December 2008
66 posts
Introduced @alextaylor to the power of Kuma’s.
Extra day of rental car time means we drive all over the city running errands and shopping. Ready to go back to walking.
Most beautiful highway in the east is 77 through West By God Virginia.
I’m obsessed with third and fourth tier cities that we drive through on the interstates. Charleston, Dayton, Indianapolis…
Just played Lethal Enforcers at a BBQ joint outside of Charleston, West Virginia.
281 points: my 2008 Scrabble high water mark.
Downtown Roanoke is coming up: a new modern art museum and a hipster bike sighting.
Part II: Southern Virginia Christmas.
My mouth’s bleeding, Burt!!!
Buffalo girl, can’t you come out tonight?
Eat. Drink. Eat. Drink. Eat. Drink. Eat. Drink. Drink. Sleep.
Scrabble champ, this guy.
Post Xmas gift/brunch bliss.
Merry Xmas from Craig Bourbon.
Christmas is a great time to see how out of synch my values are with the majority.
Hm, maybe that was too cynical for Xmas eve.
Everybody stop: Hammertoe. (U can’t bend this.)
Doing the NoVa strip mall crawl.
Food note: Brighton Hot Dog Shoppe, just outside of Cranberry, Pa- amazing Italian Wedding soup.
A Sheetz sighting means we’re back on the East Coast.
Caution: Watch for falling (pr)ice(s).
Just bought film for the first time in 5 years. Ho Ho Holga.
Epic bread: Fox & Obel’s pretzel-salted demi baguette.
Ken Meier, graphic design →
Wants to get an MFA in graphic design from Yale.
You've been dropped off on the Texas highway. →
Brunching post bonus.
I like sitting at my old-person indie rock shows.
Deceptive Design at the Chicago Cultural Center →
The Cta: Fashionably late since 1888.
John Tolva on the decks, you know it’s a party.
“If the kids are united, they will never be divided”. Wow, this bar is playing Rancid.
Domestic techno: listening to Matthew Dear while installing a closet system.
Eating a Ham & Bleu Cheese Biscuit sammich.
Big ups Google Video Chat! Big ups @alextaylor!
This ice smells like garlic and it’s ruining my end-of-day brandy and soda. Wait, what?
North & Clybourn goes from culturally desolate during the day to just plain desolate at night.
Christoph Niemann →
New Yorker illustrator
For all in tents and porpoises.
Keep the hand moving →
“Emphatically NOT the mainstream. Home of the real jazz, WPFW, DC.”
I wonder if I will still watch top chef when my wife is in culinary school?
The irony of @THE_REAL_SHAQ is wearing off. It’s been fun imagining Shaq trying to thumb-text on an iPhone, though.
I wish the milkman would deliver my milk, while I’m yawning.
Just realized I’ve got less than a year to make it onto a “30 under 30” list.
Can I have some noise for the Skream?
I could eat Frontera Grill tortillas every day for lunch.
DC-area regional humor: After a Roy Rogers sammich, I might pop over to Waxie Maxies for a go-go record, and then to Erol’s to rent a video.
I never type in URLs anymore- I only use Google, even when I know the URL. Is this an emerging activity? Is the age of the www fading?
Music has the right to children.