...and a happy new year!

left over yaki udon
from: my fridge
rating: pretty good
comments: and this concludes 2010's lunches. I hope you enjoyed one of them. I enjoyed most of them. but then again, I got to eat them, you were just looking.

something something something lunch

boer breakfast or something
from: de dutch
price: $14
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: nothing. just faking it.
comments: finally, a normal lunch. bill was here. click my blunch to see my other niece. so cute.

and bill had:

veggie stuffs
comments: click bill's lunch to see a piece of my dad's christmas village. it gets bigger every year.

and happy holidays...

giant sandwich
from: home
rating: good. but too tall.
comments: I have an odd mix of lunch shots from over the holidays. not very consistent. but the wigglies, they're still good. click to see my niece and nephew waiting for the skytrain with me. can I call the canada line the 'skytrain'? cuz these kids corrected me when I did. since it is underground most of the time. is Skytrain still our universal train name? or is there another general term for the trains in this town??

uh... merry christmas everyone

vietnamese subs
from: BaLe
price: $3.75 each?
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
comments: ok, so I'm way behind on my posts now. perhaps it's already 2011, but LATV is still gonna wish y'all a merry christmas and all that. so there. click to see the guest lunch.

I'm all outa lunch, what am I without you

special #1
from: la castita
price: $12ish
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: air supply
comments: ok, I haven't posted in a while. so I don't remember the details of this meal. click it anyway. you'll see the cool present I got at our secret santa steal gift exchange event. awesome.

and bill had:

special #2
comments: click bill's lunch to finally see bill kill. instead of kill bill.

maybe you will find a lunch that you discover accidentally

stilton cheese burger
from: hamilton street grill
price: n/a - eric treated!
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: paul simon
comments: today david had to drive to yaletown. so we joined him and ate there. not bad food and surprisingly not that expensive. I mean, a $12 burger isn't really much anymore. the places near the office often cost more than that. click my lunch to see a Bajaj Chetak. it's an indian vespa clone. good name. bajaj. chetak.

and david had:

a burger, too
comments: click david's lunch to see his fuzzy dice.

and eric had:

bangers and mash
comments: since eric's lunch is wiggly, click to see a non-wiggly pic of the ahi tuna we had as an appy. it had an interesting ponzu sauce. kinda like bbq sauce, really. pretty tasty.

and bill had:

veggie burger
comments: lastly, click bill's lunch to see him and eric performing some interpretive dance. or perhaps they're fighting. or perhaps they're trying to reach something they dropped. there's just no saying what's happening there, really.

you know you're a sweet little lunchmaker

monte christo
from: deacon's corner
price: $11?
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: jimi hendrix
comments: my mind was blown this evening. by christmas lights. I always thought those LED xmas light wigged out my eyes, but I never knew why. now I do... if you click my lunch, you will see a wiggly made of shots shot at 1/160th of a second. this is much faster than our eyes can process, it turns out. see the way the lights move in that wiggly? well here's how they look to our eyes. crazy, huh? I thought so.

and bill had:

veggie scramble
comments: click bill's lunch to see a wiggly of toby drumming. well, almost drumming. if you want to see him drum, go check out this show next month.

and with some lunch from above you must

eggs bennies
from: zen cafe
price: I forget
rating: &&&&.6/&&&&&
listening to: ween
comments: met greg for lunch today. hadn't been to zen in a while. still delicious. now click to see some art.

and greg had:

bennies too
comments: greg has decided that it's time to do something with our 50ftware.com domain. so he's put wordpress on there and wants to make it a happening blog. click his pic to see the new look. well, the first look, really. since there was only ever a 'coming soon' placeholder there before.

this is the powerful pulsing of lunch in the vein

some kinda calzone
from: incendio
price: $16
rating: &&&&.4/&&&&&
listening to: paul simon (yeah, still... I wonder if I could do a whole month of paul simon titles?)
comments: friday. turning more and more into calzoneday. it's an expensive day. but man, it's tasty. it's also our company's xmas party tonight. speaking of exmass, click my lunch to see a building's foyer near the office that went a little overboard on their decorations.

