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While the Internet has already provided for ways to remove your deceased loved one's digital accounts , there is occasionally the need to access them. Sometimes it's for will information – other times it has to deal with financial reasons. Whatever your objective may be, I understand how tough it is.

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A two bedroom, fully furnished house sitting on approximately 3 acres.
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: That will be interesting to follow. And nice to see something other than a drug ad RDF :) Say hi to the sis.
:: That is very interesting. Murphy also managed the minor league team in Eugene, Oregon this summer. He may end up staying in that state if this plays out. Would be a great hire for OSU.
Unfortunate all of this happened. Not really sure if Murph was actually cheating or if it is more like he said and more just ticky tack things like paperwork not being filed, etc. but it would have been nice if he had been able to stick around. Think of all the talent that has come through the program in the last 5 years of his tenure at ASU. It is staggering. Hopefully those players came to ASU in a legitimate manner but you cannot deny that Murphy brought in some great players during that period. MLB rosters are littered with former Sun Devils right now.
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In addition to our previously posted official news-type announcement of the "hard launch" of the new Comics Journal website at TCJ.com, TCJ Executive Editor Gary Groth has composed an introductory hail-fellow-well-met-cum-statement of purpose titled "Welcome to TCJ.com and Oh, By the Way, A Brief History of Comics Criticism While I'm At It" which is well worth your attention. It's downright inspirational, I tells you.
Via Zack Soto on Twitter.
Online Commentary & Diversions, now with more Tonya Harding than ever:
• Review: "Occasionally, there are works of art or literature that defy simple classification. The brain breaks upon them like waves and they give up different secrets with each tide but never all the secrets and never all at once. These creations challenge as much as they entertain and ask for obsession as toll on the road to understanding. The Squirrel Machine by Hans Rickheit is just such an enigma. ... Surreal, gorgeous, and both satisfying and confounding, The Squirrel Machine is a hypnotic, occasionally repulsive, always entertaining, and wildly creative graphic novel. It does not invite rereading so much as demands it, and each encounter reveals new and different details and interpretations. This book is a wonderful mystery, a basket of questions, a wealth of enigmas, and it looks utterly arresting every step of the way." – Christian Zabriskie, Graphic Novel Reporter
• Opinion: At Comics Comics, Dash Shaw has an interesting proposal for colleges that teach comics: "Instead of hiring teachers based on their achievements (and many of the current teachers are geniuses, no doubt about it), hire people who previously worked for many years in a now-defunct house style. Someone who drew Archie for years and is now selling their originals at Comic Con? Hire them."
• Interview: ParentDish's Brett Singer talks to Jill Schulz about her famous dad and the Peanuts legacy (via Robot 6)
• Panel: Robot 6 posts a transcript and MP3 of the Critics Roundtable panel from this year's SPX, featuring our own Gary Groth and several other names who will be very familiar to Daily OCD readers
• Plug: The folks at Meltdown Comics in LA are almost as excited for Johnny Ryan's Prison Pit Book 2 as we are
• Plug: The folks at Tiny Showcase take note of the release of Al Columbia's Pim & Francie: The Golden Bear Days
• Things to see: Dame Darcy illustrates Nancy Kerrigan & Tonya Harding and teaches spells & potions for Vice — this and more in the latest Dame Darcy blog update
Found on YouTube, a TV commercial for Excedrin pain reliever circa 1970 using an animated series of drawings by Burne Hogarth, cartoon classicist and great Comics Journal interview subject (as evidenced in The Comics Journal Library Vol. 5: Classic Comics Illustrators). Gary Groth, who passed this along, says "This is very fucking weird... I wish I'd known about this so I could've asked him about it."
Online Commentary & Diversions is back! This is a catch-up post so it's a honker:
• Best-of List: Sandy Bilus of I Love Rob Liefeld belatedly compiles the critics' 2008 end of year best-of lists and semi-scientifically determines that Dash Shaw's Bottomless Belly Button was the #1 comic of 2008, with Ganges #2 by Kevin Huizenga at #6. Also on the Top 100 list, in descending order: Love and Rockets: New Stories #1, The Education of Hopey Glass by Jaime Hernandez, The Lagoon by Lilli Carré, Willie & Joe: The WWII Years by Bill Mauldin, the year's issues of Mome, Sammy the Mouse #2 by Zak Sally, Abandoned Cars by Tim Lane, Popeye Vol. 3 by E.C. Segar, Interiorae #3 by Gabriella Giandelli, Petey & Pussy by John Kerschbaum, Angry Youth Comix #14 by Johnny Ryan, and Deitch's Pictorama by the Deitch brothers. (We also compiled the lists into our own handy shopping guide of 2008 Critics' Picks.)
