{"id":1999,"date":"2011-06-20T06:41:15","date_gmt":"2011-06-20T14:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=1999"},"modified":"2011-06-23T07:09:35","modified_gmt":"2011-06-23T15:09:35","slug":"adventures-of-the-fake-young-liberal-elite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=1999","title":{"rendered":"Adventures of the (fake) young liberal elite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday night Sam and I went to the (expectedly)\u00a0disappointing\u00a0Green Lantern film. \u00a0After we got home Sam had a craving. \u00a0A craving for what? \u00a0Well, see below.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-D2w4lNSIyPE\/TgJvSSpYWDI\/AAAAAAAADIg\/YDmIv06HfGs\/s800\/DSC02469.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t even remember what these are called, but they&#8217;re good. Prosciutto (this photo was taken in the middle of adding it) topping off lumps of fresh mozzarella cheese over basil leaves and tomato slices with olive oil and black pepper.<\/p>\n<p>So good that Sam decided to make them again (and take the photo below) for a snack the next day before we headed to the Saturdays off the \u00a0405 event at the Getty Center. \u00a0Earlier in the day we&#8217;d tried out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yelp.com\/biz\/california-monster-salads-santa-monica\" target=\"_blank\">California Monster Salads <\/a>in Santa Monica (which was really good and I highly recommend if you&#8217;re in the 3rd street area) so we we needed something &#8220;light&#8221; to get us through the rest of the day.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-k3k8fAgugeI\/TgJvSrteAxI\/AAAAAAAADIc\/DtYNtqOgFCc\/s800\/DSC02475.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The atmosphere at the Getty was cool. \u00a0In the shot below you can see the northwest view just after a sunset through clouds and low hanging fog.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-miNtQpJVszQ\/TgJvSUncT7I\/AAAAAAAADIY\/rFpjzRU2VY8\/s800\/DSC02477.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was a nice sight, but we weren&#8217;t into the band (dengue fever) that was playing. \u00a0I&#8217;m okay with their music on their albums, but they had a really high pitched trumpet mic&#8217;d up way too loud in the mix. \u00a0Sam was not a fan of the singing style (traditional Cambodian 60s pop)<\/p>\n<p>The fog was going to make it impossible to get any good night shots of the city (another reason I&#8217;d wanted to go), so we headed home to watch a movie.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday we were supposed to spend painting &#8211; but we spent so much time getting our brunch at a horribly overcrowded dim-sum restaurant that it backed up the entire day. \u00a0We ended up watching a few movies, walking around Balboa Lake and going to the St. Joseph&#8217;s catholic church carnival. \u00a0Sam hadn&#8217;t been to an American carnival before. \u00a0It was very small, and the food had many different ethnic choices (which is unlike the carnivals that I grew up with). \u00a0We tried Filipino food (Sam had never had Adobo before, so I wanted her to try it).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday night Sam and I went to the (expectedly)\u00a0disappointing\u00a0Green Lantern film. \u00a0After we got home Sam had a craving. \u00a0A craving for what? \u00a0Well, see below. 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