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November 20, 2012
World of Warcraft 8th Anniversary
Blizzard released this cool 8 year anniversary video, which is sort of a walk down memory lane. Given that I’ve been writing up my giant endgame comparison post series, I thought it apropos.
WOW Endgame series: Vanilla, Burning Crusade, Lich King…
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As the Nineteenth Century gives way to the Twentieth, modern science and steel girders leave little room for the supernatural. But in dark corners the old forces still gather. God, demon, and sorcerer ali...
November 19, 2012
Hedonists Boil Up Some Crab
Restaurant: The Boiling Crab
Location:3377 Wilshire Blvd.Ste 115,Los Angeles,CA90010
Date: November 15, 2012
Cuisine: Cajun Seafood
Rating: Negative frills, but really tasty
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Good food doesn’t always have to be fancy. My most recent Hedonist adventure was to The Boiling Crab, the Korea-Town outpost of a cajun seafood joint.
The place is located in a built up K-Town food oriented minimall.
And, boy, is it popular. This was a random Thursday and the wait was over an hour. I’ve heard that on weekends i...
November 16, 2012
A Taste of Taos
Recently, a friend invited me over to his house for a chef dinner featuring Southwestern American Cuisine. Of course, I brought the wine.
The chef in question was Chris Maher (above).Christopher recently owned and directed Momentitos de la VIDA, a fine dining establishment in Taos, New Mexico. He functioned as the executive chef and received excellent reviews since opening the doors in 1999 through selling it in 2006. Gourmet and Bon Appetit have both named VIDA as “one of the most notable res...
November 14, 2012
WOW Endgames – Lich King
The collector’s edition box
…continued from my coverage of the WOW Burning Crusade endgame.
The months leading up to the launch of Wrath of the Lich King were very exciting for me. First of all, my son was about to be born— in fact, he was scheduled to arrive just days after LK! And on a WOW front, Blizzard pushed the 3.0.x series of patches 4-6 weeks in advance of the expansion itself.
Before Heading North
Patch 3.0.x introduced the most sweeping changes of any infrastructure patch yet— and a lo...
November 12, 2012
Untimed Goodies
My latest Advanced Reader Copy of Untimed. NOTE: the white balance leans overly orange in this photo
This was a busy week for Untimed swag. The proof came for the latest ARC (Advanced Reader Copy) and it looks fantastic. Not only the outside, but the interior has a new properly done layout that includes all the illustrations and near print ready formatting.
Swag bookmarks
I also received a run of bookmarks. These look pretty cool but I wish there was an easy way to get proofs before printing a b...
November 9, 2012
Hedonists at Dehab
Restaurant: Cafe Dehab
Location: 1640 Sawtelle Blvd, Los Angeles, Ca, 90025
Date: November 6, 2012
Cuisine: Egyptian
Rating: Tasty!
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Just a mere three days after the Hedonists tore up Totoraku, we return to this nearby casual Egyptian cafe and Hookah bar: Dehab.
This was a decidedly more casual affair, although the basic rules are the same. Each person needs to come with at least one great bottle of wine. Standards aren’t as high as for a stellar meat dinner like Toto, but there was still some grea...
November 7, 2012
WOW Endgames – Burning Crusade
The original cover
…continued from my coverage of the WOW Vanilla endgame.
In January of 2007, Blizzard launched The Burning Crusade, the first of four expansions to World of Warcraft and completely overhauled the endgame. In the race from level 60 to 70, any advantage gained by level 60 raiders was quickly swamped out.
Vanilla introduced the coreWorld of Warcraft gameplay: questing, dungeons, pvp, and raids, but The Burning Crusade (BC) began a long process of inventing and refining new mechani...
November 5, 2012
Totoraku – Hedonists Beef Up
Location:10610 W Pico Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90064.
Date: November 1, 2012
Cuisine: Japanese Yakiniku
Rating: Best beef in town!
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The Hedonists ride again, this time to my favorite Japanese beef joint, Totoraku. I‘ve reviewed this peculiar (but fantastic) invitation onlyrestaurantbefore.It serves a very refined version of Japanese Yakiniku, which is Beef BBQ originally from Korea but filtered through Japanese sensibility.
The outside is basically a shell. The “Teriyaki Hou...
November 2, 2012
Air Middle Earth
Air New Zealand is using this very amusing (in a geeky way) Hobbit-themed safety video on its flights!
