Archive for January, 2006



Action Plan, Saturday, January 21 2006

1. Movie
2. Movie
3. Shop
After a fascinating dinner and drinks with Mr. C, his Ms. P, and several of their assorted friends, I am all peopled out.
After two weeks of my mission to escape New York, I’m all ambitioned out.
It doesn’t take much these days, apparently. Who knew? Okay, I knew.
Anyway, I’mma go see two movies, […]

Joy of joys, Restaurant Week is coming!

Why did my friend in D.C. know about New York Restaurant Week before I did?
Why is Restaurant Week two weeks long?
Why does it matter? Great restaurants featuring $24.07 prix fixe lunches and $35 dinners!*
It’s a great excuse to treat yourself to fine dining in the middle of the week.
*Weekdays only, I believe. Speaking of cheap+eats, […]

Water Buffalo Milk Yogurt

Not half as narsty as it sounds, you know. In fact, it’s rather delicious, despite the fact that the company that produces it thinks describing it as "firm" is a good idea.
 
It is, by the way. Firm, I mean. Buffalo milk yogurt is really quite firm. In consistency, it is midway between yogurt and cream […]

God Damn the Internets.

So ma mere has a wee bit of le boeuf with mon pere (a la the lovely and talented Ms. Golden, re:The Sperm Donor). Ma mere seems to really, really love to work herself up into a good frothy rage whenever she’s got a spare minute, you see. She had a spare minute. She Googled […]

What I’m loving about this little exercise in fashion criticism is that everyone has something to contribute. So many astute observations about the style catastrophe that is this outfit…all of us, united in snark. Brings a tear to my eye, it does. Well, that or the glare from that big-ass belt buckle has seared my […]