This blog done gone and moved to lovethecity.wordpress.com
And I still rarely update it!
Love,
The City.
Thursday, November 27, 2008
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Food of the Week!!
The food of the week this week is the least fruity of all fruits. It's the mighty green Avocado!
I get at least 2 avocados every time I go grocery shopping, and I never let one go bad. While they don't necessarily taste that great on their own, they are versatile and mesh well with other flavors. Here's what i mean by versatile; I made some chili but I had forgotten to buy cheese to put on top. So I said, Hey an avocado is fatty, soft, and yellow, why not throw that on there? And I did. And it was delicious. I'll take avocado on my chili instead of cheese any time.
Put it on a sandwich. Put it on a burger. Make soup with it. Cut it in half and eat it with a spoon.
Too bad someone already wrote the book I was going to write: The Improvisational Cook
I was going to call it Freecooking though.
Ok, so go get some avocados. You can thank me later.
Love,
The City
The food of the week this week is the least fruity of all fruits. It's the mighty green Avocado!
I get at least 2 avocados every time I go grocery shopping, and I never let one go bad. While they don't necessarily taste that great on their own, they are versatile and mesh well with other flavors. Here's what i mean by versatile; I made some chili but I had forgotten to buy cheese to put on top. So I said, Hey an avocado is fatty, soft, and yellow, why not throw that on there? And I did. And it was delicious. I'll take avocado on my chili instead of cheese any time.
Put it on a sandwich. Put it on a burger. Make soup with it. Cut it in half and eat it with a spoon.
Too bad someone already wrote the book I was going to write: The Improvisational Cook
I was going to call it Freecooking though.
Ok, so go get some avocados. You can thank me later.
Love,
The City
Tuesday, April 08, 2008
Hey this is the first post of 2008. Aren't you excited? Well you should be because this time I'm introducing a new... segment if you will. This segment of the blog is called Food of the Week.
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Ok Ok, I know what you're thinking... actually, no, I don't know what you're thinking. But if you knew what I was thinking, you'd already know that the food of the week is....
Banana!
The banana is the quintessential commuter's fruit. Not only is that fun to say, but it's true. The banana has been a mainstay in the knapsacks of working class and professional lunch-packers alike for, you know, a long time. Whether it be by bus, bicycle, on foot, in a car, or on various types of trains, the banana withstands the rigors of your daily commute. Go ahead, see for yourself.
Bananas are animals that travel in packs. As a banana grows it sheds its smaller peel and moves into a bigger one. A banana may do this as many as 7 times in its lifespan.
I always get the same question about bananas: 'If I don't eat my younger banana within a few days, is there any chance it will shed its peel and venture out across my counter looking for a new peel to inhabit?'
My answer is always the same: Yes.
But only if you have a bigger spare peel laying around.
Most likely they'll just turn brown.
Love,
The City
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Ok Ok, I know what you're thinking... actually, no, I don't know what you're thinking. But if you knew what I was thinking, you'd already know that the food of the week is....
Banana!
The banana is the quintessential commuter's fruit. Not only is that fun to say, but it's true. The banana has been a mainstay in the knapsacks of working class and professional lunch-packers alike for, you know, a long time. Whether it be by bus, bicycle, on foot, in a car, or on various types of trains, the banana withstands the rigors of your daily commute. Go ahead, see for yourself.
Bananas are animals that travel in packs. As a banana grows it sheds its smaller peel and moves into a bigger one. A banana may do this as many as 7 times in its lifespan.
I always get the same question about bananas: 'If I don't eat my younger banana within a few days, is there any chance it will shed its peel and venture out across my counter looking for a new peel to inhabit?'
My answer is always the same: Yes.
But only if you have a bigger spare peel laying around.
Most likely they'll just turn brown.
Love,
The City
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
just a poem. from 2004. something is wrong with my shift key.
There, there
Imagine a highway overpass.
You're standing on it,
leaning against the fence.
The passing cars
create a wind
that send your clothes
here and there.
Stop imagining the fence.
You're leaning against air
Just there.
If you look up
you'll be more scared
than if you look
down from there.
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Love,
The City
You're standing on it,
leaning against the fence.
The passing cars
create a wind
that send your clothes
here and there.
Stop imagining the fence.
You're leaning against air
Just there.
If you look up
you'll be more scared
than if you look
down from there.
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Love,
The City
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
I wrote this poem a few weeks ago. so tell me what you think. or don't I don't care
Dust Collecting in Houses
One disheartening thing about living in a place like this,
with all the hardwood floors, is how fast dust and debris
collects under every piece of furniture, behind every
appliance, in every corner.
It's not restricted to the floors, either. Dust builds up on
the ceiling fans, and even the ceiling itself. It's on top of
the trim over the door- its on the door- the surfaces of all
three dining room tables, and all the way up the stair case
and into the next apartment.