and bill had:

a calzone, but without meat
comments: click bill's lunch to see the other thing that keeps bringing us back to incendio. the kronenberg white. man, it's tasty. if you were hoping to see x-mas party photos, they are just too hot to post. but I'll give you a taste, here's a gif of daniel dancing on the party bus. and here's a lot of people sliding down a snowy hill on tubes together.

and she said losing lunch is like a window in your heart

sirloin beef plate
from: nuba
price: $13
rating: &&&&.4/&&&&&
listening to: graceland, paul simon.
comments: bill and I met with craig and vivian for lunch today. nuba time. I wonder if I'll ever try anything other than the beef plate there? now click to see the rooftop at hootsuite.

and vivian had:

a pita
comments: much to bill's dismay, vivian also had the last juice special of the day. haha. now click her lunch to see the awesome ice cube tray she brought me back from japan.

and craig had:

the same as me.
comments: or did I have the same as him. click to see a telus ad. it confuses me. what's that stain? and why are the lions so interested in it?

and bill had:

mjadra?
comments: click for one more wiggly. although, you can't really read the sign in this wiggly, the gist is that the city of vancouver demands that the owner of this empty, decaying building should remove the graffiti off it, or they'll do it for them. at a price of about $2000. annoying. that's what empty decaying buildings are for! to express oneself! in argentina, gregchan went on a tour of the local graffiti. in vancouver, there'll be none of that, thank you. sigh... at least I still get offered crack every time I walk home from work. #priorities.

I don't want no part of this crazy lunch

combo #5
from: La Casita
price: $17
rating: &&&&.5/&&&&&
listening to: paul simon
comments: la casita for lunch today. I had the chimichanga special. it's expensive, but it's delicious. click to see an old Henry J. driving across main.

and chris had:

chimichangas
comments: chris is permanently back after working 3 months in london. sounds like he had a good time. he was telling us about this art exhibit he saw with a hundred million hand painted porcelain sunflower seeds. crazy stuff. click his lunch to see his blog post about it.

and bill had:

something without meat
comments: click bill's lunch to see a car with antlers that was parked just outside the restaurant. kinda hard to see the antlers with all that wiggling. but they're there.

lunch ain't for keeping

biscuits, sausage and gravy
from: deacon's corner
price: $13.50
rating: &&&/&&&&&
listening to: the who
comments: this lunch was huge. there was actually 3 eggs added to it right after I took the photo. but I completed it. hoorah. now click to see one of the signs that christmas is right around the corner.

and bill had:

veg burg
comments: I didn't actually make any wigglies today. it was too rainy to pull out my camera. so click bill's lunch to see his dessert. looked pretty good. aaaand it gave me time to finish my giant meal. oh, here's an awesome video

true lunch that now exist is the lunch I can't resist

chunky soup (with extra deanna troi)
from: home
price: $3?
rating: &&.5/&&&&&
listening to: bob marley
comments: another monday, another lunch at home. and there's nothing like star trek figures to spice up my lunch, huh? on the weekend, I had me new camera and me lensbaby out for a walk. since I got the crazy ISOs now, I figured I could use my lensbaby at night for the first time. turns out its even harder to focus that thing when it's dark outside. but still some interesting shots. click to see one that had a little focus in it. or, check out this one that has no focus at all. who needs focus?

bonus weekend lunch

pork belly
from: the red wagon
price: $11?
rating: &&&&.4/&&&&&
comments: i tried this new restaurant for brunch today. it's on hastings near nanaimo. and it's really good. go try it, I think you'll like it. now click to see little diego laughing it up.

and erin had:

pulled pork benny
comment: the pulled pork is really tasty. great subtle spiciness to it. now click her brunch to see the other cute little kidlet I saw this weekend at ed and christie's. I also made this wiggly of her. I like it. creepy awesome poltergeisty.

it's been seven hours and fifteen days since you took your lunch away

the daffy calzone
from: incendio
price: $15
rating: &&&&.4/&&&&&
listening to: sinead o'connor
comments: incendio has this tricky thing now where they give you a $2 coupon with your bill. that makes me just have to go back. expensive lunch justified! and today was as delicious as usual. click to see gavin's jeep about to transform and roll out.

and bill had:

angst
comments: that's the name of the calzone. ukranian angst. hmmm... that's a good scrabble word, just one vowel then a mess of consonants. good time. click to see a challenger manoeuvering it's way through hastings and main. here's another wiggly.

