they're going to demolish it to make way for some luxury residences.

No! When? Isn't it sort of a landmark?

The link I have is here [link]

there's a link there to an LA Business Journal article that may have more information, but I don't have a login.

Here's an LATimes article: [link]

Shaved kitties

Dear lord, that's disturbing. The tabby looks like it's been forced into a too-small, pink onesie with the booties cut off. Which would probably elicit the same facial expression, come to think of it.

LA, like SF, is on the cutting edge of the cocktail revival movement. And they're all about fresh ingredients. So they sneer at Rose's the way Chez Panisse sneers at Spam. They don't do pre-processed or commercial syrups. It'd be like making the bloody mary from a canned mix.

Rose's to lime syrup is not SPAM to meat for fuck's sake. Bars can charge for upscale or homemade syrups; just because it's harder to justify $11 for Rose's & vodka does not mean that the separate syrup is actually better.

Thanks, Vortex. I'll move it to the top of our list.

I don't shop at Old Navy, because their commercials drive me nuts. Okay, also because I shop at thrift stores. But still. Anyway, I think overall sizing is out of control and has no meaning, which is why I switched to men's pants. It's still inconsistent there, but not as badly.

I had hot Portuguese sausage, eggs and rice for brunch. The SO had them plain, I had them with shoyu & ketchup. Yum.

Now I have to get going, 'cause it turns out I can't spend the day in pj's. We have to go to the bank to deposit our check, so tomorrow we can go to the bank and get our cashiers check, so Thursday we can close on our land. Gulp!

Rose's to lime syrup is not SPAM to meat for fuck's sake.

Well, then they're like a tacqueria that won't use canned refried beans instead of making them from scratch. Is that a better analogy?

The odds are high that the first gimlet-like drinks used Rose's, since Rose's was developed as a way to keep lime juice from going bad, so that British sailors could have their required ration of lime juice a day to prevent scurvy. Gin, the omnipresent cheap liquor of the 19th century British Empire, made preventing scurvy much more pleasant.

then they're like a tacqueria that won't use canned refried beans instead of making them from scratch. Is that a better analogy?

In the end, it depends on what you want the result to taste like. If LA was duplicating the traditional taste with handmade ingredients, it'd be one thing.

I get that a true gimlet is made with Rose's syrup. I have no beef with that. Just like the way a true gimlet is made with gin.

My gimlet, OTOH, which I'm grateful seems to be popular where I live, has lime juice pulp in it. Which Bar Lubitsch's didn't, now that I think of it.