There are good seafood cocktails and tacos, of course, but it is the tostadas that are truly special, tuna ground Ensenada-style with a generous helping of avocado, or the mixta especial, a massive pile of tuna and shrimp and jaiva (imitation crab) and octopus and more, bright and refreshing and pretty shockingly filling, the solid octopus playing well off of the thin sheets of jaiva.
In "Saints Have Mothers," the girl who leaves for Africa is not merely "scarily pretty" but "shockingly sickeningly pretty," a "teenage Ingrid Bergman" with high cheekbones, white-blond pigtails and a "husky alto," given to wearing jailbait outfits, halter tops and low jeans.
But most of the wares range from pretty good to shockingly good.
There's the dense, metronomic punk chug of Expensive Dog; Black Spring's needling, alien boogie; and on Flesh War, a real goosebumps moment when singer Daniel Stewart's icy, deadpan boom breaks into a shockingly pretty synth-pop chorus.
Appearing on Russia Today he unveiled a porntache, a two headed droopy caterpillar of a moustache that wasn't just a metaphor for his points of view but, more shockingly, pretty fashionable.
Electronic Arts has just announced a new feature for FIFA 09 that, shockingly, actually sounds pretty good.
The Missouri GOP Senate candidate who's become infamous for his "legitimate rape" comment not-so-shockingly has some pretty whackadoodle and frightening ideas about homosexuality, too.
Nokia's UK YouTube account has posted a video (below) promoting the pink Lumia 800, and shockingly enough it seems pretty targeted toward women.
Here, the vision of a genuine EDL disco was realised, and – shockingly – it wasn't particularly pretty.
Shockingly, the "oyster" actually tasted pretty good, and if I didn't know it was a testicle I might have even had a few more.
Yes, the jokes at the expense of the gay characters are pretty awful, but the rest of the writing is shockingly solid.
