What is up this weekend?
My only plan is on Saturday to check out the
Appendix Project show.
No one is interested in the wrestling movie tonight. (No need for a question mark there.)
Sunday? Do people hang out on Sunday or do we all just do our laundry and nurse our pets back to health? (positive thoughts to Andy the dingus!)
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LT, get at me- I've got a route in mind.
Alan Frogsmin is a jerk and a rascal, and is currently in PARIS, FRANCE.
I'll go to those art shows, though.
tomorrow the NBA PLAYOFFS BEGIN and I will wake up early to begin watching.
Sunday we make a bunch of shirts and totes to hopefully sell to some people.
I will be in Paris, France with Frogsmin.
Right now I'm in Tours, France at a hotel called Brit Hotel Cheops. (I keep seeing that as Cheapos)
This weekend I hope to continue to have awkward conversations at the merch table with French people.
Sunday I think I'll be in PDX for confectioner Kir Jensen's cookbook release party at Ace Cleaners. (I better find some more tokens!)
It usually starts with me trying to make a cute little french greeting like "Bonsoir" and then they maybe think I'm French speaker so they say a lot in French and then I have to be like "English?" with a sad look on my face.
Sometimes like last night there will be a cool artistic lady in their late 30s who wants to talk to me about her life philosophy and art but most of her english words don't make sense and i say "yeah!" a lot.
Fun!
I love "English?" with sad face
I am in south bend Indiana on a freezing gray day. Just had a nice conversation with the most famous scholar in the world (in my field) then walked six miles to a Perkins where I ordered the only thing on the menu with no ham in it (a side of asparagus). I really urge you to look at my instagram (sharkstooth) for some great photos of this wonderful part of the country!
then we went and bought tadpoles! Now weird punk rock birthday party!
Made plans for a lady to come visit in May.
Checked in with my mechanic about final tests of my soon to be very fast vehicle.
Watched The Memories do their thing at a weird place that looked like a combination office / Mexican restaurant with Sally Mellows and Bosetti and A. Friedman and Verdugo and Snowden.
Drank a lot of coffee.
Went to Appendix for a bit.
Shot some bucks at Jolly Roger.
Finished a big project for a client, started another.
Finalized plans to Mexico for my sisters wedding.
Played with cats.
added some red furniture to my collection! other finds...
- Mt. St. Helen's eruption videotape
- "Sportsmen are Conservationists" bumper sticker
- book about Irish archeological sites... crannogs and mottes!
stuff i wanted to buy but didn't
- a spanish sword
- a harpoon
- "marquetry" tables from someone's trip to istanbul
- a clothespin with an embossed gold sticker that said "G.D. BILLS"
- a 2 foot wide homemade wooden heart that said "welcome home sweetheart"
Today: long walk through the park, with a stop at the zoo to see the andean bears and the goats and the cute little monkey.
:/
Slept a huge monster sleep, then took myself out to breakfast at like 2 pm!
Many loads of laundry
Made a bagel sandwich
Went to Appendix Gallery
Went to see The Memories, my fave band
A few yard sales, bought nothing
New plants/bags of soil, re-potting and general pruning cleanup of my patio garden
Admired my patio garden
Painted my toenails lavender
Made a bagel sandwich for Alan Frogsmen, who is now fast asleep with the jet lag
THE END!
Except now I might go see a movie!!!!
Took Calvin on a "nature walk" at Smith & Bybee Lakes, on which we saw 3 snakes, 5 slugs, 3 turtles, 2 ducks, and innumerable songbirds I can't name.
Went out to lunch at Pause, listened to Bzin bitch about how he doesn't like that place (by now it's a tradition).
Took a nap, finished the umpteenth reread of Pride & Prejudice.
Took a 2.5 mile walk to bring my sister-in-law a Kinder surprise egg from Pix because the US government has outlawed the originals and is cracking down on bootleg imports.
Made a nice little asparagus dinner. Drank a beer.
Cat is on my lap.