• Review: "It's a surprisingly rare thing to find the great comic artist who can not only draw with poetry and beauty, but write like a demon as well. In this lavish scrapbook of uncollected ads, posters, covers, ephemera and one-offs [All and Sundry], [Paul] Hornschemeier's skills are nearly as verbal as they are visual, his art encompassing many different styles, from richly layered classical surrealism to densely structured and primary color-heavy McSweeney's-style illustrations. But taken together, the work exhibits an instantly recognizable and distinctive panache. The depth of his art truly comes to life in the melancholic squibs of text and short fictions studding this collection. For all his talents, Hornschemeier is a working artist who clearly takes on all kinds of assignments, from bookstore ads and bookmarks to a quirky little piece on Anderson Cooper commissioned by CNN. Perhaps the intrusion of the journeyman keeps an exquisite volume like this so rewarding and yet grounded." – Publishers Weekly (starred review)
• Review: "What I liked [in Abstract Comics], I liked for more than just the strips themselves--I liked them for the proof they offer that comics really is still a Wild West medium in which one's bliss can be followed even beyond the boundaries of what many or even most readers would care to define as 'comics.' That an entire deluxe hardcover collection of such comics now exists is, I think, one of the great triumphs for the medium in a decade full to bursting with them." – Sean T. Collins
• Review: "Hallelujah... for Michael Kupperman! He returns with his second collection, Tales Designed to Thrizzle Vol. 1, which brings under one cover the first four issues of the same-named comic. And comic it sure as hell is. I'm not entirely certain when I've read anything that made me laugh out loud as often as this volume, with the possible exception of Kupperman's debut Snake 'n' Bacon's Cartoon Caberet. Women who've given birth to multiple children and older readers are advised to secure some kind of adult diaper." – Late Reviews and Latest Obsessions
• Review: "The only problem with Love and Rockets: New Stories is that it's an annual. Volume 2 was, well, fabulous. ... Both Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez are in full form in this volume. Lucky us." – Ace Bauer
• Review: "Willie & Joe is an extraordinarily compiled and presented tribute to Bill Mauldin, the two-time Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist who chronicled life in the U.S. Army from 1940 to 1945. The set is bound in army green canvas and typeset in the font of an old manual typewriter, the kind an army clerk might have used during the Second World War. The collection is a sensory delight, pleasing to touch and beautiful to see. ... There are many scholarly works written on the topic of World War II, and those books can teach us a lot about the war, but anyone who wants to feel what American soldiers felt during the Second World War should seek out Willie & Joe. ... For the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, for the man who was once America's most celebrated enlisted man, Willie & Joe is a fitting, and wonderful, tribute." – David Mitchell, BiblioBuffet
• Review: "[Prison Pit Book 1 by Johnny Ryan is an] over-the-top, ultra-violent, gross-out, juvenile, yet fun and hilarious book... The dialogue that does exist retains his comic sense of disjunction and fights are as demented as you'd expect. This is not a jokey book, but his humor is retained in subtle ways—if you can envision subtle Johnny Ryan humor. ... This is just a balls-out, funny, sicko, good time. My only complaint with Prison Pit is how quickly the story ends, but hopefully the subtitle (Book One) is a promise and not a joke." – Lincoln Michel, The Faster Times [Ed. note: Book Two is in progress and due next year.]
• Review: "Longtime [Richard] Sala readers will recognize some familiar tropes right away [in Delphine]: strange surroundings, shady characters who seem to hold malevolent secrets. And Sala's art is familiar as well, but taken to a new level — lovely watercolors on the covers and moody washes on the gray interiors. The creamy paper that's typical of the Ignatz releases lends additional otherworldly, othertimely atmosphere to the story. And the logo itself is so good it deserved to be used for a long-running series. But it's the story that departs from Sala's work in some major ways... so resonant and unsettling that... it has to rank as one of Sala's major works." – Christopher Allen, Comic Book Galaxy
• Plug: "Reading [The Complete Peanuts 1971-72 and 1973-74] in one fell swoop, I've kind of come to the conclusion that this period is really the apex of Schulz's career. ...he was never as consistently hilarious or as poignant as he was in the early to mid-70s. If you're only buying two volumes of this series, it should be these two." – Chris Mautner, Robot 6
• Plug: "This just in! Steve Ditko book to be awesome: Seriously, just look at this thing. Wow." – J. Caleb Mozzocco, Newsarama
• Plug: Wunderkammer, the blog of Portuguese shop Ghoulgear, recommends Rock Candy: The Artwork of Femke Hiemstra as a "beautiful book" of "stunning works"
• Profile: Dan Taylor of the Santa Rosa Press Democrat catches up with Monte Schulz on his book tour for This Side of Jordan: "'It's weird doing this,' Schulz said by phone from Nevada City during a break between book shop dates. 'It makes me nervous, at every single stop. I just realized I'm not a very public person.'"
• Interview: At Marvel.com, Sean T. Collins' series of chats with Strange Tales contributors continues with Stan Sakai talking about the creation of Samurai Hulk: "Actually, I tried to make it as much of a parallel to the modern Hulk as possible. Such as his name-he is referred to as Sashimono, which means 'banner.' It's a samurai banner. And obviously there's no gamma rays, so he's cursed into turning into the Hulk by a witch called Gama, which is Japanese for 'toad' — she kinda looks like a toad." Oh man I can't wait for that.
• History: Steve Duin at The Oregonian digs up a nugget: Gary Groth on the 50th anniversary of Superman in Amazing Heroes, 1988: "My only interest in Superman, marginal at that, stems from his continuing presence as a symbol of banality and infantilism in the history of the American comic book." And it goes on!
