Mesa Verde, somewhere on Congress St., but you'll never need or want to find it.

Execrable, heavy, criminally incompetent college-cafeteria "Mexican" food, except for the guacamole. We considered the guac acceptable, as far as it went. But it came in a bowl that turned out to contain a false bottom of shredded iceberg lettuce filling half the volume. NOT. ACCEPTABLE.

We felt vaguely queasy for hours after we left.

Duckfat, 43 Middle Street, Portland, ME

We had the french fries fried in duck fat with aioli (they call it "garlic aioli", redundantly, but what the heck — it's Maine) and curry mayo for dipping on the side, the smoked squash soup, and the marinated-tomato/fresh mozarella/pesto panini. All delicious. Serious, sound, thoughtful, and well-executed food. The only fault might be that the soup, while tasty, could be seen as a little too clever. Sane prices, too. If you're in Portland, drop in and tell 'em the masshole sent you, the one the cute dyke waitress hated.

UPDATE

Date says "She was a lesbian, but not a dyke." I pass this along for whatever it may be worth.

Labels: food, Maine, Portland

not bad on teh whoale but disapontign. wantad to visit lacuna beach but i couldln find it anywywhere.

Ravers, yesterday: Unimaginably stupid,
but not Canadian.

kamloops is not a hemi-demi-nanosubgenrelet (or microtrendule) of anoyign mecanicael danst music.

shes bacck! but sheh sems to avhe piked up some strangne hobys taht invovle fomign at teh moufth.

aslo go you now an voape for emraeld bliel at some ratardo voty thign.

Was just at lunch; had a delicate and tendentious mise-en-scène of squab gobbets and troubled porcupines. Highly recommended.

teh vioce of a genararatoinj. just not necesaryly a real smatrt one.

via

ive beeann thinkigngn it ovar an my minds made up. im gona revert to savagery.

i think its teh right dacsisoin for me at tihhs stage of my career. il letyou know how it goes.

wuould it be fare to say taht in genral 'gargantuan' is smaler then 'brobdingnagian'? im thnking gargantua wasn that big.

a patant aplicatoin for teh ages!

...

[Claim] 11. In association with claims 7 and 9, will-power can be cast on another to control people's fate.

[Claim] 12. From claims 2, 5, and 9, reality can be restructured.

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i gota good felign abuot theis guy. hes got hsi ducks in a row.

via vololokhch. teh quqstoin of prioar art is adresed in teh coments. another comentar notes rather hufily that "these are not proper patent claims".