Super Bowl?

Since my beloved Chargers didn't make it once again to the big show, the only thing i'm looking forward to come February 1st are the commercials. Super Bowl commercials are by far the funniest and most entertaining. Spike TV rated the top 10 Super Bowl commercials of all time, and I must agree with their #1 pick. The commercial was from Super bowl XXXVII, which coincidentally was here in SD, where the Tampa Bay Bucs defeated those wack ass Raiders. Do you remember this commercial?



"You know you can't bring that weak ass stuff up in this humpty bumpty!" haha

BTW: I'm having a Super Bowl BBQ, hit me up if you wanna cruise through.

Future ABDC Competitors

Move over hip-hop, break dancing, crumpin, cloggin, and pop-lockin. It's all about Eyebrow dancing now. What do you think JC, Lil' Mama, and Shane will have to say about them?

Vinyl

Sunday, my good buddy Jay (aka Jay Dread) of 5&A Dime needed help moving. I got there a little late, but was just in time to still help move some heavy things. The whole moving process wasn't too difficult, but the thing that took the longest to move was Jay's vinyl collection. His collection was pretty impressive. It was so HUGE that it took up the whole bed of a Tacoma. CRAZY! I remember my vinyl collection was about 3/4's of Jay's (give or take a few). Damn that bastard that jacked my shit!!! But I digress, Jay's been spinnin' for a long time, his collection was actually bigger. He just kept the ones that he liked. Lots of rare gems in his collection. Like all his original mint condition X-Clan stuff.



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Catching Up

Finally, with this huge post I am all caught up with my blogging. I've honestly been trying to keep up with this bitch, but alas work, school, DJ'ing, snowboarding, sleeping, and other random shit has had me far behind on all this crap. Anywho.... the week of January 12th-18th was an extremely busy week for me. It was Christine's birthday, my co-workers birthday's, restaurant week, a friend's (Allyn) birthday, and so on and so forth. I ate out 6 of the 7 days that week. Crazy!

Monday: Jan. 12th
I did my usual thing I do on Mondays.......JACK SHIT! Mondays are my veg out at home day where I do absolutely nothing.

Tuesday: Jan. 13th
We celebrated Christine's 28th Birthday at El Torito's Taco Tuesday. Click HERE to read my blog about that night.

Here are a few pics courtesy of Caren aka Kenks

Wednesday: Jan. 14th
Part 2 of Christine's 28th Birthday celebration...Chris' dad took the fam bam out to Black Angus to celebrate.

Here's my 12oz rib eye....medium rare. yum


Happy Birthday part 2


Thursday: Jan. 15th
I went out to Casa De Pico in Grossmont to celebrate my assistant's (Patty) birthday, and my co-worker's (Laura) birthday.

Cadillac Margarita, a must have when going to a mexican restaurant.


Friday: Jan. 16th
We always partake in the Restaurant Week festivities to try out new restaurants in our lovely city. After perusing through all the different pri-fixe menus online, we decided to try out Croce's in the Gaslamp. Not only is it a dope jazz lounge, head chef, Ingrid Croce, can cook some bomb ass food.

Appetizers:

Baked Brie with Honey Roasted Garlic, a Toasted Baguette, Spring Greens, and Grand Marnier-Berry Compote


Soup Du Jour: French Onion


Calamari


Seared Ahi Poke


Stone indian Pale Ale


Entrees:

Eric's Grilled White Marble Farms Pork Chop, Gruyere Potato Gratin, Braised Spinach, Fire Roasted Roma Tomato on a Caramelized Onion Hunter Au Jus


Christine's Grilled Free-Range Chicken, Forest Mushroom Risotto, Asparagus and Rosemary Vodka Sauce w/ Fried Leeks


edROC's Grilled CAB New York Steak w/ Forest Mushroom Ragout, Smoked Gouda Mash & Grilled Asaparagus




Caren's Bordeaux Braised Short Ribs w/ Mac-n-Cheese, Wilted Chard and Roasted Cipolline Onions


Desserts:

Vanilla Lavender Honey Creme Brulee w/ Almond Lavender Laced Cookie


Fondant Au Chocolat (melted warm chocolate cake w/ fresh raspberries)


House Made Ice Cream - Fresh Mint Ice Cream w/ Girl Scout Chocolate Thin Mint Cookies


I don't know why this picture has so much noise.