I just called to say I lunch you

lamb
from: afro canadian
price: $12ish
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: stevie wonder
comments: click on my lunch. do it. see that wiggly? that's the jjbean at woodwards. 15 years ago that area was famous for something else. something we all saw, I bet. it looked more like this then. you recognize? does this help?

and bill had:

the veg
comments: click bill's lunch to see the same area. this is the alley right behind afro. which feeds into the alley behind woodwards. very colourful alley.

lunch is real, real is lunch

border town? burger
from: LanaLou's
price: $13?
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: john lennon
comments: guess what? it's my birthday. so there. I made no wigglies today. so there. all linked wigglies are old ones that haven't had any views. like the one linked from my lunch. a sweet early 80s toyota tercel in really good condition.

and bill had:

veggie sandwich
comments: click to see a view from the roof at work.

and gavin had:

cheesesteak
comments: click this one to see bc place and a fiery sky.

and mark had:

mexican salad
comments: click mark's lunch to see the best car I ever owned.

maybe I'm too young to keep good lunch from going wrong

daily special
from: deacon's corner
price: $11
rating: &&&&.3/&&&&&
listening to: jeff buckley
comments: very good special sandwich today. smoked salmon with capers n such. yum. click to see a wiggly that reminded me of a built to spill song "in america, every puddle... gasoline rainbow."

and bill had:

veggie scramble
comments: click bill's lunch to see him and eric hiding from the rain. it won't find you like that, fellas. also, check out this poll that seems to have chosen L'Abattoir as the best new restaurant in town. if there's still voting, help 'em out!

lunch is free, lunch me say hell yes

salty fish n chicken fried rice
from: kwong chow
price: free! greg treated.
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: red hot chilli peepers
comments: greg treated me to lunch today. very nice of him. I didn't really eat all this rice. in fact, we just split the two dishes. and wow, did they ever have big chunks of salted fish in the rice. almost too much for me. almost. now click to see santa.

and greg had:

shrimp n egg on friend noodles
comments: click these tasty noodles to see hemi. be sure not to stare at the wiggly for too long... you WILL be hypnotized.

young blood is the lunchin' upriser

cheddar bacon burger
from: vera's
price: $12ish
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: chilli peppers
comments: lotsa people for lunch today at vera's. some crazy lunching going on. click to see a really great portrait of me.

and eric had:

rings
comments: click eric's lunch to see more crazy lunchers lunching.

and kate had:

a burger
comments: and click this one for the craziest lunchers of all. gavins crazy head reminds me of this gif

and someone else had:

a burger
comments: after the crazy lunching, there was much crazy street dancing.

lunch transcends all space and time

special #1
from: la casita
price: $12
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: lenny kravitz
comments: well, it's december now. so most of you all will be saying goodbye to all the moustaches that have been haunting our city. click my lunch to see brian showing his off.

and bill had:

special #2
comments: when I went for coffee today, I saw some arts magazine laying open. and I looked at it... and Toby's cold dead eyes were staring back at me! click to see what I mean. his show will be playing in vancouver in january. exciting! laura just saw it in edmonton and said she thoroughly enjoyed it. her review... " it was soooooo good!!!!!!! i felt like i got a concert/play all in one!!!!" (punctuation embellished).

got nothing but lunch for you just because

splitz burger deal plus splitz fries
from: splitz grill, obv
price: $12ish
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: kanye
comments: eric had to move his car at lunch. so we ended up helping him move it... all the way to splitz. yum. and I finally got to try something other than the lamburger. cuz they have this mon-thurs special... $5 for burger and drink. of course, saving all that money meant I should get splitz fries and bacon. but I do declare... the burger there is nearly as delicious as the lamburger.

and eric had:

burger, too
comments: today's wigglies were made whilst walking home through a dark and empty chinatown.

and bill had:

yam fries with his veg burger
comments: no comments. none.