make your lunch too wild for words

calzone
from: incendio
price: about $20 with cofffee
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: the constantines
comments: the world of vancouver changed today. suddenly, everyone remembered how gloomy and rainy this place can become. sigh. dust your jackets off, people. summer's-a-ending. click to see rainbowy rain.

and bill had:

a veggie calzone
comments: too rainy for outdoor wigglies today. click bill's lunch to see the table at incendio. something about the light made me have to take that pic. it's about the light, not the bread. but the bread was good too.

making lunch with you, has left me peaceful, warm and tired

miso ramen
from: benkei (new one at 5th and ontario)
price: $9 (with extra pork)
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: the hollies
comments: I met with a few navarikkers for lunch today. tried the benkei nearest my house. people say it's not so good, but it was fine by me. comparable with menya, for sure. now click to see a whale skull.

and michal had:

ramen, too!
comments: it was good seeing michal, I hadn't seen him in quite a while. now, if you're wondering about the whale skeleton, there's a new museum opening in october at UBC. they got an awesome blue whale skeleton. wonder what else is there? guess I'll see after october.

and teo had:

ramen.
comments: after lunch with these guys, I went for a nice longish bike ride out through the trails at ubc. click to see said trails.

and tommy had:

ramen. we all did. you probably figured that out from the photos.
comments: on this bike ride, I made sure to make another wiggly at the beach. it's not as good as the other wigglies, but click for it anyway, if you like. oh yeah, somehow I forgot to link to this wiggly

I'm in lunch with you. so in lunch.

canuck burger
from: vera's
price: $12ish for combo?
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: smashing pumpkins
comments: vera's for lunch today. and right next door, erin worked her butt off. haha! yesterday's final link was a skateboarder doing a huge boardslide. I link to another wiggly of him in today's lunch. go see it.

and richerd or gavin had:

this burger
comments: I already forget who's lunch this pic was. I think it was richerds? oh well. click to see a bmxer doing tricks almost directly underneath the guy on the skateboard.

and paul had:

a canuck burger
comments: I'm pretty sure this was paul's lunch. click to see an old boiler in an alley.

but only lunch, only lunch can heal such a scar

pork chop n stuff (daily special)
from: La Casita
price: $11ish
rating: &&&&.4/&&&&&
listening to: U2
comments: as bill and I were approaching the door to La Casita for lunch, we saw Katie and Jessica from the office driving by. we pointed at the restaurant and went in. soon after, they joined us. and we ate delicious mexican food. I also had the horchata drink from here. delicious. click to see the new chinatown mural being painted.

and katie had:

tostadas
comments: you want to see better what's going on in that mural? ok, then, click katie's lunch.

and bill had:

the daily veggie special
comments: bill likes this restaurant. it is very vegetarian friendly. if you are a vegetarian, and would like to try it, and no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can eat at... la casita.

one man come in the name of lunch

soup n sandwich
from: HAVE cafe
price: $7
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: U2
comments: another tasty soup and sandwich from HAVE. yum. click to see some tall grass on the bike path around the false creek seawall.

and bill had:

veggie burger
comments: bill thought that the bike path wiggly would be so much better if he derped it up a bit. I think he was right, actually. click his lunch to see his version.

here's a lunch song, yeah, and I'm gonna sing it to you slow

po' boy
from: Deacon's Corner
price: $11.84 with coffee
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: g.love and special sauce
comments: I had the special again today. deep fried oyster sandwich. that's what a po' boy is. and it was quite good. click to see an awesome window display that I saw the other day at 16th and oak.

and bill had:

a free lunch
comments: between bill's waiting for his lunch to be recooked (they forgot to exclude mushrooms the first time, as often happens to him) and a customer breaking a glass near bill's flip-flopped-feet, bill got his lunch comped. very nice. click his receipt to see my receipt. it seems we get good guy discounts!

and chris had:

a garden burger
comments: click chris's lunch to see bill's hair gone wild.

be my luncher, my lady river

'korean tacos'
from: Roaming Dragon at the PNE
price: $8
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: angus and julia stone
comments: I went to the PNE today. good times. I joined my sister and her kids for this adventure. I think they liked it. A LOT. click to see what I think was the most fun of the rides we went on.

and stu had:

pizza
comments: click stu's pizza to see one of the Peking Acrobats that we watched. that stack of chairs is standing atop 4 bottles. crazy balancing. there was a lot of crazy balancing.

