>A bitter ale for bitter times

Posted on 18 March, 2011 by jb

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>Wot? No tatts?

Posted on 17 March, 2011 by jb

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I love the Intelligentsia coffee bar on Abbot Kinney in Venice for its singularity of purpose.

It serves coffee, tea and croissanty-type stuff.

You queue outside, wait for your barista who makes your coffee in front of you, someone else takes your money and you either sit on concrete steps, outside in the alleyway or on bar stools at a bench.

It’s very edgy/industrial design/clinical/echoey/jangly. It has the aura of the pre-op room before they gave me Leg 2.0.

They’ve opened a cafe in on W. Colorado in Pasadena, which serves the same great coffee, but I can’t help but think that they’ve lost their focus.

They do brunch, lunch and dinner, serve craft beers and they have the same order process as Starbucks.

Place your order, pay, walk down the counter to the barista and pick up your coffee.

It’s not as if they yell out “Skinny, decaf, no foam, caramel vanilla chai latte with whipped cream for jb”, but the guy who takes your order looks normal.

Barnes and Noble/Apple Store normal.

No tatts.

What’s the world coming to, ffs…?

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>Unless the husband is gay

Posted on 17 March, 2011 by jb

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Manfesto at Jonathan Adler, design outfit with a retail outlet on Montana Ave, Santa Monica.

It gets worse, but no less funny

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>This is the life VII

Posted on 17 March, 2011 by jb

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The breakfast – 
Poached egg on grilled haloumi and a minted pea and broad bean mash 
Eggs Benedict with lemon-smoked salmon

The view

From the Takapuna Beach Cafe

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>These people just crack me up….

Posted on 17 March, 2011 by jb

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On a fairly fruitless search in SoCal for an iPad 2 for Ms jb.

Ask one of the Apple experts standing next to a sign saying “We’re sold out today, but ask one of our experts about how you can get one tomorrow”

Basically, you can’t.

The conversation went something like this:

Q: How many units do you get in a day?
A: I don’t know? They arrive all the time and there were people lined up when I came to work
Q: Really? How many?
A: I don’t know. I didn’t look.
Q: What time do you open tomorrow?
A: We normally open at 10am, but I guess we might open earlier when a new product like the iPad 2 comes out.
Q: So tomorrow?
A: I don’t know.

Is it a dire lack of inquisitiveness or a severe case of short term memory loss?

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Postgrad studies

Posted on 16 March, 2011 by jb


Ms jb is continuing her education.

She’s currently studying Anthropologie.

Tuition fees run at about $200.

Per visit

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This is the life VI

Posted on 16 March, 2011 by jb

Dinner at the Engine Room, Northcote Point.

Sublime.

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>Welcome to LA

Posted on 16 March, 2011 by jb

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Guy in the Apple Store in Santa Monica demonstrating Google Maps on the iPad.
“You can even look at LA traffic” he says
Screen starts flashing red, amber and (not a lot of) green.

Blonde bimbo pipes up “What do the colours mean….?”

Bloody hell….
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>This the life V

Posted on 14 March, 2011 by jb

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Lunch at Bambina. Dessert, double espresso, espresso machiato and NZ lollies at Agnes Curran.
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>Have I understood this correctly?

Posted on 14 March, 2011 by jb

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Saw this at the Mtakana market on Saturday and I thought “How are they going to send fresh whitebait fritters to the South Island. And the rest of the North Island for that matter? And how much do they cost if you buy them at the stand to eat there?”

Answers on a $50 note, if you don’t mind.

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