FANCY TOAST!!

you know i got that sourdough bread game going hard in these streets, right?
i mean,
years and years of homemade, naturally fermented, fresh-baked sourdough
have only made each loaf get a little bit better than the last one...
and when you've got delicious bread you're much more likely to have delicious toast.
y'heard?
that's real.
good bread makes better people. we all know that's true,
and good people make better breakfasts-
that's not as well known, but it's also a thing.
now when you add all the good things to good people
using good bread to make breakfast,
what do you get?
you get this:

AVO-MUTHA-F*ING-CADO TOAST, NEIGHBORS!!
this one's for all the white girls.
they love it.....a LOT.
and it's just double-cooked bread and stuff but it's also SO expert.
that's wild!
you can see it's sexxxy as hell, and you're right to think that.
so what's on there?
well-
there's toast, obvi, golden and good, with the traditional softer sourdough centerline
in between the crusty surfaces.
plus, one mashed-up and spread out perfectly ripe avocado.
this green guaca was jusssssst right.
and sliced sweet baby grape tomatoes,
and wafer-thing tiny cukes,
and paper-thin tart radishes,
and chopped scallion and cilantro leaves, too.
i even had a little lettuce hiding out, just in case.
( i eat my garnishes, because that's what we do- rules is rules)
here's the thing-
from there, i went hard on the sprankles,
and that's what realllly turned it up to eleven.
i mean it.
look:

too much is the right amount!
yeah!!!
there's fire-roasted tomato flakes.
that's tight.
and fresh-ground dried sriracha pepper flakes.
that's even tighter.
and two-tone toasted sesame seeds.
that's the tightest.
but, wait..... the mvp co-captains? pink salt and fresh black pepper.
yep.
reliably right-on and really the upright upgrades this batch of from-scratch hash needed.
damn, this was good.
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i played myself.
i allotted a lot of time for two tattoos, and i did 'em effectively and efficiently,
and also quickly-
so the rest of the day was spent waiting for walk-ups,
after turning away a pair of possible zipzaps earlier in the day.
that's a lame turn of events.
however, my hands hurt.
even holding a paintbrush hurt after an hour.
although i found that out from firsthand pinched-finger experience.
holding a book, however, was virtually painless;
so i also did a bit of light reading.
yeah, man.
i love being at AMPERSAND TATTOO,
and it feels like we've made something that people really respond well to.
...even when they aren't getting tattooed.
that's maybe the biggest thing i've noted:
people like it there.
that is a very rewarding outcome-
creating an inclusive enclosure for expertism and interactive participation
was what i had in mind form the start.
i'm just so happy that it translates from warrior poetry to the real-persons' lexicon.
it's all really happening there, and i'm grateful for the time i have been given;
never quiet, never soft.....