These litle notes are my favourite thing about being home. Vancouver, August 2010
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Also, people who like knitting like sewing. And country music. More on Flickr (click the photo to get there).
Rooibus or Ceylon?
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HRH Edward Prince of Wales, and a terrier on board HMS ‘Hindustan’,originally uploaded by National Maritime Museum.
Reproduction ID: P07390
Maker: Unknown
Date: about 1911
From the National Maritime Museum’s “Animals at Sea” flickr set.There are some of kitties!
1. Buildings Along Orchard Street, 2. Cooper Union John Downer Sign Painting Workshop, 3. Leaf applique cardigan, 4. nick’s luncheonette, 5. In Memory 9-11 and Katrina, 6. midwesterners. they’re a good-looking bunch., 7. food for peace stamp single, 8. Jeff Canham: Studio visit, 9. Jeff Canham: Studio visit, 10. wood & wool stools, 11. Bicycle love, 12. _MG_3499, 13. St. Teresa Thrift Shop, 14. 9 triangles down, 171 to go, 15. Cushion, 16. 59/365
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I just noticed the 3D option in streetview. This is incredible, but I don’t have any blue and red glasses!
I went to New Orleans in January, leading a Hillel group through Jewish Funds for Justice to work with Rebuilding Together.
What that means is that me, my rad co-leader Getzel, and 24 CUNY undergrads went to New Orleans and rebuilt some houses. We heard from speakers, took tours, wandered the city, held reflection sessions, and learned to use power saws and what “fireblocking” is.
I’m going back this week. New group of participants, new building project, same city. Same issues.
I’m reading Hell or High Water this week to get ready. It’s unpacking what we mean when we say that Hurricane Katrina was a racial disaster. The chapter I’m on now is about the history of disaster management and why FEMA was so unable to really respond. It will feel good to have more answers, and more things to discuss on this upcoming trip.
more bikes, more billboards
I live on a busy street, and when I have the windows open I really hear bits of Empire State Of Mind coming from outside. It’s kind of magical.
I’m back in New York for the semester after a lot of bouncing around (Pearlstone, Vancouver, St Louis, Farrar, New Orleans, and the shortest trip to Toronto ever), and my first day back was a sunny day. I biked into Manhattan and back again, stopping to buy veggies and fish in Chinatown. I love the smell of chinatown(s)! It’s such a familiar constant, despite the city it’s in.
Okay, semester: full speed ahead.
Quote passed along through the lovely lauren, does anyone know where it’s from, though?
Beautiful day in Brooklyn! Brunch at Chavellas and a ramble in Prospect Park with Zach and Jess–we discovered the Audubon Centre where we pet snakes and cockaroaches and played with catfish puppets. They had these wings you could try on and these two kids really enjoyed being birds (there was also a grown man struggling a bit to get into the bat wings).
I sometimes think that it’s silly that I live in New York because I don’t really care about all the stuff that goes on. A really good day for me is about bike rides, coffee, and making and eating food with good people. It’s not even that I’m content to miss some world-famous DJ spinning in some club–I don’t even know that it’s happening and I’ve never heard of the dude.
It’s a good thing that I live here though, because there are lots of good people who want to make food and hang out and dance around the kitchen and debate the merits of zucchini versus summersquash while shelling peas and drinking bottles of Brooklyn Lager.
I appreciate it when these nights are informal and spontaneous, but a little while ago a group of very wonderful North Brooklyn friends and I started plotting and planning about something a little more structured. This group of friends includes photobloggers (Jake, Tanveer, and Joe), comicbloggers (Kenan), breadbloggers (Liz), food+bakingbloggers (Cate), and all-sorts-of-everything-bloggers (me and Emily)–so the logical conclusion was an over-blogged dinner party: The North Brooklyn Blogger’s Banqut (NB3)!
(photo courtesy of Tanveer Badal, annotations courtesy of me)
Inspired by Mark Bittman’s recent article about salads, I put together the watermelon-tomato-basil-goat feta salad pictured above. I picked up most of the ingredients on saturday at the Grand Army Plaza Greenmarket and the Park Slope Food Coop, and got the watermelon from Nam’s* on Sunday on my way up to Greenpoint (to Liz & Joe’s) for the event.
THEN: we shucked corn and shelled favabeans and snapped photos and danced around eachother in the kitchen and stirred and baked and put things in the oven and we used all the knives and bowls and cutting boards and we rearranged things in the fridge and took things out of the oven and we stirred and took more photos and peered in the the neighbours backyard and got caught in a rainstorm and drank rose and played with some puppies and made a mess and cleaned it up.
Photo by Joe
And then we ate dinner.
And now we’re talking about doing it again before the end of the summer. The same principles will probably apply: no spectators. Well, no spectators at the event, only afterward. Read everyone’s takes on the evening!
*I don’t love Nam’s like the dude who writes I Love Franklin Avenue loves Nam’s–it’s too pricey and the produce isn’t particularly awesome or plentiful–but I’m glad that it’s there.
Thanks the the lovely&talented Jake Pritchard. I’m on the internet. And so are other people. Take a look.
(10 points if you can find Infinite Jest in the shot)
So I’m moving, from Williamsburg to Prospect Heights. The new neighbourhood bar that I will be able to call my own is Franklin Park–a big open space with picnic tables and good beer. I am pleased. On my first trip there the other night after picking up keys, I noticed this plaque in the concrete floor. Home!
Okay world, now is the time that I make the same promise I make every summer: I am going to finish Infinite Jest.
It’s going to happen this time: it’s Infinite Summer.
And then I’ll move on to the pre-phd reading list.
Hello world, RSS reading-humans, and the like…
New blog design, and now time for bed.
A few weekends ago, we got in the car, drove up route 17, ate at a diner or two, hung out in Buffalo, went to Wilson, looked at Toronto from the other side of the lake, bought junk a flea market, ate barbecued things for memorial day, and then drove back to New York.
there are lots of holes in the elbows of my sweaters! I have lots of mending to do.
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