santa barbara, ca

seeing up in the air tonight, which feels like the santa barbara of this year's best picture contenders

got a phil collins song in my head now

caek's reports on the cityscape of Isla Vista will amuse.

haven't seen any oxford/cambridge varsity ski trip hoodies yet this time, although i did just see a canadian national polo team shirt (horse, not water). what a town.

have a blenders 4 me

also if yr driving to LA you can stop in carpenteria and have a burger @ The Spot. Julia Child used to eat there apparently and they had, at one point, the finest burger I had ever had

blenders rules
get blue-banana

fuck that noize. orange banana w spirulina

in an alternate universe blenders is national and jamba juice is regional. never underestimate a sugar bomb's ability to go national

sooooooooooo otm

also the owners of blenders were shot by richard avedon and the picture is hung in every blenders; you can tell that avedon was totally phoning it in

haha I know what picture you're talking about

it's so weak

yeah I had no idea it was supposed to be anything but a cutesy local photographer type thing

but yeah, I don't go to juice places anywhere outside of santa barbara. jamba juice is horrid. I imagine it's healthier than blenders, though...part of the reason why blenders drinks taste good is that they're practically ice cream.

is the cajun kitchen still around? serious good times there 15 years ago.

yeah it is w/ a buncha locations

i will be here from jan 12-25, let's party/see dead people.

Any given Saturday night in Isla Vista they'll be one and the same.

btw i am only briefly passing through LA on this trip now ned, but thanks for responding in the LA thread

pretty scared that I'm gonna die sometime in the jan 12-25 interval now. please pass over me santa barbara death angel caek. I will put the goat's blood on the door mantel, etc.

These days I'm giving a tour of the local "Fieri Hot Spots" for extra cash. The tour includes food from those places featured in Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives and ends with frosted tips at Aveda.

wait where was on ddd

Norton's, some fish n' chips place that was open for all of 1 year before Guy soiled it, and some Mexican place on upper state that I've never heard of.

There's enough good mexican food that I can believe it's good, though. I'm somewhat glad he didn't just go to super rica, even though it seems to fit the show perfectly.

yeah milpas makes a lot more sense than anything downtown

true. I live over by the bowl, so I am biased toward milpas.

including los agaves, the cheaper evil offspring of los arroyos

I was in sb like two weeks ago, state st is getting so depressing

it's shifting towards super super high end and super super low end stores at the same time

sorta a microcosm of america I guess

ha, that description is kind of true. but I learned from this thread that you grew up here, so a bit of hometown depression is natural. you should check out el cielito next time you're in town. it opened in la arcada and is the best new thing imo.

oh yeah I looked at it curiously

according to http://www.santabarbara.com/dining/best_of_sb/ , 2012's best korean restaurant in town is "New China"

chumash casino should have everything you want and more

haha unless you want a mojito

Tower of Power on Jan. 17 at the Chumash

caek should get funkifized

my favourite eats over the weekend was whail tail deli: http://whale-tail-deli.com/default.aspx. cheap for sb, and hearty fare indeed.

xp, two dead people in four days has to be some kind of record, right. central california is perilous.

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this place is gone, btw. you killed it too. ;_;

good thing i didn't get the job there i made the shortlist for last year.

is ucsbs astronomy good?

it's small for a UC astro dept (cf. UCSC, which is probably 5 times bigger?) so it has gaps because so few faculty, but it's very good

+ it has the kavli, which is a v big deal for theoretical physics

one sure does hear eddie vedder's into the wild ost regularly in this town

No deaths yet this time but still a couple of days to go

restaurant turnover seems fast. any good new places places to eat/drink walking distance of say state and castillo?

So you mean between state and Castillo? They are parallel I think. You mean on state by the Castillo exit off of 101?

Or maybe you meant Carrillo?

Or maybe you meant Carrillo?

otm

I like Cielito, which is nearby in 'La Arcada.' Arlington Tavern is a new place up state 3 blocks and to the left (toward chapala). I've not been there, but I've heard good things. Cadiz is a good new Mediterranean place down State a bit from Carrillo. Scarlett Begonia is good for breakfast/brunch. If you just want a beer and a burger type thing, a place called Eureka!Burger opened in the paseo nuevo mall area a bit down state st.

There's also the French Table on Anapamu by the courthouse

thanking you.

Still haven't found a bar I really like here. I was enjoying the press room until someone put kasabian on the juke box and then a television programme called 'the banter zone' was on the tv very loud. Elsie's is a bit crusty.

haha elsie's is very crusty. I liked it for awhile, but the last time there some biker dude was talking loudly about how the Newton Massacre was a grand plan from Obama to take his guns away

I'll be grabbing drinks with some photonics grad students on Friday to celebrate a guy in our group graduating and moving on to intel. Let me know if you wanna join up.

Hah yes Elsie's reminds me more of the uk way more than any of the pub style places. It's kind of like a perfect mixture of Austin TX and Bristol. Is 'crusty' a widely understood word here?

Unfortunately I have to be back in lol angeles on Friday.