:EDUCATED IN THE WEST

I had the most interesting dining experience last week. It was at a new restaurant called “Animal” just up the street from the intersection of Fairfax and Beverly. The menu is meat-intensive and changes frequently. It was voted by Los Angeles Magazine as one of the best new restaurants in the city, [...]

I mentioned in a recent post that a friend of mine was selected to this year’s Laker Girls cheerleading squad. Now, most of you know that the Lakers are my least favorite NBA team and that a certain Lakers player is my least favorite phliandering rapist athlete. However, I think I can compartmentalize [...]

It wasn’t all just desserts, there were a few entrees and appetizers thrown in, too!
A good friend happens to know the executive pastry chef at Stone Hill Tavern at the St. Regis Monarch Beach Resort in Orange County. It’s a Michael Mina Restaurant that caters to the local and vacation crowd in [...]

For the second consecutive year, I made the 400 mile drive to Sacramento to fill my belly and pilfer some silverware from Guinness’s place. There were close to thirty courses, but I managed to only get shots of them on my plate. On this visit I was so busy drinking diet soda and [...]

Well, it’s that time of year again. Yes, time for the Asian Excellence Awards held for the second consecutive year on the campus of UCLA. I went there, as before, to find a particular actor–Gedde Watanabe, star of the movie Gung Ho with Michael Keaton. I’m sad to report that he didn’t [...]

Spring Break. Los Angeles. Tojo. Two Korean Air stewardesses.
I’d say that these are the elements of a really, really great story.
A colleague of mine, Min, is South Korean. His wife, “Michelle,” is a very attractive woman who works for Korean Air. She’s part of the air crew. I think the [...]

When I say “random,” I mean that I’m too lazy/tired to write anything else about them. It’s been a while since a Flickr update, so here goes. If you click on over to the EITW Flickr site, you’ll (mainly) see, among other things, uncaptioned photos of:
Penang Restaurant Chinese Malaysian restaurant in West Covina [...]

* It had to happen sometime. That is, Apple had to release some more application for the iPod Touch. I bought an iPod Touch last year when they first came out. The machine’s home screen was noticeably bare, especially when compared to the multiple applications on the iPhone. It really [...]

Thanksgiving 2007 - Thanks to Guinness for being a gracious host and a great chef and thanks to Tiffany for, among other things, one bad-ass berry pie.

I just spent about four and half hours at the Auto Show down at the L.A. Convention Center. I drooled over several cars, especially over the 480hp Nissan GT-R you see below. I really wanted to get these up as soon as I could. Because of this, I’ve only uploaded a portion [...]

As a car enthusiast, I’ve come to discover that motoring is not just about the performance parameters of your car. It’s not always all about 0-60 times. It’s not always about skid pad numbers and 500 horsepower under the hood. The pleasures of motoring are as much about mindset and perception as [...]

I’ve scanned three more old photos into Flickr. I’ll eventually add more, but I’ve just started working at a law firm in downtown L.A., so most of my waking hours are occupied.

My dad strikes a jaunty pose at the Tower Bridge in London circa 1972. The quality of the actual picture is better [...]

I was out in Hollywood with the Commander and Babs the other night in what would turn out to be a failed attempt to link up with TLC-NYC visiting from the east coast. We were to meet at the historic Roosevelt Hotel, but TLC had a work meeting, which left me to find my [...]

Yeah, Elvis and Tojo, both alive. I guess that the five readers of this blog have noticed that ol’ Tojo has taken a little winter hiatus. Yes, I’ve been tooling around California, Nevada and Arizona (sort of). Vacation will soon be over, though, and the blogging will recommence shortly after that. [...]

I’ve just emptied the first pics saved on my new 512 MB memory card. Yes, I know I’ve been highly delinquent in my blog updates and in my comment replies. That will change soon, though. Here are some random Vegas and I-5 pictures dumped from my digital camera to keep you occupied [...]

I’ve put up all of my Chicago pics onto the EITW Flickr album. The shots below are just a sample of the latest additions. Click on any one to go to the album and browse around. Captions to follow.  (Seriously, I billed 72 hours this past week, so cut me some slack [...]

I’ve begun the process of putting some of my Chicago pictures into the EITW Flickr album. I’ll eventually organize them into sets and give most of them proper captions. For now, titles will have to do. So far, I’ve put up a few random pics, shots from the outstanding Custom House restaurant, [...]

Yes, I know that some of you are waiting for the the write-up and the pics from my little Fourth of July excursion to Chicago. That will all be posted in due course. But before I give you the low down on my trip to the Windy City, I wanted to first drop [...]