• Events: Gabrielle Bell, Kim Deitch, Hope Larson and Anders Nilsen will be on a comics panel discussion at the University of Richmond next Sunday, Oct. 25 — here's the Facebook invitation
• Things to see: Leon Beyond on mnemonics, by Kevin Huizenga
• Things to see: Michael Kupperman's The Mannister, come to life!
• Things to see: Paul Hornschemeier's illustrations for James Kennedy's in-progress novel The Magnificent Moots (via Paul's blog)
• Things to buy: Commission yourself a cute portrait by Steven Weissman
• Oddity/thing to buy: The R. Crumb snowboarding jacket, as revealed by Robot 6
• Random quote of the day: "Guido Crepax: popular enough to have an entire half-shelf in the Fantagraphics library, circa mid-1990s; not popular enough to have his books stolen by the interns." – Tom Spurgeon, The Comics Reporter
Unofficial Gary Groth History Week continues, this time at ComicAttack.net, where Ken Meyer Jr. looks back at Gary's pre-Fantagraphics Fantastic Fanzine, specifically issue #10, with lots of background and commentary from Gary and a PDF download of the full issue. Looks like Ken will be looking at more issues of FF in the future, too, so we'll be sure to alert you when that happens.
Your must-read link of the day: at Comics Comics, Jeet Heer presents a scan of a 1972 Washington Post profile of 17-year-old Gary Groth. Plus ça change: Gary still types with two fingers, and still forgets to close the door. (Also: evidence that the cliché of using sound effects in comics-story headlines dates back at least 37 years.)
If you've got pictures of Fantagraphics at SPX, let us know! Here's a few that we've found on our own or have been sent to us. Con reports abound on the web: Rob Clough has a good one to start with, and Sean T. Collins has audio from the Critics Roundtable panel featuring our own Gary Groth.
Let's lead off with a video of Gahan Wilson at the Ignatz Awards, courtesy of Tom Neely:
Find more photos in our Flickr gallery.
Here comes your Online Commentary & Diversions for today:
• Interview: We Love You So, the blog of Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are movie, talks to newly-minted Ignatz winner Jordan Crane, saying "Presenting melancholy tales of workaday worries and broken relationships right alongside whimsical, child-friendly fare, Uptight provides a fascinating peek inside Crane's constantly shifting thoughts, and never fails to entertain." From Jordan: "When I'm writing something I usually have a particular person in mind that I'm writing it for. Not a general thing like 'I'm writing for someone between the ages of 25 and 50' but rather an actual person."
• Plug: "Oh yes, it's finally here — Johnny Ryan's bloody sexual fight comic [Prison Pit Book 1], ...a two-fisted smash-up of international comics influence and the universal joy of tight-wound one-on-one combat, so tight that everything that comes out of a body becomes a weapon, and doesn't that have a way of mixing pleasure and pain? ... I liked this a hell of a lot." – Joe McCulloch, Jog - The Blog
• Events: Michael Cavna of the Washington Post lists his SPX highlights, including talking to Gary Groth and seeing Gahan Wilson
Our head honchos and "the best known good cop/bad cop team in comics today" Gary Groth & Kim Thompson appeared on Bob Andelman's "Mr. Media" interview show on Blog Talk Radio Monday night to talk about all things Fantagraphics. Needless to say, if you have any interest in the history and current state of comics and the comics industry, it's a must-listen. Listen in streaming audio in the embedded player below or, if you don't roll that way, click the link above.


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Miami - one night
My girlfriend and I will be passing through Miami to Central America, and decided to come a bit early to have a great meal or two before heading out. We both love food -- everything from Michelin-starred restaurants to ethnic dives. We are value-conscious, but are willing to spend on great food; we prefer not to spend money on ambience or popularity alone. We arrive Saturday afternoon and head out Sunday morning. 2 questions:
1. Suggestions for dinner on Saturday night? We made reservations for Michy's but are also open to other options, especially something that we can't get in DC, Philly, or New York. Possibly Cuban/Latin-American, seafood?
2. Anything great we can grab on Sunday morning prior to getting to the airport for a 10 AM flight?
3. (sorry, one additional question) - good neighborhood to stay in that is convenient to (1) and (2)? I would prefer not to rent a car unnecessarily...
We had a wonderful dinner at Setai last year. It meets your criteria of seafood (Asian in this case) and not something you are going to see all over in DC, Philly or NY. Nice wine list as well. Have fun!
I've found that unless you stay in the neighborhood of South Beach, you really do need to rent a car unless you stay at an airport hotel (where they probably run shuttles to the airport). South Beach has numerous taxis to the airport. There's also a public bus that runs from the airport to South Beach (you'll save money but not time).
To keep this post food related, good stone crab claws are probably difficult to find your area (well, they are in NYC). Joe's in South Beach is famous for them but you can find them at other places as well. They are pricey and Joe's has a ridiculous waiting policy for dinner though you can go to the takeout next door with no wait. Not sure when you're arriving but stone crab season ends around May.
