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police and thieves Notify Blogger about objectionable content. What does this mean? BlogThis! police and thieves 1.08.2006 save your friends JL, This is a brand new spot on the northwest side of San Miguel Island. Yes this area is where the guys in the grey suits hang out and chase the sea lions! This is where the fisherman from SB was chomped in half 5 or so years ago while swimming back to his boat after diving for urchins while his horrified tenders watched! I remember drawing straws as who has to dive in first at North West Santa Rosa many trips but to consider Miguel is sheer insanity! Notice the S turn by Garrett! I think I’d start my bottom turn about now! Maybe he’s going to float the white water. Yeeks so big! Mg | -- 1.06.2006 i die smothered in aunt bea's muff truth lacking all security i would’ve let you smother me like you but it didn’t work jilling off and razor burns but don't regret a thing and i've got this friend you see she makes me feel and i wanted more than she could steal i’ll molest myself i'll swear a feel i'll go out of my way to prove i still smell beer on you | -- 1.05.2006 shmear the queer The following post is not just an oipnion, it is a call for action. In the past couple of weeks thier have been several scandals if you will, each one bringing to light the almost distorted scence of morality preasent on the YULA boys campus (The 9th grade cheating incident comes to mind). However today I would like to discuss an incident i witnessed first hand. During Mincha time I witnessed torture in the worst degree. I witnessed the tears of the tortured, and i saw the smile on the face of the tourcheres. Both were equally as haunting. However I feel I may be getting ahead of myself, so allow me to start from the begining. After second mod i headed over to the blue picnic tabels near the lunch room to quickly complete that days math home work. As you very well know after 2nd mod was mincha...no i was not intentionally ditching mincha for I planned to go in to the beis midrash as soon as i completed my math homework, however what i saw i felt i needed to watch, if not out of disgust, then in order to relate the occurences over to the YULA student body. As I was sitting doing my homework, I overheard two sophmores decide that now would be a good time to go "trash a freshman" (make note that these kids are probably two of the most obese kids in the school...hence insecurities) They started with one freshman...it was just them, i didn't find it funny, but what ever he didn't really fit in the trash can and he didnt seem to get hurt. However, as word spread around the yard that people were trashing freshman it was as if every insecure kid in the school came out of hiding for the event. Now all trashing of freshman i feel is bordering on some sort of evil...but allow me to tell you what happened to the last freshy they trashed... I don't know the freshman well, acttualy I really don't know him at all. He contributed to the litterary journal, and he seems to be a nice kid. I have heard that the kids parents are divorced, but this is besides the fact...the point is he is a kid who never did anything to anyone... This freshman is heading towards the sephardi beit midrash to daven, when the mob (litterlly 20 people) pick him up and begin to drag him. Now he resists, everyone just laughs. LAUGHTER!!!!!! Has anyone ever heard of a little town called Littelon Colorado?!?!?!?! I mean come on!!!!!! He continues to scream for them to let him go, but they refuse, then they place him in the trash can, head first. Kids then begin punching him, and kicking the trash can. I hear, "He probably lives there anyway." Punching, taungting, kicking etc. Once the kid finnaly manages to get himself out of the trash can I see tears in his eyes. People are still pushing him, and laughing, some people even try to stick him back into the trash can. Everyone around me, even those who didn't participate admit that it was pretty funny. AM I THE ONLY ONE HERE WITH DECENT MORALS???????? AM I THE ONLY ONE HERE WHO SEES THIS HAZING AS CRUEL AND EVIL????? | -- 1.04.2006 all my love's in vain this is the blog. so a-motivated for this piece of shit anymore. RIP, bitch. | -- 12.24.2005 i'm not santa i'm a god over the riv'r and through the hoods to grandmother's view apartment in an assisted-living facility we go... yep, i'm at grammas. shhh. i have to type quietlike. just had to wish my faithful readership--both of you--a Merry Christmas. i love me some xmas, love the lights, love the tree, love the giving and the getting. i even love the shopping and the wrapping. i know, dude are