Game Deck at the Santa Cruz Boardwalk
400 Beach St
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Water, so much like the air around us, is necessary to survival, and denial of access to water is like the denial of our very right to exist. However, although water should be free, we now must pay a price to exist, to drink the nectar which sustains our existence. As such, I propose a shift to a new way of thinking in which the cost of water is the baseline cost of all goods: the cost of water is now the cost of human existence. And should we choose to continue to exist, we have no choice but to bear the cost of that existence. Thusly, the cost of water is the neutral economic baseline from which our existence must arise.
As such, if water is neutral, this means that I can consider the $3 bottle of water at the Game Deck bar in the Neptune’s Kingdom gaming complex at the Santa Cruz Boardwalk to be the neutral baseline from which to judge the cost of all other goods (or at least all other water-containing beverages).
And if that $3 is the irrelevant baseline from which we must proceed , that means the $5 for a Bud Light really = $2… and the Red Hook and Anchor Steam, only 25 cents more ($5.25), really costs $2.25. And in my book, $2.25 isn’t bad for a draft beer.
Regardless of my ability to convince you of my new economic theory of Liquid Neutrality and its impact on the relative (or my ability to successfully rationalize away my paycheck on alcohol)… $5.25 ain’t that bad for a draft beer and a place to escape the throngs of strollers
and uncontrolled children running rampant on the boardwalk below. Especially if there’s pool, air hockey and foosball to go alongside, short lines for clean and staffed restrooms, and a stimulating game of put-put to follow.
Then why two stars?
No, it’s not because of the overabundance of nostalgia on the walls, touting the rich history of the boardwalk: touting the appearance of such jazz greats such as Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw, while today performers at the Boardwalk rank among the likes of Sha Na Na and Eddie Money.
No, it’s not even because of the excessive exhibition of FUPA and overuse spandex by my fellow clientele.
It’s because when I pay for an Anchor Steam, regardless if it’s $2.25 or $5.25, I WANT AN ANCHOR STEAM. I don’t know what that tap was hooked up to, but it wasn’t the hoppy goodness I’ve come to know and love from the folks of the ABC.
That is all.
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