After Croce's we hit up the Office in North Park for part 3 of Christine's Birthday, and to also celebrate Allyn's Birthday.
Here's my dancing partner for the night, Yum-Yum




After the office we went down the street to grab some Danger Dogs. A Danger Dog is a bacon wrapped hot dog w/ onion and bell peppers, topped with carne asada, guacamole, cheese, and pico de gallo. YUM




Right before I fell off the curb


Christine, pictured w/ Christine, showing off her Christmas gift


Red Velvet Bundt Cake courtesy of "Nothing Bundt Cakes" in Mira Mesa


Saturday: Jan. 17th
I continued my all week binge eating and parlaying with an all night drinking/eating fest for Allyn's Birthday. We started off at Harney's Sushi in Old Town.


Vince with the birthday girl Allyn




Bomb James Bomb


Miso Harney


Rollz Royce


Maui Wowi


Tempura Fried Ice Cream


My DELICIOUS Tempura Fried Cheese Cake! SOOOO GOOOOD!!!!!




After Harney's, we strolled around Old Town and did a little window shopping, then headed downtown to have drinks at Bondi.


HUF crew, compliments of the Yay


Fancy water, or Vodka?




I drank a couple Stone IPA's, and even though we had just ate a shit load of fish at Harney's, Donnell still ordered some fries and pita w/ hummus. The martini pictured is Bondi's Bond Diego.


After Bondi's, we hit up Nicky Rottens for cheese fries, and more drinks.


Sunday: Jan. 18th
Klev, Judy, Christine, and myself hit up The Mission in North Park for brunch. Here is my Steak Quesadilla.


Afterwards we hit up the movies and caught Notorious. It was actually a very good movie. Just watch it, we all already know the story, but it's pretty cool to see Biggies side to the whole east coast west coast war.

And so ends my extremely fat week that emptied out my wallet. But it was all worth it. I can't wait for Restaurant Week in June.

Acapella

I remember back in the day, when Eddie Love rocked the night time airwaves, and male singing groups weren't known as boy bands, there lived this style of singing called acapella. Acapellas were the shit. All the dope slow jam/R&B artists like Boyz II Men, Shai, and my personal favorite Jodeci, would have at least one acapella song on their albums. You don't hear shit like that anymore. Slow jams aren't the same. Anywho, the other day at work one of my employees told me about this dude, Daiyel, who is basically a one man boy band singing some dope songs in acapella. Check him out.

Jason Mraz - I'm Yours


The Dream - I Luv Your Girl

Taco Tuesday Birthday Parlay

On the 13th we celebrated Christine's 28th birthday.  Since it fell on a Tuesday, we celebrated it at El Torito for Taco Tuesday.  Thanks to Judy and Klev for reserving the big table for us.  They have some clout there because they pretty much go every single Tuesday.  

Patron shot for the birthday girl

Elaina tried a whole bunch of different flavored margaritas.  Here she is with her Mango Margarita, blended.

Dr. Cat, Christine's cousin, penciled us into her schedule too.

Eric's blue steel

Cake time!  I don't know why we didn't get the special song in spanish like the other birthday's did.  Maybe it's because only one of us was of spanish descent.

The Matador.  Really she is, because she went to Mt. Miguel High School

mmm, Red Velvet cake.  From Ralphs of all places.  Don't sleep on Ralph's bakery, they're shit is pretty good.  

Julz always trying to steal someone's thunder.

Thanks everyone for coming out.  Christine is thankful for each and every one of you.

Rare picture of Gian smiling normally in a picture.  Good shot Klev.

Christine's familia (including some extended family members).

Jay G posing for a hard ass picture.

After everyone left, we still stuck around for awhile to chop it up with Ronnie and have a few drinks with him since he came late.