Last time I was here I really enjoyed El Chalan on the Beach, a Peruvian restaurant (mostly seafood) in South Beach. Very economical -- nothing really over $16 or so. You're definitely not paying for ambiance.
I haven't been there yet but Florida Cookery in South Beach is a more upscale restaurant supposed to be concentrating on foods from the region. So that may also be of interest to you.
Off the beach, I've really liked El Mago de Las Fritas for a cuban hamburger -- highly seasoned ground meat topped with shredded fried potato sticks. Never found anything like it in NYC.
Michy's is great but will not fulfill your #3 as there is nowhere close by to stay unless you're considering the type of place that until recently charged by the hour. (Though I'd consider it worth a short cab ride)
If you want to stay somewhere walking distance (or very short taxi distance) to your dining destination, your best bets will be South Beach, Downtown/Brickell, or Coral Gables.
My favorite spot on the Beach right now is Bazaar, but Jose Andres is already king of DC so maybe not ideal for you. Altamare does nice things with local seafood but if I had one meal in Miami I'm not sure that's where it would be. If your focus is on local flavor, you may want to check out Florida Cookery in the James Hotel.
Setai is not the place for a value-conscious diner.
Downtown/Brickell you can go to Nemesis Urban Bistro (though I wouldn't walk there, somewhat dodgy neighborhood), Tuyo, River Oyster Bar, maybe Edge Steak in the Four Seasons.
Coral Gables, I'd consider Eating House, the recently opened Bread & Butter, Graziano's for Argentine parrillada, Francesco for Peruvian, Bulla for Spanish (should be opening this week).
re: Frodnesor
>>>Setai is not the place for a value-conscious diner.<<<
Your experience at Setai must have differed from ours. We found the overall value of the food and service exceeded what we were charged. I think some confuse price with value. A $4 hamburger that is horrible tasting is a terrible value in my mind while a rather expensive dinner where the food, wine and service is excellent and priced appropriately seems like a good value to me.
re: Fowler
I have no difficulty discerning between price and value. I have not been to Setai since the latest chef change, but my last experience with their $120 tasting menu was heavy on luxury ingredients and light on flavor. The tasting menu is now $155. For that price, or going a la carte with appetizers ranging from $14-38 and entrees $29-58, they better knock it out of the park.
Part of my problem with Setai is that the menu's Asian bent sets itself up for very difficult comparisons. That least expensive appetizer is a $14 Tom Kha Gai soup. That is probably nearly 3x what it will cost anywhere else. Is it 3x better than the soup at Panya? I really doubt it. They sell dim sum for $12-22 an order. You can probably get dumplings just as good at Philip Ho for 1/3 the price (the chef at Philip Ho made the dim sum at the Setai for 5 yearsi).
The service was excellent when I was there and the space is beautiful.
Trust me, I have no hesitation spending money on a great meal. But particularly for someone who describes themselves as "value-conscious," Setai would not be my recommendation.
re: Frodnesor
Frodnesor, thank you for the reply. Now that I have read your perspective I tend to agree with much of what you said.. While we did not have the soup, I doubt it is 3 times better than the soup of say a little, under the radar Asian restaurant that focuses solely on food and not on ambiance or service. Same with the dim sum, but we did not go to Setai for their dim sum. :-)
You are right and there are other options with great Asian food that have significantly lower prices. I guess when I think of "value" though, I tend to think of many variables that go into the equation and when I leave I say to myself...Ok, was that entire experience from the wine to the service to the food a good value for what it cost?
Regardless, I completely understand your point of view and your points are excellent.
What many of these South Beach recommendations are failing to mention is that it'll cost you likely $40 each way to take a cab. Unless you can find a cheap rental option (zipcar is a possibility), I'd stick to Coral Gables, Design District, Midtown, and Downtown/Brickell. Even those areas will be $20-30 cab fare though.
That said, here are some recs, google for more info:
Coral Gables - Su Shin Izakaya (Japanese), El Rey de las Fritas (Cuban)
Design District - Michael's Genuine Food & Drink (local, "American", *my top spot in Miami*)
Midtown - Sakaya Kitchen (fast-casual Korean)
Downtown/Brickell - NAOE (Japanese omakase, intimate experience and awesome), Momi Ramen (ramen joint...duh), neMesis Urban Bistro (eclectic is the best word I can think to describe), River Oyster Bar (seafood), Edge Steak & Bar (plenty of great options besides steaks)
As for your breakfast request... If your flight is departing at 10am out of MIA, I strongly suggest being in line to check in at 8am. The check-in and security screening process at MIA can be a total zoo, especially if flying internationally. Not many places I can think of that will be open at 7am in that area so best bet is breakfast at the airport. Boudevin (sp?) has a pretty good bagel & lox in Terminal D. Also in D is La Carreta where you can get your Cuban fix if you haven't already.
re: Blind Mind
If you stay in South Beach you're not paying cab fare to go to restaurants in South Beach.
re: Frodnesor
"We arrive Saturday afternoon and head out Sunday morning."
"3. (sorry, one additional question) - good neighborhood to stay in that is convenient to (1) and (2)? I would prefer not to rent a car unnecessarily..."
