My friend Lucie obviously does not huff (or so she would have us believe), but the resemblance is startling. (Left: proud new mother, connoisseur of food from Sellers Market. Right: former screen cleaner addict.)
I never try to hide that in the land of sandwiches, Cam Huong is the king. When the king sends a messenger to your house, you always invite him in and give him a China Cola.
Holy Christ: I love these sandwiches.
(re: What’s With That House)
July 23, 2008
Sometimes there are segments where George is not interviewing the occupants of the house. Is this because it is a portion of the show the producers filmed w/o George or did the owner not want George in their house? Often, the George-less segments tend to make fun of the owner a little more.
Just curious! Big fan!
–Ross
August 6, 2008
Thank you for your email.
Unfortunately we don’t have contact information for program hosts or the production companies, so we don’t know the reasons for the various taping styles, but we appreciate the time you took to contact us and will be glad to forward your comments to the Programming Department for review.
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I’ve almost completely had it with the network that uses Clive Pierce as their Tim Gunn.
Warning: this post mentions “tofu” a lot.
Souley Vegan, located right next door to Radio, is currently my favorite place to eat on a Tuesday night. I was worried that since I liked it so much…it would close up and some weird copy shop or bail bonds place would take it place. This worry now seems silly since it was packed with normals and vegan freaks alike last night. SV also upgraded their ambiance from “that vegan soul food place with the bare light bulb as decor” to “that charming little vegan place right near 12th Street Bart that offers baskets of fried okra amongst other things like tofu spinach pie and two kinds of delightfully prepared tofu.” (SF Weekly writes well on the experience.)
I honestly don’t know how they do it (probably frying? baking?): the crispy tofu is coated in some sort of delicious, crunchy shell in portions that dares you to finish either two large pieces or a basket of minis (attention fatties! I feel like the basket gives you more. I struggled to finish all six or eight pieces, though I regretted not wrapping the unfinished one in a napkin and eating on the drive home).
With The Breakroom doing what it does so well, Golden Lotus doing its thing with flaky service but the best Gourmet Chicken, New World doing its thing at a higher price with sometimes erratic results, and Souley Vegan coming into its own, I’m totally pumped to see Oakland turning into a vegan wonderland. (Note: sorry to end this entry like a 5th grade essay.)
I totally dropped some science at work today on email best practices. A precious quote from my research come from the Mail Chimp blog: “If you think recipients will actually double click an email to view your message in full screen “to appreciate all its glory,” send us whatever you’re smokin.” OFF THE HOOK.
Thanks to Reid for the documentation.
AJ had a genius idea: since I’m certain my 2001 Trek 1000 doesn’t fit me anymore, or never did (I didn’t go through any early 30’s growth spurts), I should just get a new frame and keep the wheels and components. I will have to find out if my financial partner will ok the forms needed to have funds requisitioned.
Also: someone is building a house above the water tower, near the end of the hill ride.
We Versus the Shark (or We Ver$u$ The $hark????) is a fine band that I heard about via All Songs Considered SXSW wrap-up. Ideally, I would have discovered them had I gone to SXSW, but crowds frighten me.
They seem like agreeable folk and play a blend of Trumans Water-style goof spazz rock with a little DC/Unwound sound. I gather Samantha has since left the band, which makes me curious what their two vocals/two guitars sound will evolve into. They absolutely have nailed that “my keyboard sounds like Ross’ Epson scanner” sound.
Here are some other videos of varying quality for your convenience.
It should be noted that All Songs Considered has a really good way of presenting music that is surprisingly timely and of a wide variety. Certainly one of my weekly podcasts (that I end up not listening to for months).
It seems like only seven months ago that Alexa and AJ went on their vision quest.
Check out this sweet alpaca that they brought me back.
I have to say, I quite like how cool the Wrigley’s “new” Slim Pack™ makes me feel (which is aerodynamic).
I was happy to find that the architecture style of my nightmares has a name, and it’s Brutalism.
The nice folks at Start Here NY could be holding the key to my notebook future. Thanks for the tip, Good Magazine!
Note to self: not a fan of the Orbit’s Sweet Mint gum. Stick to Wintermint.
My hat is off to you, good sir, for your rendition of Hella’s Biblical Violence on piano.