and emma had:

pizza too
comments: click emma's lunch to see a bit of the parade that wandered through the grounds. pretty silly stuff. the theme was 'paint the town'. that's why it's all colourful and looks like the 80s? here's another parade shot. man, I am out of practice with my two little cameras. I need to carry them more often, methinks.

my lunch is a life taker

beef and rice meal
from: Afro Canadian Restaurant
price: $9
rating: &&&&.4/&&&&&
listening to: weezer
comments: delicious afro for lunch. good stuff, as usual. click to see some clothing store? that seems to be named after some lyrics in a Tricky song. if it's not a clothing store, it's at least a brand of jeans. odd. and yeah, I guess tricky didn't invent those words. in fact, upon investigating, another band had that song title in 1994. but still... it put that tricky song in my head all day.

and bill had:

a taste of africa
comments: this veggie dish is the best for variety. too bad I like meat in my lunch so much. click to see the awesome parking stickers on gavin's jeep. if you don't get it, you're not enough of a nerd.

a luncher that lunches that's one

seafood pancake
from: H-Mart
price: $10
rating: &&&&.5/&&&&&
listening to: tv on the radio
comments: today, I borrowed a bus pass for lunch. thanks dave! click to see a new mural being started in chinatown.

and eric ordered:

kimchi fried rice
comments: so we went to H-Mart. delicious h-mart. and ordered 3 dishes and split them. it was tasty. click eric's lunch to see a very big gif of him being propelled by a big spring.

and richerd ordered:

bulgogi
comments: click richerd's lunch to see the eric gif again. but this time, just two frames of him derpin' it up.

no, I don't want to fall in lunch

lamb burger combo with splitz fries
from: splitz grill
price: probably about $14
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: chris issak
comments: i took my monday today. thus, no work. but still went to the office to pick up some lunchers. bill and richerd. and erin had a day off today, too. click my lunch to see some beach volleyballing that I saw later in the evening.

and zoltar had:

richerd's lunch
comments: when the splitz lady asked for richerd's name, he paused, then said Zoltar. at which point the lady said 'ok, but don't forget it'. two minutes later, they called Zotar twice without getting richerd's attention. good times. also notable, last weekend Richerd did the west coast trail in 33 hours, start to finish. crazy man. most people spend a week doing this. click his lunch to see erin helping him back to the car. his legs still haven't fully recovered.

and erin had:

a burger, of course
comments: no witty comments about erin's lunch. click to see her with a halo.

and bill had:

to listen to his lunch
comments: lastly, click bill's lunch to see him trying to be erin. he failed. looks more like a main street hipster.

when all it is is just a lunch affair

salmon sandwich
from: two chefs and a table
price: $11ish?
rating: &&&.5/&&&&&
listening to: the police
comments: this sandwich was pretty good. but needed more moisture. sauce or whatnot. the fries and coffee were excellent. now click to see the hole the put in science world. 25 years old, and it's already getting cosmetic surgery. personally, I waiting until I was 28.

and bill had:

weggie burger
comments: if you click bill's lunch, you will see a gastown building. on the edge of gastown. anyway, it's really not that exciting. can't have exciting wigglies every day. it might break the internet.

can't be with the one I lunch, I lunch the one that I miss

"the deacon"
from: deacon's corner
price: $13ish
rating: &&&.5/&&&&&
listening to: massive attack
comments: this item, 'the deacon', has always been staring at me from that deacon's menu. it's a burger with a smokie-like dog on it. it's a lot of meat. and it was quite tasty. but not mind blowing. just tasty. the candies they gave out at the cash register were adorable, though. click to see those.

and bill had:

what bill has
comments: on the weekend, there was a parade at the end of my block. it was some filipino parade/festival that was heading to st george's church. so it went down quebec street. crazy. I poked my head out to take a couple shots. but man, it went on a long time. there musta been a helluvalot of people in it.

just this side of lunch, is where you'll find the confidence not to continue

bagelwich
from: home
price: n/a
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: the electronic anthology project
comments: this week, I took friday as my monday. and it was quite warm. so I tried not to do anything. extraneous. anyway, it'd been a while since I had a bagelwich. they are still delicious. click to see a funny.

and on the weekend, I think I'll have:

some tuna sashimi
comments: this sashimi was from Tenhachi, which is on 12th, just west of Oak. in that big apartment building that's actually a bed and breakfast. they have good food. you should try it. also... when it's like 30 degrees out, there's a utopian patio behind the building that stays nice and cool. they close for lunches at 2pm. that is all.

