Edna Crandall
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Had my birthday dinner tonight at Juniper & Ivy (Blais's restaurant in San Diego) and it was really great. Our server was awesome. We had a starter, toast, two small plates and two desserts.
Starter - San Diego Figs, "ritz" crackers, whipped marscapone, walnut butter and figs. Really great mix of sweet/salty/savory.
Toast - Carne Crudo Asada, carne asada seasoned beef tartar with sunny side up quail eggs. Way bigger than I expected, large rustic bread slice and 4 quail eggs. My husband loved this and wants to try a riff on it for breakfast.
Kale Caesar - baby kale, duck confit, duck fat croutons, and parmesan/black pepper dressing. the croutons were just on the edge of too salty for me, but worked well with how rich the rest of the salad was. Duck was perfect and not too fatty.
Lamb shoulder with roasted parsnips and fig reduction - rich and amazing. Husband wound up getting more because I just can't eat the texture of the really fatty pieces.
Lemon Meringue - lemon tarte with marshmallow ice cream and pomegranate. Not flavors I would have ever thought of putting together, but really surprising and delicious. Marshmallow ice cream might be my new favorite. We were waffling between this and the yodel and our sever suggested this one based on the ice cream and the fact that it's seasonal. Glad we went with her call.
Birthday dessert - chocolate mousse with salted caramel sauce and coconut sorbet. standard, but perfectly made.
Drinks and wine were tasty as well. We already want to go back - excited for our next special occasion.
Also wanted to add that we've eaten several times at current contestant Chad White's sadly now closed restaurant Comun. Was one of my favorite places to eat in town and had a great taco Tuesday deal. Unfortunately, it had a bad location for what they were trying to do (the whole block had decent to good restaurants that have already closed). I still need to make it down to TJ to his restaurant La Justina. He is the sweetest guy, and I hope for good things for him in Spokane.
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Lina's like a prayer look at the baptism -- perfect.
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Liv's Face Off reports just keep getting better. This week had two gems, the inspirational ringtone for Ben, and the house cats made up as jungle cats idea. So good.
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My favorite thing was probably the gnome cop saying "tell it to the adorable owl we dressed as a judge"
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Yay, Grunion! When I first moved to San Diego I was invited to a grunion run, and to my eternal shame I said "like in 90210?" And I was with Kelly in thinking grunion were made up by dudes who wanted to get girls down to the beach after dark until I finally saw them in my 3rd or 4th year going. They're super weird.
I still can't believe Brandon gets away with talking to his parents like that. They'd still be finding pieces of me if I'd tried that crap.
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Ha! This came up on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills regarding why Malibu is so desirable because while you can't make a beach in CA private, you can make accessing them a pain in the ass. Hence Malibu.
As a CA native (central, not coast) I was so confused by the entire beach club concept. I remeber watching the summer episodes as a teenager and having a "What the Hell is that?" moment. I didn't grow up near the beach, but we used to go to Santa Cruz in the summer and I had enough relatives up and down the coast that I spent plenty of my childhood on the beach and I had never seen a beach club in my life (I still haven't. At least not liked depicted in the show). I didn't even know places had private beaches until I was in my 20s and moved to NYC for a bit. It was such a completly alien concept for me that I think I though 90210 just made Beach Clubs up for storytelling purposes.
Also from Central CA, and went to Santa Cruz in the summer. I'm in San Diego now, and familiar with the La Jolla Beach & Tennis Club (both as a college student being told to GTFO their beach and as a guest of one of my bosses). It claims to be "one of California's only private beaches" but they only own out to the mean high tide.
It would make more sense for the West Beverly kids to belong (or have their parents belong) to one or two of the Country Clubs in Beverly Hills. Brandon could have been a pool life guard at a country club. Plenty of class issues for him to bray about.
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Tara is right that in general California beaches are all public property. Even private beach clubs can only claim as far out as the mean high tide. But rich people in SoCal are always trying to restrict access and claim beaches are private when they aren't.
I thought Dylan's suggestion at the Dr's office that Brenda get on the pill was fine. I was offered the pill the first time I went to the gyno as a teen without even asking for it. Stupid sexist letter writing campaign.
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Point of order: if the Pierce of a show isn't necessarily a character one dislikes and want gone, but ultimately just its least essential character whose expunction would either not make any difference or possibly improve the show, does that imply that every show has a Pierce? Just by virtue of the fact that no or few shows ever has characters of equal importance? I mean, are there any shows without Pierces, and why?
Yes, I think if you're going to argue that Gene (or whoever) isn't the Pierce you have to come up with a substitute Pierce. And if you can't come up with an argument for why another character is less essential than Gene, he's the Pierce for sure.
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The first time I heard Steve's adoption confession to Brandon I thought he was going to tell him he'd found out he was secretly related to Kelly, because it's otherwise a pretty weird response to being asked why he's being such a dick to Kelly. I kind of like my version better.
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"Don't make fun of him, he's had a hard life"
Brandon, have you ever been a child? You don't give the other kid's details of sad kid's shitty life when telling them to be nice to them. That's just ammunition.
