🇲🇽 MÉXICO (Oaxaca) 📍 12326 Venice Blvd., Mar Vista, Westside 🅿️ Street parking 🥤 Full Bar 🌱 Vegetarian Friendly 📸 All photos by Jared Cohee for Eat the World Los AngelesHISTORICAL ARTICLES are brought over from eattheworldla.com to make sure our Substack content is constantly growing and as full of depth as possible. These will never be behind the paywall. 📆 Original Article 14 December 2020Sometimes when you visit Quiadaiyn in Mar Vista, the sandwich board in front will have a colorful mountaintop drawn with an explanation of both the meaning and pronunciation of their name.

I’m sure my readers who aren’t Royals fans get tired of my Royals references, and I promise, I really do try to keep myself in check. But in this case, I think it’s appropriate. I want to talk about HDH. That’s Kelvin Herrera, Wade Davis, and Greg Holland, for you non-Royals fans. And yes, I realize they don’t fit into the era we focus on in PBN, but bear with me a minute.

In the sticky heat of a midsummer day, when I am around six years old, I sit at the counter of a smoky bar. The walls are brown and the room is gloomy and the air is stagnant and most of the lunchtime crowd has left. Propped on a stool, my legs swinging, the bar is a bit too high, but I hold myself up by my elbows while the adults wait for my decision.

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, one Wall Street story took the world by storm. The idea was that retail traders, people like me and you, were able to buy stock and change market conditions. Due to a popular Reddit forum known as r/wallstreetbets and a YouTube personality, countless individuals fled to purchase shares in the video game company GameStop (GME). Some people bought $300 worth of shares giving them almost 100 shares in the company and when that stock went on its epic climb, they had a joyous payday.

Share Critical Mass Every year at this time I am reminded of two events. My late mother’s birthday, the birthday of my wife’s late mother, and the death of my dear friend Christopher Hitchens, 12 years ago. I usually spend some time watching clips of some of his amazing talks. Here is one I shared today on twitter, an awe inspiring message about the beauty of science, and the need to maintain doubt and wonder: