by David | Dec 4, 2009 | culture, eating, urbanism
Talking pastry with stylish eyed media maven M, I heard her kvell about something called “shfooyadell” which I had never heard of. Or so I thought. It turns out that we were talking about sfogliatelle in a more casual – and probably realistic...
by David | Nov 20, 2009 | design, media, urbanism
A rainy day near Haymarket… Looks like it might spin. Maybe the sign will help. Maybe not. PS It didn’t spin.
by David | Nov 19, 2009 | reading & writing, working
And so, midway through the journey of life, I found myself printing out a dark forest’s worth of marketing emails so that they could then be scanned and the resulting file burned on a CD to be sent probably via FedEx. Indeed, I had strayed. The task was...
by David | Nov 16, 2009 | eating, urbanism
I hadn’t really thought much about local Chinese food with an actual Chinatown so close to home, but when Jason asked me to suggest a good Chinese restaurant in Central or Harvard, I realized that I’m living on a boulevard of pretty unimpressive Chinese...
by David | Nov 14, 2009 | photo
by David | Nov 13, 2009 | photo, urbanism
It’s an incredible time for Boston photo fans. I’ll never blog it all properly, but here’s a passel of updates on photography stuff of the recent past, present and near future. The DeCordova (sculpture park and) Museum has three (three!) photography...
by David | Nov 11, 2009 | eating, media
Nobody likes spam, but when it suddenly comes from a business that you like(d), it feels like a personal betrayal. Check out this steaming pile of comment spam by Green’s Bakery, maker of my most favorite chocolate babka. I don’t know what’s the...
by David | Nov 9, 2009 | eating
Will Gilson of Garden at the Cellar fills spiced donuts with duck liver mousse at the Flavors of Fall benefit for Second Chances, held at Regattabar at the Charles Hotel. What have you done today that’s as awesome as that? How about making a donation of clothes...
by David | Nov 9, 2009 | transportation, urbanism
I tried to exit North Station this morning and found two of the doors padlocked from the outside. Not that it would have mattered if they were padlocked from the inside. Vandalism or overzealous security, it’s hard to say. 7:30 is not exactly the wee hours of...
by David | Nov 8, 2009 | photo, reading & writing
In book club (Halloween edition) – Stephen King’s The Shining. Hard to read without memories of the film haunting you, but a page-turner nevertheless. Hard to say if this sort of thing can ever be as scary as it was the first time around. Picked up in...
by David | Nov 5, 2009 | culture
A casual Yankees fan at best – I fail all tests of fanaticism for sports – I watched the 2009 World Series with more than passing interest, and it delivered the bookend I had hoped for, closing a chapter opened at the 2001 series. In 2001, the world series...
by David | Nov 3, 2009 | culture, design, economics, media, reading & writing, technology
I watched with interest as Barnes & Noble released the Nook, an electronic book reading thing that’s pretty similar to Amazon’s Kindle. I immediately thought of Microsoft’s Zune music player, released well after Apple’s iPod had pretty...
