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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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Monkey Monday: Readers… 22 August 2011 9:08 am

Posted by Tracy in : eating,events,family,friends,good news,life,monkeys,nyc,photos,pictures,politics,silly,tea , add a comment

…I married him.

Gay people can, and Tracy and I did!
Photo by the kindness of a stranger and Peter’s iPhone. In case you don’t click through for the caption on Flickr, here it is:

Gay people can, and Tracy and I did!

On pi approximation day 2011 around 4pm, Tracy and I got married at the city clerk’s office in downtown Manhattan. At T+16 hours, we told our families. At T+40 hours, we went to cheer for all the people getting married who previously could not.

And now for some teachable moments! (more…)

Thank You Thursday: Oh. Hell. Yes. 9 June 2011 12:58 am

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DONE

Weights are lifted that I did not even know I was carrying, party people.

Big huge thanks and love to everyone who has ever been supportive, including but by no means limited to everybody who sent nice messages on Facebook and/or Twitter when I was being all giddy on said media about graduation-related activities. Steinhardt faculty kickline FTW forever! And so on.

“I act like I have faith, and like that faith never ends/ But I really just have friends.” —Dar Williams, “My Friends”, End Of The Summer.

Liveblogging TEDxManhattan: “Changing the Way We Eat” 12 February 2011 4:19 pm

Posted by Tracy in : consumerism,eating,environment,events,geekery,liveblogging,nyc,school,sustainability,writing , add a comment

Hey party people, surprise Saturday post!

I am coming to you sort of live from the 4th floor of NYU’s Kimmel Center, site of the NYC FoodEDU Student Food Collaborative TEDxManhattan viewing party (official Meetup site for the event here). For more information about TEDxManhattan, try this link here; we’re currently watching the third session, which kicks off with an old TED video of Dr. William Liu of the Angiogenesis Foundation, “Can We Eat to Starve Cancer?” So far I am very happy to hear him mention quality of life as a consideration in the usefulness of angiogenesis-based cancer treatment.

I’ll be updating this post as the presentations continue to inspire me to comment, stay tuned (or read on, if you’re reading this after the fact).

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Music to cook by. 4 September 2010 1:45 am

Posted by Tracy in : breakfast,cooking,eugene,friends,fun,Morning Glory,nyc,oregon,random,silly,vegan,vegetarian,writing , add a comment

This post is for the fabulous Chiara, who did one of those silly Facebook (I almost wrote LiveJournal) equivalents of a chain letter where you’re supposed to write down 15 albums in 15 minutes, albums that will stick with you forever, etc. As I started to respond, I arbitrarily tried to restrict myself to no more than one album by any given artist, or I would have gotten to Bowie and used up like six albums right there, and likewise with TMBG and Dar and Dan Bern… you get the idea. Also as I was writing I realized I was thinking in particular about music that is good to cook by, and also that it was making me want to write a TracyFood post on that subject for the first time in—urgh, I’m not even going to look. The point is: here is a list of albums which I have found kept me particularly excellent company in kitchens over the years, annotated where I wanted. Also, Chiara is awesome. (more…)