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It's the annual Fiesta here in Santa Barbara, and one of the bosses here gave everyone $10 to go there and buy lunch to stimulate the economy. I'm on phone duty today so my co-worker took my $10 and bought me food and brought it back from one of the food stands.

Mmmm....tacos.



ETA: Holy SHIT the sauce on these tacos is hot.

Be welcomed by NYC



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I just finished dinner at WD 50 and it was weird and delicious and I took pictures of every dish to post later. Then they took me back and I met Wylie! He was humble and very nice and so damned cute I wish I could take him home. Now I am in a cab on my way to Times Square!

I was sitting at the gas station, waiting for a pump to free up and this flash of orange caught my eye and look what was stopped at the stoplight! I snapped a picture.

I got Chinese food delivery last night, and I had leftovers for breakfast this morning. My fortune this morning says:

It is better to have beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.

I don't know about you all, but is there something bad about beans and bacon? Because I'm not seeing it.

Oh my god I am so tired.

Today I went out to this place in Santa Barbara called Chubbies to get a burger for lunch. They are a fabulous hole in the wall with really greasy and fantastic burgers. But they also have:



Chicken Beast. I would love to see that.

They also attract random dirty hipsters:



So I went to go see Watchmen. I got there really early (I drove right from work) and I still had an hour to wait (I had bought my ticket on Wednesday from Fandango for the 7:40pm show) and the manager came out and took pity on me being all alone in the line waiting for 7:40 and let me in to the 7:00pm show. So that was cool.

This was a really bloody, violent and gory movie. And yet I counted about 5 children aged 5 and under with their parents, one being a little girl in the row right in front of me. 45 minutes in to the show, she got freaked and started crying and they had to leave. I swear, people are so stupid. And then there these two old women (I mean old...like 70s) sitting right behind me and they kept fucking talking! I mean seriously, what were they even doing there? They didn't get the movie at all and I had to tell them to shut the fuck up twice, and they finally did.

Overall, I really enjoyed the movie. I think though, if you are not a fan of the comic book, it will seem over long and not make a whole lot of sense, even though the movie followed the comic nearly scene for scene (except for the Black Freighter stuff, but that's being released on March 24th in a separate DVD, which is really cool). As we were leaving, a lot of non-nerdy folk were complaining about how long and stupid it was, but all the nerds were cheering. So there you go. The actor who played Rorschach was fucking AMAZING (I think he's a child actor now old - I need to check IMDB) and I have to give Billy Crudup mad props for having the courage to spend 2/3 of his scenes in the movie completely naked with his cock hanging out.

Oh! And people are 12 and kept giggling through the cock scenes and the sex scenes. Some people even laughed at really inappropriate times and that bugs me. I hate stupid people.

So I actually have only one complaint about the movie itself: The music. The director was really heavy handed with the choice of pop music songs (including Ride of the Valkyries during this epic Vietnam War scene...I mean, come on...really?) and IMHO, it detracted from the movie. But other than that, I was really pleased. Carla Gugino was flawless as always and the guy who played Night Owl was really good too. So I enjoyed the film.

On my drive home, I took the back road that goes around the back of the AFB and then past the prison, and about 6 deer ran in front of my car in a herd, but at least I was only going 35 (for that very reason) and was able to stop in time, and I was the only person on the road that late. But I really dread the day I can't stop in time and I smash into one of those large beasts.

And last, but not least, I saw this church sign on the ride home tonight, and had to take a picture of it.



Goodnight everyone. I am exhausted. Oh, and I deleted the Harry Potter voice post because it was seriously lame.

If any of you watch Top Chef tonight, the challenge was to cook the "last meal" of a famous chef. It was fascinating seeing what these 5 well known chefs wanted for their last meal.

So it got me thinking; what would I want for my last meal?

I thought about it for about 20 minutes and came up with this:

Knackwurst from Schreiner's Deli in Montrose, CA, baked in the oven on a bed of homemade sauerkraut. Served along with that would be my perfect whipped potatoes.

I'd have a Diet Coke. I know...a Diet Coke. I truly love the flavor of Diet Coke.

Dessert I would have a blood orange tart with a crust made with lard, and a Meyer lemon panacotta.

At the end, I would have a nice sized glass of Balvenie Doublewood single malt scotch.

Here's the website for the deli: http://schreinersfinesausages.com/history.php

So, hyenas, what do you want for your last meal?

Mom and Dad are coming home tomorrow, so I decided to spend today at their house in the quiet solitude of their place. They live on the golf course, and there's never anyone around. I took several pictures:


This morning I sat out on the patio with the cats, reading the new Michael Connelly book (I have to finish it tonight (about 3/4 done) because I have to give it back to Dad tomorrow) and enjoying the morning air.


Then I laid down on the couch for a while, and was accompanied by Lacy. I read about 200 pages of the book just like this.


I fed the ducks! They all marched down the fairway from the water hazard, and ate. That's only about 1/3 of the flock.


And Mom and Dad have good food and wine. Mmmmmm.

I just went out a few minutes ago to start the BBQ and there was a family of deer meandering down the fairway, but it was too dark to get a pic.

I really love it here at their house.

ETA: Fuck yeah this steak is good. Steak with salt rub, steamed white rice and red wine.

From fusion_mobile

Copy this sentence into your LJ if you love bacon with a passion that borders on holy, where you imagine yourself eating strips of bacon out of a bowl made of bacon with bacon bits sprinkled all over it...with bacon ice cream for desert.

So I drowned my sorrows in an excellent bowl of Pho and and a leisurely dinner hour of reading Watchmen.

Here's the beautiful tableau.