Looks like someone forgot to post today! I’d better rectify that with a photoset (with oddball commentary) of this evening’s walk! Why don’t you click through the picture and go to the set?
0-fer: Unlike Father, Like Son
I’ve read several books (and one really bad article) by his son before, but this week’s literary 0-fer is . . . Kingsley Amis, CBE!
I plan on correcting that 0-fer later this year when I delve into his Everyday Drinking
Any of you have any experience with the elder Amis?
Warren Buffett was right!
. . . Still, when he said that derivatives were WMDs, I don’t think he meant this.
Lost in the Supermarket: Deadliest Catch edition
Lost in the Supermarket is on vacation this week, on account of neurasthenia. But your faithful blogger wouldn’t leave you in the lurch!
Since tonight marks the premier of the new season of The Deadliest Catch, one of the most awesome “reality” TV shows of all time, I offer up a retro Lost in the Supermarket post: The Imitations of Crab!
My wife & I, meanwhile, will go back to our Tuesday night routine of sushi-and-crabtini in honor of the Northwestern, the Cornelia Marie, the Wizard and the Time Bandit (and evidently a couple of new boats, the Lisa Marie and the Trailblazer)!
What’s a crabtini?
Bet you’re sorry you asked.
See the whole Lost in the Supermarket series
What It Is: 4/13/09
What I’m reading: Antony and Cleopatra
What I’m listening to: So Still
What I’m watching: Baby Mama, Bottle Rocket and Funny Face. And the final round of the Masters, which was insanely compelling.
What I’m drinking: Plymouth, Q Tonic and lime. And a whole bunch of kosher wine.
What Rufus is up to: Wagging his tail in his sleep last week, which I take to mean he was having the happiest dream ever. And another Sunday greyhound hike up in Wawayanda State Park! Enjoy the pix!
Where I’m going: Las Vegas next Sunday for a biz trip. None of my usual suspects of biz pals will be there, Tom Jones is out of town, and I refuse to bet on baseball, so this may turn out to be a very boring trip for me.
What I’m happy about: Our seder went off without a hitch and Mom made it safely back to St. Louis this weekend after her 10-day stay. Oh, and we got to see my cousins Lewis & Denise on Saturday (at one of my favorite Thai restaurants, hence the decor in the photo).
What I’m sad about: A friend of mine blindsided me with news that his wife blindsided him with divorce papers.
What I’m worried about: There’s no Q Tonic at the liquor store where I’ve been buying the stuff. Now I’ve gotta start searching some other haunts and begin hoarding it before it goes the way of the New York Sun and every other goddamn thing I really like in this world.
What I’m pondering: What it is about Audrey Hepburn’s in-her-prime beauty that literally makes my eyes well up when I see her in a movie.
Free Peepsle
For all of you Easter-season Peeps-eaters out there, I give you Peeps Show III, the Washington Post’s annual Peeps diorama contest! Now go microwave one of those marshmallow monsters!
Unrequired Reading: Apr. 10, 2009
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The King is Back
Longtime/obsessive readers of this blog know that I find The Burger King to be one of the most weirdly compelling ad-mascots of all time. So I’m quite happy to see him get down to Sir Mix-A-Lot (and SpongeBob) in this new ad.
Building Perspective
Nicolai Ouroussoff seems to be celebrating restraint in his review of the Standard, a new hotel on 13th St. in NYC:
These are simple but powerful moves. And they are a reminder that enveloping a structure in a flamboyant wrapper is not always the most effective way to create lasting architecture. In the wrong hands, too much creative freedom can be outright dangerous.
With the Standard Hotel, Polshek Partnership joins a handful of other midlevel firms that are beginning to find the right balance between innovation and restraint.
That’s a pleasant change from his past rambles (here’s a good one), so maybe the New Austerity is having an impact on his work.
Meanwhile, this writer for this Reuters article on the MGM CityCenter project in Las Vegas must have had a hard time not chortling when he recorded this passage —
“The events of the last six months have been our Pearl Harbor, economically,” said Bill Thompson, gaming expert and professor of public administration at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. “CityCenter might be too big to fail. If it opens, it’s a dramatic gesture that says we’re winning, we’re not defeated, we’re on the way back.”
“If it fails, it would be like a second Pearl Harbor.”
— about a 67-acre condo/hotel/casino/shopping mall complex. I think it’s very funny that a professor of public administration at UNLV is referred to first as a “gaming expert,” because it implies (to me) that he’s a compulsive gambler.
Kosher Dogs
While I’m celebrating the fact that my super-tonic doesn’t include high fructose corn syrup, and thus is All Good for Passover, official pal-of-a-VM-pal Andy Newman just published an article in the NYTimes on Passover-kosher food . . . for pets.
We’re not too concerned in our household. Despite appearances —
— Ru is keeping his religious options open.