you've got so much lunch

#56 and a lychee blended drink
from: PhoLe
price: $12?
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: said the whale
comments: yeah, phole for lunch. no ritchie, though. hopefully he'll return to vancouver someday. in the meantime, you can see some of the awesome photos he's taking on his travels. me jealous. oh, so now click on my lunch. that's the CB on gavin's desk. it's awesome. it has a dynamike dial!

and bill had:

#55
comments: next to our office, they are filming some show called life unexpected. bill was very amused by the air conditioning tubes they ran into the building. he thought it was all very e.t like. for me, it was reminiscent of the summer I spent working for my cousin's temporary air conditioning business. in fact, that truck contains one of his units. yay Cool Air!

did you ever really want somebody, the best lunch you ever had

chicken paninini and veggie chilli
from: Lunchbox
price: $10ish
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: led zeppelin
comments: man, I am behind on my posts again. oh well. here they are. this lunch came from right across the street from the office. in fact, if you click my lunch you can see the view of the office from where I was waiting for sandwich.

and bill had:

a veggie sandwich with his chilli
comments: the reason I only went across the street to get lunch was because we were doing a big release at work. yeah. now people can pay to use hootsuite! awesome. click to see a close up of my celebratory glass of champagne. and here's everyone cheersing.

is this lunch out of fashion? or is it the time of year?

sirloin beef plate
from: nuba
price: $12?
rating: &&&&.5/&&&&&
listening to: U2
comments: I had my car today. we drove to the newer Nuba at 3rd n Main. it was very tasty. if you click my lunch, you will just see my lunch again. but wiggly.

and bill had:

veggie shmeggie
comments: click bill's lunch for a wiggly of a window display right near this newnuba. that is all. back to work now, people.

can't wait for the lunch, lunch to be king

pancakes
from: deacon's corner
price: $12?
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: daniel lanois
comments: good breakfast for lunch. my only problem is that adding 2 eggs to your meal costs $3.50. that seems crazy to me when you can practically get a dozen eggs for that price. oh well. it was tasty. I couldn't even finish it. click to see how much I left behind.

and chris had:

a boigah
comments: linked from chris' lunch is a month old photo from Fanny Bay. I had forgotten about my underwater camera, and the photos on it until just the other day. don't get your hopes up, though. it's not underwater photos. those ones were all too murky to see anything.

and bill had:

veggie sumthin
comments: click bill's lunch for another shot from fanny bay. check the rocks in this one. they wiggle well. well wiggled.

try to lunch you baby, but you push me away

pastor gringa
from: la casita
price: $11ish?
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: led zeppelin
comments: I hadn't been to this place since the atimi days. it's still good. and for wiggly, I got another one of that same guy from yesterday. the knee-pad wearing, volunteer-cleaning, street cleaner man. this time, with mop and bukkit. click to see that.

and bill had:

floutas and tortilla soup, I think
comments: bill enjoyed his lunch lots. and after lunch, I made him walk over to the big woodwards' W. click to see the pic I got there. oh, and later in the afternoon, another great photo op. I saw one of those new new tesla electric sports cars. pretty crazy. I didn't even know they were street legal here yet. someone buy me one.

a lunch that you never gave

veggie dinner for 2
from: sitar
price: $20ish
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: the black crowes
comments: indian food for lunch. there's no cheap options at all, at this restaurant. so bill had to twist my arm (and put money in it) in order to get me to go. the food is delicious, though. throughout lunch, I left my camera in the window taking photos every 5 seconds. I though this would make for a cool time lapse vid. it's not bad, but not great. instead I cut it up. click the food to see people only walking to the right. or you can see them going to the left.

more food:

comments: again, the food was delicious. click this part of the meal to see the best part of the time lapse. if you are familiar with gastown, you may recognize this guy from his kneepad and/or his impromptu style of cleaning the streets.

and more food:

comments: we also had mango shake/lassi, but I won't show the photo. instead, you get one last wiggly. let's see what it is... hmmm... how about the crazy smoke-haze that's been hanging around town

how every mouth sings of what it's without so we all sing of lunch

lamb burger
from: splitz grill
price: $12ish? for combo
rating: &&&&.4/&&&&&
listening to: iron & wine
comments: I had my car today. so we went to splitz. yum. click to see the pirate shop across the street from splitz.

and bill had:

lentil burger
comments: in other news, Uji got a new iMac at work today. this meant that a crowd gathered to watch the intro video and dance to the song that always plays. hahaha. click to see that.