It's the same indoors and out;
Dust collecting in houses
and houses collecting on streets
and streets collecting on suburbs
and suburbs collecting on suburbs
and suburbs collecting collecting collecting.
Another thing is the mosquitoes. Is there anywhere they don't
live? I like the stray cats though. They wander up to the
door now and then like someone you sort of know. Ex-girlfriends
who miss you, but not that much. But not like pets you used to
own. Neither an ex-girlfriend nor and ex-pet would eat an entire dried squid.
And one time, sitting on this porch, I kept close to the citronella candle because of the wind and mosquitoes, but it didn't help.
Eventually, my pant leg proved effective when it ignited and the
smoke drove away all the mosquitoes, the bees, the stray cats,
and somehow even killed the music.
And I didn't feel like moving but eventually even I vanished.
Dust Collecting in Houses
One disheartening thing about living in a place like this,
with all the hardwood floors, is how fast dust and debris
collects under every piece of furniture, behind every
appliance, in every corner.
It's not restricted to the floors, either. Dust builds up on
the ceiling fans, and even the ceiling itself. It's on top of
the trim over the door- its on the door- the surfaces of all
three dining room tables, and all the way up the stair case
and into the next apartment.
It's the same indoors and out;
Dust collecting in houses
and houses collecting on streets
and streets collecting on suburbs
and suburbs collecting on suburbs
and suburbs collecting collecting collecting.
Another thing is the mosquitoes. Is there anywhere they don't
live? I like the stray cats though. They wander up to the
door now and then like someone you sort of know. Ex-girlfriends
who miss you, but not that much. But not like pets you used to
own. Neither an ex-girlfriend nor and ex-pet would eat an entire dried squid.
And one time, sitting on this porch, I kept close to the citronella candle because of the wind and mosquitoes, but it didn't help.
Eventually, my pant leg proved effective when it ignited and the
smoke drove away all the mosquitoes, the bees, the stray cats,
and somehow even killed the music.
And I didn't feel like moving but eventually even I vanished.
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
In life, accuracy counts.
I've decided to write this entry all about my new favorite movie. Now don't go making judgments if you haven't seen it. I say this because the previews that I had seen for this movie offered no insight into the movie whatsoever. The previews lead one to believe that this guy basically gets soft drinks thrown at him often, until he starts carrying a bow and arrows around with him.
Yes, the film I'm talking about is The Weather Man. This movie is Terrific. It is the funniest movie I have seen in a very long time. Some people will disagree that this movie is really a comedy. Fair enough, for it is a dark comedy, and much of the humor lies in subtleties such as Cage's priceless facial expressions throughout the movie. It is a somewhat sad movie in that Cage's character is the sort of person people love to hate, and on top of this he is struggling with his personal failures and blunders. But to me its that kind of Curb Your Enthusiasm type humor that keeps this movie movin' along. But make no mistake, this is not just shallow comedy. It's about a guy trying to rebuild his life from the shambles he's made for himself. A screwy but well-meaning schmuck trying to patch things up with his family and make his dad proud.
Notable features of the movie that make me love it:
"Here's something that if you want your father to think you're not a silly fuck, don't slap a guy across the face with a glove because if you do that, that's what he will think. Unless you're a noble man or something in the nineteenth century. Which I am not."
Love, The City
I've decided to write this entry all about my new favorite movie. Now don't go making judgments if you haven't seen it. I say this because the previews that I had seen for this movie offered no insight into the movie whatsoever. The previews lead one to believe that this guy basically gets soft drinks thrown at him often, until he starts carrying a bow and arrows around with him.
Yes, the film I'm talking about is The Weather Man. This movie is Terrific. It is the funniest movie I have seen in a very long time. Some people will disagree that this movie is really a comedy. Fair enough, for it is a dark comedy, and much of the humor lies in subtleties such as Cage's priceless facial expressions throughout the movie. It is a somewhat sad movie in that Cage's character is the sort of person people love to hate, and on top of this he is struggling with his personal failures and blunders. But to me its that kind of Curb Your Enthusiasm type humor that keeps this movie movin' along. But make no mistake, this is not just shallow comedy. It's about a guy trying to rebuild his life from the shambles he's made for himself. A screwy but well-meaning schmuck trying to patch things up with his family and make his dad proud.Notable features of the movie that make me love it:
- extensive use of the word "fuck"
- Cage's acting- the self pity and general dorky-ness makes the humor happen.
- Archery
- Spritz's dad
- too many other things to even try to talk about.
"Here's something that if you want your father to think you're not a silly fuck, don't slap a guy across the face with a glove because if you do that, that's what he will think. Unless you're a noble man or something in the nineteenth century. Which I am not."
Love, The City
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