Bourdain: Being an Alarming Ass So You Don't Have To

[bec_87rb]

Eating an enormous pot of grilled meats in an Uruguayan grill stand called Estancia Del Puerto

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[suegypt]

I have a crush on him. I just like looking at him. Even if he is a clever asshole.

[bec_87rb]

He is an alpha male version of the Linnelloform being - super skinny until about 50, long neck with prominent adam's apple, overbite with crooked teeth, dark curly hair, brown eyes, deep voice, goofy around the edges, and he even thinks in that absurd "Then by logical extension" mode.

If he were less harsh, he'd be a Linnell girl dream! I find him very funny.

He even envisions himself as a pirate, so he has a little Flansburgh to him.

OTOH, you would never find John Linnell posed as Mr. Bourdain is in the link above!

[suegypt]

I disagree about the Linnelloform, even as alpha male version.

He (Mr. Bourdain) has never been slight (that characteristic having to do with bone structure and sinew) even when he was skinny. He probably could hang out with the jocks at school, but chose not to (not shy). His teeth aren't amazingly crooked, he doesn't wear corrective lenses that I know of, etc., I could go on. The main thing for me is he is not musical. He does clever turns of phrase, but he is not poetic. The only kind of stalker he might attract could be dispatched with the wave of his hand (or that cow leg bone!).

Oh, and, his head does not resemble a light bulb with wavy hair.

[bec_87rb]

I stand thus corrected.

[chhinnamasta]

...and he's smoking (a cigarette, not hawt). I don't understand all these chefs who smoke -- doesn't this behavior deaden, and pervert, the palate? Aren't they damaging their essential instrument?

[suegypt]

If you ate what he eats on a regular basis for his show, you'd want a little deadening...

food you wouldn't eat with someone else's mouth

[chhinnamasta]

I think I vaguely remember bec-87rb posting about a monkfish and squid ink atrocity of some sort? I didn't think this chef was the same guy? Does Bourdain's diet mainly consist of sea monsters? Or, will he eat land animals, when he's not posing with parts of them in front of his joint?

Re: food you wouldn't eat with someone else's mouth

[bec_87rb]

From what I can tell, he'll at least try just about anything. I'll go back and see if I posted something about squid ink.....

[k1cup]

That photo just screams Flintstone's Brontosauras. What animal is that bone from?

[suegypt]

I believe it's the femur of a bull.

[bec_87rb]

Very symbolic if held near a crotch, I hear.