Bienvenido a Miami?

[FreddyKnuckles]

I'm going to Miami the 18-20.  Anything I should do besides make constant Will Smith jokes?

[peacocks]

uhhhh. I live in fla so I feel obligated to respond to this but never really having been to miami I just don't know. There's a place called churchills that is pretty cool I hear? Sorry for being a lame floridian.

[FreddyKnuckles]

Pilgrimage to sites from Dexter?

[jess]

Eat lots of Cuban food?

[FreddyKnuckles]

Didn't antero go to Miami for law school?

[fishjim]

Fred Neil walking tour of Coconut Grove! This article's a place to start:

http://www.fredneil.com/a-sunny-afternoon-in-coconut-grove/

If you haven't seen The Cove yet, do. Think it's on Netflix Instant. The main activist in that film, Ric O'Barry, was a longtime friend of Neil's.

The photo below is pinned to my corkboard: Ric O'Barry (top) and Fred Neil (bottom) recording dolphin sounds in Miami in '72. Those two may be the closest we've come to a phenomenology of cetaceans:

[simonfox]

Only thing I can ever suggest about a place I've only visited and never lived is food.  So my suggestion is to eat Cuban food.  Hopefully this very important suggestion reaches you before you leave.  If I were remembering the place I ate with my friends for breakfast when I was there, I would tell you.  But I'm not, so I can't, and I won't... but if I was your girl.*







*Unless I am wrong I am not actually a "girl" and do not know you well enough to want to get a sex change for you.

[auto-da-fey]

I lived in this dismal hellhole for a year. I tried really hard to come up with something, anything to offer for this thread, and . . . I got nothing. I fucking hate Miami. Even the sex museum there is worthless.

[auto-da-fey]

oh, well--

There's a place called churchills that is pretty cool I hear?

yeah, I guess that place is alright; I saw Anal Cunt there, and I mean, fuck Anal Cunt, but I was curious.

pretty sure Churchill's would not be FK's scene though, from what I gather.

[simonfox]

My friend hates it too.  He's there basically so his girlfriend/hetero-life-partner can finish her theater degree.  On the upside, they make way more money there than they did in Gainesville.  And she's a great actress.  And Cuban food, but you can really get that nearly anywhere in Florida.

[FreddyKnuckles]

you guys are a riot.  It was the warmest place I could get plane tickets to. 

It's got a beach, which is cool.  There is ocean to splash around in.

We get in at 10pm into Fort Lauderdale on Friday (today for most of y'all) and will probably just have some hotel booze and go to bed.  Early Saturday there will a 10 mile run on the beach (gf is training for the cherry blossom ten miler), then we will hit the beach.  Then some late lunch at Joe's Stone Crab.  The some nice dinner at TBD.  Then Some DRINKING at some PLACES until I fall asleep most likely at like midnight because I am a baby/oldman.  Then I will wake up sunday, run 8 miles, then hit the beach again.  Grab some grub, then head to the airport to head home.

[simonfox]

If you go to Cheesecake Factory you might see one of my friends working.  I probably shouldn't mention their names just for the sake of, you know like personal privacy and shit.

[guavacris]

Eh to miami, but hell if dragging your beach chair into the water and just relaxing all day partly submerged, partly keeping saltwater out of your beer, and then snorkeling when you get bored and trying not to kill a bunch of coral isn't a great time.


I'm from ft. lauderdale though and mostly drive through miami on the way to the keys so no help here. Just popping in to say yes! to the beach and buying cheap gear and pool floats at the drugstore and taking them into the ocean too.

or behaving like an adult and renting a jetski.

simonfox, are you from gainesville?

[FreddyKnuckles]

I will probably not be eating at cheesecake factory

[simonfox]

simonfox, are you from gainesville?

I've never lived in Gainesville so far, but it is a possible future possibility.  I met the guy who lives in Miami now when he lived in Orlando... we were roommates actually.  I live in Mims currently.  I'm not originally from Florida at all though.

I will probably not be eating at cheesecake factory

Yeah, that would probably be pretty lame.

[FreddyKnuckles]

I think miami is pretty cool. I had pollo asado for dinner that was hands down the best chicken i've had. She had Ropa vieja and it too was fantastic. Both sunburned. Planning on some more beach and some stone crabs before our flight tomorrow night.

[Anne the Man]

I had pollo for dinner

Too long have I been here that my brain automatically assumes you ate Miles. Not sure how digestible the glasses and beard would be.

[kyle]

In Miami until Thursday. My friend came down to visit his family in Hialeah, so I have the Cuban food thing covered. I've eaten at a few local places... Palacio de los Jugos was awesome. Had a Paella with shell fish and a salted cod dish (bacalao?). His grandmother made me a steak sandwich and i was halfway through it before I realized she was waiting for me to say how good it was. It was muy sabroso.

I'm having fun, but it kinda sucks how far everything is away from everything. Kinda just wanna stay in Hialeah and eat and read books. Fuck it.

[kyle]

oh, well--

There's a place called churchills that is pretty cool I hear?

yeah, I guess that place is alright

Wow, so that place is one of the most ridiculously lawless places I've ever been to. Crackheads from the neighborhood run "security" for the parked cars in the lot, all for $3 so that they make sure to remember to "watch your car". Marijuana was being smoked out in the open on the patio area, as well as in the bar. Wild shit. People were smoking crack in the back room, pouring whiskey for themselves from bottles kept in the back room. More crustpunks outside on the corner than there were people inside. All the male employees are from the British Isles (English and Irish) and they seem pretty insane. Place is definitely interesting.

Totally crazy place.

[Antero]

Didn't antero go to Miami for law school?

I lol'd.

[davy]

I had the best fish I've ever eaten at a little ramshackle dockside place on Key Biscayne. I recommend that joint.

Oh wait. I just found it on yelp. It was called Jimbo's Place and is now closed.

[auto-da-fey]

oh, well--

There's a place called churchills that is pretty cool I hear?

yeah, I guess that place is alright

Wow, so that place is one of the most ridiculously lawless places I've ever been to. Crackheads from the neighborhood run "security" for the parked cars in the lot, all for $3 so that they make sure to remember to "watch your car". Marijuana was being smoked out in the open on the patio area, as well as in the bar. Wild shit. People were smoking crack in the back room, pouring whiskey for themselves from bottles kept in the back room. More crustpunks outside on the corner than there were people inside. All the male employees are from the British Isles (English and Irish) and they seem pretty insane. Place is definitely interesting.

Totally crazy place.

imagine adding Anal Cunt to all of that. basically the only memorable night I had in a yearlong sentence in that hellhole city.

[FreddyKnuckles]

That's a common thing here in DC at the clubs in the shady parts of town.  Give me $10 bucks and I won't smash your window the second you go inside, basically.

[DCDave]

That's a common thing here in DC at the clubs in the shady parts of town.  Give me $10 bucks and I won't smash your window the second you go inside, basically.

No it isn't.

[jebreject]

I bet it's a common thing for people to say is a common thing though!