Right on. Used to have one myself, 1987 C-10 with bondo on one side and a cracked mirror on the other. But, man, that thing was great when I wanted to move junk that I didn’t want on the inside of the van or couldn’t fit in the van. The wife doesn’t get it when I pine for the days of 4 x 8 x 5 load options. I should…

Have an acquaintance who just got into a car accident. A bunch of broken ribs and some serious broken vertabrae. C2-7 and T-1 had to be fused and rodded. Ugh. Nasty.

Yeah, that happened to me as a little kid when I had to get repairative surgery after a car accident. They knocked me out but as they started, I woke up a bit. There wasn’t much pain but I definitely felt the pressure of the scalpel as they started. Two things happened :

Don’t carry too much crap on you. No giant purse, backpack, just a small fanny pack. (Unless you have kids then use a stroller as your carryall).

Don’t carry too much crap on you. No giant purse, backpack, just a small fanny pack. (Unless you have kids then use…

TBC, the reviewer does have a legit point. It just doesn’t really need to be made as part of what appears to be a food review. Arts and Culture section, fine. Better yet, a section that’s devoted to, say, Enlightenment Forward. But embedding an interesting argument within a food thing takes away from it and reduces…

Sounds good as long as they aren’t served hand-in-hand with Rocky Mountain Oysters...

One take thats legit. It’s gross then if people are really into “exotic”; it really kinda sounds perverted when one says that.

Hell, I don’t have to imagine it. There’s a place in the Midwest that I visited and the family just had to have “Chinese”. So we walk in and the place offered “sushi”, the Mid-west version of Chinese, teriyaki, and VN spring rolls. Believe it or not, not the worst I’ve ever eaten but......

Hey thanks, I saw this at B&N a long time ago and made a mental note about wanting to get this but never got around to it and then forgot about it. Thanks for the reminder.

LOL, it’s evening! But I get the sentiment.

Ok, if you say so.

You’re right. One could do a full-on analysis about how a particular restaurant(s) happened,evolved, and the cultural context in which they operate. And that’s fine. Perhaps, though, some people have already done that and arrived at some conclusions, some which are in concert with what the restaurant reviewer…

Well, if she’s right then we need to start being very careful about exactly where we eat and how we eat. Because I’m Chinese and I could find that all the Chinese restaurants here are pale imitations of the real things in China. So maybe we should shut down the fake “Chinese” restaurants in America because they’ve…

No, I read it. But for me, it just came across ‘well, I went to a restaurant, the food was middling at best but really what I truly need to write about is how culturally I’m offended by the decor in a chain restaurant which gives me cultural heebee jeebees. It’s a personal thing because the French colonized my native…

Nice, most excellent. I was trying to post in Aurebesh but even though I’ve got the font Kinja won’t let me. Boo. :(

No, actually, one would think they should. They’ve been colonized so many times over the years by so many people that you’d think they would hold a serious grudge. But they don’t. Super nice people. If Americans had suffered the same sort of fate, they’d be busy building walls. O snap....

My biggest problem is that the best ethnic food is usually in the ethnic community. So it’s a disappointment that the head chef, a VN guy, is putting up mediocre food. Then again, the clientele probably doesn’t realize that the better stuff can be had more reasonably at Co Nam or Tin or Ha Nam Ninh. Or conversely…

I agree.

Ya know what I really want to see from a “food” critic? If the food is good and is a good value. Is it a pretentious place with pretentious workers? Am I going to be seated as a plebe or just the next customer in line? Plus, are the bathrooms clean? I think I can determine on my own if I’m being pandered to in a…

I think this is the “new wave” of criticism where everything is posited from a cultural sensitivity perspective; whether the food is good or bad is almost secondary to where the food and its preparers lie in perspective to the foods’ intent. It’s a little sad to see that kind of thinking overcoming the actual…