As you may have guessed, it’s been A Month. You’ll find no apologies here for my absence, just acknowledgement that it’s my busiest time of the semester. So I was looking forward to a well-deserved night out with friends last evening. We joked about me blogging the night; I’m not going to do that. It [...]
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Last weekend was the annual lobster bake at the mountain house, a tradition started years ago by a group of work friends, which we were not, that grew to include families of those friends, which we are, and for which we are now tremendously grateful to be a part of. The weather was practically perfect, [...]
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(For more on this once-and-future series, see this post. Or find all the harebrained episodes via tag in the sidebar.) Alternate title: What I’m Eating For Lunch Today (with homemade gazpacho) That Is Rocking My World. There’s no need for exposition, the food speaks for itself. We’ll start with the eggs. Plenty of people have [...]
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Dammit, August. I was trying to simplify. Relax. Enjoy the moment. Stop recording life and try living it. But then you had to go and be awesome, and I have no record of it for The Posterity. There was great cooking (despite the so-called x diet), family vacations, beautiful beer money (what?!) and of course, [...]
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Hooray! I’m on my way to Baltimore, but I wanted to quickly let the ticket winner know that she and her family have 4 tickets to opening night of Pittsburgh CLO’s “The Sound of Music” on Tuesday, July 19! Kathleen Schultz, come on down! (I’ll email you with details on your tickets.) Tickets are still [...]
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(For more on this once-and-future series, see this post. Or find all the harebrained episodes via tag in the sidebar.) I love fish tacos. My friends love fish tacos. My friends still eat fish tacos (or any tacos, actually), but alas, I do not. Too many empty calories in the common taco delivery system, be [...]
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(For more on this once-and-future series, see this post.) You’ve been to Nicky’s, right? You’ve tasted the absolute best tom kha soup in the city, of course. Oh, good. We can still be friends. My always-meal at Nicky’s starts out with That Soup, followed by the grilled beef mint salad and accompanied by a pot [...]
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Last week I saw a show with Stephen Sondheim. And James Franco. Me and the guys. Yeah, that’s obviously not the whole story. In fact, that’s an entirely different story than the one I’m going to tell. Instead, I’m going to offer a little bit of insight as to why I happily stood for NINE [...]
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My guest post is up on my friend Paul’s blog construX nunchuX, currently taken over by Macho Man Randy Savage. It’s fitting, since I’m writing about pop culture, and what is more pop culture-y than fake wrestling, Slim Jims and rapture jokes?
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Passover happened. Yeah, I know. Old news. Wanna see what I made anyway? This year I took care of the potato dish, something I rarely make since I’m usually only meh about potatoes. I opted for a potato kugel, and luckily my friend Emily Levenson had a recipe I could use as a base. The [...]
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