stud muffin

if you wear a size 7, go here and buy these immediately.

Negronis R Us

If you live in LA, get thee to church & state bistro downtown.

Immediately. It's romantic, delicious, why just ask this perfectly
proportioned negroni.

Thank me later.

Neutra quote to boot!

And then there was this...

My "bounty." aka 1 beaut of a Japanese eggplant and 1 extremely size
challenged yellow bell pepper. It's better than nothin!

Mario's in Glendale

Tipped off by my sisters neighbor, I visited mario's deli in Glendale
last weekend. I was told it was a taste of bay cities on the east side
and as someone who dreams about bay cities subs like I grind my teeth
at night, I had to investigate.

The place was musty. Full of regular looking folk clamoring for
sandwiches (as opposed to the European accented blue crush extras at
b.cities).

A sign said "please do not place your infants on the counter while
ordering." a lady placed her infant on the counter next to me and
began ordering. I liked it already.

I got my usual: a prosciutto with Dijon, lettuce, tomato, onion...
Much to my chagrin all other veggies were considered "extra" and
charged as such. Boo. I was used to at least pickles, hot peppers,
cukes thrown in.

I coughed up the 50cents neccessary for my pickles and left the shop
with a hefty sandwich and only $7.50 lighter. (a word to the
prosciutto snobs in the audience: I went for plain old domestic but
the 'di parma' variety will run you a little more. I'm sure your ego
will appreciate it though.)

The sandwich was pretty tasty. 3tiered which took me by surprise. Some
fancy way of splitting up the goodies and keeping things unsoggy. It
worked well. It was large enough to feed me two meals.

I will be going back. Not too far away, no long lines full of pseudo
celebs (I once saw wee man from jackass with his girlfriend at bay
cit.) and no traffic to brave either way.

Maybe byo pickles and you have 2 meals, recession style.