  3. Get Jerome Stocks to lick it off, with his buddy Muir, the pension hog.

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  4. Paramahansa's favorite was avocado ice cream. There's your segway. Also, not too many people know this, but when the bridge was first built, for many years in big block letters on the sides it read "BETHLEHEM". So put that in your pipes, but don't inhale.

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  5. Oink Oink, Me Pension Hog...

    Oink Oink, Me Looooooove Avocado.....

    Thanks for the picture. Me will drive by it all the time.

    Oink Oink!

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  6. Gone already - the city moves fast on guerilla art, but potholes last forever.

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  7. How do you know what Yogananda's ice cream preferences were?

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  8. If my memory serves me correctly, the mother (Selma) of an old friend of mine (David) was good friends with a lady who was a good friend of Yogananda's WAY back in the 20's or 30's and played dominos with him where she lived, just east of what's now recognizable in fall as the pumpkin field across from SRF. (My friend Dave still has the dominos, as far as I know, but I know I can get the name of the lady if you like too). The story went that on his way back from his LA temple, Yogananda would regularly stop at a local gas station in Leucadia to refuel. The station served Avocado Ice Cream and he'd always get some there when he stop, as the lady said it was his favorite. I had never heard of such an ice cream flavor before, and thought it was a pretty unusual story. Then one day I saw an old photo up at city hall of the gas station in Leucadia and a small sandwich sign outside that said "Avocado Ice Cream 5 cents"! Really?! I later looked it up on line to find the ingredients of the dish. Still can't imagine how it could taste good either, but people who have tried it, love it. I wouldn't have believed Yogananda sat smiling on the back of an aligator either, but I have a copy of the pic from the San Francisco Zoo in the teens or twenties if you ever want to see it. Come on by Caldwell's Antiques any weekend. Free of charge. But if you want to see the Strange Thing, (a fifty-cent value) that'll be a quarter.

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    1. It's not hard to find avocado ice cream in Mexico. In fact, you can get it at Tepoznieves in Tijuana at the south end of Blvd. Sánchez Taboada in the Sam's Club shopping center. Other flavors include corn, beet celery, and carrot. Over 100 flavors in all.

      Both chocolate and vanilla, the most popular flavors of all, are derived from the fruit (the dried seed pods) of plants, along with many other fruit flavors.

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    2. YUM! OK, but what happened to and where can you buy Carob Ice Cream locally? That stuff was great.

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  9. 1:21-

    Your right on the road issue. Diablo Stocks and gang directed mindless Gus and Cotton to take all the money for the roads and put it towards the regional sports complex and McMansion fire stations over the last 10 years. As a result, our roads went from being at 80% excellent to 60% of excellent. As we all should know 60% is a low D and closing in on an F.

    They purposely let our roads deteriorate which is very Bad Asset Management.

    Dump Gus or Dump Council that support Sacramento Gus before he sinks us like he did all the other Agency he was in charge of Finance. Stockton and Sacramento were part of his doing- now he is borrowing away all of Encinitas future.

    The last Council meeting, Gus said- " There has never been a better time to borrow than today" . It shows his mind set.

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