
Restaurants are places in which to escape from the world, where people can feel brighter, wealthier and happier than they really are. – Daniel Patterson
ELV will be in SoCal for the next few days, doing some post-production work on his television pilot for the Travel Channel. As a result of his traveling, and the recent events in Colorado (and the continuing idiocy of America’s gun laws which enable such horrific massacres), he has neither the time nor the stomach to write about food or restaurants until later this week.
That is all.

All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently, those people deserve to be punished. – Marshall Rosenberg
There is a great streak of violence in every human being. If it is not channeled and understood, it will break out in war or madness. – Sam Peckinpah