I’ll Eat To That
Travel diaries, food porn, random rants, and various musings about stuff that I feel like musing about.
Blog Posts
TYOLD Day 111: Most Watched Video on YouTube
I wondered what it was and decided to look it up and watch it. With nearly 2 billion views... yes, billion, with a B, it's this... I had never seen it before. I'm a little sorry I have now. 30 sit ups, 80 stomach crunches, 30 leg lifts, 1:25 plank.
TYOLD Day 110: Potato Potahto
CVS has this big section of "As Seen on TV" products. I bought this: So I open it up and I see this: There are more warnings on a printed thing that included: Warning: Pregnant women, the elderly, and children under 10 should avoid prolonged exposure to...
TYOLD Day 109: Same Drink, Different View
My friend Fred and I occasionally go out and have a cocktail or two. Or twelve. Or until there is no more alcohol left in Los Angeles. Or at least we used to. We met working in a bar and drinking was a bit of a sport for us and sometimes a game. There's the $3...
TYOLD Day 108: The Big Burrito Machine
Chipotle is one of the fastest growing fast food chains in America. They are everywhere here in LA and yet I have never eaten at one. I don't know why - maybe it's because they don't have drive throughs and I think that real Mexican fast food should be ordered...
TYOLD Day 107: Beach BBQ
At work, I'm not usually able to get away from my desk for too long to... well... do much of anything, much less take an actual lunch hour. But we just finished a months long project to relaunch 9 websites (which we did over the last couple of weeks) and so I had a...
TYOLD Day 106: Ab-solutely
I've always wanted to do one of those silly 30-Day Ab programs - you know, those things that promise to have you looking like Zac Effron at the MTV Movie Awards in just a month of doing little more than thinking about exercise. I don't need to lose weight - that...
TYOLD Day 105: Broken Toe-ing the Line
As I was getting out of the shower this morning, my foot slipped and I smashed my fourth toe on my right foot into the metal drain stopper. Hard. Now, y'all are going "owwww" and I did too. Well, actually I said a variety of curse words that were practically operatic...
TYOLD Day 104: Trapper Keeper
So the story goes like this... in 1941 a man named John Ehn, who had spent most of his life as a tracker hunting game in the woods, opened a motel in Burbank called "The Old Trapper's Lodge." Thinking he could turn it into a tourist attraction in its own right, he...
TYOLD Day 103: The View from Here
Had dinner tonight for the first time at Yamishiro, a restaurant in LA high in the Hollywood Hills with one of the most killer views in town. It goes a little something like this: Yamishiro is in a fairly stunning building built between 1911 and 1914 by two...
TYOLD Day 102: Cupcake Wars
As mentioned, yesterday's post was supposed to be about a cupcake war between two new cupcake places I went to try. But I got distracted by food trucks and so I held the battle today. Now, before I begin, I want to reassure you that I did not eat 4 full cupcakes...
Deeper Dives
The Year of Living With Cancer
In 2012, I was diagnosed with Esophageal Cancer. To help myself cope with it, I wrote about it. A lot. And yes, the picture of Angela and Jordan will make sense at some point if you read enough.
The Year of Living Differently
After cancer, I decided to try to mix things up and do something different every single day for a year. Did I make it?
50 for 50 by 50
To celebrate, or perhaps to distract myself from, my impending 50th birthday in 2016, I embarked on a project to give $50 to 50 different charities by the time I turned 50.
Gun Violence
A page full of facts to help you be better informed about the issues surrounding gun violence in the United states.