// Austin, TX Seems like every girl here is gluten-free. Why am I being warned about the risks of drinking while pregnant in a men's washroom? "Whiskey" without an E looks wrong. A homeless dude slumped over in a wheelchair on the side of a…
Date Archives September 2016
Floppy Disk Repair
// Austin, TX Chefs here sure like goat cheese. The Texas School for the Deaf has a football team. What schools do they play? I hate that you have to go up to Barton Springs or down to West Mary to get from South First…
No Guns, No Smoking, No Meanies
Carnival Cruise Corporation Venturing Into Original Programming Carnival has created three original TV programs that will air on major networks on Saturday mornings beginning October 1. "Vacation Creation," featuring "In Living Color" star and comedian Tommy Davidson and YouTube celebrity Andrea Feczko as hosts, personalizes…
Adam Riff™ Clip of the Week
39. Toy Story (Brad Neely's Harg Nallin' Sclopio Peepio, S01E10) Honourable Mention Graveyard Slumber Party (One Mississippi, S01E06) Stray Observations Mike Schur "cameo" (The Good Place, S01E01) Point system examples (The Good Place, S01E01) An Asian character named "Jianyu" (The Good Place, S01E01) Ted Danson…
Dishoom Reigns
// Austin, TX Traffic lights here stay green hella long. Big Red is no Cheerwine. You can't twist the cap off a bottle of Mexican Coca-Cola? H-E-B's logo reminds me of Ren and Stimpy. Steven thought Whole Foods Market was a local chain. I got…
Black Beatles
I switched up the stops on my autumn tour this year. First stop: Austin, TX for Fantastic Fest – my first visit to Austin. My tentative Fantastic Fest schedule: Thursday, Sep 22 5:00PM Arrival 8:30PM The Handmaiden Friday, Sep 23 11:45AM The Red Turtle…
Eater's Digest: Downtown Los Angeles
Previously on Adam Riff™: Eater's Digest: Flyover Los Angeles Eater's Digest: West Los Angeles I have a formidable backlog of food notes on New York City and Los Angeles dating back to May 2014 that I desperately need to clear. Some restaurants I tried have…
Adam Riff™ Clip of the Week
38. Car chase shot in one take from inside Quarry's car (Quarry, S01E02) Stray Observations "That was the old me, sex with the mountain trolls." (Son of Zorn, S01E01) Terrell Suggs sex scene (Ballers, S02E08) "This is why you don't drink Icehouse at band practice."…
Still Dicking Bimbos
Chipotle's tweets are so bad, they're good. Chipotle's 1998 Lauryn Hill song tweet replaces "thing" with "drink," but its 1997 Savage Garden song tweet replaces "thing" with "meat." 1996… You / Chewing that meat you chew / Breaking that carne into a million pieces… Meanwhile,…
Dragons Love Tacos
How did this slip past me completely? The show is set in Mumbai with the main set of the Anti-Terrorist Unit (ATU) being a replica of the one in the original series. [source] Sapna Pabbi as Kiran Jai Singh Rathod, Jai's teenage daughter, the character…