There is a brief review of Harold Dieterle's restaurant Perilla in the NYTimes.

Here it is on Menupages. (I'd link to the website directly, but it's only the logo so far.)

Holy shit, this woman on What Not To Wear might be the biggest personality transformation ever. She's GORGEOUS. And once again, I'm inspired to want to wear makeup. Although I don't have big white teeth like this woman does. Holy crap.

Also, I love the family rerun that was earlier. Cute!

in the middle of describing how he'd like to get Rene drunk and take him home.

Who wouldn't want to get Rene drunk and take advantage of him? The man is fine!

I don't care if Boogie's as gay as a Christmas tree. As Jesse points out, the man cannot do hair and that's all there is to it. I loved, loved the reunion. I loved that Tabitha and Tyson acted like two grown ups (who knew?). If Ben wins, it will be a way worse tragedy than Chloe winning PR. Say what you will about Ms. Dao's creativity (or lack thereof) and egregious overuse of that particular shade of blue (You know the one), the woman had impeccable construction. She's not my cup of tea, but she wasn't a BAD designer. The ninja can't do hair. I'm pulling for my girl Daisy all the way.

ION, I want to have moves like that latin dance couple on SYTYCD last night, because good lord! They set it off. Other than those two, however, I was underwhelmed. The dance teacher and her student were nothing special (thought the teacher was better than the pupil. thought they both needed more clothes on). S2 Stanislav's sister was good, but I'd give her up to give Stas another shot. The girl who fell through the floor and tattoo girl both seemed like charity cases. I hope we start seeing more of the good dancers soon.

Holy shit, this woman on What Not To Wear might be the biggest personality transformation ever. She's GORGEOUS. And once again, I'm inspired to want to wear makeup. Although I don't have big white teeth like this woman does. Holy crap.

Heh - just watched that one. I knew she'd clean up nice because (a) hot bod; (b) pretty features behind glasses and horrible hair and weird hats and (c) even though she was defiant she was also open to the experience from the beginning.

Lordy, did she need that haircut.

Lordy, did she need that haircut.

They almost always do.

Is anyone else watching On The Lot? It's no Project Greenlight, but as an ex-film school geek I can't help getting sucked in. Especially since one of the films in the second ep? Was the exact same movie DH and I made for the one film production class we took together. I mean, down to the freaking title. (Time Out) Their visual effects were better, but since we shot on film and did all our effects in-camera I don't feel too one-upped. I mean, FCP didn't even exist back then! The Avid suites with the BIG hard drives were only 9GB! We had to push each frame uphill in the snow, both ways!

Wow, Jessica. Do you still have a copy of it?

I haven't watched it, but a coworker's best friend is on it, apparently.

Oh yes, but it's on 16mm & mag tape, so not very watchable unless someone buys us a Steenbeck. We meant to get it transferred to Beta, but that was, oh, almost ten years ago? The cans are sitting in the bedroom closet. (I could still get it transferred, actually, through the post house we use for film transfers at work. He'd probably give me a really good rate too. Hmmmm.)