You may have noticed that we haven't been around lately. Well, we love kuaptic, and we love you, but we also need to make a living, and we have had to put a pin in kuaptic for the time being to puruse other other projects. We hope to come back soon.
posted by kuaptic. @ 9:17 AM
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Old school kuaptic-ites, probably remember back in the day when we talked about Rodney on The Roq and how his fans were hoping to get him a star on the walk of fame. Well now it's actually happened! Rodney is due to get a star in the next calendar year! It's nice to see someone who deserves it getting a star, instead of Ryan Seacrest or something.
posted by kuaptic. @ 8:34 AM
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You may remember how a couple of weeks ago how we told you about Fatty Arbuckle's Plantation Cafe. Well, because we love you guys (all three of you), we drove over to Culver City and photographed this centerpiece of Culver Studios. It was also used in the background of Gone with the Wind (it was not, as some believe however, Tara). They used all the old sets on the back lot -- like King Kong's Skull Island and the sets from Cecil B. DeMille's King of Kings -- burnt them in a huge fire to film the burning of Atlanta.
posted by kuaptic. @ 8:51 AM
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Like puppies, sometimes couches come in very small sizes. This one is obviously the runt of its litter and was probably thrilled just to have a home. Now of course, it's out on the street, making its own way in the world. We wish you well tiny couch!
posted by kuaptic. @ 8:20 AM
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posted by kuaptic. @ 4:58 PM
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Palms and kuaptic are excited to introduce a new friend -- sushi karen! to the neighborhood. Tucked right across the street from the Best Buy on Washington, Sushi Karen is unassuming, but once inside, one notices that they've taken steps to jazz up the joint. Still, it retains the feeling of the best kind of stripped down, bad music playing, mini-mall sushi bar. The nigeri is excellent -- large pieces of well cut, fresh fish on rice. It has an auxilary menu including various types of teriaki (for the five people left in LA who don't eat sushi) and stellar short ribs. it has all the usual appetizers -- edamame, gyoza, green salads and miso soup, but the real show stopper is the sashimi, which is plentiful and well sauced, and of all this, the tuna carpaccio is the star. A huge dish, festooned with translucent tuna, dabbed with olive oil, a bit of soy sauce and rice vinegar. Heaven! Within walking distance! (Photo from The Delicious Life)
posted by kuaptic. @ 10:21 AM
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If you're a regular kuaptic-ite, you've read our dissertations on couches and why people always take the pillows before abandoning them to a lonely life in the streets -- well, there's an exception to every rule! This couch was indeed left with its cushions (but what cushions!!) Trimmed with wood, this guy has very little to recommend him, his attached bump cushions (very eighties!) and his seemingly tye-dyed pattern. This evidence indicates that couches left with cushions are in fact worse off in general.
posted by kuaptic. @ 11:16 AM
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Los Angeles and other fictions.
