A Real Old Fashioned Photo Friday.

Remember When I Used To Make Fonts?

So I've been seeing this new kind of weak arts & crafts art popping up at farmers markets and art fares. People are cutting up old license plates and nailing them down to wood, sometimes skateboards, to make sayings or spell out people's names.  My first thought was, that should be a font... and I checked, and as far as I can tell it's not......................until now!

Behold, LicensePlate font!

submitting to dafont soon. I'll keep you posted. 

Five Guys Burgers and Fries Sucks

Yea I said it.

I'm finally trying this Five Guys burgers place. Even though I'm getting burnt out on In-N-Out, I have my west coast loyalties to uphold. I honestly don't know what all the hype is about, but it's clear where the financial success comes from.

The burger was good. But good in the same way a burger at a family bbq pick-nick is good. I feel like I've had this burger 1000 times already. Everything seemed like you could go to Safeway and buy it and make it yourself for like 8 dollars cheaper. Right down to the normal Reynolds wrap foil wrapper. If this burger came off a hipster food-truck and had something distinguishing or  special I still wouldn't expect to pay $7+ for it.

So the hype, here on the West Coast at least is that it's not In N Out, although it looks like one with the familiar red and white 50s decor. But the food isn't special... At all.

I think the main reason they're making a considerable amount of profits is because of the generic  ingredients and unbranded foil wrappers, plain brown bags and Costco napkins  that they charge an arm and a leg for. Can you say instant profit? It's actually a genius business model. Make people think that because it tastes "just like mom used to make" that it's chic and worth $10 for a burger. I wonder if you give em $1.00 extra they'll write your name on the bag?

I'll take In-N-Out over Dad's birthday party cookout hamburger any day. Because it's something that you just can't duplicate.  In-N-Out is simple but it's got something special.

No Sushi For You!

Just discovered a newish, not horrible Japanese/sushi restaurant near my house. The only time we ate at the actual restaurant we saw the guy go out to his car and brought back a bullhorn. I was like is he going to a protest or something? So we're eating and we hear bullhorn noises. 'Bwoooop" "boonnngk" then like 30 seconds later we hear what sounds like a cross between a car alarm and a smoke alarm. Beep beep beel beep. Then the dude comes out yelling "fire alarm. Fire alarm!" in a heavy Japanese accent. We were like what the hell? He's holding a large serving tray with a large sushi roll in foil with flames. Real fire! We all quickly searched the menu on the wall for what this flaming concoction could be. Almost in unison we both exclaimed "Flaming Dragon Roll!" lol this place is awesome.

Fast forward to last night when we had our new mattress delivered. With the knowledge that there's a new sushi place in town, while we waited we planned to have take out from the previously mentioned restaurant. It was set, our stomachs were planning to get savory deliciousness. We had our take-out menu ready to go with our selections. It was 8:15, the menu says they close at 9, so,with my order script memorized, I gave them a ring. Ring.... Ring.... Ring.... Ring......so I thought "well maybe they're busy" so I drove there. Nothing was going to ruin the dinner our mental taste buds had prepared for!

As I circle around to the front all I see is darkness behind the sign reading "hours of business: mon-sat 10:00am-9:00pm"

WTF? It's 8:30...i want some fucking Japanese food!

Now what? How can you just not be open when you say you're going to be open?

We cooked pasta with sauce from a jar. :-\

still don't totally hate this place. We'll give it another chance.