Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Fuddruckers ~ 15301 Ventura Blvd. Sherman Oaks, CA
Step 1: Get Your Burger
Step 2: Build Your Burger
Step 3: Complete Burger!
As you know Fuddrucker’s is a chain, but it’s damn good. I got this 1/2 pound Buffalo Swiss Melt Burger at the Sherman Oaks location inside the “new” Galleria (15301 Ventura Blvd., Sherman Oaks). You order whatever you want (veggie patty is an option) and when you get your burger, you go to the bar and build it as high or as low as you want. Some like it with leaf lettuce, one piece only. Some, like me, go all out and pile em high.
We got two burgers, fries, 2 newcastles and 1 drink for 25 bux. Those $18 fancy Hollywood burgers can kiss my ass.
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4 tacos)
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Go Dodgers! Long Live the Cubs Curse!
The Curse of the Billy Goat is a curse on the Chicago Cubs that was started in 1945. As the story goes, Billy Sianis, a Greek immigrant , who owned a nearby tavern (the now-famous Billy Goat Tavern), had two $7.20 box seat tickets to Game 4 of the 1945 World Series between the Chicago Cubs and the Detroit Tigers, and decided to bring along his pet goat, Murphy, which Sianis had restored to health when the goat had fallen off a truck and subsequently limped into his tavern.
The goat wore a blanket with a sign pinned to it which read “We got Detroit’s goat”. Sianis and the goat were allowed into Wrigley Field and even paraded about on the playing field before the game before ushers intervened and led them off the field. After a heated argument, both Sianis and the goat were permitted to stay in the stadium occupying the box seat for which he had tickets. At this point, Andy Frain (head of Wrigley Field’s hired security company at the time), waved the goat’s box-seat ticket in the air and proclaimed, “If he eats the ticket that would solve everything.” However, the goat did not. Before the game was over, it started to rain and Sianis and the goat were ejected from the stadium at the command of Cubs owner Philip Knight Wrigley due to the objectionable odor of wet goat. Sianis was outraged at the ejection and allegedly placed a curse upon the Cubs that they would never win another pennant or play in a World Series at Wrigley Field again because the Cubs organization had insulted his goat, and subsequently left the U.S. to vacation in his home in Greece.
The Cubs lost Game 4 and eventually the 1945 World Series, prompting Sianis to write to Wrigley from Greece, saying, “Who stinks now?” source: wikipedia.
In honor of the Curse of the Billy Goat, break your Sunday tradition and go eat Birria at your favorite Los Angeles area Birriria. If you’re near downtown, check out El Parian.
Goat Photo by Luis Montemayor
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5 tacos)
Monday, September 29, 2008
Manhattan Beach Blvd. ~ Manhattan Beach
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Monday, September 29, 2008
ENDLESS REFLECTIONS: 20 YEARS OF ART ~ October 4 - October 20, 2008 ~ Gallery Nucleus
Opening Reception: Saturday October 4, 2008 (7 pm – 11 pm)
A diverse gathering of distinguished and luminary artists commemorate 20 years of the Endless.
In October of 1988, DC Comics released the first issue of Neil Gaiman’s Sandman. Literate and lyrical, Sandman was a radical departure into new territories of storytelling. Sandman’s extended tale of the King of Dreams and his dysfunctional family (Destiny, Death, Destruction, the twins Desire and Despair, and the tragic Delirium) went on for over five years and 76 issues plus additional short stories, mini-series, and graphic novels. Sandman proceeded to win every industry award possible, as well as being the first comic to win the World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction, a literary award.
Much has been said, written, discussed, dissected and otherwise examined regarding Neil Gaiman’s amazing storytelling. But there’s the other component to Sandman’s unique and visionary success: The Artists. Sandman was illustrated by an extraordinary and diverse assembly of artists, attracting some of the industry’s (and indeed, well beyond the industry’s) most celebrated talent in the course of its run. In October of 2008, Gallery Nucleus is pleased to present Endless Reflections, an observance upon 20 years of the art of Sandman.
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4 tacos)
Monday, September 29, 2008
Telegraph Rd. ~ Los Angeles
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Friday, September 26, 2008
New serial fiction from Rodger Jacobs…
Her fresh scent lingered on a clump of dry brown manzanita at a point where the trail forked. Traveling north would take her back into the park and the rolling hills and rambling thicket but her journey was decidedly southern, away from the wilderness and toward the human dens. If she got anywhere near the winding paved roadways, the hot asphalt and the careening steel carriers that transported humans from one den to the next, her path would be cut short. I would probably find her at the side of the road, lying in a patch of dry brush waiting to die.
I know more about humans than most coyotes have the right or privilege to know. I once lived among them. I can speak their language but only to a select few. I know their customs and I know their ways. If I was going to find her, I would have to go back into their world again. Their hunting and grazing field is large, hemmed in one edge by the sand-blown Land of the Ancestors and the other by the vast body of water they call an ocean.
A human appeared on the trail below me, a young female wearing short blue pants that exposed her tan white legs and a shirt that barely cupped her swaying bulbous breasts. She wore a backpack and a look of fixed determination on her sweaty brow. I stepped forward quietly.
“Excuse me,” I said in my most polite tone. “Will that trail take me to Los Feliz Boulevard?”
Her eyes rolled into the back of her head as if she had been thunderstruck, she opened her painted lips as if to speak but no words came forth, and she collapsed in the brush. This is what normally happens when I try to talk to humans.
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4 tacos)
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Manny’s first HR as a Dodger
With today’s loss to the St. Louis Cardinals, the Arizona Diamondbacks have been eliminated from the playoffs, and your Los Angeles Dodgers are in! They’ll be the team with the fewest wins in the playoffs, but that doesn’t matter now. Congratulations to the Blue Crew on making it to the post-season!
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6 tacos)
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