Why would anyone spend money on a cab ride to stay on South Beach given they wont even be there 1/2 day? To me the poster wanted recs in the airport vicinity or short ride.
re: Blind Mind
OP was looking for a neighborhood to stay that was convenient to (1) dinner on Saturday night; and (2) breakfast Sunday morning, so they could avoid renting a car. That would suggest they want a neighborhood where they can walk to dinner and breakfast - not necessarily one that's convenient to the airport.
If I had one night in Miami and wanted to avoid renting a car, I'd likely stay at the SLS or somewhere nearby, go to Bazaar for dinner, have drinks at Bar Centro, or Gale (isn't that one of your recs?), or the W, or one of the other nice hotel bars nearby (Raleigh, Rose Bar in the Delano ...), and in the morning see if I had time to duck into Paul Bakery or maybe the Dutch bakery counter before leaving. If not, you're right that the eating at MIA is not as terrible as it used to be, I had a perfectly decent breakfast at Beaudevin recently too.
There's about a $10 difference on taxi rates to Downtown v. South Beach ($21.70 vs. $32) ($5 difference if you take a SuperShuttle):
re: Frodnesor
Makes sense. Point conceded.
re: LargeLife
Is there a particular day that is better for visiting Joe's?
re: villainx
Weekdays tend to be less busy than weekends but not by much...
Stay at the Mandarin Oriental, eat at Naoe, then tell everyone how sophisticated Miami is from Brickell Key.
Thanks for all the helpful replies! Unfortunately, Michael's Genuine is booked for Saturday. Given the distances and travelling involved, we decided to get a rental car, so neighborhood is not (much) of an issue now.
Right now, we have reservations at Michy's and Bazaar -- we've actually never been to Jose Andres' restaurants in D.C.. Still considering whether to go to Joe's -- we haven't had stone crab claws. Any other quality purveyors of stone crab claws that maybe are not as touristy?
High-end Japanese we've had and quite enjoyed, but somehow having our one dinner in Miami be Japanese omakase seems like a missed opportunity to experience the more Miami-specific cuisines.
Cuban -- tempted to try El Rey de las Fritas -- maybe at the end of the night.
Seafood -- thoughts on El Chalan or My Ceviche over any of the prior?
Coming this Saturday and will report back -- thanks!!
re: daveinmd
Go to Joe's if you have not had stone crabs before.
My favorite frita is El Mago de las Fritas
My Ceviche over El Chalan
re: daveinmd
So you've narrowed it down to Michy's and the Bazaar. Both have their merits and to me it would depend on what you're planning to do the rest of the night. If you want to have a mellow dinner which leans towards more classic dishes and techniques then I'd choose Michy's. If you're looking for something edgier and that's more of a scene head to the Bazaar (even though it's known for inventive takes on Spanish food, I tend to think the classic Spanish dishes are actually better). None of Andres' restaurants in DC are like the Bazaar so even though it's and Andres place, it fills your requirement of something you can't get in DC/NY/PHL.
You won't be disappointed with either, they're just different experiences. Both are about the same in the value scale.
As for stone crabs, it depends what time you get in. If you can fit in a late lunch I'd make a b-line for either Joe's or My Ceviche, get some crab claws and walk a few blocks to South Pointe Park and have an impromptu picnic.
On your way to the airport just stop by a Cuban coffee window. They're attached to pretty much every Cuban restaurant. Order a cortadito and maybe a guava pastry. Should you miss that opportunity there's places at the airport to get your fix (mainly La Carreta outside Terminal E or inside Terminal D or the many Cafe Versailles around the airport).
re: lax2mia
I would do Bazaar over Michy's.
re: tpigeon
So would I without hesitation.
re: lax2mia
"On your way to the airport just stop by a Cuban coffee window. They're attached to pretty much every Cuban restaurant. Order a cortadito and maybe a guava pastry."
You can find one such place, for example, located next to La Camarones. On attached photo of strip mall, "LC" is La Camarones, other arrow points to coffee window.
1952 W Flagler St,
Miami, FL 33125
(This window is actually attached to a grocery store).
REPORTING BACK -- First we stopped at Joe's to get some stone crabs (tasty!! Much easier to get the meat compared to the blue crabs we have in Maryland. However, I do prefer the meat in the blue crabs -- it seems sweeter, though much more work to obtain). Then we went to Bazaar's and had their 19 course $125 tasting menu. Very good, with some high-lights, but some other dishes missing the mark, including the rossejat (sadly). We also ended up having a 5 hour layover on the way back and took a cab to Michael's Genuine -- excellent. Detailed report below:
bread with tomato and cured meats. I could eat jamon iberico all day. I don't need the caviar (in another dish)
liquid mozzarella, tomatoes, pesto, croutons -- wow... simply delicious.
