Life

  • One . . . Two . . . Three . . .

    Wheeeee!  As I was walking up to Union Square yesterday, thoroughly enjoying a healthy dose of early springtime, I spotted two people with a little girl between them, around 2 or 3 years old.  They counted out loud, "one, two, three," and then with a "wheee" lifted her up off the ground by her hands. 

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  • Whirlwind

    Sorry for the dead air around here — I’ve just been very busy.  Will fill in the details later, but highlights include: playing flip cup, Dinosaur BBQ, the Oscars, a new trainer, an organic meal at Scottadito, and a meat overload with the Gothamist team And now, a few days of vegetarian detox are in

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  • You Know Your Hotel is Swanky When

    The hotel room is not only bigger than your apartment, but on top of the swanky robe, slippers, chocolates on the pillow, the featherbed, wifi, and the orchid in the bathroom, but there’s a bidet.  Just in case. 

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  • Apparently It’s Time . . .

    for me to move to Brooklyn.  Why?  Because in one evening between the hours of 7 and 10:30, I not only got to see the folks I came out there to see — Jonathan, Jen and a sleeping Oscar and Doug and Leora, but I ran into not one but two people I know.  First

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  • Catching Up Yet Again

    Things I have not yet written about that I did last week (among other things that I did but may likely not write about because they are too boring) with extremely brief commentary: ate at Little Giant (scrumptious, get the brussels sprouts, as they’re merely an excuse to eat spoonsful of butter and maple syrup

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  • The Royal Flush

    I work in a building that has automatically flushing toilets.  There are also automatic faucets, but they’re not really relevant here, although I have found myself sticking my hands under faucets in other restrooms and waiting for a few seconds for water to come out before realizing that I had to turn a knob or

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  • Laren: The Soundtrack

    I recently had a discussion about theme songs.  This always reminds me of Ally McBeal, who often had a theme song that reflected what was going on in her life and that generally gave her some sort of inspiration to make it through her various trials and tribulations.  One of my favorites was Ooh Child

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  • Catching Up Again

    Time to catch up, but first of all, if you haven’t said hello yet, please do — I’m truly enjoying everyone’s comments! Let’s see.  Last week I went to a press party at Xing and it was like food blogger central — Augie came with me and I met Ben from Eater, the guys from

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  • Say Hi.

    I am going to have to follow in Youngna’s footsteps because I thought she had such a good idea — if you’re out there, and reading this, I would absolutely love for you to take the time and say hello in the comments.  I only have such a vague idea of who you are, really,

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  • When Pigs Fly

    I love this picture of the pig animal crackers and truffles from the Applewood Meet the Farmer dinner I went to with Katie last week where we got to meet Mike and Jen from Flying PIgs Farm. Also filed under the category of when pigs fly . . . Despite my past history in the

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