{"id":5641,"date":"2018-02-19T01:53:09","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T01:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/?p=5641"},"modified":"2023-07-12T21:52:37","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T21:52:37","slug":"the-echo-park-time-travel-mart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/misc\/the-echo-park-time-travel-mart\/","title":{"rendered":"The Echo Park Time Travel Mart"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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After spending the morning gorging myself on a food tour,<\/a> I plopped my bloated ass down on a bus seat for a ride to the Echo Park neighborhood so I could visit a store aimed at time travelers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Echo Park Time Travel Mart<\/a> sells items for a variety of time traveling use cases, such as a Viking odorant (the opposite of deodorant), a device for disabling evil robots (a magnet), soap from the Soviet Union, a gel that prevents cloning (the shopkeeper explained it must<\/em> work because he uses it and there’s only one of him), as well as robot milk which is inexplicably some type of powder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, obviously there’s an ulterior motive at work here. The store is a front for a local branch of children’s writing workshop 826, also known as the people who run the pirate store in San Francisco at 826 Valencia Street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In exchange for a purchase and small donation, I was allowed to spin The Wheel of Fortunes. Apparently a lot of candy will be coming my way tomorrow!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before leaving for the Blue Bottle next door, I was encouraged to step into the garden in the storefront, which was built for its photogenic properties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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