"canned" mussels -- delicious and surprisingly large quantity for a small can as it was picked out of the shell.
dragonfruit tuna tartare -- surprising and tasty combination of flavors -- even the dragonfruit foam managed to elevate the flavor of the dish (though I don't usually like dragonfruit or foam). There might have been too much lime juice, though, as overall the balance was just slightly too acidic.
yellow-tail escebache -- perhaps I'm not used to the flavorings, but the vinegar overpowered the fish. I wouldn't be able to tell the difference between yellow-tail, tuna, or any white fish as the spicing was so strong and the fish cut so thinly. I would either increase the thickness of the fish or reduce the amount of sauce to have a better balance.
ikura cones -- fun, not that exciting
rossejaat -- I actually asked to substitute the three desserts for this, as I really wanted to try it based on the reviews here. The first bite was super flavorful, but sadly each subsequent bite of any quantity got saltier and saltier to the point I could not appreciate the flavor. I told the waiter, thinking that it might have been an over-reduced stock, but the reply from the kitchen was that this was the way it was supposed to be. Hard to believe, and I was sad that this great dish wasn't (to my taste) at it's ideal due to oversalting.
Sauteed shrimp -- also way oversalted.
Service was excellent though -- and when I expressed my disappointment with the rossejat, they replaced it with a 3 cheese course (my preference over dessert) with no additional charge.
Excellent service. Overall a really nice meal, though they seemed to have an issue with the timing of the oven -- everything that was grilled seem to come out a little too charred such that the char flavor overwhelmed everything else.
Crispy Pork belly with kimchi -- Very tasty, and well balanced. The "kimchi" (really, pickled cabbage without fermentation) was even better than the pork belly and worked really well with the crushed peanuts. Could have used some spice.
Grilled octopus -- was really looking forward to this one and textures were great, but the char was so strong that it overwhelmed the taste of the octopus.
Pig ears -- yummy crispy appetizers!
Deviled eggs -- a really rich and surprising balance of flavors -- delicious
Wellfleet Oysters -- tasty and a nice slurp with the classic mignonette
country-style pate -- nice flavors though nothing amazing, sadly negated by the over-charred bread that came with it.
Shrimp ceviche -- probably my favorite bite -- really well balanced, shrimp was nicely "cooked" (not clear whether they simply marinated it in the acidic juice or very briefly cooked it before -- but it was perfect)
"rice cakes" with aioli -- I was envisioning the puffed rice cakes that dieters eat, but this was completely different -- it's really a take on arancini (fried rice balls) or risotto cakes... really enjoyable and also very filling.
The server recommended a whole pompano, grilled, that sounded absolutely delicious but at 2-3 pounds, could not in good conscience choose it and forgo trying more dishes due to limited stomach space! And I had a cherry-rosemary house-made soda that was really amazing -- a flavor combination I would not have guessed at would work so well and be so well incorporated into the drink.
And... in the airport, on the way out I got a guava pastry and on the way back grabbed a cubano sandwich to go from La Carrerra. Tasty, but not anything I would dream about (but the guava pastry was definitely nice).
Thanks for all the information!! I wish we had more time that we could have tried more of the restaurants that were suggested... ah, next time. You guys have a great food scene here!
re: daveinmd
Thanks for the recap. Glad you enjoyed your trip.


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Do these people really no know that the Titanic sinking did happen or are they just a bunch of trolls? :confused:
I just looked in Wikipedia and that says it was real, so I guess it must have really happened. Wow!
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"Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov (Book Quotes)
"Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov (Book Quotes)
Jun 3, 2010
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The following are a list of quotes from
by Vladimir Nabokov
. They are from the edition with ISBN number 0-679-41043-0. They are listed chronologically and adhere to the Modern Language Association's (MLA) guidelines for quotes to the best of my ability minus the author's last name in the actual parenthetical citation. Regarding this edition of the book, I have included the last name of Martin Amis to distinguish between his quotes and Nabokov's (he wrote the introduction). I have cataloged them under thematic concept and included an introduction sentence to the quote.
