Drink Me

LA is a trip, I’m discovering. You never know what you’re gonna see.

We took a side trip the other night to get a thingy for my laptop. Anthony was excited about revisiting Fry’s, a version of Best Buy, so he could poke around and push buttons and fantasize about electronics.

He was like a kid in a candy store. And it is, also, a candy store. To get to one of the 47 registers up front (that’s not a joke), you have to stand in a really long aisle of candy and gum. I think the idea is, if you’re there for hours, you won’t starve. You can eat nerds.

But I thought it was weird when I saw this:

Then, at the back of the store was this:

There also was a U.F.O. on the ceiling, smothering the lights over entire aisles of cell phone thingys. It made it really hard to see what was back there.

I got a few shots off before the nice guy who worked there said security would escort me out if they saw me doing that.

It turns out every store has a theme! This one, in Burbank, is themed 1950s sci-fi.

Ohhhhhhhhh.

Also in LA, there are Fry’s decorated like ancient Rome, Atlantis,Tahiti and – best of all – Alice in Wonderland.

Talk about trippy.

The only thing more surreal than living in LA would be falling into the rabbit hole. In LA.

Comments

[Andréa]

I sci-fi-themed gadget store?!?!

Sounds like my kinda place!

[Heather]

I have not been to Fry's yet, but if my husband goes, I know for sure he'll be gone for HOURS. He friggin loves that place. I'm not big on "those types" of stores. Of course LA has a "themed" one! Of course!!

[Fred Smith]

Do they have inflatable ET's hanging from the ceiling?