Just because you’re an adult doesn’t mean you can’t play with your food every now and then.
And now I’m hungry again.
(Pork, fennel, coriander and chili sausage by Sanagan’s Meat Locker. I got the second-last pair, so you might want to give them a couple of days to they restock. It’s totally worth the wait, though.
Ah, goddammit.
I had such a great time in the NOW booth at the 2008 Word on the Street festival that I’m doing it again this year — I’ll be meeting and greeting any literary-minded folk who should happen by, from noon to 1 pm EDT Sunday.
If last year’s experience was any guide, I’ll mostly just be handing out copies of the paper. But it’s still social, right?
The festival’s rather frustrating website says we’re in Booth 109; what’s frustrating is that nowhere on the site can you find a map with a legend as to which booths are where. Let’s assume, for the moment, that this year’s NOW booth will be somewhere in the same vicinity as last year’s — at the north-east edge of Queen’s Park Circle, near the Sony Reader Lounge.
If I hear differently before I head out, I’ll post an update here. See you there! (Well, one of you. Maybe.)
This is the bit I hate about colds — when you’re over the worst of it, but still not fully recovered.
I feel like I’m getting better in baby steps; a short walk around the neighborhood this morning to pick up some stuff has left me exhausted and bleary. It’s frustrating, is my point — a head cold just shouldn’t be this debilitating. (Unless it’s the dreaded H1N1, in which case I should be grateful I’m not worse off … but really, it’s probably just a cold.)
Fortunately, one of the aforementioned errands was a trip to Caplansky’s for a bowl of matzoball soup, and that ought to help. Once I’m back to full strength, I’ll probably stop hallucinating bizarre news items like David Cronenberg being hired to write a new version of “The Fly”. Because there’s just no way that’s real.
I have, at Zane Caplansky’s brand-spanking-new restaurant. And it was awesome.
Well, technically, it was brunch: Smoked-meat hash with eggs and latkes. And challah toast. And coffee. And then some more coffee, just because.
Caplansky’s is a fine replacement for the dearly departed Coleman’s, which closed unexpectedly earlier this year. Zane and I have clearly had the same childhood; he’s taken precisely the same things away from the deli meals of our youth that I have, and is now making marvelous new dishes that build on those shared memories.
His smoked-meat hash is salty and vivid and not oily at all; the potato latkes are fluffy and crunchy without a trace of the congealed heaviness most deli latkes carry in the center. And I mentioned the challah toast, right? And there’s Vernor’s in the soda cooler; it’s not Cel-ray, but it’ll do.
Doesn’t spin you? Check out the menu; I’m sure you’ll find something that appeals. And if you can’t, I’m sorry, but you’re just not trying.
Filed for the NOW blog, and your entertainment: My first venture into food-n-drink writing.
In my pre-emptive defense, I don’t know the first thing about food-n-drink writing. But I sure know what I like.
Seriously, though, there days when even I can’t believe I get paid for this …
Last weekend, I was in Manhattan, surrounded by concrete and steel and progress, and checking my e-mail on my phone every five minutes to be further connected to the world.
Yesterday, I was on a self-sustaining wool farm near Lake Huron. Makes a change, as they say …
… and when I get home, I learn that Ryan Reynolds has landed the role in the “Green Lantern” movie, beating out such contenders as Bradley Cooper, Jared Leto and Justin Timberlake.
First thought: Jared Leto? Jared Leto? Billy Crudup, maybe, but this guy? How’d he even make it to the final tier?
And second: Did no one contact Nathan Fillion? He’d be perfect. And his demo reel was awesome.
Guess what’s coming to Bell this summer?
I mean, I’m not sure if I want to buy it, but I’ve been kind of auguring in the direction of a new phone for the last few months, and this sure looks like a purty one.
I spent more than a decade as a Palm guy — from the Pilot to the Visor through several Treos — before switching to the HTC 6800 last fall, and I have to say, Palm’s usability and ergonomics are second to none. And unlike that other device, the Pre will be able to cut and paste text right out of the box, which is fairly important in my line of work.
The downside: The Pre comes with a brand-new OS that’s neither Palm nor Windows-based, which means none of the apps I’ve acquired will work on it, and there’ll be some inevitable configurationing trouble. Also, it’s a first-generation device, and we’ve learned that first-generation devices tend to be a little on the quirky side when it comes to mobile phones. (See above re “cut and paste”.)
But … so pretty! So smooth and rounded, but still with a full QWERTY keyboard! And Engadget really likes it! Want! Want!
Oh, right: Because if I stayed here I would weigh four hundred pounds.
Four hundred pounds of happy, mind you …
I’ll post the usual Friday movie roundup later on. We’re a little busy right now.
