Monkey Monday: “Is this thing on?” 26 September 2011 10:22 am
Posted by Tracy in : consumerism,convenience,cooking,cross-posting,eating,economics,fast food,food snobbery,health,kitchen gear,photos,pictures,tea,time versus money , add a commentPretend I started out here with a hilarious bit about trying to remember how I used to do these posts — or don’t, if meta-self-referential cutesiness is sooo turn of the 00′s and hellooo we are well into the second decade of the 21st century now, dur-hurr… Also maybe read (or reread) that August 2011 New York Times Magazine piece about how David Foster Wallace maybe kinda sorta invented the language of the Internet but he was one of only a very few writers skilled enough to actually employ this style without being super-annoying, and now everybody does it, gah! But I digress.
Here are a few things from this past month that got my attention and couldn’t just be camera-phoned and summarized in a caption on Flickr. There’s a picture and a rant, but then there’s some short and sweet and funny stuff, I promise. (more…)
Foto Friday: Delicious things eaten during recent travels. 23 September 2011 9:09 am
Posted by Tracy in : bread,cheese,consumerism,dessert,eating,fun,Holland,Netherlands,not even vegetarian,photos,random,travel,video , add a commentSo last month Ze Frank blogged a video that made me super-hungry:
EAT from Rick Mereki on Vimeo.
It also inspired me to make a little photocollage of some of the gastronautic highlights of my travels this summer:
So, yeah, that was pretty great. You can click on any of those little images to go to bigger versions on Flickr. Some even have descriptions! Others I may have to write about at greater length some other time, and still others I did not photograph but should describe in glorious detail before they get any more faded in my memory. (Also note that these are only the pictures I took of our trip, which is why I am not in any of them; Peter has the pictures of me going “OMG NOM YES” but they aren’t in a place where I can link to them yet.)
Foto Friday: belated documentation of birthday awesomeness 16 September 2011 9:20 am
Posted by Tracy in : convenience,dessert,family,fun,life,photos,pictures,recipes,summer , add a commentMy super-awesome 32nd birthday, let me show you it!
Firstly, you may have heard about the hurricane that was due in town that day? I know, it ended up getting downgraded to a tropical storm, but I think on the whole New York City did a good job of responding to this weather event, unlike during Snowpocalypse 2010 (Snowmageddon? I don’t remember what it was called). In any case, the impending storm doom that ended up flooding Vermont (?!) precluded a party, since everybody was supposed to be staying indoors all day (even if it did end up clear and actually kind of lovely). Meanwhile, there was the problem of avoiding caffeine withdrawal headaches in the event of power outages….
Cold-brew coffee to the rescue!
Yay cold brew! Also yay nifty double-walled glasses Peter got for his birthday (thanks Lois!)
If I had known how fun and easy cold-brewing coffee is, I would have started doing it years ago, so it’s probably a good thing I didn’t find out until last month because my caffeine addiction is bad enough already, thanks. Anyway, (more…)
