Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Restaurant week reality check


Lunch at Cafe Boulud on the Upper East Side is exactly as you would imagine. It's got impeccable and heinously expensive food, like $5 dollar coffees and soup categories neither you nor the waiter can pronounce. And with your pre fixe dessert, you get FREE offensive commentary on your ass from the Italian-suited, Florida-tanned septuagenarians at the next table. Yay restaurant week!

What's black and white and red all over?

A blushing zorse! It’s nice to know that in this day and age, when so many species (thousands?) disappear each year, there are some dedicated people out there working to create new ones—like the zorse featured in this video. (Why not hebra? Sounds like a slur?)

Simulacrum schmimulacrum

In this film, a member of the paparazzi pretends to hide from Britney Spears and "catches" her pretending to accidentally bare her breast while she pretends that she is dancing alone as she desperately hopes the world is watching. It's been suggested that the public's insatiable appetite for drama has fueled her breakdown. I say that we're keeping her alive...she'll expire the second we stop watching!

Dear Gentle Reader,

This blog is a new project. It will be evolving rapidly over the next few weeks.

This blog will be informed by my own tastes, preferences and interactions. However, it is my hope that the content will be compelling to an audience greater than my immediate friends and acquaintances.

The words and images I've been feeding myself on the internet are 90% drivel. Why not create my own content? I am hopeful that the act of creation will ward off idiotic blog-induced mental stagnation.

I also predict this endeavor will help me share information in a more concise manner than I am able to use when I speak. Perhaps I can replace time spent on watered down chattering with concentrated written ideas that have more meaning. If I am lucky, the care I shall apply to my posts will re-mold my verbal habits.

I have yet to delineate a set program of content. Right now, I will include photos of my work and other pieces of art, links to news articles of particular interest, and reviews of restaurants, bars and museums. If I'm feeling generous, I may post video clips of my top secret cooking show pilot.