you straight? fuckn'a, i dig it all. give me some elvis and 'blue christmas', some lou rawls and 'merry christmas baby', some ramsey lewis trio 'sounds of christmas', shit i'm in spoiled white-boy heaven. take care of yourselves out there. best wishes to you and yours. Long before the advent of Christianity, plants and trees that remained green all year had a special meaning for people in the winter. Just as people today decorate their homes during the festive season with pine, spruce, and fir trees, ancient peoples hung evergreen boughs over their doors and windows. In many countries it was believed that evergreens would keep away witches, ghosts, evil spirits, and illness. In the Northern hemisphere, the shortest day and longest night of the year falls on December 21 or December 22 and is called the winter solstice. Many ancient people believed that the sun was a god and that winter came every year because the sun god had become sick and weak. They celebrated the solstice because it meant that at last the sun god would begin to get well. Evergreen boughs reminded them of all the green plants that would grow again when the sun god was strong and summer would return. The ancient Egyptians worshipped a god called Ra, who had the head of a hawk and wore the sun as a blazing disk in his crown. At the solstice, when Ra began to recover from the illness, the Egyptians filled their homes with green palm rushes which symbolized for them the triumph of life over death. Early Romans marked the solstice with a feast called the Saturnalia in honor of Saturn, the god of agriculture. The Romans knew that the solstice meant that soon farms and orchards would be green and fruitful. To mark the occasion, they decorated their homes and temples with evergreen boughs. In Northern Europe the mysterious Druids, the priests of the ancient Celts, also decorated their temples with evergreen boughs as a symbol of everlasting life. The fierce Vikings in Scandinavia thought that evergreens were the special plant of the sun god, Balder. Germany is credited with starting the Christmas tree tradition as we now know it in the 16th century when devout Christians brought decorated trees into their homes. Some built Christmas pyramids of wood and decorated them with evergreens and candles if wood was scarce. It is a widely held belief that Martin Luther, the 16th-century Protestant reformer, first added lighted candles to a tree. Walking toward his home one winter evening, composing a sermon, he was awed by the brilliance of stars twinkling amidst evergreens. To recapture the scene for his family, he erected a tree in the main room and wired its branches with lighted candles. Most 19th-century Americans found Christmas trees an oddity. The first record of one being on display was in the 1830s by the German settlers of Pennsylvania, although trees had been a tradition in many German homes much earlier. The Pennsylvania German settlements had community trees as early as 1747. But, as late as the 1840s Christmas trees were seen as pagan symbols and not accepted by most Americans. It is not surprising that, like many other festive Christmas customs, the tree was adopted so late in America. To the New England Puritans, Christmas was sacred. The pilgrims's second governor, William Bradford, wrote that he tried hard to stamp out "pagan mockery" of the observance, penalizing any frivolity. The influential Oliver Cromwell preached against "the heathen traditions" of Christmas carols, decorated trees, and any joyful expression that desecrated "that sacred event." In 1659, the General Court of Massachusetts enacted a law making any observance of December 25 (other than a church service) a penal offense; people were fined for hanging decorations. That stern solemnity continued until the 19th century, when the influx of German and Irish immigrants undermined the Puritan legacy. In 1846, the popular royals, Queen Victoria and her German Prince, Albert, were sketched in the Illustrated London News standing with their children around a Christmas tree. Unlike the previous royal family, Victoria was very popular with her subjects, and what was done at court immediately became fashionable—not only in Britain, but with fashion-conscious East Coast American Society. The Christmas tree had arrived. By the 1890s Christmas ornaments were arriving from Germany and Christmas tree popularity was on the rise around the U.S. It was noted that Europeans used small trees about four feet in height, while Americans liked their Christmas trees to reach from floor to ceiling. The early 20th century saw Americans decorating their trees mainly with homemade ornaments, while the