I thought I'd do a lil check-in post. I don't really have time for a real post. I'd like to do a series about Japan so that it could serve as my external memory bank and mayhaps entertain you a smidge. But I just don't have the time.
I'm reading about (cringe) AI erotica in a NYT op-ed and I just can't believe that I'm actually alive in a time when folks are being driven to madness by their imaginary friends. I use chatgpt to ask travel planning questions and it occasionally has a good tip and I recently used it to get me started on a bat safety fact sheet for work. It will never life coach me etc. etc.
I watched Pyscho 2 last night because I heard that Quentin T. prefers it to Psycho and that is a truly contrarian and silly opinion but it is pretty fun. Meg Tilly is so pretty and Anthony Perkins is so method twitchy and sweaty.
Benjy's take on the iconic 11 Sac restaurants is a take for sure. I have eaten everywhere except Localis. I'm not sure why limit it at 11 and I would have taken out Freeport (bakery, no savory food except quiche), Corti (deli, not restaurant) and Gunther's (sort of a restaurant but not really about the sandwiches). I just can't count Jimboy's as a restaurant either. If it was my piece I would have set out restaurant parameters and then worked within that. But lists are fun and fun to argue about. I started trying to quickly toss out some names and I got stymied, so it's not easy. I even have to go to "iconic" definition, representative symbol or worthy of veneration
Waterboy
Kru
Pho Bac (not the best, I'm working within the "iconic" vein but it's fallen off so hard. I want to put Quan Nem instead, also Duc Huong (Benjy's pick) is not bad or Huong Lan even though the banh mi aren't quite as good but it's more a full restaurant with decent bun as well)
Ugh, Tower I guess he's right would never eat there
Frank Fat's
Zelda's
Tres Hermanas
Urban Roots (representative of our place on the national beer scene and a popular gathering place for all)
It's crazy to not include dim sum but I really miss New Canton and dim sum cart places have fallen off while dumpling-focused places have surged
Southside Super
Majka (these latter 2 encapsulate Sac dining as it is now)
There's my quick 11. It hurts me not to include Masullo which I find to be by far the best pizza in Sac. But I have my reasons. Or maybe I take out Tower and put in Masullo? But that's 3 pizzas, but Sac really is all about pizza which is a curse and a blessing.
