So for the past few months or so I’ve been off the restaurant tip I was on for a little while. I still keep up with my Eater, Grub Street, Platt, Bruni, Ed Levine and all that jazz, but I’ve been less inclined as of late to hop on reservations for the restaurant-of-the-hour as soon [...]
Archive for July, 2008
Abbreviated Weekend Roundup (Seattle Edition)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged drinking, friends, health care, illness, medical emergencies, Seattle, weddings, weekends on July 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The weekend trip to Seattle, my Friday night stay in the emergency room aside (more on that later), was a great time. Two of my dearest friends tied the knot and I wouldn’t have missed it for anything, and I got to play catch-up with a few dozen other people I hadn’t seen in ages, [...]
“Create the illusion of communication.”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged phones, Slydial, the ladies, things that are awesome, things that are gay, Verizon on July 23, 2008 | 6 Comments »
It was only a matter of time, and, like all good ideas, something about Slydial seems so obvious now that I’m a bit surprised it hasn’t been done sooner. Yes, the world finally has a free service that connects your call directly to a mobile user’s voicemail without running the pesky risk that the [...]
Work, in general, is a sucker’s bet.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged annoyance, things that suck, work on July 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Once again I’ve had to cancel my evening plans — dinner at The Palm and floor seats to see “In the Heights” — to stick around the office and work on something three things that doesn’t don’t need to be done until tomorrow?
How stoked am I? Super.
Bummer
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Estelle Getty, Golden Girls, people who are dead on July 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Ouch.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged drinking, Hamptons, Pink Elephant, polo, Sen, spending too much money, weekends on July 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As a general rule, I think it’s pretty safe to say that very few good stories start with one waking up on the floor of a friend’s bedroom wearing the clothes one went swimming in the day before. Predictably, going to the Hamptons this weekend proved one nonstop shenanigan. Pink Elephant, kickoff of [...]
Tavern is the new Thursday?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged drinking, Tavern on the Green, Thursdays on July 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last night I ended up at Tavern on the Green, of all places, and though I left on the early-ish side to get some sleep since it appears I’ve been talked into heading out to the Hamptons again this weekend, it was actually a fun time. As first I was a bit skeptical, given [...]
I mean, isn’t this really what all of us expected?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged drugs, dumb ideas, idiocy, Seattle, self-cleaning toilets, Shake Shack on July 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I recall that the self-cleaning public toilets in Seattle were installed shortly after I left; somewhere I have a picture of myself looking like a jackass in the one on the south side of Broadway near SCCC, but I can’t seem to find it right now. I remember first noticing that particular one on one [...]
Kudos to Alan Richman.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Alan Richman, Big Nick's, burgers, eating, Shake Shack, things that are awesome on July 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Seriously. Big Nick’s is blowing up the spot lately. It’s not just that I’ve had it on the brain lately for some reason. Clearly.
Alan Richman just slotted it just behind Shake Shack in his top five list of New York burger places. Strong play.
