Are you really here looking for vegan calf testicles? If so, sorry, I can’t help you. There will be no vegan bull balls in this post. So why the title? Well, it is an entry about the best vegan food I enjoyed in the Rocky Mountains presented in little snip(pets) thus the oyster part. I know that since I have returned from Denver I have [...]
George Ade once suggested that “one man’s poison ivy is another man’s spinach.” I think back to the time my grandmother built a fire out of poison ivy while us kids were out sledding well into the cold Pennsylvania night. All that smoke hitting me square in the face would, in less than 48 hours, cause me to swell up. My right eye was half [...]
Last weekend my mother-in-law and sister-in-law came to town for a visit…well sort of. They actually came to St. Pete Beach which is about 45 minutes away as long as traffic is moving. If someone has driven off the bridge or decided to erect a new roadside marker then the trip is much longer. This meant that J-Fur did a lot of back and forth [...]
There is a scene near the end of the 2004 stoner comedy Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle where Harold gets all wax philosophical about feelings and desires: Harold: I want that. Kumar: What? A Hot Dog Heaven super chili cheese dog? Harold: No. I want that feeling. The feeling that comes over a man when he gets exactly what he desires. I need [...]
As the name implies, Ella’s Americana Folk Art Cafe, is more than just a restaurant. It is also an art gallery, concert venue, hipster hangout and drinker’s paradise. From the moment you squeeze into the way too tight parking spaces and see the metal horse lying upside down in the grass surrounded by half buried bowling balls acting as a black rubber road that ends [...]
Tomorrow La Masa of Sweden will release their new self-titled album (via A West Side Fabrication). It is a testament to band mate Fredrik Eriksson (who was also a former member of super-hyped punk-pop band Love is All). Frederik was the bassist/synth player for La Masa of Sweden and he suffered from severe depression. About a year ago his life was tragically cut short. The [...]
My new haircut has me seeing Shane from The Walking Dead every time I quickly glance in the mirror. Put aside the fact that I’m not a prick, I’m not trying to steal my best friend’s wife and, thanks to the second to last episode of season 2, I don’t have a hole in my head and we are practically twins. There is also the [...]
In the same moments that I was hard at work baking a cake for J-Fur’s birthday, Tampa Restaurant Company, Grillsmith, was readying for the launch of a re-branding of their menu. Since the restaurant’s doors opened in 2004, the company’s identity, concept and menu had remained largely the same. It was time for a change and they invited a few bloggers (That Girl Allie, Dive [...]
I wasn’t looking for love the other night when I walked into a local wood- fired pizza place to meet some friends before heading off to Howl-O-Scream but I found it anyway. The way that waitress looked at me and mouthed the words “Dante’s Inferno” before giving me one of those seducing eye winks I knew I had fallen head over heels. Of course, Dante [...]