German-American sect continued to use apples, nuts, and marzipan cookies. Popcorn joined in after being dyed bright colors and interlaced with berries and nuts. Electricity brought about Christmas lights, making it possible for Christmas trees to glow for days on end. With this, Christmas trees began to appear in town squares across the country and having a Christmas tree in the home became an American tradition. | -- 12.22.2005 aqua seafoam shame huge swell yesterday. i was at la jolla cove mid-afternoon to gawk and take pictures. the cove isn't a surf break, except when the waves are at least 15 feet, so when it does break it's a big deal 'round these parts. i ran into my buddy Pat, the madman ex-lifeguard and current firefighter in LA, and he had already broken one board and lost the fin off another. he was looking for a skag so he could head back out. i wanted to womp it and might have been able to in my former healthy youth but those monsters surely would've drowned me now. you could smell the spray driving up la jolla parkway, and prospect was all misty. beautiful day. . . this weeks flag: Burkina Faso , formerly Upper Volta. it's a landlocked country in Western Africa, slightly larger than Colorado, that achieved independence from France in 1960. | -- 12.21.2005 i ain't talking about no paper cup, i mean a glass of beer five Seahawks made the Pro Bowl. Alexander, Hasselbeck and Jones were never in doubt, Hutchinson was likely, but this is Mack Strong's first trip and it is years overdue. congratulations to the longest-tenured guy on the team. i'm goin. that's all there is to it, i'm fuckin goin. i know baby! you'd dig it the most! | -- 12.20.2005 steaming soup against her mouth Dec 20, 2005 9:06 PM Subject: a;lgkijhab;hdk;lgha;lkgnjaklj Body: motherufckingccoksuckinggoddamni'm sosick of being ssickfubgck yougerms go to hell i don'tcare anyomre f6 weeks of this bullshit bronichitis noenerty can go suck my dickk to hell an back witha hanbaasket.goddamnam. i love Charlotte and you must pray to whomever for her speedy non-sickness. DO IT. | -- lack of iron and/or sleeping tricky dickless, minus brain, equals the bloodthirsty scarecrow. and i'm proud to be anamerican! where at least i knowd i'm free.... but wouldn't she melt his snow-prick? such deep existential questions around the holidays. . | -- 12.19.2005 nunca cambio . . drove down to k38 early saturday morning. checked out waves at baja malibu, blew it off, dropped our stuff off at the trailers, got our appetites enhanced and hit teresa's for tasty desayuno and a morning beer (me). went further south to la fonda, waves still smallish, water very cold. oz fished, kenny and los surfed, i drank bohemias. followed by 2-on-2 football and more beers. went back to the trailers and watched the surf from the patio. chilling. hit a few at the k38 driving range...kenny missed the ball twice, then shanked one 3 feet from a mexican family picking mollusks down on the rocks. range closed. snuck into las rocas, where the house band played slack-key 'girl from ipanema'. pitcher of pina colonics and a beer (me), sunset and hot tub immersion, buzz attaining. back to the pad for marley then to sandra's in puerto nuevo for the best fucking meal anyone should ever hope for. perfect baja spiny lobster, crab legs, sea snail ceviche, house-blend tequila, beers (everyone) ohhhhh sooooooo good. i made a mexican pizza slice out of quesadilla, guac, sea snail and salsa. after dinner hit a couple of select nightspots for more beers, hilarity, fake cuban cigars that tasted like vanilla, vids back at the pad, crashed. early surf check sunday morning - big but closed out everywhere. teresa's again for machaca and fish taco desayuno, made it to rene's in time for kickoff of the chargers and seahawks games and they both pulled out clutch wins. baja is a moveable feast, dripping with butter, lime and sun. | -- 12.15.2005 m is for mental masturbation i got nothin. so what's the gayest possible thing i could write on the blog? #56 on mr. pierce's 'how not to blog'... fill out a stupid-ass myspace quiz! yeeaay!! 1. Given a homeless person anything? sure...money, food. 2. Spent more than $500 on a bf/gf's gift or a night out? does Vegas count? 3.Had sex with more than one person in a day? no. 4. Cheated? i hated it when other people cheated on a test i’d studied hard for, so i almost never cheated, but must have at some point. mostly i didn't want to get caught. oh wait...this means on a girlfriend. yes. not proud. 5. Dated two people at once? not like, seriously dating, no. dating different girls casually, yes. 6. Actually met someone from myspace that you didn't know before? not a one. 7. Do you like someone at the moment? kinda. 