Comments on: Tokyo 7-7: The David Blaine of Fusion Cuisine

By: Under $10: Tokyo 7-7 Coffee Shop, Culver City

Under $10: Tokyo 7-7 Coffee Shop, Culver City — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:27:01 +0000

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By: rick

rick — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 18:16:49 +0000

some similar experiences. girlfriend and a neighbor-friend had been wanting to go there for some time. closed, closed, closed, open! finally got the chance. i finished hungrier than i started (True Value popcorn after, while gf and friend perused sledgehammers and such). but one thing we realized inside, the stylish graphics–faux identity, menu, adverts by two ogilvy&mather guys on the wall seemed familiar. and their photo with the 7-7 family. we saw these in a talk or something, somewhere. architecture lecture? or at CLUI (sometimes even with TrueValue popcorn to munch while learning landscape things)? not sure. hoping world wide web would rescue my curiosity, i stumbled upon your bloggings. nice writing. but can you answer who did these graphics, and where I would have seen them before??

By: (Mar Vista) Pete

(Mar Vista) Pete — Fri, 26 May 2006 16:55:19 +0000

It’s true. I scanned enough MK&AO merchandise during my long-ago, far-away summer as a Wal-Mart cashier to have everything Olsen seared into my brain.

By: Ron

Ron — Fri, 26 May 2006 13:38:45 +0000

I just checked–Mary Kate and Ashley still sign their names that way.

By: Lauren

Lauren — Fri, 26 May 2006 01:27:14 +0000

KA-

You are sitting next to me right now, watching tv. Silly goose.

It’s true, I did steal your phrase, with permission, and I have blogged it for the whole world to read and subsequently quote.

And in order to prevent any Stephen Glass problems and/or Hayden Christensen movies, here are other things I’ve stolen/cooked/did not do:

1) Invent the “Appalachian family of 6″ phrase; that was all Kim.
2) Take most of the pictures for “Life on the ‘Nade”; Flickr-ed it. In most cases, I made Ron do it.
3) Enter rehab, spend time in jail, have major dental surgery without anesthesia and write a bestselling memoir, that would later be exposed as false by a very hurt Ms. Winfrey.

Ron, Victor, Ryan, Reader, Oprah; I am so sorry.

Please don’t take away my book club privileges.

-Lauren (if that’s even my real name)

By: KA

KA — Thu, 25 May 2006 20:50:00 +0000

I would like to state for the record my coinage of the phrase “free-range elderly.” Lauren, you know I’ve only said 5 clever things in my life, and that response to the quantities of Culver’s senior population present at the Bridge’s Silver Screen Classics (monthly on Tuesdays at 1pm) was one of them. Would someone please review THAT experience for this blog?

Additionally, I was disappointed by your failing to mention the irony (?) that Tokyo 7-7 is not, in fact, open from 7 to 7. But neither is 7-11, so maybe that’s a moot point.

I’ll still go back with you for breakfast. Cold Wonder Bread toast, here we come.

By: Pete

Pete — Thu, 25 May 2006 10:07:07 +0000

One of my duders had a band that played a song called “Dave Coulier.” It so happened that Dave-O himself attended one of their shows. My duder didn’t bother to tell me whether Coulier, like Bob Saget, drops an F-bomb every other sentence.

By: Lauren

Lauren — Thu, 25 May 2006 08:45:11 +0000

Pete-

Tokyo 7-7 will only lose their lease when David Blaine loses his magic touch.

As long as they have the Full House cast shot, they’re golden.

I swear.

-L

By: Pete

Pete — Thu, 25 May 2006 05:06:05 +0000

Main Street in Culver City is a pretty hot area, what with the proliferation of foodie restaurants in eastern downtown and the Helms District. I wouldn’t be surprised if this place loses its lease sometime soon.