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  1. sup dudes, old man beards checking in

     

    saw that old screen shot on IG and figured I should probably swing through.. good to see some familiar handles.

     

    plus, I haven't really painted in any meaningful way for years, but I've got a couple days to kill on a trip coming up and figured I might as well knock the dust off a couple cans... and where else was I supposed to turn to find a spot/guide?

     

    raven.. bruh.. montana? I can't imagine leaving LA right now and heading face first into that winter.

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  2. 2nd time through

     

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    Louis I Kahn exercised a great influence on latter 20th-century world architecture. This monograph focuses on his major designs - the Yale Art Gallery in Connecticut, the Salk Institute, California - as well as a number of unfinished projects, in order to understand his work and philosophy.

  3. Here is the actual 'as it happened' thread the day of the attacks:

     

    http://www.12ozprophet.com/forum/showthread.php?t=54648

     

    thanks for doing the dirty work finding that thread, I was going to re-post as the way I found out about the whole thing.

     

    I was working in center city philly and read that post, (which I still find kind of eerily cool that it was authored by a now long time friend of mine). went for what I had which was a radio and listened to it from there. given the option to leave work shortly there-after I did, and on the off chance there was just a good old regular fire in a highrise as I was walking home, leaving me no other choice but to think that we were at full blown fucking war.

  4. yeah, woods is heavy duty. I dip in on his blog now and again, but I can't subject myself to his work too often cus I would just start chomping style right and left.

  5. cool that they have it on the menu. certainly takes the edge off though.

     

    sure, I'll 'go there' with this. I just think it crosses into another realm at a certain point. where it's not just 'I'm giving you money for some food, give me what I want' to signing a sort of social contract in which you acknowledge and accept someones expertise. you're purchasing an experience, at a place that you otherwise wouldn't even know about if it weren't for their rigid dedication to craft. when I say common courtesy, that really means respect.

     

    obviously that kind of fu-fu attitude rarely truly applies, but it doesn't hurt to exercise it at all times.

  6. Whilst I'm a medium rare guy myself I do get a little irked at chefs that refuse to cook something a particular way. Taste is in the tongue of the beholder. I was taken to a seafood restaurant one day when I really didn't feel like fish and they had a venison dish that I wanted but itwas on the menu as bleu. Not much of a bleu meat fan myself I asked for it to be at least rare/medium rare. The waitress said she'd ask the chef whether he would do that and apparently he did but he wasn't happy about it.

     

    Arsehole, you aint eating it and I know how I enjoy my food so just shut the fuck up and let me do that. Yes you are a signature chef and I respect the pride that is taken in creating food the way you intend/want it to be. But I'm paying the bill and the guy that employs you wants you to sell product. I'm no food critic and I won't be writing anything in a fucking food-wank column next week. So feel free to tell me that it's not the way you feel the dish will be best enjoyed if that is your professional obligation but stick your displeasure of my decision right up your petulant, self-righteous ass!!!

     

    [not aimed at anyone in particular, using the term 'you' in general terms]

     

     

    the jury's still out on which is worse, the entitled guest or the pandering chef.

     

    the remedy is really as easy as just not ordering a steak. everybody knows it's criminal to order well done, and really, at a middle to low spot, you get a pass and we can all laugh at you for that one. in an upscale setting, please roll with the romans. pick something else off the menu that won't need to be fucked with/up, seems a common courtesy to me.

     

    I wouldn't be surprised if kitchens keep shitty cuts around just for the well done folks.

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