Anthony Bourdain dead at 61

[RUFFLZ]

I'm actually curious about this sentiment. Parts Unknown didn't seem that dissimilar to No Reservations or a Cook's Tour.

Hell he even went back to the same spots to visit and eat with the same people on Parts Unknown as he did on No Reservations.


He did do a bit more commentary on social/political issues, but I found that 99% of the time, I agreed with the guy on just about everything.


It reminds me I need to quit spending money on bullshit and get back to getting stamps on my passport. Japan, S. Korea, and Thailand are at the top of the list.

EDIT: I really regret not taking some of my severance money when I was laid off 3 years ago and not just going somewhere for a week. I came supremely close to buying a ticket to Tokyo. I shouldn't have been such a scared little bitch and just gone.

No need to regret when you can just fucking do it!

Just got back from traveling Japan (Tokyo, Osaka, Kobé) for the past couple weeks after backpacking SE Asia (Vietnam, Cambodia, and Thailand) and wouldn’t take it back for the world. I have less money than you for sure and still made it a priority to experience it no excuses my friend.

To a lot of you that had to fuck up a memorial thread w your gentrification woes. Let me ask you this, what would you of done if you were in our shoes? Sina (freeride) and I both grew up in a world of this bullshit and made the most of it. We flocked to where the job market is and now ya’ll blame our generation for messing it up? Do you guys just expect us to graduate with these degrees and die so you guys can grab our salaries and standard of living. We worked for it just as every other generation did, yet we get blamed for no fucking reason.

Call us hipsters or millenials, but we were born in this era and are making the most of it while respecting future and past generations. So maybe take a look in the mirror before blaming our liberal snowflake fucktard generation cuz we’re doing the best we can with what we got. /rant

- Ami

[2mAn]

And the 405 in Seattle is worse than the 405 in LA... HA!

[MrBurgundy]

nah, it's just a) possible to buy a house for less than a million bucks b) not the midwest

Hipster's are the demographic of people that get a boner when you say "Seattle"

and the cost of living up there is just as much as it is down here..

[kronus]

The PNW is the hipster's Mecca

nah, it's just a) possible to buy a house for less than a million bucks b) not the midwest

[MrBurgundy]

^reminded me of this lol

[djjerme]

The PNW is the hipster's Mecca. Here in Cali, the hipsters can't stop talking about moving up there... You're getting the cream of the crop, breh

No kidding..

I am almost wondering if we get the people that failed navigating the LA freeway system!

But I think we've gotten way off topic now. Been rewatching some of Bourdain's episodes, and I do have to say, it's still a little surprising to think he was 61. Despite the drugs and hard living early on, he seemed to have done a decent job of keeping himself in shape. I know a lot of men in his age bracket that look like they've given up on life.

He was a good example that it's never too late to try and turn your life around.

[MrBurgundy]

You should come up to Vancouver BC. Everyone hates anyone that isn't white and speaks clear English. Too bad most of these "foreigners" are the ones buying up everything and making the place unaffordable for those born and raised here.

Good times

Man, I was here thinking Canadians were so progressive...

[mrsleeve]

Over Memorial day weekend we spent a few days in Duluth where da wife grew up, we went back to a long standing local place, that Barney Rubble has been a while back.

The place was wall to wall busy, and lined up out the door, for a walk up diner style place with a ton of locals, people the wife recognized but we kept to our selves, and a big number of outa state tags in the lot as well. The place is a little bit outta the way, food was just as she remembered, greasy and deep fried, just "a hell of a lot busier" than she remembers as a kid.

My area is getting over run with the fucking hipsters now to (well the pace of emigration is increasing many from the WA/OR coastal areas and Denver). Tell me, is it a national hipster thing or just my local ones, that they are 2 fucking broke to afford anything so "dumpster diving" is now a fashion statement, or to find items to "re-purpose" to sell to other hipsters????? I mean FFS we have new signage going up, at the county landfill and remote container sites where we can drop of garbage or recycle and even a lot of the business around with dumpsters out back are putting sings up, that say NO SALVAGE on them. I asked a buddy of mine about this, and he had caught hipsters going though his and his neighbors dumpsters looking for shit, and was given the "re-purpose to sell stuff" line not that he really cared, but routing around in a dumpster behind a paint shop and a Heavy excavation Shop near dark is not really a good idea IMO.

