Chuck T. posted an article on Looka! - Dec 8, 2009, 2:58 pm
October 8, 1940 – December 8, 1980. War is over (if you want it). (...) Read the rest of Remembering John Lennon (17 words) © Chuck for Looka!, 2009. | No comment | Add to del.icio.us...
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Chuck T. posted an article on Looka! - Dec 8, 2009, 10:32 am
Doing anything Thursday night? Then you should come to Malo Cantina in Silver Lake this Thursday, December 10 at 8:00pm for a punch competition, “Twas the Punch Before Christmas.” Your $...
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Chuck T. posted an article on Looka! - Dec 7, 2009, 3:05 pm
For those of you still using Microsoft Internet Explorer, you may have had difficulties reading Looka! since the WordPress changeover and, more recently, seeing the sidebar. If you’ve given up ...
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Chuck T. posted an article on Looka! - Dec 7, 2009, 10:04 am
So, I’ve been taking the train to work the last few months.  It’s a bit of a hassle, but not overly so, especially for Los Angeles.  It gives me some extra time to read, it’s not n...
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Chuck T. posted an article on Looka! - Dec 6, 2009, 12:12 pm
Enjoy this full-page advertisement that appeared in the March 4, 1966 issue of TIME magazine, and imagine that appearing today, lo these 43 years later. Click to enlarge “Mary got to school ea...
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Chuck T. posted an article on Looka! - Dec 5, 2009, 1:54 pm
For those of you who might not be aware (a diminishing number annually, I fervently hope), there is an other winter holiday to celebrate, “the most joyous of all winter holidays,” as my fr...
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Chuck T. posted an article on Looka! - Dec 4, 2009, 2:52 am
Yes, we took a trip to Europe last month! Yes, we’re procrastinating when it comes to writing about it. I’m going to start today; you can needle Wesly for his contributions as appropriate....
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Chuck T. posted an article on Looka! - Dec 1, 2009, 11:01 am
I’ve been a fan of The Frames for a long time (since seeing them in Ireland before their first album came out), and naturally followed that into Glen Hansard’s solo performances and his co...
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Chuck T. posted an article on Looka! - Nov 23, 2009, 4:03 pm
This is my new favorite word. Oddly enough, I’d never come across it until today, considering that I’ve been cooking for so long. (I love this about life, though … I love learning ...
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Chuck T. posted an article on Looka! - Nov 21, 2009, 11:34 am
As I’m sure I’ve mentioned before, Wes and I have a tradition for our birthdays. The birthday boy gets taken out for a fabulous meal … somewhere. The destination is a closely-held ...
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Chuck T. posted an article on Looka! - Nov 18, 2009, 6:11 pm
Last Wednesday I enjoyed a wonderfully low-key birthday celebration (joined by several bartenders — aah, my peeps! — including ones visiting from Portland and Seattle) at Copa d’Oro ...
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Chuck T. posted an article on Looka! - Nov 17, 2009, 2:18 pm
A couple of New Orleans-related links … First, the New York Times writes about the upcoming New Orleans Po-Boy Preservation Festival. Why, you might ask, would such a venerated bastion of New O...
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Chuck T. posted an article on Looka! - Nov 17, 2009, 12:40 pm
When Wes and I were first looking for a house, we started in Highland Park. We liked the area, and figured we couldn’t afford Eagle Rock (and knew we couldn’t afford Silver Lake). WeR...
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Chuck T. posted an article on Looka! - Nov 6, 2009, 5:36 pm
You’ve seen the boy’s name mentioned here enough times, and even got to read a bit of his writing here and there (such as when I was, um, too blotto to clearly remember the end of certain ...
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Chuck T. posted an article on Looka! - Nov 5, 2009, 6:00 pm
London (and Hampton Court), Kempton, (Upper) Hengoed, Ludlow, Shrewsbury, Bishops Castle, Paris, Barcelona.  Not a bad batch of towns for two weeks. Then 23-1/2 hours of door-to-door travel (includi...
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Chuck T. posted an article on Looka! - Oct 20, 2009, 2:00 pm
What, vacation already? Jeezus, he’s only after gettin’ the blog up and rolling … barely three weeks and already he’s fecking off out of town? Well, yeah. So, Looka! is like...
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Chuck T. posted an article on Looka! - Oct 18, 2009, 10:14 pm
To be specific, I’d like to talk about my favorite movie poster for a movie I’ve never seen, based upon a novel I’ve never read. In 1959 the well-known and popular author of Western...
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Chuck T. posted an article on Looka! - Oct 18, 2009, 3:32 am
I spied this on the liquor shelf of a Rite-Aid drugstore in Santa Monica. It was a brand of bottom-shelf rotgut vodka I’d never seen before — plastic bottle, of course — but then I ...
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Chuck T. posted an article on Looka! - Oct 16, 2009, 10:19 pm
Finally, this place is gonna start looking a bit more like it used to! As of today, we’ve got the basic look of the blog down.  The theme is based on the free Vesper theme by Valen Designs, wh...
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Chuck T. posted an article on Looka! - Oct 16, 2009, 10:09 pm
A few weeks back Wesly and I met up with Mary, Steve and Diana at Langer’s Deli, which is widely recognized as having the best pastrami anywhere (and I even know some New York Jews who agree ...
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Chuck T. posted an article on Looka! - Oct 14, 2009, 6:04 pm
My friend Matt the RumDood once told me, “Your blog takes friggin’ forever to load on my mobile.  I could start loading it, go eat lunch and then maybe I can read it afterward.”  W...
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Chuck T. posted an article on Looka! - Oct 13, 2009, 7:05 pm
I always try not to make any assumptions about my readership. I know there are a lot of cocktail geeks, nerds, and– er, ahem, aficionadoes and enthusiasts out there, but new folks discover this...
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Chuck T. posted an article on Looka! - Oct 13, 2009, 2:19 am
Last Thursday night was another edition of Thursday Drink Night, taking place as usual in the Mixoloseum Chat Room. Bartenders, mixologists, cocktail writers, enthusiasts and more join into an affable...
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Chuck T. posted an article on Looka! - Oct 12, 2009, 4:12 am
In order to claim this blog on Technorati, I must actually write a post (sigh) with the following code within it: 5is37m2zre I’ve actually got to clutter the place up with this? I can’t ...
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Chuck T. posted an article on Looka! - Oct 1, 2009, 7:33 pm
Changes are afoot, kids!  I’ve finally decided to take the plunge and convert this weblog into one that is powered by WordPress (which you’ve probably noticed, and which probably made yo...
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