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African bean stew
Sunday, September 10 2000
Another sunny Sunday in West LA. As usual for such a day, I went on a walk around the neighborhood hoping to get free stuff from the alley. I wasn't especially successful though. Though I was hoping to find a little desk, the best item I ran across was a Pentium heat sink and cooling fan from the dumpster behind a Wilshire Blvd. computer store. Just the other day Kim had to buy one of those from Radio Shack for something like $12 for the AMD K6 I installed in her computer.
My housemate John and I went to the Smart and Final for a little household grocery shopping. After seeing the rows and rows of discount bulk items and the entire hot sauce section, John announced, "this is my favorite store so far in all of Los Angeles!" When we got home, John cooked us a lunch consisting of a black bean, black-eyed pea and peanut butter stew. He said it was a variation on an African recipe a friend had taught him. It was a great dip for my staple, corn chips.
We watched a lot of teevee, including a broadcast of the movie Pi, though I didn't pay much attention. It seemed like a sort of low-budget the Matrix meets Eraser Head sort of flick, with a hip modern raverkid soundtrack. A little over two years ago I'd asserted my independence for perhaps the last time with Kim by not seeing Pi with her, forcing her to go with none other than Matt Rogers instead. Neither she nor Matt had enjoyed it, dismissing it as a shoddy college student film inexplicably gone big time.
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