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Book Review: Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Title Meaning
is a surprising novel because of how quickly it affects a reader, either positively or negatively:
In a sense Lolita is too great for its own good. It rushes up on the reader like a recreational drug more powerful than any yet discovered or devised. In common with its narrator, it is both irresistible and unforgivable. And yet it all works out. I shall point the way to what I take to be its livid and juddering heart - which is itself in prethrombotic turmoil, all heaves and lifts and thrills. (Amis vii)
Humbert Humbert
One of the main reasons Lolita is so controversy, other than the pedophile relationship between stepfather and stepdaughter, is the question of the "innocence" of Humbert Humbert:
Although he distances himself with customary hauteur from the world of 'coal sheds and alleyways,' of panting maniacs and howling policemen, Humbert Humbert is without question an honest-to-God, open-and-shut sexual deviant, displaying classic ruthlessness, guile, and (above all) attention to detail. (Amis vii-viii)
Readers tend to forget that Humbert Humbert is an unreliable narrator, and so we are only seeing the girl Lolita through a broken lens:
Lolita herself is such an anthology piece by now that even non-readers of the novel can close their eyes and see her on the tennis court or in the swimming pool or curled up in the car seat or the motel twin bed with her 'ridiculous' comics. We tend to forget that this blinding creation remains just that: a creation, and a creation of Humbert Humbert's. We have only Humbert's word for her. (Amis x-xi)
It truly is astounding how much an author's everyday life influences and shapes her or his artwork:
In his afterword Nabokov explains that the first 'shiver' of
was inspired by a newspaper story about an ape, 'who after months of coaxing by a scientist, produced the first drawing ever charcoaled by an animal: this sketch showed the bars of the poor creature's cage.' Inspiration needn't be very apposite; but the appositeness of this 'first little throb' has perhaps been misemphasized. It's no so much that Lolita has been engaged and enslaved, though she has been. Humbert's crime is to force her out of nature-- to force a child through the hoops of womanhood, insulting and degrading her childish essence. (Amis xx)
Often, readers forget that
begins with a diagnosis by John Ray, Jr., Ph.D.:
I have no intention to glorify 'H.H.' No doubt, he is horrible, he is abject, he is a shining example of moral leprosy, a mixture of ferocity and jocularity that betrays supreme misery perhaps, but is not conducive to attractiveness. He is ponderously capricious. Many of his casual opinions on the people and scenery of this country are ludicrous. A desperate honesty that throbs through his confession does not absolve him from sins of diabolical cunning. He is abnormal. He is not a gentleman. But how magically his singing violin can conjure up a tendresse, a compassion for Lolita that makes us entranced with the book while abhorring the
Cautionary Tale
John Ray has read Lolita and recommends it as a case study for his colleagues and a cautionary tale for parents of vulnerable girls:
As a case history, 'Lolita' will become, no doubt, a classic in psychiatric circles. As a work of art, it transcends its expiatory aspects; and still more important to us than scientific significance and literary worth, is the ethical impact the book should have on the serious reader; for in this poignant personal study there lurks a general lesson; the wayward child, the egotistic mother, the panting maniac -- these are not only vivid characters in a unique story; they warn us of dangerous trends; they point out potent evils. 'Lolita' should make all of us -- parents, social workers, educators -- apply ourselves with still greater vigilance and vision to the task of bringing up a better generation in a safer world.
From the very first lines of the book, the reader understands the importance of the name Lolita, which isn't even the young girl's real name, and the obsession the narrator is fraught with: "Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta" (9).
Humbert lusts after Lolita because she is his nymphet:
But instead I am a lanky, big-boned, wooly-chested Humbert Humbert, with thick black eyebrows and a queer accent, and a cesspoolful of rotting monsters behind his slow boyish smile. And neither is she the fragile child of a feminine novel. What drives me insane is the two-fold nature of this nymphet-- of every nymphet, perhaps; this mixture in my Lolita of tender dreamy childishness and a kind of eerie vulgarity, stemming from the snub-nosed cuteness of adolescent maidservants in the Old Country (smelling of crushed daisies and sweat); and from very young harlots disguised as children in provincial brothels; and then again, all this gets mixed up with the exquisite stainless tenderness seeping through the musk and the mud, through the dirt and the death, oh God, oh God. And what is most singular is that she,
Lolita, has individualized the writer's ancient lust, so that above and over everything there is --Lolita. (46-47)
Nabokov compares Humbert's actions to that of a spider waiting to catch a juicy fly in its web:
My white pajamas have a lilac design on the back. I am like one of those inflated pale spiders you see in old gardens. Sitting in the middle of a luminous web and giving little jerks to this or that strand. My web is spread all over the house as I listen from my chair where I sit like a wily wizard. Is Lo in her room? Gently I tug on the silk. She is not. (52)
In his madness, Humbert desperately tries to justify his reasons for wanting to have sex with a child:
But in our middle-class nosy era it would not have come off the way it used to in the brocaded palaces of the past. Nowadays you have to be a scientist if you want to be a killer. No, no, I was neither. Ladies and gentleman of the jury, the majority of sex offenders that hanker for some throbbing, sweet-moaning, physical but not necessarily coital, relation with a girl-child, are innocuous, inadequate, passive, timid strangers who merely ask the community to allow them to pursue their practically harmless, so-called aberrant behavior, their little hot wet private acts of sexual deviation without the police and society cracking down upon them. We are not sex fiends! We do not rape as good soldiers do. We are unhappy, mild, dog-eyed gentleman, sufficiently well integrated to control our urge in the presence of adults, but ready to give years and years of life for one chance to touch a nymphet. Empathetically, no killers are we. Poets never kill. Oh, my poor Charlotte, do not hate me in your eternal heaven among an eternity alchemy of asphalt and rubber and metal and stone - but thank God, not water, not water! (92-93)
If Humbert could have his way with Lolita, this is what he would do: "My only grudge against nature was that I could not turn my Lolita inside out and apply voracious lips to her young matrix, her unknown heart, her nacreous liver, the sea-grapes of her lungs, her comely twin kidneys" (174).
Humbert cannot help wanting Lolita despite all her faults: "Despite our tiffs, despite her nastiness, despite all the fuss and faces she made, and the vulgarity, and the danger, and the horrible hopelessness of it all, I still dwelled deep in my elected paradise - a paradise whose skies were the color of hell-flames - but still a paradise" (176).
