Sunday Morning
The city doesn’t really start moving until pretty late in the day on Sunday so that’s a good time to go for a walk.
The Jackson Street Crawl III
Another Friday, another Asian food feast! This week we bundled in to the Yodler, my 85 Tercel, and headed down Jackson before settling on Thanh Vi, a Vietnamese place in the strip mall on the northwest corner of 12th and Jackson. Bill is a pretty serious vegetarian, the conscious kind who doesn’t eat meat for …
Dream a Little Dream
Last night I dreamt I was having dinner with Ronald Reagan. We were having a big row about the President’s plan to overhaul – I mean privatize – social security. Reagan was saying that we would “create responsible citizens” blah blah blah. You know the line. But I was insistent that the only thing we’d …
The Jackson Street Crawl II
I don’t know enough about Vietnamese food to know what I want, or even what I like, when confronted with the menu. I’ve eaten plenty of it, but that doesn’t help because, uncultured slob that I am, I just can’t remember the names of things. I order by animal or vegetable and leave it at …
American Snowshoes
My survey of snowshoe manufacturers is online here.
Which tribe were the plumbers?
“What synagogue do you go to?” This is not usually the first question out of the plumber’s mouth, but not everyone’s plumber is Yuri. “I don’t go.” I said, but he didn’t really care about that so much. “It’s not possible to go every Friday. It’s just too much, really.” Yuri was on my porch …