{"id":989,"date":"2005-06-23T13:07:28","date_gmt":"2005-06-23T13:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.m3ntalcontraband.com\/?p=989"},"modified":"2020-11-04T22:05:49","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T03:05:49","slug":"noshing_around_and_trade_shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/?p=989","title":{"rendered":"noshing around and trade shows"},"content":{"rendered":"

ive been pretty spoiled when it comes to lunch this past week. we had a meeting in manhattan on tuesday, so we had lunch at casa mono<\/i> on irving afterwards. mario batalis tapas bar\u2026mmm. i dont think ive ever had such swishy and yum fried calamari before\u2026and i def wouldnt have minded if the skirt steak tapas was a full steak. yea, we spoiled ourselves. we also checked out the licensing show at the jacob javits center yesterday. everybody and their sisters licensing something. movies, classic characters, mustard\u2026etc. alot of the movie studios had coo banners and promos for upcoming movies\u2026alot of narnia<\/i>, pirates of the caribbean 2<\/i>, fantastic four<\/i>, etc. penthouse, vivid, and others were there too, but there werent any models\/pornstars. i mean\u2026wtf, someone should lodge a complaint. after romping around the show, we taxi\u2019d over to k-town and stuffed ourselves into a coma at cho dang gol<\/i>. so good\u2026so good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SIDE NOTE:<\/b> scariest thing seen\/heard at the show. a man in a suit and tie singing the meow mix<\/i> song for a good 5 minutes. that is so wrong\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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> here he comes, here comes speed racer!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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> the meow-mix-mobile!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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> woot optimus prime\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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> the art of taiwan\u2026? a bit too classy for the show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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> banners at the marvel booth. the ghost rider<\/i> banner looked like a touched up photo. promo for the upcoming movie maybe?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ive been pretty spoiled when it comes to lunch this past week. we had a meeting in manhattan on tuesday, so we had lunch at casa mono on irving afterwards. mario batalis tapas bar\u2026mmm. i dont think ive ever had such swishy and yum fried calamari before\u2026and i def wouldnt have minded if the skirt […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","category-photo-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7692,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989\/revisions\/7692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}