Because, quite simply..
“It’s the bomb.”
Meshuggah Coffeehouse is located on Delmar St., across from the Movie Theater. Quirky slightly Bohemian Coffeehouse. Instead of brewed cups they serve “Americano” Style. Which is, basically, Espresso diluted with water. Slightly stronger than normal brewed coffee.
Other things that might strike your eyes.
Delmar also has a decent Vinyl Records and CD shop. I ran into Chuck from the Ass Ponies and Wussy here. Highly bemused to find a Cincinnati in the wilderness outside of the Ohio River Valley.
Ted Dru’s Frozen Custard stand. Some of the best Ice Cream I’ve had in my life. Frozen Custard is a reason to love the American Midwest…
A Jazz and Blues “Outhouse” attached to a bar downtown near the Arch may be found snazzy by aficionados.
Dunaway Books, on Grand Street, is a great used bookstore,. Three stories of used books. Excellent selection, though deficient in fitness / physical culture, and philosophy. Excellent literary criticism section. Significant foreign languages section in the basement.
Sameem Afghan Restaurant – is a good Afghani Restaurant, also on Grand. I do not know if their meat is Halal. Ask the manager, a charming Pashtun young man with a sharp wit, to simply make you up something good. He will. Close your eyes, close your menu, and say “make me something good.
Free Art Museum and History Museum in Forest Park, there are some excellent artifacts here.
Fashion. Black Kids dress way better here than in Cincinnati. Seriously, the dirty over-sized White T-Shirt stchick has been getting old for the better part of a decade.
Young brothers here dress sharp and with flair (though not my style – I don’t do urban, being more of a Super-120 Armani Suit, and Egyptian cotton shirt, type of guy myself) whilst the sisters are more attractive, and more slender, with less of the junk-in-the-trunk accumulations of adipose tissue that Cincinnati sisters are infamous for. I do not mind voluptuous, but exaggerated muffin-top spillage of fatty tissue from badly accessorized and matched tacky clothing that is excessively tight, grows ludicrus.
White kids here are more casual, affecting a muted early 2000s casual hipster style, but without excess. Their women, as well, are more shapely and attractive than the norm in Ohio.
Quite a few Japanese cuties attend the local university. They tend to move about in packs. They also dress with some flair, though they do not appear to be that approachable.
The Gateway Arch. Highly over-rated, not to be recommended for the claustrophobic. It possesses an excellent view of the Midwest from the top of it’s 680 foot span, however. $10 per person sucks when you have a 2 hour wait, try to get there later in the day, though well before sunset. In this manner you can watch the sun setting nicely instead of having it set on you while you sit in a plastic Tram bod slowly traveling up it’s stainless steel body.
There is an interesting Pioneer Museum there, as well.
Dunaway Books, on Grand Street, is a great used bookstore
I am staying out of there.
Three stories of “previously loved” book heaven?
I’d have to sell all the gold!
Tempting.. I know.
Sell half 🙂 The place is calling your name..
“Bhetti….. come buy…”
I have about 25 books on my TBR pile. It’s almost a compulsion. I can resist until I’ve read them.
I can.
Thank God for the restraint skills fasting has taught me.
Discipline and acesis.
They do a soul, and body, good.