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I am a bit younger than the 90210 gang. I was the Ohndrea in high school. (Better clothes, hair sadly equally terrible but in a different way.) I went to a socioeconomically & ethnically diverse CA public high school that sent a lot of kids to Ivys & UCLA/Berkeley. Everyone studied for the SAT. Everyone. I wanted to take a fancy prep class but my Mom was like, "If I pay for that there will be no money left for college. Also, you're great at standardized tests. You can study on your own with books, which we can afford." She was right. I wanted to get a 700 or higher on each half, and got a 700 math, 710 verbal. I was enough of a nerd that I studied for the PSAT because I wanted to be a National Merit Finalist. (Nailed it. Life's been downhill ever since.) There's no way Andrea wouldn't have been all over that because so many colleges give National Merit scholarships. Also, all of the SAT scores on 90210 are terrible for a bunch of rich white kids.
Yeah, I went to a very diverse CA public high school too. All the rich kids took fancy prep courses. My English class studied SAT words my entire junior year and it was a pretty competitive thing (I went to a smart kid magnet school). A few friends got perfect scores, and there was a dude in our group who was real mad about getting 1570, so we called him 1570 basically forever (like, still doing it at the 10 year reunion). I only took it once and was happy with my high 1400s score. Got me into the UC of my choice. But there were kids in my grade who got 1500+ and retook chasing a perfect score.
Their scores are REALLY bad for rich white kids. Really bad.
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Calling her look Traffic Cop is quite a bit nicer than what I figured when I saw the hat, which is that it's meant to be a SS uniform cap, which are quite popular in some branches of the fetish/alternative look(Sharon Needles on Drag Race would walk around in one in the Werk Room, for example).
Same. I looked at husband and said "is she dressing like a Nazi on purpose?" I usually don't care what the contestants look like, but an SS cap is a bit much.
Piling on the Nora love. Great attitude + talent, A+ in my book.
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For a while it was the Puppy Bowl V, but that was lost in a DVR meltdown. In general I'm a watch and delete sort of person, the DVR is for storing shows you have not yet watched.
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Who keeps Oreos in the fridge? Or cookies in general.
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Also Sacramento in north of San Francisco. But I'll give a pass on that one because I've lived in CA my entire life and every time I look at a map and see Sacramento north of San Francisco I'm slightly surprised. It feels like it should be south, but there you go. Geography, whatyagonnado?
[...] (can I get some Central Valley pride in the house? Woot! Woot! It's a dry heat, people. A dry heat.) instead of 30 minutes away from the Walsh house. Although with traffic it might be quicker to drive to Sacramento. But shouldn't she be in a safe house or something? And was she actually living with Anna in, I think, Echo Park or just pretending to live with Anna and going back to Pamona at night? And knowing that Karla is basically a rich kid too (yes I said TOO Brandon! Stop trying to convince me you're even middle class!) makes her rant about how nice BH kids have it Brandon-level obnoxious. You do know you're not actually from the ghetto right?
C-Cal! And yes, where Sacramento is located is a source of constant confusion. I grew up in Fresno and one of my co-workers asked me how far that was from Sacramento. My response was "like an hour? 90 minutes?" Ha. Not so much.
On topic, the Walshs' insistence that they're not rich irritates the fuck out of me. You live in Beverly Hills. Shut up.
On a technical note, all of my episodes of Again With This just redownloaded with slightly different titles. Using Instacast on an iPhone.
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I audibly booed when no one was eliminated, mostly because I figured it would be messy hair clam guy. Dude did not take criticism well, crossing his arms and looking away and sullen. I thought the non-winning top look was way too humanoid. I would have picked either the alligator skin, rams horn, or twin flower pot over that one. On the other hand, I couldn't believe that drag queen traffic cop and shaved head weren't in the bottom. It looked like a badly painted pantomime horse. All that was missing was a giant hook pulling one half off the stage.
So glad this show is back. Skin Wars has been a poor substitute.
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Terminator 2 is my ultimate poppy field movie. Also any of the mission impossibles, even MI3. I once watched Van Helsing twice in a row on TBS and didn't realize it had started over (I thought she died? Guess she's a vampire now...) and so it's on the list too.
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I love his commitment to staying on brand. When he played "Cold As Ice" on the jukebox, I was suddenly 100% on board.
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So, I saw Carl Lumbly in a California MCLE (continuing legal education) video the other day. It was incredibly distracting.
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Ugh, they put that ad on a trolley wrap for San Diego Comic Con, so now I see it driving around downtown when I'm just trying to go to work, or eat my lunch. So gross.
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LOST: Don't Wake the Smoke Monster. It would be like Don't Wake the Dragon but every 10 minute you would open a new set of rules that might completely contradict the previous rules.
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He also seems to encourage online guessing games to keep the rabid, can't-get-enough segment of the audience preoccupied. It's as if he thinks he has cleverly found a means of making the fans entertain themselves while giving him the credit.
Until those fans criticize him, then he acts all butt-hurt. All he wants is our unquestioning love and devotion, is that so much to ask for?
I'll be watching because I enjoyed the book and I like some of the actors involved, but I'm certainly expecting to be annoyed by the whole thing too.
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I'm with Tara in enjoying the current TV news making me seem well read. The Leftovers and MaddAddam, plus the casting announcement for Americanah (movie) is making me feel all culturally knowledgable.
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Gifloyle, now, no.
Disagree. Would bang, for sure. Although I probably think Dinesh is the cutest of the code boys.
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S02.E26: Things To Do On A Rainy Day
in Beverly Hills, 90210
Ugh, the grossness of Brandon's "I don't want to see you strip now that I acknowledge you're a person" is just the worst.