8. Failed more than one class? hell yes. 9. Took someone's virginity when you weren't a virgin? yes. 10. Hooked up with someone from a different race? of course. 11. Ran around naked outside? we were all kids once and there is photographic evidence. 12. Scubadived? regrettably, no. 13. Snorkled? yep. 14. Dated someone you didn't want your friends to meet? yes, and vice-versa. 15. Got your stomach pumped, from alcohol poisoning? no. 16. Threw up from alcohol? most def. 17. Been suspended from school? not...no. but, a friend and i had to move out of the dorms halfway through finals week freshman year or they would have kicked us out. 18. Kissed someone of the same sex? not even. 19. Gone Commando? naturally. i just realized a 15 year old girl wrote this quiz. 20. If you're a guy, let a girl paint your toenails? yep. when you have a girlfriend for 7 years you pretty much do it all. 21. Met someone famous? quite a few. 22. Saved someone's life? saved both our lives with some skilled driving out of a skid at high speed. that pole wasn't going to move. 23. Seen someone die? yes. 24. Killed someone? no. 25. Been in a physical fight? not since college. 26. Hooked up with someone 10 yrs older or younger than u? younger, yes. 27.Ever been arrested? 3 times. nothing serious and it was bullshit each time. 28. Spent the night in jail? yes. 29. Been in more than three car accidents in a year? no. 30. Had sex outside? surprisingly, no. haven't made that a priority. (skipped a few that no one wants to hear. not that anyone wants to hear any of this...) 35. Told someone you loved them when you didn't? definitely not. 36. Had sex somewhere in your high school? stupid. no. 37. Been in a porn shop? a couple times though i'm not big on porn. my crazy friend Rucker took me to a gnarly one when we were drunk in Seattle. they knew him by name. 39. Spent more than one night in a hospital? thankfully, no. 40. OD'd on a drug? OD'd? not...literally, no. 41. What's your weakness? girls, girls, girls. chronic. being lazy. 42.Would you date an Ex gf/bf again (round 2)? more often than not that's what happens. ex sex is the best. i'm so ashamed. | -- 12.07.2005 into the sky police and thieves is headed north, hometown style. returning to work the game with normal programming to resume monday. try to pretend you miss me. this is you: blahblahblah, this is me: Bu-Bye. | -- just because you're paranoid don't mean they're not after you dang, it took almost 2 minutes for the president to invoke September Eleventh in his latest speech on Iraq. wonder why it took so long... no matter how hard i squint and rub my eyes the nightmare doesn't all go away. | -- © police and thieves 2005 // powered for blogger by blogger templates you'll have nothing and like it before save your friends i die smothered in aunt bea's muff shmear the queer all my love's in vain i'm not santa i'm a god aqua seafoam shame i ain't talking about no paper cup, i mean a glass of beer steaming soup against her mouth lack of iron and/or sleeping nunca cambio ancient July 2005 August 2005 September 2005 October 2005 November 2005 December 2005 January 2006 roll tony pierce truthout the huffington post juan cole project for the old american century this modern world mark morford josh marshall firedoglake matthew good riverbend unremitting failure raymi justAgirl jamie boud the pants gaijinsoft xdrop 3hive medication
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Confessions of a Restaurant Whore: My One True Love (Delfina -- San Francisco, CA and Da Delfina -- Artimino, Italy) BlogThis! CONFESSIONS OF A RESTAURANT WHORE A San Francisco Girl's Down and Dirty Adventures in the Culinary Playground Confessions of a Restaurant Whore A San Francisco Girl's Down and Dirty Adventures in the Culinary Playground -- Show a whore some lovin'. Email Me Where can I eat, bitch? Restaurant Whore's Dining Guide What I Said Before Zu(ni) Story (Zuni Cafe -- San Francisco, CA) Good Night Moon (Luna Park and The Last Supper Club -- San Francisco, CA) Highway to Heaven (A16 -- San Francisco, CA) The Way We Were I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for Ice Cream (Mitchell's Ice Cream -- San Francisco, CA) Amber-ific (Amber India -- Mountain View, CA) Restaurant Behavior 101 Dim YUM (Ton Kiang -- San Francisco, CA) Just for ME (Mabel's Just For You Cafe -- San Francisco, CA) Slow and Steady (Slow Club -- San Francisco, CA) Food Bloggers I Like Becks and Posh Burrito Eater Chocolate and Zucchini Epicurean Debauchery Food Blog S'cool Food Musings Gastronomie KQED Food Blog San Francisco Gourmet Spicetart Sweetnicks The Food Whore You Gonna