by David | Apr 18, 2013 | reading & writing
Print out some verse, it’s Poem in Your Pocket Day Poem: one beat or two?
by David | Apr 17, 2013 | design, eating, science!
At one of the frequent tastings a Ball Square Fine Wine, I noticed that they now stock Chat en Ouef and I also tasted a nice Bordeaux for a wooden box. Well, most likely from a plastic bag inside that box. But anyway, at $39 for 3 liters (that’s four regulation...
by David | Apr 15, 2013 | culture
Death and taxes are the only sure things, they say. The Ides of March – the 15th – is well-known as the day some folks got all stabby with Julius Caesar in 44 BC, an event (at least in Shakespeare’s telling) predicted by a seer who was ignored by...
by David | Apr 14, 2013 | eating
If you know what you’re about and focus on it to the exclusion of distractions, you are setting yourself up for success. So I knew when I ordered Chicken and Rice from the Chicken and Rice Guys’ food truck that I was getting their #1 dish. Chicken, and not...
by David | Apr 13, 2013 | culture, design, eating, science!, urbanism
On Highland Avenue in Somerville, Boldly serving up breakfast all day where no man has gone before.
by David | Apr 12, 2013 | eating
April showers bring US Grilled Cheese Sandwich Day, Avo and bacon!
by David | Apr 11, 2013 | eating, media, transportation, urbanism
Great food, such as this plate of paper-thin finocchiona and chunks of pecorino tartufo with some pickled veggies at Cinquecento. Great art, such as Replicant Hybrid by Julia Csekö, on view at Laconia Gallery. Great public trasnit amenities, such as this self-serve...
by David | Apr 10, 2013 | eating, reading & writing, urbanism
The 2013 Food Truck Season is in full swing at City Hall Frozen Wind Tunnel Plaza. Yesterday I visited the new (to me) Compliments Food Truck, which is billed (or blackboarded) as “New to Boston” “Kinda Earthy Crunchy” and “Run on Veggie...
by David | Apr 9, 2013 | eating, urbanism
In 2006, I was one of many celebrating a change in the law of the Commonwealth allowing restaurants to send diners home with unconsumed portion of the bottle of wine they ordered. This opened up the full wine list to any casual tippler, assuming they would have...
by David | Apr 8, 2013 | culture
Something in the air, it’s not just pollen that chokes: Red Sox opener.
by David | Apr 7, 2013 | eating, urbanism
Passing through one of Camberville’s lesser squares, Wilson Square, I ducked in to Aguacate Verde for a quick lunch with Professor M. A casual Mexican place with an emphasis on healthy choices and a specialization in Salvadorean Pupusas, Aguacate Verde has the...
by David | Apr 6, 2013 | culture, reading & writing, science!
Via Jen 8 Lee for national poetry month, NY Times Haiku. I learned via professor N’s instant message that the estimable Jennifer 8 Lee tweeted a piece about the New York Times’ creation of a Haiku bot. I like that the Nieman Lab article felt compelled to...
