Lunch. Little blue pill. Late-night snack.
Indio, California: We went to lunch at
11:30. Something like an early-bird special, I suppose... especially since
the restaurant we tried also features "light eater" luncheon specials.
Mario's
Italian Cafe is a very popular chain of six local eateries. Mario's is a
pizza and "spaghetti with meatballs" place - nothing fancy. You choose your
pasta and you choose your sauce. Prices are very reasonable, service is
quick and the food is quite good. All food served at Mario's is made
in-house, including the ravioli, lasagna, cannelloni and Manicotti. (For
some strange reason they also have Chinese Chicken Salad and Fish & Chips on
their menu.)
DT especially liked the door signage, since both
doors open into the same lobby
Not Christmas decorations
Spaghetti with garlic and dried chilies
Lunch portion - 4 ravioli with marinara sauce...
... much better with a side order of baseball-sized meatballs.
I wish more restaurants offered smaller portions. It is
ridiculous how much food we are served in restaurants. Too many doggie bags.
Too much food wasted.
This
evening we went to the Indian Wells Theater at Cal State San Bernardino to
see a play.
Viagara Falls is a new comedy about two old widowed men who are looking
for one last hurrah. They get a call girl and a few
Viagra tablets and the fun begins. The play takes place in one act - 100
minutes - on one set, with only three actors. Viagara Falls is really a tale
of the love between two life-long friends.
The show was very funny and I don't think I have ever heard as many sexual
innuendos, or euphemisms for needing Viagra. EVER. But the play was never
dirty - it was just bawdy vaudeville. The two male stars,
Lou Cutell
and Harold
Gould (right) played 77 year olds - and, in fact, they are both
older. Harold Gould is 85. He didn't miss a step or flub even one line.
Cutell has been in countless plays, films and TV shows and is famous for
being "The Assman" on a Seinfeld episode. (Cutell co-wrote this play with
Joao Machado.) The Lady of the Evening was played by the quite busty
Teresa Ganzel,
(age 51!). Ganzel was a delight. If you are in the Palm Springs area - check
it out... "or you can wait until Viagra comes out in liquid form and
pour yourself a stiff one"... sorry, couldn't help but use one of the
great lines from the play.
Viagara Falls set
After the play, late-night for this town, we went searching
for food and found ourselves at the
Elephant Bar in
Palm Desert. It had been a very long time since our "light eater" lunch
specials and we were hungry! We had bar snacks at this fun restaurant,
decorated in an African theme, serving Pacific Rim foods. Isn't that crazy?
The place has elephants everywhere - photos, statues, murals, busts,
tiles... on and on. Very cute.
How about ruining perfectly healthy salmon and tofu sushi by deep frying the
roll before slicing?
DT loved it!
I didn't even know chickens HAD fingers
Until my next update, I remain, your cultural correspondent.
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