Salt Pepper Ketchoop For Here Or To Go?

Kiddie Cars by Adam Haynes

Life Of Mystery, An Illustrated Guide by Ray Fenwick

Untitled 2 (Raft) by Dan Boardman

Meadowlands by Joshua Lutz

Little Friends of Printmaking’s Re:Up poster

Make Your Own Path by Douglas Wilson

11:53 PM

Full moon

79 degrees

70% humidity

Winds SSW at 3mph

The sound of the crickets is ten times louder tonight than it’s been all summer.

$50 says i wake up with spiders crawling all over me.

I don’t do astrology much but I’m deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep in the midst of this right now.  Technically it’s too early but i dunno, I’m not mad at it.  I actually bought a print of that goya jam while i was living in spain.  I had it squirreled away in my closet until recently.  It’s now getting worked prominently into a big collage of stuff on one of my walls.

More Full posts soon.  I just got a job and am trying to figure out where the whole blog thing fits in.

I’m not normally into the list and report kind of thing which is the blog equivalent of the horrible email forwards my aunts and uncles send me in the off chance that bill gates will send them $100 and their crushes will give them a kiss, but this piqued my interest this morning.

I’m up to 68 of the hundred and a bunch of the ones I’ve not knocked out are really easy to get, fugu notwithstanding.

Instructions: 1) Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.
2) Bold all the items you’ve eaten.
3) Cross out any items that you would never consider eating.

1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari
12. Pho
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart
16. Epoisses
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn, or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects
43. Phaal
44. Goat’s milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
46. Fugu
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone
54. Paneer
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin
64. Currywurst
65. Durian
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie
78. Snail
79. Lapsang souchong
80. Bellini
81. Tom yum
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant.
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare
87. Goulash
88. Flowers
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab
93. Rose harissa
94. Catfish
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake

Alpine slide? Check.

Craft Beer? Check.

Waterfall-fed swimming holes? Check.

Deep Tissue Massage? Check.

Lobster Rolls? Crazygood Organic Pizza? Country Cooking? Maple Soft Serve? Checkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk.

4-month old Bernese mountain dog puppy playing witha garden hose?   Big fat check.  Kicking myself for not taking pictures.

Crashing two big fat Jewish Weddings? No check, but sure as hell thought about it for a minute til Nathan backed me down.

The bottle cap kind of sums it up:

killer way to end this ever-so-truncated summer.

Impressive turnaround time:

Then there’s this incorrigible nonsense:

So much for that whole no more gay bashing thing.   Jesus.

Say hello to my “new” 1973 VW Superbeetle.  Since I’m done with school, I figure I need another hobby to occupy my time.  That hobby is apparently restoring this car.

It needs a metric fuckton of work. First step, stop the rust from spreading any further.  The dude at the shop says it runs but I dunno if I agree at this point.

Hit the jump for more pics.

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Just settling in after 5 days in San Juan.  The trip was everything I could hope for.  I can’t think of any reason to write full paragraphs at the moment so here are my highlights:

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This weekend my homey Antoine and I went up to Monticello to visit some friends, reflect on life’s journeys and just chill in the cut. We decided (or I should say, the GPS decided for us) to take the scenic route up around Jersey’s Skylands through High Point State Park and the like.   I have a lot of memories of the area from my childhood, whether it be rafting in the Delaware Water Gap, going to see drive-in movies (Copland and Air Force 1 double feature FTW!) at the Fair Oaks theater in Port Jervis, or just the typical summer and winter chaos at Great Gorge/Action Park/Mountain Creek.   The area is really special in a backwoods sort of way, especially in the autumn.   For some reason there’s a lot of freaky stuff up there, whether it be the numerous Clinton Road Legends, the Albino Village in Clifton, the Gravity Hill in Pompton Lakes, or whatever other hyped up nonsense we’d read about on the internet and decide to drive an hour and a half to check out.

I have a particularly strong set of memories from a pair of trips that my friends and I took to a hokey haunted house in the hamlet of Hamburg (shit, too much alliteration sorry) called the Ginger Dead castle.  A quick trip to the site of the castle bought back some serious nostalgia this weekend.  Hit the jump for the full story and a few pics.

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