flea market and greasy food

Anyone wanna go to the Pasadena City College Flea Market?

The last one was on a beautiful Sunday!  I’ve found amazing stuff here like African beads, a vendor who sells vintage designer sunglasses, and of course, vinyl records (the main attraction for Miguel and Sebastian!).

While they browsed the music section (4th floor of the parking garage), Rosa and I hung out with Camila and looked at things in miniature.

Rode the elevator. Looked at vintage clothes (I bought a wool cape. What the hell was I thinking? This is Los Angeles.) Checked out the massive amounts of cheap jewelry and other crap.

Then we went to the Hat for a greasefest!

Camila was hungry!

i suggest you make yogurt cheese

Because it’s freaking delicious. Basically you take some yogurt, drain it (either in a yogurt drainer or doubled up cheese cloth) for a few days, roll it into balls and marinate in a mixture of dried chiles (i used the ubiquitous arbol), garlic and dill. It was unbelievably good when I served it for hors’deouvres on Thanksgiving. Though next time I might just scratch the whole ball making step as it was frustrating and impeded me getting these balls in my mouth. However, if you just did a bowl of this stuff swimming in the marinade, you lose out on fun jokes about marinating your balls. Of which I made a few that weekend. I am a garlic fiend and these totally hit that sweet spot of garlicky goodness.

Adapted from Victoria Jenanyan Wise

Here’s a picture of the yogurt balls in their natural environment.

are you ready to LUUUUUUUUCHA???!!!???

Miguel won tickets to Lucha VaVoom, which I’ve always wanted to see, but was too cheap to shell out $33 for previously.  Amazing.  That’s about all I have to say.  I will probably go again and buy my own ticket next time…they’re starting a special Cinco de Mayo show!

no te metas con mi cucu – Chicos de Barrio
You may want to listen to this while reading the post. It kind of sets the mood.
 

It was a windy, cold and overcast night when we walked up to the Mayan Club on Hill St. downtown.  

We were passed by a bunch of guys in these old timey cars. I really like old timey things, but these cars were loud! They kept backfiring and scaring the bajeezus out of me. I kind of liked it.

Turns out, the performers were arriving in said old timey cars. Very dramatic and exciting. We saw some later arrivals when we were sitting inside as they were projected onto the wall.

The Mayan is very spectacular inside and out.

On to the luchadores!

The first fight featured Dirty Sanchez and 3 others who I don’t remember because clearly they were inferior to the DIRTY SANCHEZ!! (He’s the one wearing a mirkin, fyi.)

At one point during the match Dirty Sanchez started holding his butt and then one of the other luchadores pulled his pants down to reveal…a bunch of chocolate pudding!!! (I hope!) Then they mashed his teammate’s face into his dirty crack. OMG, it was awesome.

We are enjoying the luchadores and buxoticas! (all my pictures of the buxoticas, aka burlesque dancers, were crappy, sorry! but they weren’t as entertaining as the luchadores anyways.)

Next fight: Los Pollos Locos and El Presidente.

And the mini Secret Service and mini Chicken fight. Yes, those are midgets.

The best part of the evening was when the luchadores would fly out of the ring into the audience. Mostly on the right hand side of the stage. Kinda made me want to seat down there for all the extra excitement and danger. Of course, had I brought my nice camera I would have probably thought differently.

Ok, so this guy on the left, the one without a mask (don’t know why), was a huge crowd pleaser because everytime he did something interesting they played “No Te Metas Con Mi Cucu” and he danced. He would go over to his opponents and try to caress them and it would make them mad. Here’s another example of one of his “moves”.

Well, that was really fun. Can’t wait to go back for more!
LuchaVaVoom!!