Subaru’s been putting out some really nice commercials lately.

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Tell me, was I the sort of person who took your elbow when cars passed on the street, touched your cheek while you talked, combed your wet hair, stopped by the side of the road in the country to point out certain constellations, standing behind you so that you had the advantage of leaning and looking up?

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“But see, the incredible thing about people is that we forget,” Ray continued. “Time passes and somehow the hope creeps back and sooner or later someone else comes along all over again. We go through our lives like that, and either we just accept the lesser relationship — it may not be total understanding, but it’s pretty good — or we keep trying for the perfect union, trying and failing, leaving behind us a trail of broken hearts, our own included. In the end, we die as alone as we were born, having struggled to understand others, to make ourselves understood, but having failed in what we once imagined was possible.”

nicole krauss, man walks into a room

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yesterday included Himalayan food and Hookah

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Ever been to a pop-up restaurant? A restaurant with no physical address or permanent phone number? We can thank Chef Ludo Lefebvre for the creation of a “touring” restaurant: meet LudoBites. The restaurant travels the country, spending weeks, sometimes only a few days, in one location, with a new menu and new culinary team behind it. Our French-turned-Los Angeleno chef arrived back in LA for LudoBites at Gram And Papa’s, my favorite lunch spot when I’m at work, tucked in the middle of the Fashion District. So! LudoBites is back for three weeks at G&P and the 1,300 dinner reservations sold out within 1 minute, crashing OpenTable systems. My little heart broke when I couldn’t get a spot.

But! Then! Yesterday, I went to lunch at Gram and Papa’s and on the first bite of my salad, I looked up and in came Chef Ludo. Beaming and tattooed and so amazingly french. He prepped for the night’s meal while we ate our lunch and lord have mercy – if you saw him in person, you would understand. So I may not have dined on his tastings but I was able to see him in person doing what he does best. All in all, a deliciously great Friday afternoon lunch.

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I have lived my life according to this principle: if I’m afraid of it, then I must do it.  Erica Jong

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Is it the 19th yet?

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