Food blogger slideshow

Forbes.com has a slideshow of 8 female food bloggers. I hadn't heard of any of them except for Deb. Additional food resources are always welcome!

Related: I made this spinach and chickpea dish tonight and it is VERY GOOD.

Catty sidenote: there are some bad eyebrows in this slideshow. Ximena, make an appointment at Benefit already!

Suggestion to people selling Coachella tickets

Sell them for less than face value! If I wanted to pay face I could just buy from Ticketmaster. I know you don't want to lose money in this transaction, but that is not MP (my problem).

LA Vendy Awards

If you are in town on May 15 I suggest you go to the Vendy Awards (all you can eat truck food for $50) and tell me all about it (via).

Fun fact from the Vendy website:
We’ve been running this event for five years, and no one has ever gone home hungry or thirsty. We’ll stop selling tickets when we reach our limit. Because vendors can only work so fast, you will have to stand in line, but that is where you make new friends. One couple even got married after meeting in line at the Vendys! Results may vary, however.

Get the heck out of here ... This man is a lunatic

Words from the greatest direct mail marketer of our time, Karl Rove!

I smell like garlic

because I had lunch here at the recommendation of the LAT. It was tasty but did not change my life. In the words of Jenny, it's no L'as du Fallafel.

Big ticket divorces

In the latest McCourt story, and this depressing Patricia Cohen profile, the ex-wives seem like greedy, vengeful shrews. Is this unique to exes (of the extremely wealthy) or part of the human condition?

DJ MG

Check it. (pic via).

Mmmmm pasta

I want to make all of these and this. I have 2 lbs of little red potatoes and a bunch of fennel I need to get rid of. Any suggestions?

Little Jenny is 22 today!

No grumpets, only kitties.

LA Marathon this Sunday March 21

Sweet new Stadium to the Sea route! Watch out for street closures.

Tittay Citay

Thanks Mike.

Warning: this link takes you to an NSFW corner of the internet.

Surly Goat

Last night I went to the Surly Goat. It is a decent-sized place with a front and back patio, with a lot of beers ont ap for $5-8. It was not too crowded, and most people were young. It falls somewhere between 3rd Stop and Village Idiot, without a kitchen, though there is a hot dog cart on the back patio!

Pro tip: Park at a meter on Fairfax south of Santa Monica and walk up.

Let's go to the beach

Who's ready to get down on May 9?

I am!

Prepare here.

Adventures in public transportation

Picture me rolling!



Update on 3.18: This trip was easy, and I would do it again. Highlights include listening to the people next to me talk about how tarot cards are from the devil and racist tattoo artists. Walking by this bus stop today I saw a guy clipping his fingernails while skateboarding.

Ugliest creature in the LA area

Occaisonally, I see possums in my neighborhood. They look like runty ROUS's and make me want to barf.

Clarence Thomas GTFO

I've said it before and I am sure I will say it again: Clarence Thomas go home! Resign, bail, whatever.

Hiking to Escondido Falls in Malibu

See you there (thank you LAist)!

Living in Teartown

Nobody knows why we cry, but we do.

Latest stories to make me cry:

• Researching the Holt and Stone Weeks fellowship


• My second read of "The Dime Store Floor" by David Owen in the New Yorker.

Jenny sent this to me. I should buy her this out of gratitude.

Good laughs from BBC World News

I laughed out loud when I heard these stories last night:

• Karl Rove is proud of waterboarding. A true patriot.
• A group of Australian navy sailors created a competition to see who could sleep with the most women. "Sex on a pool table or with a lesbian reportedly scored higher points."

I know what I'm naming my next cat or child

Merlin Olsen

Pet peeves at work

My pet peeves outside of work are mostly people walking on the bike path and driving like blind elephants.

At work:

• Saying "my whole thing is" when you mean "the issue is"
• Ellipses instead of a period or other, more definitive punctuation. He gets points for quotation marks as well: See David’s comments below….just so I know, was the data you pulled ‘title specific’ or part of a ‘summary’ report/query?
• Eating a tuna sandwich on the other side of my cube wall every day for hours.

More to come I am sure.

Google Maps now offering bike routes

It's still in beta but fun to try out.

The suggested routes for West Hollywood to Venice are not bad.

Protect ya neck

From the LAT:

A dispute at a Lancaster movie theater during a screening of "Shutter Island" ended when a man, who had complained about someone nearby talking on a cellphone, was stabbed in the neck with a meat thermometer.

This occurred a couple of weeks ago and did not hit the presses until now? I would read more of this, less coverage of the Dave Letterman extortion case any day.

Mozza, Gjelina, and Scoops: highs and lows of what I ate this weekend

• Friday night we had dinner at Pizzeria Mozza, which is always great (though the fennel sausage pizza after two orders of meatballs is probably pork product overload).
• Saturday morning was brunch at Gjelina, which has a fun vibe despite the host's oversized bow tie. The food is good but portions are small and I resent being required to order sides with brunch. One plate should suffice at this time of day.
• Saturday afternoon interlude: hot dogs. No words.
• Sunday after a walk in Griffith Park we went to Scoops for exotic ice cream. THEY HAD ZERO ICE CREAM LEFT IN THE STORE. None. They were open, it was regular business hours, and they had totally sold out of everything. Rethink your business model and call me when you have a better inventory management process in place.
• Sunday night: Elizabeth helped me prepare this delicious salad with arugula, mushrooms, pine nuts, shallots and parmesan. I can't believe I am saying this but I bet an addition of prosciutto or pancetta would not hurt.

Hoarder Danger

Alter: being a hoarder can kill you.

There's still hope!

Maybe one day I will find my true career path. Hopefully I won't have to wait til I'm 55 and unemployed due to layoffs.

BREAKING PINKBERRY NEWS

Coconut flavor is out as of March 12, but will return in the summer, along with passionfruit. New flavor is mango.

End transmission.

Day of Reckoning

Today I go to the Beverly Hills Courthouse to try and avoid paying for a ticket I received last year.

Mike suggested I address the judge as "your magesty." I will consider it.

It's never-ending snacks around here

American children are finally catching up with me.

Like bringing a knife to a gunfight

Luckily for anyone who has come to a battle inadequately armed, the Supreme Court wants to roll back all kinds of restrictions on owning guns across country.

In related news, Clarence Thomas is a disgrace to the American judicial system.

A lot of rappers be like one hit wonders

Guru had a heart attack!

CatPaint!

If you have an iPhone, do yourself a favor and download CatPaint ASAP. Turn up the volume so you can hear the meows as you add kitties.

Thank you Besse for bringing this into Mike's life.