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THE BEACH PIT BBQ
Yes, now and then, we watch Huell Howser's California Gold. Wanna make something of it??? Okay, I didn't think so! Anyway, he was talking about good BBQ places and since our favorite place, Riley's (in Brea), went out of business last year, we've been looking for a new favorite place. When Huell did a spot on The Beach Pit BBQ in Old Town, Tustin, we paid attention. The restaurant is kinda like Philippe's, in L.A., near Union Station, but for BBQ, instead of for French dip (hmmm ... and now I want a Philippe's sandwich). It used to be a garage. Not like the one you have attached to your home, but the kind where you take your car to be repaired. They've preserved the feel of the garage, but, of course, it's much cleaner. They have a few old style booths, but mostly tables and chairs and a lot of the tall tables and stools. The music was from the 70's and was too loud, but there were only a few people in the place -- if it were full, the music might not be an issue. The BBQ meat is smoky and good. The sauce comes in mild or spicy. Everything on the menu is a little pricey. No big surprise that you're more for it being in Old Town. But they have something there that I've never had before and it was absolutely terrific. What is it? Deep friend pickles! I know, I know, it sounds gross, but that's what the photo is, at the start of this, and it's not only NOT gross, it's delicious! Thankfully, Old Town, Tustin, isn't that easy to get to from Fullerton. We have a couple of friends who live up that way and if we're out there anyway, then we might stop back at the Beach Pit BBQ. But, even for those yummy fried pickles, I don't see us making the trip out there solely to eat at this place again. wwwww The Trials of Living in Fairway Village Continue - The Never Ending Drama of Association Living Ah, the joys of living in a community association, in the state of California ... or, for that matter, in any state in the U.S., or so I've heard. Truly, you'd have more rights, living on foreign soil, than you'll ever have living in a community association. Certainly, foreigners have more rights living on our soil than Americans have, living in our community associations. They sound so wonderfully ... well, communal LOL. In fact, they're anything but. CLICK HERE read about the latest fiasco wrought by the board of directors of just one of the dozens of these little pieces of Hell on earth ...
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HEADLINES KEEP IT TO YOURSELF A couple of days ago I finished listening (on my iPod) to a short story that was written by Orson Scott Card. There was a chapter at the end, read by the author, telling how the idea for this particular story came to him. And before I knew it, a man whose work I'd been enjoying for quite some time told me more about himself than I ever wanted to know. The days of these people permitting the rest of us to believe whatever illusions have been spun by their industry, or in our own minds, about them are long gone! It's no longer enough for the actor to be famous for acting, the singer for singing or the author for writing. Now, they want us to know everything about their personal lives and love them for that as well as for whatever else it is that they do. The problem is that most of these people are broken in some way and even if they're among the few who aren't, I don't want to be a part of the reality of their life -- I have my own reality to deal with! I only want to be able to enjoy the fantasy they create. That fantasy is what I pay for when I buy the movie, the CD or the audiobook. So I blame myself for the loss of this author because I know better than to listen to any artist or celebrity. But blaming myself for not hitting the "pause" button when I should have doesn't make me any less angry over the fact that I'll never be able to look (or listen) to anything this man writes the same way again. In truth, I doubt I'll ever again purchase anything else he writes or has written ... something for which I'd like to smack him - HARD - right upside the head! What I
desperately need these people to do is their job, whatever it may be ... act,
sing, write, whatever, and then just SHUT UP AND GO AWAY. They
always act as if they're spitting out a bad clam when they say the word
"fan" anyway, so why should piping down and getting the hell out of
Dodge when they're finished with whatever they were doing be so hard for them?
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A DIFFERENT KIND OF BUCKET LIST This is a list of things that I hope I live long enough to see and that, in fact, I would gladly PAY TO SEE. It only has a couple of items on it now, but it will grow ... never fear! Having just come to the end of another Australian Open Tennis Tournament, number one on this list is: I would happily PAY to not have to listen to Mary Carrillo's voice commentating another tennis match, for the rest of my life. Not only is she the queen of "how quickly can we change the topic from whatever match we're watching to something that involves one of my past experiences with someone famous" but, in general, she just never, EVER, shuts up. It would be so nice to simply be able to enjoy watching the various tennis matches, without the sound of her ever-present voice, which is usually explaining why she thinks it's okay to shove one of the Williams sisters down your throat, droning on and on and on ... This particular item used to be number one, and probably will be again, since I'll eventually be over the trauma of Mary Carrillo and the Australian Open and meanwhile I see no sign of anything changing on a national level. For now, however, it's number two on the list: Never, in my entire life, have I ever been so sick of hearing the name of the President of the United States, as I am now. I would love to have just a single day without having to hear the name, "Obama." This man cannot seem to stop spouting his campaign lies as regularly as Old Faithful and most of the media people can't seem to remove their lips from his behind long enough to report on anything other than what he thinks, what he says and/or what he might think or say. Stop turning that funny color and withdraw your fangs, all of you neo-Democrats! I've been a Democrat since before I was old enough to vote and I've been an American citizen my entire life. Until the day that you manage to get away with socializing the entire country AND take away what rights I still have left, I'm entitled to my own opinion. And THIS is my opinion: I'm sick of hearing about Obama. Live with it. I never thought the day would come when I'd actually consider being a Republican, but that day has come, and this - in a nutshell - is why ... If they held enough power to be able to shove through a bill permitting them to cut down national forests, in order to drill for oil, they wouldn't mandate that the entire country be required to watch them do it AND THEN mandate that the entire country be REQUIRED to buy a gallon of the resulting gasoline, or be FINED, TAXED and MALIGNED for not wanting to participate in something with which they had no part because they did not believe that it was the right thing to do in the first place. All of which is why I no longer say "I'm a Democrat" (because, by the standards set by people like Nancy Pelosi, I'm really not one anyway) and a lot of which is why I'm sick to death of having "Obama" force fed to me on a daily basis. wwwww Winston Churchill once said: "Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy; its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." wwwww GO FLYERS!!!
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