Remember when I told you about accidentally booking a spring break trip to Denver? Well I enjoyed the fruits of that late night mistake this past weekend. I must say, it was EVERYTHING I expected. First and foremost, it was cold. How cold? Imagine my ex-girlfriend. Now put her on ice and toss her to the bottom of Lake Michigan in December while listening to [...]
We’re back with another installment of the Baker’s Dozen Interview Series. This time we get up close and personal (or as close and personal as the internet waves allow us to) with Trapdoor Social. Band members Merritt and Skylar and I talk about such things as environmental activism, sustainability, spicy foods and Death Cab for Cutie. We then head off to the kitchen for a mean [...]
Yes that is a Vegan Taco. It is also a Vegan Taco shirt. The only problem? The taco came from one business, the shirt from another. J-Fur was famished after a day of grocery shopping. I had always wanted to try a hole in the wall taco place just past the farmer’s market so I pulled in without a thought to the attire I was [...]
I was at a gathering for the fourth of July with some big brawny barbecue types who I had never met before. When I was introduced I shook hands and made a little small talk before moving to the other side of the yard. There, from a distance, I watched them eye me suspiciously. Like they could smell the tofu on me. It was so [...]
I have to admit that the first thing I think about when I hear someone mention lazy eyes is Big Sean’s line from “Too Fake” where he tells the world that he “Smoke so much got a lazy eye…” That is followed closely behind by memories of poor Heather who had to wear a pirate eye patch for a few months in grade school because [...]
