In the latest Congressional budget mash up, I heard one faction describe the compromise as ‘a sugar coated Satan’s Sandwich’ (Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, a Missouri Dem)! Ah, such linguistic succulence. Diabolical culinary rhetoric reminded me of my favorite hellish street food, Columbia’s… read more >>
posts tagged: food
Caramoor + Sardines
It’s amazing to me that more people in the city do not know about the great house, great gardens and great concerts at Caramoor in upstate New York. Caramoor has had a remarkable history of presenting the arts, the legacy of… read more >>
Tyche, made redundant, now blogging @ the Times
At the bottom of it’s online page, under the ‘blogs’ banner, the New York Times offers six squares of teases and photos to click your interest. Today, for maybe twenty minutes, these two images were next to each other. I’m just back… read more >>
Summertime + the music stories are adequate
• We recently found four Elvis bracelets at a flea market. While the packaging looked right, the bracelets themselves seemed a little iffy. What did these rocks have to do with Elvis? The date is 1956. So maybe “Jailhouse Rocks?” Our pal… read more >>