Monkey Monday: Happy 2012 edition! 2 January 2012 10:36 pm
Posted by Tracy in : friends,fun,life,monkeys,photos,pictures,tea , add a commentHow happy is my start to 2012, you ask? I think my new tea-making monkey friend answers that question pretty darn well:
Seriously, I cannot even begin to say how awesome a gift this is. (more…)
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…)
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.
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…)
Ridiculously belated Foto Friday: adventures in flying fancy 22 January 2010 11:12 pm
Posted by Tracy in : consumerism,eating,family,food snobbery,fun,not even vegetarian,photos,pictures,restaurants,silly,tea,travel , 2 commentsToday’s post is dedicated to Ansley, not just for reminding me to write it, but also because she is going to Cancún for a long weekend tomorrow and I’m maybe just a little jealous. Anyway, have an awesome trip, lady, and do not even try to match the ridiculously huge pile of stuff I scored in the process of flying to Amsterdam at the beginning of the month:
Schwag from Virgin Upper Class
On top of the shoe bag, which I totally did use, you can see such diverse items as socks, a toothbrush, an Upper Class luggage tag, some very cute envelopes, and a copy of The Economist (which I finally finished reading yesterday because I am a giant slacker and also because I have been reading overtime to keep the pile of New Yorkers smaller than I am. Specifically TracyFood-related items (I guess the toothbrush sort of counts, too) include (more…)
Tea for Tuesday: souvenir edition. 26 May 2009 7:50 am
Posted by Tracy in : consumerism,friends,geekery,school,taste test,tea , 2 commentsSo right after my finals week tea-fueled all-nighter of Wednesday wackiness, I celebrated the end of the term by handing in my vitamin C paper (about which I would later have an anxiety dream, but that’s neither here nor there except yesterday Ansley posted a comment wondering about our grades) and going on a food tour of Flushing, Queens. The expedition was organized some of my fellow graduate students, and atttended by many more. It deserves a full writeup which I’ll get to one of these days (a recurring TracyFood theme, I know) but today’s post is about a little souvenir I brought home from an as-yet-unidentified Chinese grocery store on Main Street in Flushing’s Chinatown:
Yep, that’s right, a can of tea. (more…)