Eat That? This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License . -- Tuesday, December 07, 2004 My One True Love (Delfina -- San Francisco, CA and Da Delfina -- Artimino, Italy) Ribollita. The food of the Gods. OK, not really. It's actually peasant food. But it is DAMN good. Ribollita is Tuscan bread soup filled with cannelini beans, cavelo nero (a kale-like green), bread and yummy yum yums (that's a technical term). Then, it's stuck in a fridge to get all congeal-y and then it's FRIED. Fried soup. It's like a little blanket for your insides. It rocks. The first place Jon and I ever had ribollita was at Delfina . Delfina opened about 3 months after we, ourselves, moved to San Francisco. We made the pilgrimage from our shithole apartment about a week after they opened. As it was only 3 and a half blocks away, it wasn't a huge commitment. Or so we thought. From the moment we stepped in, we were in love. At the time, it was about a third the size it is now (if that). They described ribollita for us, and we figured eh, what the hell, how bad can it be? Well, I sure as hell may be a restaurant whore, but at that moment, I was ready to kiss my whorin' days goodbye and settle down. I love Delfina so much that it gets me all choked up just thinking about it. This is going to be a gushy post, so if that's going to wig you out, either suck it up or stop reading. Because I loooooooove them. It's taken me a long time to get to this post because I knew it would be a biggie. So settle in and get ready...here goes: The food. Ribollita yes. Simple-as-pie-but-delicious-as-hell spaghetti with plum tomatoes. For that matter, any pasta at all. The soups. Oh, dear God, the incredible soups (chickpea, Jerusalem artichoke, pappa al pomodoro, etc.). They just blow your mind. Grilled calamari and white bean salad where the beans are as good as those we had at French Laundry. The insalata del campo with everything good in the world in it. The panna cotta, the profiteroles, the crostatas....Oh, fuck it. It's all amazing. It's everything you hope, wish and dream for in your deepest fantasies. And special occasions bring special food, like the Bucatini with lobster and rice pudding with truffles that we eat each New Year's Eve. Craig and Annie Stoll. The owners. These people are the best people you could know. I have never, ever seen people so devoted to their business, their staff, their customers. They are so loyal. They will bend over backwards for their regulars. They take such good care of us, it makes me feel guilty. Here's the thing about Craig and Annie. They hire staff as devoted to their customers as they, themselves are. The staff are so amazing at their jobs, and so kind and wonderful (gush, gush, gush). I love them. I mean that. I LOVE THEM. And they treat us like friends instead of paychecks when we come in. LOVE THEM. We have been to Delfina during our highest ups and our lowest downs. Some examples: Losing a job, getting a new one, grieving a death, entertaining guests, celebrating birthdays, buying a home, moving, losing a friend, reconnecting with each other after hectic weeks apart, the aforementioned New Year's celebrations. And then there are the big ones. Such as September 11, 2001 when our families were on the east coast and we were lost. We wandered into Delfina and they told us they didn't know what to do but stay open and we told them that we didn't know what to do but turn off the TV and start walking in their direction. And the time when we packed up that same shithole apartment, to move to our beautiful new home. It was a happy thing that we were moving, but six years of our lives had been spent in that apartment during which time we had gone from dating to married, purchased a cat (hooray for Charlie!), gained and lost friends. It was a huge chunk of our lives. So when we shut the door for the last time, we felt strangely sad. And we walked straight to Delfina. After all, we'd now be 7 blocks away instead of 3 and a half. And they took care of us, as always. It's nights like those that made us come up with the code word "home" when referring to Delfina. As in "Where would you like to go for your birthday?" "Home." It is where we go when we want and/or need to share something important in our lives. Delfina is the restaurant we'd choose if we had to eat at only one place for the rest of our lives. So it is only fitting that when we were in Italy last September, we made a pilgrimage to Da Delfina in Tuscany, where Craig had studied. We arrived in Florence with Jon's super wonderful but disorganized family (5 of us total) and wandered the streets with a shitload of luggage trying to find our