Howdy Folks! Things will be changing a bit around here, because I hightailed it out of PDX for the new challenge that is Shanghai, China. I’ll be here for a while with girlie, and I’ll be blogging as best I can, you can buhleeee’ dat.
I’ve already seen some amazing feats of architecture, had a cabbie [...]
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Pardon the Dust, or Eat it
Whodathunkit? Bill Simmons vs. Mick Foley
Bill Simmons is a douchey yet extraordinarily popular writer for ESPN.com’s Page 2, and has a short column in ESPN the Magazine. Mick Foley killed himself night in and night out in the ring for 20 years as Cactus Jack and many other characters, and was one of the focuses of a Pro Wrestling documentary, [...]
Election Night Parties!
Portland likes its lefty politics, beer, and parties. Therefore, this Election Night will cause some heavy drinking, though I think I speak for most every sane person on the planet when I say it better be in celebration, not bitter disappointment and sadness.
All of the events I could find, in no particular order, after the [...]
Fear the Birds! – Nature has no love for cuteness
I’m borrowing a picture montage from the Mail News on Sunday (UK) and bringing it here, because my mother always loved Herons, and after many canoe trips and lake trips and trips involving herons that I did or (often) didn’t want to attend, I’ve learned why. My mom is secretly the world’s best interrogator, [...]
Stumpy’s?
Stumptown Coffee moves into New York, wide eyed and wearing his letterman’s Jacket from Cleveland.
From Gothamist
Stumptown coffee (or Stumpy’s) has a lot of fans, so a new shop one block from the Brooklyn waterfront might end up creating a sea change for New York coffee. Time will tell.
I have never heard anyone call it Stumpy’s, [...]
Absinthe Mania
In high school, before good taste catches up with the mere novelty of liquor, I remember a certain misguided group of friends eschewing the high culture offerings of Prague to find a dingy tourist bar offering ‘real strong absinthe,’ which they consumed straight, hoping to feel the eyelid flutters, teeth grinding and mild neck stiffness [...]
cookie pride
“Me like Robert Downey Jr. of Cookies”
(for those viewing this in an RSS reader, click through for a video.)
“Bisquits”
I have mentioned White Lily Flour a few times on this site, and though I’ve only worked with it a handful of times–one of my housemates in College had sorghum molasses and 20 lbs of White Lily shipped up from his relatives in Tennessee–it’s the incontrovertible Deity of Biscuit flour.
So it is with a heavy [...]
well, are ya?
Reality of Idiocracy, here we come!
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Taste of the Taste of the Nation
subtitle: Nesting prepositional phrases = deliciousness
I’m still not sure how it happened, but somehow I got invited to the Media event preceding the Portland Taste of the Nation. Snacks and booze came from:
Simpatica (pate, chicken liver mousse, really good pickles and pickled celery),
Saint Cupcake (toasted coconut & toffee mini-cupcakes, and a chocolate with [...]