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To Like Or Prefer?

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:23:00 -0800

I got approached with, “Are you a food blogger?” last night at The Good Luck Bar.

I was spotted - nevermind that he was already with another food blogger and whom I didn’t see until later. But there were a lot of questions. Sometime during the ensuing “conversation” I felt bombarded by something that came out of nowhere: “You don’t like Asians, do you?”

What?

I’ve thought about it and thought about it. I admit: There are jokes I crack about K-clubbing. I am not an expert in ethnic, hole-in-the-wall establishments in the SGV and though I would love that, I am located in the heart and center of Los Angeles - the home of too many tuna tartars. No, my friends aren’t all Asian. But does that mean I don’t like those of my own continental ethnicity? It made no sense. But I got it; I am a UCLA grad.

I realized he meant, “You don’t prefer Asians, do you?”

No. I can’t say I do.

I’ve been on the side of being “unpreferred” my entire life - to lack empathy (and that is to fail to take action) on behalf of the “unpreferred” would be by its very definition cutting out the premise of my life’s experience. The first half of my life, I wasn’t white enough; the second - I wasn’t Asian enough. The gift is the opportunity to have been on both sides of the fence and situations in which it was necessary to build strength of character. You don’t grow when you’re comfortable.

I dislike most people indiscriminately.

(via vocino)

Mon, 07 Sep 2009 15:15:54 -0700

(via vocino)

america (via spacemonkey)

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 21:25:38 -0700

america (via spacemonkey)

Bacon Chocolate Gift Box - Vosges

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 12:29:00 -0700

Bacon Chocolate Gift Box - Vosges:

It’s $62 but SO delicious. Do want.

Dubstep remix of Britney Spear’s Toxic (via kneath)

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:13:31 -0700

Dubstep remix of Britney Spear’s Toxic (via kneath)

Receptionist Entry No. 19

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:57:31 -0700

Elderly Male Client: We have a daughter that we adopted a few years back ... she's going through her menstruating times right now.
The Receptionist: What? She'd tell you that?
Elderly Male Client: Well ... yeah, it's a natural thing, right?
The Receptionist [loudly]: I can't believe she told you she's been masturbating!

"Hey hey hey!! Speak English!! We don’t speak Mexican in here!!"

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:39:00 -0700

“Hey hey hey!! Speak English!! We don’t speak Mexican in here!!”

- The Receptionist (Entry No. 18) while interrupting Salvadorian co-workers conversing in Spanish

(via spacemonkey)

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:42:41 -0700

(via spacemonkey)

spacemonkey: Today’s helping of ferrets with hats on.

Sat, 30 May 2009 10:49:47 -0700

spacemonkey:

Today’s helping of ferrets with hats on.

Video

Mon, 25 May 2009 18:46:57 -0700

Oh kitties…

Mon, 25 May 2009 18:42:40 -0700

Oh kitties…

Plaid. On Victorian frame. Love.

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 22:35:06 -0700

Plaid. On Victorian frame. Love.

On Beverly at the Zune house

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 21:26:35 -0700

On Beverly at the Zune house

Love these chairs. On Beverly and Kilkea.

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 21:03:05 -0700

Love these chairs. On Beverly and Kilkea.

Dingleberrycat is chasing his dingleberry.

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:29:00 -0700

Dingleberrycat is chasing his dingleberry.

Heading downtown during sundown

Sun, 19 Apr 2009 19:40:08 -0700

Heading downtown during sundown

fecklesss: logicalfallacies

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:07:00 -0700

fecklesss: logicalfallacies

Peep show. (via @eekthree)

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:33:50 -0700

Peep show. (via @eekthree)

Knocking Out The Competition

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:36:00 -0700

The Bourgeois Pig is where I go for inspiration, ambiance and coffee. In that order.

Intelligentsia is where I go for coffee, ambiance and inspiration. In that order.

I run into Chris at Intelligentsia. Chris is the barista most of the time when I’m at The Pig. It’s because of his vibe and, quite frankly, taste in music - that I go there as much as I do when he works. The playlist is psych rock, trip hop, all the moody kind of stuff that will let you zone out and get inspired. You know what inspires me at The Pig? The blue and red-hued lights all over the place. How no piece of furniture inside is ever repeated in fabric, structure or even symmetry. How there is a room called “The Forest” in the back fashioned with fake trees and even darker lighting straight from the set of the remake of Willy Wonka.

Ambiance? Yeah - this kind of means that service is slow. Dark lights? You’re not certain it’s clean behind that couch 100% of the time. If you don’t know better than that you should mean to stay awhile because with one barista (and no more) working at a time this is not a place to expect nor demand Starbucks expediency.

Yes, I run into the barista who works at The Bourgeois Pig at Intelligentsia. Even immediately before his shift at The Pig. And you can’t really knock him for it. But people try to. The two “coffee houses” offer completely different products.

Intelligentsia is known for its coffee. It has three or four baristas that became finalists in a World Barista Championship competition or other and there are at least that many working at a time. People go to Intelligentsia for the tea leaves and coffee. The patio is nice, sure, but you don’t see the bagged roasts flying off the shelves at The Pig. Actually - they’re not even available to take home.

Another case in point: Intelligentsia closes at 8 or 9PM. The Pig? 2AM. They are but a mile away from each other.

Anyway, so this is how the coffee culture has been shaped on the east side of Los Angeles. It’s evolved past Central Perk in Friends (which, by the way, really was inspired by The Bourgeois Pig).

I love Los Angeles

lookbookdotnu: park

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:24:27 -0700

lookbookdotnu: park