hotel. Yes, Florence has cabs. But why take one when you can avoid making a decision and blindly stumble around like jackasses? Anyway, we found our hotel, threw our stuff in the door and made our way back out to the train station (We did this alone, we would be meeting Jon's family in Siena in the evening. Delfina is so personal to us that we felt we needed to go alone). We took a train to the town of Signa (one stop away, but there are only a few trains a day that go there). Once in Signa, we thought we'd take a cab to Artimino. Nice try. No cabs at the station. So we go into a ghetto hotel and ask them to call us one. We feel bad, so Jon goes to the bar and orders a shot of tequila for their troubles. Nice. So our "cab" arrives. It's a minivan with an older dude inside. As we wind through the hills, he describes everything we're seeing. In Italian. But it's so beautiful, and he's so good natured, that we don't care. And then we get there. There she is in all her glory. Da Delfina. And when I say that, I mean the restaurant and Delfina herself, sitting in the foyer. Delfina is in her 90's and she is beautiful. Carlo, the owner, looks at the young Americans like "What the hell are you here for?" But he seats us anyway. At a table overlooking the Tuscan countryside. We spent the whole meal with tears streaming down our faces. We felt like we had returned to the mothership. We order everything. I order the Tuscan bread soup (ribollita, before it becomes ribollita, if you follow...Carlo was very concerned that I knew this). And in everything we ate, we saw our own Delfina's roots. Jon's guinea hen was a clear ancestor of Craig's chicken, the chicken liver crostini was almost identical, etc. We each had an appetizer, a primi, a secondi. Plus wine. A lot of wine. By the time we got to secondi, I thought I was going to hurl. It was so amazing but it was also a shitload of food. When I let the last third of my salt cod go, Carlo asked me about four thousand times if it was OK. Damn, people, I just can't eat that much food! Nevertheless, they talked us into ordering dessert. Very Tuscan, very good, but again, on the verge of hurling. In between, we received vin santo and some Sangiovese grapes grown by the older Americans at the table behind us. Well it turns out the guy growing the grapes was a trustee at the college Jon and I went to. And he and his wife ended up inviting us to their Tuscan villa. But alas, we needed to meet Jon's family and only had 2 short days left in Italy. Damn. But how fucking cool is that? By the time we left, Carlo was hugging us and we were giving him some of the fake tattoos from the SF Delfina. And when our nice man in the minivan came to take us back to the train station, we were grateful for the meal of a lifetime (at only $110 euro, no less). When there are places in the world like Delfina and Da Delfina, why settle for anything less, ever? xoxo Joy "To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art." --La Rochefoucauld posted by Joy @ 7:44 AM 2 Comments: Gayle And Don said... This is the most passionate review I have ever read in my life. It almost brought me to tears. Thank god I stumbled across your blog. My girlfriend and I are heading for San Fran for a quickie getaway and I was looking for a place to take her. We are staying at the Westin by chance and I found your review of Michael Mina's very amusing. I love people who are not afraid to speak the truth. And, as some of your readers have shown, some people just can't handle the truth. Thanks again for your candid reviews, and I hope we have a chance to get to Delfina this weekend. Who knows, maybe we will see you there. Don 7/29/2005 7:11 PM art said... Loved your story about Da Delfina. Delfina SF was also the favorite restaurant of my wife and I when we lived there. So much that we pretty much organized our whole Florence trip around Da Delfina (I'm sure we had the same van driver). I am a chef in Chicago and I think back to the two years that I spent in San Francisco having the opportunity to work at Delfina. I had an interview with Craig Stoll and ended up working somewhere else. I kick myself all the time! I loved the part of your story where you said Carlo looked at you like "what the hell are you doing here?" We made the mistake of showing up a little bit early and I thought he was going to whale on my ass! So we killed time by having a drink in the little cantina where three chain smoking locals coughed and watched soap operas full blast on the t.v. Ah well, your story brought back great memories and I think your website is great too. 7/30/2005 8:24 PM Post a Comment
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