While I’ve eaten mostly vegan for the past six months or so, I still make exceptions for birthdays and celebrations for both my teammates and the kids in my class. If I were to refrain from sharing in the celebration I think my teammates would understand but the kids, that’s a different story. Case in point, Valentine’s Day. I received a ton of chocolate from [...]
Somehow, some way, J-Fur and I have to figure out how to fit a baby in this cramped apartment. In recent weeks we’ve combed painstakingly through our possessions trying to figure out what needs to go and what can stay. One of the first things we attacked is our 95 book shelves. Memories ensued, followed closely behind by tantrums, as I had to part with [...]
For the past few days J-Fur has been hinting around about how bad she wants some chocolate chip cookies. I’ve offered to bake her some twice but she doesn’t think I will be able to recreate what she likes. Fair enough. I’d probably get in there and do some experimenting and create something one hundred times better than a chocolate chip cookie. So, until she [...]
I drink my cupcakes with soy milk. You do yours with beer. We come from seemingly different planets. Here is my attempt to understand. Tender Branson-Cupcakes and Beer Mix by write.click.cook.listen (0:01) Sonic Avenues-Television Youth (2:54) Childish Gambino-Heartbeat (7:23) Total Slacker-Secret VHS Collection (9: 39) Swiss Lips-U Got the Power (13:26) My Empire of Sound-Early Morning (A New Beginning) (16:45) Now, Now-Dead Oaks (18:23)Thee American [...]
The second installment of Tampa’s version of a food truck rally took place today in Seminole Heights. With a lot more room and food than the last one (about thirty different trucks compared to ten) and much better weather I left feeling a lot more satisfied. Here’s the shots I captured: Choices at the Cuppin Cake I went with the Apple Pie a La Mode [...]
This summer something fabulous is going on in the parking lot of Firestone Live in Orlando. Every Wednesday night from 6:00-12:00ish a collection of food trucks and musicians set up shop to serve local patrons. Dubbed the Tastes and Sounds of Downtown great food is flinging, craft beer is flowing and local bands are performing about thirty feet away on a stage. It is exactly [...]
America currently has an addiction to tiny white pulverized solids unrivaled by any other period in their history (except for maybe the 80′s when Pee Wee Herman was putting that stuff up his nose). This addiction has no connection to illicit drugs, though. This addiction is the perfectly legal, found-in-your-grocery-aisles sugar. America eats that stuff up. The average American ingests about 22 teaspoons a day. [...]
My two goals with Record Store Day 2011 were to get my hands on the limited edition Nirvana EP Hoarmoaning and Fucked Up’s David’s Town (a companion compilation of fake British bands to go with their upcoming album David Comes to Life). Despite checking out three record stores, I struck out on both. In the end I settled for the Bouncing Souls Live at Generation [...]
It is officially go time. Record Store Day 2011 is upon us and it takes on a whole new meaning this year as Vinyl Fever, a Tampa record institution for the last twenty some years, recently closed its doors. This makes buying from independent stores today, and everyday, that much more important. What’s happening in the Tampa-St. Pete area (per Tampa Bay Online): Daddy Kool, [...]
