the disgruntled fashion journalist who writes about everything
Posted in Actors, Books, Celebrities, Comedy, Entertainment, Film, Food, Movies, Pop Culture, Reviews, Work on Sep 16th, 2008
I haven’t listed the things on my pop culture menu as of late, so here’s an update! (OMG! That rhymed!)
I’ve been watching…
Hamlet 2: Eh. It was kinda funny. But most of the funny is towards the end of the movie - and Elisabeth Shue is in it!
Vicky Cristina Barcelona: Not as high strung as many [...]
Posted in Food, Restaurants, Travel, Uncategorized on Sep 9th, 2008
The highlight to my trip to New York Fashion Week wasn’t a fabulous show nor was it a celebrity sighting. In fact, it wasn’t even in New York. It was in the George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston. The highlight of my trip was my dining experience at Pappadeaux in the Continental Airlines terminal.
Ever since [...]
I think I have this irrational phobia of eating my own food in public. And when I say my “own food” I mean food that I bring from my pantry at home and stuff in my bag to eat in public - like on BART or in Union Square or walking through Hayes Valley or [...]
The other day I was nuking my gas-inducing Trader Joe’s pasta in one of those disposable Ziploc plastic container things. I ran into one of my fellow Filipino co-workers, Gilbert (he works at the graphics desk), at the ghetto microwave station in our building. (side note: the microwaves that our office provides date back to [...]
Yes, that is an overshare.
As I sit here doing a whole lotta nothing at work (I should be transcribing interviews), I feel really bloated.
I’ve been buying some frozen pasta meals from Trader Joe’s for a while now and I think they give me gas. Not the shart variety, but I just feel very airy - [...]
Posted in Food, Fun, Opinion, Rants, Restaurants, SF Bay Area, San Francisco, Social on Mar 30th, 2008
Last night was the first time in a long time I actually did something that young professionals do: go out to dinner with friends in a “hip” part of the city.
After giving my bank account a ridiculous work out, I went to dinner at Viva in SF’s happenin’ North Beach with Arnold, Marivic and [...]
Posted in California, East Bay, Eating, Food, Fun, Opinion, Restaurant, Restaurants, Reviews, SF Bay Area, Social on Mar 30th, 2008
Two weeks ago Alice, Paul and I made our next stop on our chain restaurant food tour: the flair-tastic epicenter of All-American cuisine: TGIFriday’s.
Alice and Paul opted for some cocktails. Apparently, they are just as fun as they look.
There was a special on appetizers: $5 with a purchase of an entree. We took full advantage [...]
Posted in Food, Pop Culture, Random on Mar 3rd, 2008
Yesterday, whilst I was on M Ocean View line of San Francisco’s Go Bot-looking underground Muni transportation system with Arnold and Marivic, there was a guy holding a box of Tagalongs. I didn’t notice them. Marivic did. It was right then and there that I realized it was Girl Scout Cookie season.
When Marivic pointed them [...]
It’s out of my hands.
Then again, why do I have this gut feeling on D-day, that I am going to get a pink slip. Is the pink slip really pink? And what shade of pink is it? I hope it isn’t annoying shade of pink that would make the day worse. And what does the [...]
Posted in East Bay, Eating, Entertainment, Food, Fun, Random, Restaurant, Restaurants, SF Bay Area, Social on Mar 2nd, 2008
There are hundreds upon hundreds of top notch non-chain eateries in the San Francisco Bay Area. I’ve eaten at many of them, but once in a while, I get the hankering to eat at a commercial chain restaurant. There’s something really satisfying about eating predictable food from family-oriented restaurant that you can find anywhere in [...]