Humbert knows that Lolita is a prisoner who despairs, yet he refuses to let his captive go free:
We had been everywhere. We had really seen nothing. And I catch myself thinking today that our long journey had only defiled with a sinuous trail of slime the lovely, trustful, dreamy, enormous country that by then, in retrospect, was no more to us than a collection of dog-eared maps, ruined tour books, old tires, and her sobs in the night - every night, every night - the moment I feigned sleep. (186)
When Dolores Haze (her real name) finally escapes Humbert, his loneliness consumes him:
This book is about Lolita; and now that I have reached the part which (had I not been forestalled by another internal combustion martyr) might be called '
Dolores Disparue
, there would be little sense in analyzing the three empty years that followed. While a few pertinent points have to be marked, the general impression I desire to convey is of a side door crashing open in life's full flight, and a rush of roaring black time drowning with its whipping wind the cry of lone disaster. (269)
Although there are critics who argue that Lolita was in fact a nymphet, there are signs throughout the novel that she is merely a helpless child stuck in a horrible situation she cannot escape from:
There was the day when having withdrawn the functional promise I had made her on the eve (whatever she had set her funny little heart on - a roller rink with some plastic floor or a movie matinee to which she wanted to go alone), I happened to glimpse from the bathroom, through a chance combination of mirror aslant and door ajar, a look on her face...that look I cannot exactly describe...an expression of helplessness so perfect that it seemed to grade into one of rather comfortable inanity just because this was the very limit of injustice and frustration - and every limit presupposes something beyond it - hence the neutral illumination. And when you bear in mind that these were the raised eyebrows and parted lips of a child, you may better appreciate what depths of calculated carnality, what reflected despair, restrained me from falling at her dear feet and dissolving in human tears, and sacrificing my jealousy to whatever pleasure Lolita might hope to derive from mixing with dirty and dangerous children in an outside world that was real to her. (300-01)
In a final essay written by Nabokov at the end of this edition of the book, he explains what fiction and literature means in relation to his own writing:
For me a work of fiction exists only insofar as it affords me what I shall bluntly call aesthetic bliss, that is a sense of being somehow, somewhere, connected with other states of being where art (curiosity, tenderness, kindness, ecstasy) is the norm. There are not many such books. All the rest is either topical trash or what some call the Literature of Ideas, which very often is topical trash coming in huge blocks of plaster that are carefully transmitted from age to age until somebody comes along with a hammer and takes a good crack at Balzac, at Gorki, at Mann. (333)
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October 28, 2010
Really great quotes here. I enjoyed quotes 4-6 the best since they seem to be sort of a medical analysis for what the book portrays. Interesting.
October 28, 2010
Thanks for checking the quotes out, Pard. The medical analysis quotes were actually a fictional part of the book too, so they were pretty fun to read. John Ray, Jr., Ph.D. is just another Nabokov invention. :)
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June 17, 2010
I read the book but I think I was way too young at the time--I should revisit, 12 isn't quite the right age to appreciate Nabokov. Nor was 15 the right age for "Ulysses", but after all those comments about it having been banned in Boston, I just had to see why.
June 18, 2010
You read it when you were 12? I definitely recommend a re-visit. There must be things you missed on a first reading. I read "Speak Memory" when I was 16, and it was superb. It made me fall in love with Nabokov's style. I wish I had his genius.
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June 18, 2010
I read a lot of stuff that I probably didn't really "get" to the fullest extent when I was fairly young. I never did understand why "Ulysses was banned. I think that anybody who can wade through all those unpunctuated pages deserves a medal. =)
June 19, 2010
I've never read "Ulysses," so I can't help you there. One of these days I will read it, though. :)
June 19, 2010
I might as well not have read it. After a while it just became a converyor belt of words. I kept going just so that I could say that I had finished it. It'sanother one of those books I'm going to have to revisit.
June 19, 2010
Yeah, I've had those experiences myself. Maybe when I have more free time, we could try to read it together. That might be fun. :)
June 19, 2010
Warning. I'm a very sloooow reader. Slight amblyopia causes me to read off different page/ sentences many times. Most of the times I'll simply close my right eye to solve the problem. I'm surprised I managed to read as much as I did when I was young because the problem was much worse then. Motivation I guess.
June 19, 2010
That's ok. I'm a slow recreational reader myself, by choice. So, if we ever do get to the book, we will take our time. :)
June 20, 2010
We'll be forced to! =)
June 20, 2010
(laughs) Nothing wrong with that. I'll shoot you a message about it sometime in the next couple of months.
June 20, 2010
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sorry I am a little late for this but I have to say excellent list! My oonly exposure to LOLITA is the movie perhaps I'll have to pick this up! Nice one, Adrianna!
June 08, 2010
Thanks for checking out the quotes, William. The book is simply amazing! It's not as fast-paced as the film, as I recall the movie, and some of the descriptions of the landscapes drag a little bit. Still, it's an amazing read and worth the time!
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Outstanding list, Adrianna! I will be thinking about this for a while. Nabokov had a way of being both visceral and intellectual. You're perspectives are quite clarifying. Thanks!
June 08, 2010
Thanks for the compliment, Christopher! I love that about Nabokov. I've thought about whether or not I could ever write like him...sadly, my answer is no. I'm just not that intelligent, lol. :)
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