[MrBurgundy]

Or it's that I am just sick of people moving here. Then, yes, guilty as charged.

The PNW is the hipster's Mecca. Here in Cali, the hipsters can't stop talking about moving up there... You're getting the cream of the crop, breh

[Stanley Rockafella]

Yup, totally nailed, that is exactly it. Man, you are so spot on at times, it's amazing.
Or it's that I am just sick of people moving here. Then, yes, guilty as charged.

You should come up to Vancouver BC. Everyone hates anyone that isn't white and speaks clear English. Too bad most of these "foreigners" are the ones buying up everything and making the place unaffordable for those born and raised here.

Good times

[djjerme]

Man you're obviously too cool for school.

We know Portland is hipster central and you seem determined to be cooler than that.

I guess you hang at Starbuck's and McD's to be ironic.

Yup, totally nailed, that is exactly it. Man, you are so spot on at times, it's amazing.


Or it's that I am just sick of people moving here. Then, yes, guilty as charged.

[DealinDave@Blunttech.com]

It is a bit annoying from a customer standpoint. It's virtually impossible to get a table without waiting an hour or more. Worse than that, the quality of service seems to go straight to shit because they're so busy. Don't get me wrong it's great exposure for the businesses. It just seems like after the spotlight fades the service is never quite the same.

But yes, that post sounded like a yelp review from a real uppity bitch.

[z31maniac]

90% of the time, no it's not.

It's usually some place that popped up in the last year or two - becomes the Hot Tuna for the food scene and everyone post a pic of them eating there for the Insta -likes.

Again, it's just lip service for all the tourist recent transplants that are making this town unbearable. Very few of the actual restaurants that the locals frequent make the show. Because they aren't "Portlandia" enough to be "Money.."

https://www.tvfoodmaps.com/s4/Diners-Drive-Ins-Dives/OR/Portland

Pine Street - over hyped and stupid long lines with terrible wait staff

Bunk Sandwiches - salty staff to match the overly salty sandwiches, barely anyone local goes there anymore because of the over hype. (Yes, I realize the hypocrisy of me calling the staff Salty in a post laced with more salt than the ocean water.)

Pok Pok - a weird, overly priced version of Thai that seems to attract mostly midwesterner transplants.

Byways Cafe - used to be good before the hype monster ate it up, and not even sure if still open.

Frank's Noodle House - nobody goes here. Ever.

The Tin Shed - was a nice place to go until they fired all the staff when management changed (shortly after Guy graced them with his hair) and they replaced them with rude hipsters.

Swiss Hibiscus - This place seems to attract NYC transplants who just want to hangout and drink water. I walk past it daily and it's literally always empty or closed. Most locals you could probably hold a gun to their head, and they couldn't tell where it actually is.


But that's ok, if you guys like watching him, so be it. I just can't stand him.

I liked Anthony Bourdain's approach and he did seem to have more of an honest, NFG approach to his show.

Man you're obviously too cool for school.

We know Portland is hipster central and you seem determined to be cooler than that.

I guess you hang at Starbuck's and McD's to be ironic.

[TheWipprSnappr]

this standup routine....just.....seems like it was paid for.

I'm pretty sure barney rubble gives this "gallager wannabe" twist action and ballsack tickle bj's on a regular basis in exchange for this oral diarrhea.

[flyboyx]

I have no opinion on either of them but I do love this stand up that talks about their "rivalry". I cant find the explicit version anywhere.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK6zuii2OLI

this standup routine....just.....seems like it was paid for.

I'm pretty sure barney rubble gives this "gallager wannabe" twist action and ballsack tickle bj's on a regular basis in exchange for this oral diarrhea.

I actually like his triple D show. I just don't like him. since I travel several days a week, I've been to a good handful of restaurants he has reviewed on his program and they are pretty damn good down home places generally.

as to djjereme's comments above, I have never been to an establishment he has reviewed in Portlandia.