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Monkey Monday: Halloween and more! 31 October 2011 6:17 pm

Posted by Tracy in : advice,cooking,eating,events,food snobbery,friends,fun,meta,monkeys,photos,pictures,random , add a comment

Hey party people, happy Halloween! Check out this fantastic foodie Danse Macabre image from comics badass Dylan Meconis:

Danse Macabre: The Foodie.
Pretty sweet, right?

I’ll return to the Danse Macabre later in this post, after a few Monkey Monday odds and ends: a recent post brought up to speed, a friend’s question answered, and then a (death-defying?) challenge… (more…)

Monkey Monday: long weekend edition 11 October 2011 8:05 am

Posted by Tracy in : consumerism,convenience,dessert,eating,events,monkeys,news,nyc,photos,pictures,politics,random,taste test , add a comment

Bear with me, readers: this post is late because our cable modem is on the fritz so I have been composing this post on my iPhone, no joke. (I started out literally thumb-typing in my phone’s web browser until I found the WordPress app, and now I’m still thumb- or index-finger-typing, but in a less cumbersome interface, so yay for that.) Which makes for a sort of clever transition to the first item I wanted to post today, which I had been considering as Monkey Monday fodder even before the passing of Steve Jobs (really!) So that’s one thing coming up. There’s also pictures: some in honor of World Egg Day, which was yesterday (again, I would’ve been on time except for ridiculous technical difficulties) and also to document the Tea and Biscuits of Triumph (which is more or less the Tracy analog of the Warren Ellis Cigarette of Victory). Here we go…

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(Nearly) Wordless Wednesday! 5 October 2011 12:10 pm

Posted by Tracy in : fun,meat,not even vegetarian,photos,pictures,travel,vegetarianism , add a comment

This post cannot be truly wordless because

1: I gotta give credit where it’s due to Michael Natkin of Herbivoracious.com for giving me the idea.

and

2: There’s, um, words in the picture I’m sharing. But awesomely! Check it out:

Anarchist vegetarian graffiti
Butcher shop graffiti in Coimbra, Portugal

When will I have the self-control to actually post pictures without writing about them? Only time will tell.