Nice.
my weekend was also nice, albeit with terrible midwestern food/coffee situation (more like non-situation). You guys. The only coffee shop walkable from campus had a sign in the window that said "FIFTY CENT COFFEE!!!" Brutal. But my conference was so awesome. The most fun I have ever had at a conference. Great papers, great Q&A, great interactions with other dudes. My attendance came with a free ticket to the student production of Sweeney Todd, which was unexpectedly excellent. I was 100% delighted for the entire duration of the show, like a little child. Laughing out loud and gasping in amazement. "THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET," man that Sondheim knew how to write songs. Found out the production used 40 pounds of dry ice. It was badass.
I got home last night and was driven directly to the Bye & Bye where I availed myself of an ultimate protein injection. I was on my last legs, in terms of living on pilfered granola bars and horrible bananas (I loathe bananas but they are healthy) secreted in my bag from the snack table at the conference. At the B&B I got the Georgia Bowl with a side of black eyed peas and ate the whole thing like a dog. IT WAS DELICIOUS BEYOND IMAGINATION
The midwest is such an awful food sinkhole. Literally the salad I ate at O'Hare airport was significantly better-looking and better-tasting than a single thing I ate in all my time in small-town Indiana. WHAT ON EARTH IS THE DEAL.
Played at smoothie improvisation (frozen grapes?). Ate a sausage. Looking for a token in case I get hit up in the game zone.
I had some serious culture shock when I moved out here. I'd never heard of kale, for crying out loud!
OH LOOK PIZZA BRINGS US ALL TOGETHER:
http://blog.hunch.com/?p=48884
OBAMA VS MCCAIN:
http://www.dietsinreview.com/diet_column/10/obamas-diet-vs-mccains-diet/
PIZZA WAS SERVED A STRAIGHT 4 DAYS A WEEK AT THE HIGH SCHOOL CAF
PIZZA
PIZZA BOATS
PIZZA BAGELS
PIZZA I FORGET
But they think it is delicious. Can they tell the difference between a real apple pie and the Hy-Vee one? I honestly don't know. I would like to do some taste testing with real midwesterners.
I am thinking of all the factors:
- mostly German and Irish immigrants (no people from Mexico/South America/any number of other places, thus food diversity and mixing it up and new spices)
- crazy short growing season, where you have to spend 24 hours a day in the summer frantically canning and salting and drying just to have enough food to live through the winter
- thus, also, living through 7 months of winter eating only salt pork and pickles or whatever, thus, just like generationally getting used to it? Salty White Food?
But I'm baffled by the reliance on supermarket processed foods. Like, everyone in Texas eats like shit too, but the shit they're eating is at least objectively awesome, even I can admit. Some guy's badass barbecue restaurant? Tex Mex? It's not healthy, but it's delicious. It's real food--food that somebody cooked. In the midwest it's not even real food. Like "barbecue" is shrink-wrapped barbecued chicken you get at Wal-Mart, and everyone's like "Mmmm, barbecue." YoU FEEL LIKE YOU ARE GOING CRAZY
Midwestern CLASSIC.
this weekend, i hope you all come to the mahmoud ahmed show at YU because my back hurts from building and setting up a huge stage and will hurt more from setting up a huge PA and i hope to be good and drunk by the time you see me and i will need you all to remind me to put my drunken-ness onto UHX for good measure.
i have no opinion on mid-western food.
That is all.
horrible!
Alan I can't wait to see your stage you made!!!
This weekend I'm going to see Wanderlust again (love my Rudd), plan a Hawaii trip, drink drinks on a patio with a friend, and work in the garden. Oh and maybe go to that YU event! Also read a lot. I am way behind on my NYers.
Yesterday I (mostly) ran 5K!! I'm doing this "Girls on the Run" program where they pair 8-12 yr old girls with adult women and they train together for the Starlight run. Our practice 5K was yesterday and my buddy Paige was FAST!! I could barely keep up. She liked to walk a while and then sprint a while. I wanted to lay down in the street after we crossed the finish line! I have a lot more practicing to do!
I am really excited about Worn Path! I am in the little treats market these days. I hope they have a special little plant for me, or perhaps some fragrant balm, a candle, Incensio of the West, a nice deep soup bowl.........
If they sell Go Pro cameras,I am getting one.
Speaking of Saturday night, it's also a Supermoon! http://www.space.com/15540-supermoon-science-full-moon.html
Sunday it's supposed to be super nice so a bunch of us are going to hike the Salmon River: http://www.splintercat.org/SalmonRiver/SalmonRiverMainPage.html
YESSSS.