Carlsbad Magazine Counts It Down

The new issue of Carlsbad Magazine features a list of the Top 10 things to do in Carlsbad. What’s number one? The editors really reached on this one: The Beach. Apparently, there are “at least 10 different things to do at the beach.”

The only actually interesting thing on the list is the Museum of Making Music, and it was number seven. Oh, and number 10? Shopping. Right.

For the real goods check out the story on the Locals’ Top 25. That list is for people who enjoy Carlsbadistan.

A couple activities, however, were apparently left off both lists. Here are a few of them:

1. Get all mellow and post artistic observations to a blog.
2. Ride a cruiser home drunk from Dinis
3. Talk loudly about how rad things used to be on the patio at Pizza Port.
4. Set up lawnchairs and umbrellas with all your salty buddies and oogle young mom’s as they push strollers past OffShore.
5. Park your monsterous motorcoach on top of the seawall, put all your furniture on the lawn (including your TV, electric grill, and inflatable pool), and pretend you live here.
6. Set off fireworks every night of the year, just when people are getting to sleep.
7. Let your dog take huge, runny dumps on the sidewalk and then leave them there for everyone to admire.
8. Speed up and down Coast Highway in your 2007 Chevy Malibu and gas it whenever you see people stepping into a crosswalk.
9. Get into late-night arguments with your boy/girlfriend outside someone else’s window at 1:30 in the morning.
10. Spend the day sitting at Starbucks frightening people with your leering, creepy glances.
11. Let all five of your dogs loose to run on the beach.
12. Have a romantic Carl’s Jr. dinner on the beach, then leave all your trash on the sand.
13. Race up Garfield like you’re in the Indy 500.
14. Kayak into the lineup at Tamarack.
15. Yell into your cellphone during dinner at Jay’s Gourmet.
16. And at least once a month, move your bowels under the Hemlock Stairs.

There’s more, but we really need to go get some coffee.