Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Mercredi, c'est Ravioli.
Meredith goes deep in the Mish, and comes away with 898 words: a breeze. And she does not describe the neighborhood as gritty, which she usually means as: "I clenched my butt cheeks all the way from my car, so hard I had to stand at the bar, wondering why oh why I did not go to union street." But not, she avoids the deer-in-the-headlight commentary on the hood. And her review of Rotisserie Limon is spot on: too small small plates, decent sangria, and we found the chicken plenty flavorful, but maybe that's the luck of the draw.
We're taking suggestions on who should we gripe about, now that Meredith churns out good reviews. Matt Smith? Phil Bronstein? Willie Brown? Another food critic? Or none of the above, and hope for a lapse from Our Lady of the Lobsters?
We're taking suggestions on who should we gripe about, now that Meredith churns out good reviews. Matt Smith? Phil Bronstein? Willie Brown? Another food critic? Or none of the above, and hope for a lapse from Our Lady of the Lobsters?
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Mercredi, c'est Ravioli.
We don't get the title of Meredith's weekly write-up: Be a Shopping Star at B Star Bar. The alliteration is gratuitous, since what has shopping to do with the restaurant? Yeah, you can shop on Clement, but is that's what distinctive about the place?
Other than that, Meredith does us a huge huge favor: she clocks in under 900 words. Economy of words saves us time, and saves her from writing stupid stuff. Win-win all around.
She kicks off the party with:
San Francisco is fortunate in having a number of delightful shopping-and-eating streets: Haight, Mission, Union, and Valencia spring to mind, and we could go on.
Oh yes she could go on: she can add BOTH chestnut st AND lombard st.
After that, though, she'll run out of steam. Is there a Marina street?
Other than that, Meredith does us a huge huge favor: she clocks in under 900 words. Economy of words saves us time, and saves her from writing stupid stuff. Win-win all around.
She kicks off the party with:
San Francisco is fortunate in having a number of delightful shopping-and-eating streets: Haight, Mission, Union, and Valencia spring to mind, and we could go on.
Oh yes she could go on: she can add BOTH chestnut st AND lombard st.
After that, though, she'll run out of steam. Is there a Marina street?
Carolyn Lochhead Still Hating on the Clintons.
She'll never stop:
But Bush was overheard in the Capitol yesterday saying, "Come on, Laura, we're going home." And give him credit, he left modestly, without the narcissistic pomp and ceremony that his predecessor used to upstage his big day.
Bush deserves credit for leaving modestly? The guy f*cked up the country in so many ways, only Carolyn Lochhead thinks he could have taken a victory lap. Bush's approval rating has been at 25% over the last year, what and with whom could he celebrate as he left?
And I was around in 2000, I don't recall anyone upstaging Bush's inauguration. I recall a very popular president, Bill Clinton, who left town with a 65% approval rating, the highest end-of-term approval rating since the 60s, and the rightfully earned farewell a successful president deserved. I also recall stories (that turned out to be false and spread by the Republicans) about the Clinton stealing the W keys of the computers. Somehow, a big deal was made of this. The new administration was classy in its arrival for sure, spreading lies from the get go.
Oh, and Bush is so classy in his departure, that he denied Obama the permission to stay at Blair House for no reason, struggling afterward to find a suitable guest to explain the snub. So much for the humble, elegant transition.
Lochhead: one of the few people to shed a tear when Bush took of in Executive One.
And she's started peddling BS: that Obama is not the legitimate president yet. What a crackpot.
But Bush was overheard in the Capitol yesterday saying, "Come on, Laura, we're going home." And give him credit, he left modestly, without the narcissistic pomp and ceremony that his predecessor used to upstage his big day.
Bush deserves credit for leaving modestly? The guy f*cked up the country in so many ways, only Carolyn Lochhead thinks he could have taken a victory lap. Bush's approval rating has been at 25% over the last year, what and with whom could he celebrate as he left?
And I was around in 2000, I don't recall anyone upstaging Bush's inauguration. I recall a very popular president, Bill Clinton, who left town with a 65% approval rating, the highest end-of-term approval rating since the 60s, and the rightfully earned farewell a successful president deserved. I also recall stories (that turned out to be false and spread by the Republicans) about the Clinton stealing the W keys of the computers. Somehow, a big deal was made of this. The new administration was classy in its arrival for sure, spreading lies from the get go.
Oh, and Bush is so classy in his departure, that he denied Obama the permission to stay at Blair House for no reason, struggling afterward to find a suitable guest to explain the snub. So much for the humble, elegant transition.
Lochhead: one of the few people to shed a tear when Bush took of in Executive One.
And she's started peddling BS: that Obama is not the legitimate president yet. What a crackpot.
Monday, January 12, 2009
The Chron's Breaking News: Democrats are Divided
The Chron's Washington Bureau, under the tutelage of former chief Marc Sandalow, has learned to hammer this one nail over and over and over and over again: no matter what the facts, no matter what the circumstances, Democrats are divided (also, Republicans are strong, but they'll forget about that one for a little while, one can hope).
Zach Coile today:
Even before Barack Obama is sworn in as president, some cracks are appearing in the alliance between the incoming administration and its Democratic allies in Congress.
That's the lead paragraph. It's hardly edited from the template they use to write their article, DemsDivided.doc.
Recent dust-ups have forced Obama and his team to work overtime to pacify their allies on Capitol Hill.
Democrats are at each other's throats!
But Obama hasn't won over Democrats on all of his early proposals.
What, Democrats are not UNANIMOUSLY rubber stamping Obama's EVERY SINGLE ideas?
Ok, Zach, you got me convinced. Democrats must be divided, if not every single one of them 59 senators and 256 congresspersons are not in perfect unison. Obama is just doomed, and that's before he even started.
Zach Coile today:
Even before Barack Obama is sworn in as president, some cracks are appearing in the alliance between the incoming administration and its Democratic allies in Congress.
That's the lead paragraph. It's hardly edited from the template they use to write their article, DemsDivided.doc.
Recent dust-ups have forced Obama and his team to work overtime to pacify their allies on Capitol Hill.
Democrats are at each other's throats!
But Obama hasn't won over Democrats on all of his early proposals.
What, Democrats are not UNANIMOUSLY rubber stamping Obama's EVERY SINGLE ideas?
Ok, Zach, you got me convinced. Democrats must be divided, if not every single one of them 59 senators and 256 congresspersons are not in perfect unison. Obama is just doomed, and that's before he even started.
