I’ve driven by the El Torito on Ocean Park Blvd in Santa Monica a couple times on my way to Clover Park, and today was the day that I felt the need to stop in.  I checked out the reviews on various “pay us or we’ll keep the negative reviews of your restaurant online for [...]

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giffenclarkott @LAsnark north end cafe. 35th & highland. manhattan beach. definite win. about 12 hours ago from web in reply to LAsnark

doninsocal @LAsnark Never had brunch in LA…however my fav breakfast [...]

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It took me forever to see this movie, but The Girl brought it home from the library and we checked it out.  I had no idea what this movie was about other than a guy that buys a Real Doll, but that was enough for me.  Other cubicle-trapped coworkers and I had fun sending the [...]

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So this is the second time in a week that I’ve gone to the Ralphs on Barrington and Olympic and gotten attitude from the self checkout lane worker for not plugging in the code for salad bar or olive bar.  Perhaps they should consult a psychologist or marketing firm that could clue them into the [...]

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By Greg Oguss
It’s probably no surprise that there are mad men lurking among the users on the micro-blogging site Twitter. One dude I follow calls himself “Fart Sandwich,” though he’s actually a down-to-earth sort who’s some kind of office slave and aspiring novelist. The Mad Men I’m referring to are named @Roger_Sterling, @peggyolsen, and @Don_Draper [...]

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So while my brother was in town we thought that we should try something new. Yeah we hit Swingers too like we do with everyone else that visits, but we wanted to try something we hadn’t tried ourselves. The Girl heard about a cereal bar on Westwood in West LA so we decided [...]

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Our sister in LA blogging, Tara Settembre has created a viral video entitled What Do You Stand For?
Here is Tara’s post from TaraMetBlog.com
If I’ve been a bit quiet the last few weeks, it’s because I’ve been obsessed with creating the following viral video for the movement Stand Up To Cancer. My colleagues and I came [...]

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Yeah it was fun, but for some reason I forgot that the forum was an outdoor venue whether you were inside or outside of it.  We spent the day (about 9am til 6:30pm) in the blazing Inglewood sun.  I of course did not bring sunblock and I am not a tanning man.

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By: AV Flox
The Internet Will Not Make Up For What Happened To You In High School, says the popular shirt and you’d think by now we would have given up the nonsense. But after a summer filled with malwebolence and hazing from the New York Times Magazine to BoingBoing, the denizens of the blogosphere are [...]

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So I shaved the beard.  It was only a 2 week beard so it wasn’t too full, but the drain clogged anyway.  No big deal, just head out to the store and buy some Drano.  I headed to Ralphs and looked at my options.  Why are there 4 different types of Drano at 4 different [...]

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