Friday, January 06, 2006
lomo argentine grill
At the risk of this woman reading this somehow and taking offense, I've got to say her writing is terrible. It's blog-level writing, at best (I'm including myself in there but this is all off-the-cuff and I don't have to answer to any editor). I'm sure she can do better. It's clear she's just trying to be cute. She used "ginormous" for fucks sake. She was also responsible for that atrocious Park Downtown (you know the complex that masons and ma jongs are in) article in which she kept using the royal we. This current article is kind of a review of Lomo Argentine Grill, the restaurant that replaced Jazzmens Art of Pasta in Old Sac (now there's a sentence). I say kind of a review, because in characteristic style she doesn't really say anything about the food. Ok, she does say "super-yummy steaks". Someone get Kate Washington a job reviewing food at the Bee. She's tons better than their two writers. The only thing that I'm really stoked about at Lomo (cuz I'm not a big steak lover) is the upcoming sangria bar on the back patio.
I have heard nothing but good things about Lomo. Carl at Arranging Matches did a detailed review a while back. I don't much care for steak either, but I want to try it anyway.
ReplyDeleteYeah what is up with the whole "Partner in Crime" business? And calling the food "mashies?" It is supposed to be cute? Is this a paper for grown-ups?
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Someone get Heckasac a job reviewing food at the Bee. She's tons better than their two writers
ReplyDeleteI second that.
ReplyDelete-Emily
Man, we are going to be a lesser town without a restaurant called "Jazzman's Art of Pasta." I feel as sad as I did the day we lost "Choose a Pasta, Pick a Sauce." What's next, "Sticky Fingers"?!
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Heckasac is better wayyy than the Bee--I hardly read the Bee reviews anymore because they are consistently lame and mostly seem cover places like Mason's. :)
ReplyDeleteWasn't it "Chooz a Pasta, Pik a Sauce"?
ReplyDeleteI *Heart* Teriyaki,
Lisa Ninja
and for Miller "Teriyaki makes me happy!"
I think I'll let Roan listen to a little Daphne & Celeste, I could see her getting into it.
Daphne & Celeste, East Meets West!
ReplyDeletemiller
The Scene section...and the sports section, for that matter, of the Bee are some of the worst. I don't remember if it was yesterday, but it was this week, I glanced at something on the front page of the Scene, and it was so absurdly would-be-cutesy that I turned to the comics section in disgust and said out loud "The people who write for the Scene in the Bee can't write." Nobody agreed with me, because I don't think anybody else at work cares that much, but maybe if the writing didn't suck so bad, they might at least occasionally read it. Alice attacked the "Holiday Hair" article that was Scene front page a few weeks before Christmas. It was great. Alice's satire, not the actual article. The article was as close to the first prize in a contest entitled "Write an article about something that's not worth writing or even thinking about."
ReplyDeleteI knew the Scene section was in trouble when they started giving Anita Creamer more column space! That was rad when she busted out Mike R Mike, Lisa, Dave Downey & some others for being obnoxious at a movie. We'd read her column all the time when we worked at Tower - she truly is so bad she's good - and in the middle of reading one, Mike & Lisa figured out they were the people being described in the column! A true honor.
ReplyDeletemiller
I wish I still had a copy of that column. A bunch of us went to see "Ed Wood." I wore the "I'm with stupid" t-shirt (that shirt was always trouble) and Anita Creamer called me something like "the girl with the Beavis and Butthead cackle (yup that's me huh huh huh) and wearing an 'I'm with stupid t-shirt.' I believe she also called me "stringy haired." She mentioned other people at the movie who weren't in our group as well. Her big point was that we were all losers, going to see a movie about a loser, but Ed Wood was an admirable loser and we all sucked. Actually, I don't even know if she had a point. Lurch and Deeann wrote a letter to the Bee, defending us and they actually printed it.
ReplyDeletesorry kate washington fans. look at the SNR archives for the lark park reviews. sublime.
ReplyDeleteFYI: Here's an un-cutesy review of Lomo by Mike Dunne from the Bee:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.sacbee.com/content/lifestyle/columns/dunne/story/13927599p-14764424c.html
I have to see that column! And the letter! Deean? do you have it? Stringy-haired? Ouch! She looks mousy-haired to me.
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ReplyDelete"I have to see that column! And the letter! Deean? do you have it? Stringy-haired? Ouch! She looks mousy-haired to me."
Uh ... Ouch?
I guess I better go check for plague fleas.
I think she meant Creamer has mousy hair!
ReplyDeletemiller
Hehe. Dang Internet. Well, I do have mousy hair. I was gonna say earlier, that frizzy, bushy or 'christmas tree head' would be much better descriptions for my hair than stringy.
ReplyDeleteI did see an interesting program last night on the Black Death. There are some who think that it wasn't caused by the Plague after all. Instead they think it was some Ebola type virus.
It's all good.
Yeah - I think I might know sort of where the article is, but not too sure I have either the printed or original versions of the letter. I'll try to dig around a bit this weekend.
ReplyDeletePerhaps Dunne needs to send her down to review that "Yummy Choice" joint on P St. downtown. Challenging her to describe the food without using the same adjective used in the establishment's name would be good for building up her crit chops.
ReplyDeleteDave
And since we're talking about this illustrious writer, did you see her recent column on the "Christian punk rock show" at some church where all the money got stolen? It was kind of funny.
ReplyDeleteAs a real-life editor at a daily newspaper, I'd like to go on record as saying that this woman's writing style makes me want to gag (sure, it's not the worst thing I've read all day, but I have to deal with some pretty shoddy reporters over 'ere).
ReplyDeleteDidn't even make me want to have steak, and that's hard to do. Just made me want to remind her that ribeye is one word.
No, Dave, she'd just have a sentance to the tone of "...and it's no coincidence that they call it Yummy Choice, because the (name of food) was just that! - Yummy!" and then the curse would be taken off of it, and she'd just keep saying everything was or wasn't yummy.
ReplyDeleteI'd have to agree that it's blog like. She talks more about her own evening than about this place she's reviewing, which seems very strange in a large paper. And your right, she doesn't have much to say about the food at all. I'm glad it was yummy though. I do enjoy yummy.
ReplyDeleteYeah. She remembers to bring the "yummy" like a fall wind brings the dry leaves. The "super-yummy." To a reckless, relentless degree. And throws in "cozy" three or four or 20 times, and enough references to wine that she might belong in rehab (but must journalists, although the jury's out on that one with her, pretty much do at one time or another). Shame she didn't find time to sprinkle in a "delish" or an "omigod" or something for good measure.
ReplyDeleteThis talk about Anita Creamer reminds me of one time when SN&R mocked Ms Griego Erwin and the Archbishop wrote in and complained that taking shots at her wasn't a challenge, that it was "like making fun of the retarded kid" and that they'd do better skewering Pete Dexter and his oft-repeated story about getting into a fight with a saw-off louisville slugger.
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