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Vegan Mofo #1: Caribbean Queen
Steve & Sons Bakery, a vegetarian Caribbean bakery and restaurant in Remsen Village, Brooklyn, is a bit off the beaten track but makes for an interesting stop. The bakery counter is always bustling, stealing a lot of the waitress’s attention. But do not fret! Your long wait will be rewarded. Our waitress let me sample [...]
Social Medicine
When I was a kid I was confused by beer. I remember not understanding Strange Brew. I remember my parents taking me and my siblings to an Oktoberfest carnival, going down a tall and smooth plastic slide with my legs in a potato sack and hearing my Dad complain everyone around us was drunk. He [...]
Bound more than a mad-man is…
Half a year later, I finally got around to organizing and formatting my photos from Thailand. After 8 weeks of travel and hundreds of miles of wonder, I wound up with a grand total of about 2,500 photos. Wanting to display this great adventure with some style, I decided to publish them through the fantastic new [...]
Viva Shea!
Today’s Mets vs. Marlins game may be the last game played in New York’s Shea Stadium. I say “may” because it is my hope that they’ll be playing the Milwaukee Brewers in sudden death as they’re both tied for the National League wildcard. This is exciting on many levels, mostly because I’ve cheered the Brewers [...]
Little Things List of Love, Part I
The moment you love you’re unlimited. My tea bag told me that. 1) Pretty Mary K (Other Other Version)2) Tony Leung3) Colors4) Uplifting Guerrilla Art5) Post Secret6) Thursday afternoon 7) ReadyMade magazine8) Lyrics to While You Were Sleeping9) My Summer of George calendar10) Vegan D.I.L.F.11) Full immersion into water12) Matt Berninger’s voice13) Life Cycle Studies in [...]
Ba Fondue!
For about 7 months the kitsch mushroom emblazoned fondue set I purchased at a thrift store in Jacksonville, Florida, partly to meet the card minimum, has sat high on my kitchen shelf, a witness and not a participant of the magic inside the Olive kitchen. I arbitrarily selected this date, September 19, 2008, to break [...]
Feast of San Gennaro
Participating in the chaos down Mulberry street in Little Italy during the annual Feast of San Gennaro several times in my life, I wanted to know who this San Gennaro was. Knowing the 11 day street party was more then zeppoles, bricks of nougat and Italian pride iron-on t-shirts (and being mostly Italian and raised [...]
Feed A Cold
Every change of season I get sick. It is like clockwork. I self-diagnose this susceptibility to the Earth’s equinoxes and solstices as being amidst some ethereal harmony with my larger environment, to nature; a necessary wrath of my goddessness; and the toil of an omni-sensitive soul, open and, therefore, vulnerable. Or it could be something [...]
Ostentatious Displays of Personal Aggrandisement
Off the well worn track of my daily life here in New York is a different city. A city that the tourists come to see. 46 million tourists just in 2007 (this and other interesting figures here). Among New York City’s countless attractions and world renowned cultural institutions is the Metropolitan Museum of Art: home [...]
Out ‘N About Uptown
I work around the block from New York eat-stitution Zabar’s. When luck leaves me with 10 minutes to spare before punch-in, I head to 91st street to loiter around the delivery trucks huffing the fresh baked bread ready to be shipped all over the city at Eli’s Vinegar Factory. Photographed is the 800-pound pink gorilla [...]
