As part of my ongoing “minimizing all the shit I own” project, I have been going through all these plastic tubs of notebooks I own and throwing out all the notebooks/notes that are really of no value to me as a writer.
I just came across some scrawled notes that I had completely forgotten about. They can only be an early idea for a blog post that I never got around to writing (because it is harder than it looks!), but here now I have completed (below) the post that I envisioned so many years ago! You’re welcome!
Here’s the idea: places I have peed!
This should totally be a thing! #45placesIhavepeed
45 Places I Have Peed.
by james bezerra
01. Lemoore, CA
02. Paris, France
03. Placerita Canyon State Park (~3,000 feet up, in the fog.)
04. Tuolumne Meadows, Yosemite, CA (In the meadow. Very early in the morning.)
05. 18402 Halsted Street #36, Northridge, CA 91325 (Very long bathroom.)
06. 23851 Arroyo Park Drive #409, Santa Clarita, CA 91355 (Poor lighting. Made out in the tub with a dark haired girl who doesn’t respond to my emails anymore.)
07. 3217 Johnson Ave, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 (Bathroom just inside the front door. Lots of potpourri.)
08. West Beach Inn Santa Barbara, CA 93101 (We peed just outside of the RV we were sleeping in. Because sometimes peeing in the parking lot is just more fun.)
09. Manhattan (Peed all the hell all over the place! Without discretion.)
10. Harvard Square, 57 JFK Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 (Coffee shop behind a gift shop.)
11. PVD - Providence RI train station - 100 Gaspee Street, Providence, RI 02903 (Portas.)
12. Brown University Providence, RI 02912 (Fuck them.)
13. The Shelburne Museum (The greatest museum in the world!) 6000 Shelburne Rd, Shelburne, VT 05482
14. New London, CT (At a bar. I think. Was it a bar?)
15. Keeper’s: A Country Cafe Rt 106 & Bailey’s Mill Road, Reading VT 05062 (Hook instead of a sliding lock.)
16. 4100 Bar (The best bar in LA! Peeing here make you feel like Sinatra.) 4100 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90029
17. Catalina Italiana 346 Hanover Street Boston, MA 02113 (Candle light dinner kinda place/dim bathroom.)
18. The Block Island Express Terminal 2 Ferry Street, New London, CT 06320 (Worst quesadillas on the east coast! BAthroom isn’t much better.)
19. Deja Vu, Bakersfield, CA 1524 Golden State Ave, Bakersfield, CA 93301 (The bathrooms are regrettably well lit and they make you question your value as a human being/you count your available cash.)
20. LAX
21. BUR
22. BOS
23. LGA
24. JFK
25. SEA
26. LAS
27. SLC
28. LHR
29. CDG
30. LTN
31. The 1st & 3rd floors of Jerome Richfield Hall Northridge, CA 91325 (I don’t pee on the 2nd floor.)
32. 829 East Kensington Road Los Angeles, CA 90026 (2nd floor Egyptian-themed tile.)
33. 25016 Walnut Street #10 Newhall, CA 91321 (Red plastic shower curtain. Somehow the best sex happens in poorest places.)
34. That one place in Brooklyn, just across the bridge from Manhattan that’s between a yogurt place and a pizza-by-the-slice place
35. Michael Jordan’s Steak House NYC 23 Vanderbilt Ave New York City, NY 10017 (Where we got hedge fund guys to buy us drinks by sending my brother’s underage girlfriend to ask for them.)
36. 25016 Walnut Street #22 Newhall CA, 91321 (Hardwood floors. Big master bedroom.)
37. 9826 Reagan Road #218 San Diego, CA 92126 (Two bed, two bath, or pee from the balcony to the pool.)
38. 10292 Camino Ruiz #5 San Diego, CA 92126 (Bathroom is through the bedroom. On the right,)
39. The San Diego Pet Memorial Park 8995 Crestmar Pt. San Diego, CA 92121 (Down the hill there’s a bathroom in amongst the ruins.)
40. Pear Lake CA, Latitude: 38.8918521 Longitude: -120.2568578 (Phoenix toilet.)
41. The Auction House (The best bar in the world!) 300 East 89th St, New York, NY 10128
42. Ben & Jerry’s Factory 1281 Waterbury-Stowe Rd, Waterbury, VT 05676 (Hippies. Standa rd bathrooms.)
43. Trinity Church Boston 206 Clarendon St, Boston, MA 02116 (Just kinda awesome. You should go there.)
44. Parson’s Landing, Catalina CA (One of my favorite places ever.) Latitude: 33-28'22'' N Longitude: 118-33'06'' W
45. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (One of the best museums that there is in the world.) 280 The Fenway Boston, MA 02115.
(This list was much more difficult to compile than I had ever expected! You try putting one together! If you do, I will post it.)
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