Drunk, Passed Out Small Child in Chipotle Booth.

Who are you? What are you doing? Why are you here?
I'm just tryna eat my burrito-bowl, not investigate a murder-scene.

Backpacking Hobo Knitting Outside My Window.

Really the only words that come to mind are: SUN.DOWN.

"may I photograph your heels?"...SUNDOWN.

Today I was in San Francisco for my first ever job interview. Hello Real Life. All corp'ed out in my business cash' attire, I was celebratory-strutting down the Embarcadero when all of a sudden I was accosted by a short and breathless middle-aged man. "I am an artist, and a sculptor," he huffily explained, "and I have NEVER, seen such beautiful arches as yours." Suddenly he was on his knees, extending his pudgy arms out towards my feet whilst I was simultaneously wondering if I had just become the center of a comedic horror movie in which the young ingenue is lured into showing a random man her feet and then is kidnapped or murdered in the bright daylight of the hobo-patrolled San Francisco Embarcadero. And yet, being the naive pushover that I am, I hesitated yet ultimately obliged and soon after there I was with a pudgy middle-aged man caressing the bottoms of my feet whilst he positioned them in the sunlight to best capture their beauty with the bohemian lens of his blackberry curve. And 10 minutes later after he triumphantly concluded his work--the most intimate anyone has or ever will be with my gnarly feet, I snapped out of post foot-admiration letdown and took a moment to myself to utter the only words that could possibly describe this outlandish situation: "SUN.DOWN."

definition of sundown.

so i've been wanting to start this blog ever since I first learned the term "sundown" last year. a few friends and I were working on writing a script into the wee hours of the morning and I started to notice the term "sundown" commonly interjected into our late-night delirious conversations. fed up after feeling out-of-the-loop for far too long, I finally asked: "what does this MEAN?? this SUNDOWN thing??" and with the answer, my life was changed.

as i have now explained to the several hundred people that have now since asked ME what sundown means, I will commence this blog by explaining to you..

it all started with falafel.

and not just any falafel. lenny kravitz's favorite. l'as du falafel in paris' hip and jewish marais district. and apparently it wasn't just lenny kravitz who loved it. so did a blonde, bright-eyed, bushy-tailed american study-abroad student characterized by her tendency for getting a little lost and consequently, a little in trouble. (but more on that later.) so with hopes of preventing a failed-falafel trip, this blonde, bright-eyed, bushy-tailed american study-abroad student went online to inquire as to the closing hours of l'as. once she arrived at its website, she was a little surprised to see that the hours listed were: "10am to sundown." SUNDOWN? but what does that even mean? the sun sets at a different time every day and what, am I supposed to figure that out using a sundial and shit just to get some goddamn falafel?? extremely unclear, right? and that's exactly what sundown is.