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Berkeley or Oakland?

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The Chinese lady around the corner does a good job. It's cheap, and she doesn't even attempt to make conversation.

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The waitress at the breakfast joint would get jealous.

I like your boots, though. (Does that help?)

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I got over enjoying conversation with haircutter/stylers when one of mine here mentioned that his parents were turning 40.

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so are you like, a coked out bottle blond as well? and, fwiw those publicist fashionista types?? they are the real odious ones here in NYC not some like passive agressive paralegal all conservatively dressed. I moreso look like I'd rip your face off in a deal or if you cut me in line in Starbucks more than vapid.

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Actually, I prefer to go right to the rock. Crack's so much more effective.

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Over on Telegraph. I'm not sure exactly where Berkeley ends and Oakland begins.

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Ethiopian food is delicious. There are many stew-like dishes, and you eat the stew with pancake-like bread, no utensils. Not too spicy but definitely flavorful. Lamb, chicken, lentils, chick peas, some potato and root vegetable dishes are common. Yebeg tibs, which is lamb pieces marinated in wine and sauteed, is my favorite dish. It is very tasty cuisine.

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You need a pipe, I hear Whitney has a spare now that she's clean. "crack is wack" but apparantly not so much for her.

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Can someone please translate?

But huh, "look like I'd rip your face off in a deal" sounds exceedingly attractive. I think TM has some crow to eat.

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Sign here, bitch, etc. etc. on a deal. ha.

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Racist fuck.

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Mmmmm. I had an Ethiopian restaurant down as my #2 next-to-go-to, but I think Nepalese just got bumped our of the #1 slot.

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Yeah, that's some power.

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I lived in Rockridge and rode my bike to work in Berkeley.* But I tell people on the East Coast I lived in Berkeley.

* Once. When my car battery was dead.

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You sure talk tough for a chubby. Is that how your grill got wrecked? You shouldn't write checks your ass can't cash, toots.

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Your firm has paralegals negotiate deals? Or is that what you did during the wedding dress sale at Filene's?

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Wonk, like I said the weight is a work in progress. I'm down to a size 8 Ann Taylor and a medium brooks brothers...like I said before. I'm very agressive and fairly arrogant in person. One time in Grand Cental a banker type [hot too] I was bombing through and he grabbed me, put his arm around me and said to me "easy, killer" that was cute. If he wasn't hot I would have drop kicked him.

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ummm, remember yesterday when I said if you beat her in an argument it doesn't count for your record? I should point out if you lose it does count. Single elimination in fact.

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I've been going to the same guy for 20 years. It sort of freaks me out a bit that his kid is about to start drivers ed.

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Discuss with Less.

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not everyone has taken the Manfred Pledge. unfortunately I think it is an all or nothing deal.

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I am sure based on my assessment of your run-down of the hair salons that you are probably quite attractive. Oribe is J-lo's former hairdresser and he's quite good for a while he was at Elizabeth arden I think. hmm. And you're fun to spar with you can hang.

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I like my LA guy, but he keeps threatening to quit because he wants to go to fireman school. Two things: (1) I didn't realize that there was such thing as fireman's school (I more thought it was an on-the-job-training sort of profession) and (2) how many times to you hear about guys who list as their professions hairdresser and fireman?

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you don't think most male hairdressers would like to be able to bunk down at a firehouse?

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I'm slightly traumatized after reading this article:

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its like George bush would say everyone needs to pick a side. then you need to expand who you ignore.

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He sounds like he might be a Village Person wannabe.

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I work with a guy who is going thru process.

you have to take a entrance exam, a psych battery of tests and then go to the school.

that is a strange dichotomy of potentially the feminine and the macho. oof.

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Your honor, this post should be excluded as fruit of the poisonous tree.

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nothing to see here

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I slipped. Please give me a hand back up on the wagon?

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DO people not believe in spoiler space anymore? Just wondering.

My predictive powers with respect to that show continue to suck, but I am happy with the result. I dislike the winner AND I dislike Supernova, so Win Win. I have been relieved of any obligation to ever attend a Supernova concert and I couldn't be happier.

The only person who changed my mind during the course of the show is Toby. I thought he was a frat boy with no stage presence at the beginning of the show and by the end he was out-Brandoning on Killers songs. Good job.

I'm not sure I can watch another season of this show if they do it again. The shameless self promotion by the band and the sickening kumbayah shit when people were sent home were nearly impossible to bear. I had less of a problem with it during the INXS show because I actually liked INXS in their day and it was cool to hear their (old) stuff promoted to a new generation of kids.

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Hey, nononono, I think ncs is talking about you.

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Dude, for close to 5 years different people at diff times have tried to coordinate a unified "ignore ppnyc" effort and it has all failed for various reasons. over 5 years. what part of brick does that fall under?

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I keep trying and failing.

Okay, new topic: a woman here at the office has seemed to have dropped something in the vicinity of, I don't know, 70 or 100 pounds. She's looking awesome. I hadn't seen her for maybe 2 months and then saw her in the hall, and i couldn't help but compliment her. Just said she's looking fantastic, that sort of thing. Was that intrusive or inappropriate?

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I thought you only *thought* about complimenting the waitress's hair (and talked about it here)?:confused:

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I think you're thinking of Temescal, in Oakland. Asmara and Blue Nile? Both are good, but my kids won't touch the stuff -- the bread is too sour for them, alas.

In that 'hood, Dona Tomas and Pizzaiola are both fantastic, too.

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I hope that they do and I also hope that if anyone is planning to post anything about Project Runway (hi PLF!) that they use it. I only watched a half hour of it and tivo'd the rest last night. Thanks in advance!

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I was teasing you.