Category Archives: Style, Fashion and Food

Best Restaurant In Taipei

March 23, 2008 – 12:19 am

I ate here. It’s every bit as good as the review suggests. Seb’s description and photos tell more, I’ll post my own photos soon. Update: posted.
Short story: there’s a restaurant in Australia with a three month waiting list, but a Sydney Morning Herald reporter says the restaurant I ate at is its equal or better, [...]

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Great Name, But Is It Any Good?

March 11, 2008 – 11:32 am

?Spork? is a great name for a restaurant, but is it any good? Yelp says it is, but most of the reviews mention the burger, putting me in the position of having to review the reviewers and wonder if a hamburger person can recommend a restaurant to a vegetarian. Not that I am a vegetarian [...]

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MaisonBisson Chocolate Martini

January 6, 2008 – 8:17 pm

The holidays are past, but we still have a sweet tooth here.

chocolate shavings for rimming
1 part crème de cacao
2 parts vodka
dark chocolate garnish

Warm a martini glass over a small flame, then roll the rim in chocolate shavings. Put a square of dark chocolate in the glass, then prepare the liquor. Shake vodka and crème [...]

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Design Anxiety

November 12, 2007 – 9:03 am

All I know about Denmark is what gets imported: Legos, of course, but also a tradition of exquisitely clean and functional design. That’s why, as I prepare for my talk in Copenhagen later this week, I’m incredibly conscious of my own design and a bit jealous of Jessamyn’s outstanding use of orange.
Anyway, that’s where I’ll [...]

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Restaurant Review: Cotton

September 30, 2007 – 12:11 pm

First Impressions
How much is too much for an entree at a place that plays the kind of anonymous Muzak that Kenny G calls jazz and is decorated like Applebee’s? Trust me, I like renovated mill buildings, but why confuse it with faux grecian columns and too many pictures of dead celebrities? I mean, the interior [...]

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p0ps’ Panoramas Shot With iPhone

August 18, 2007 – 12:57 pm

I’m coming to learn that p0ps has a number of interesting things going on, but it was his panoramas stitched from pictures taken by iPhone that caught my attention first. Above is the J Train somewhere between Fulton and City Hall.
I’d thought the iPhone’s camera was pretty decent, p0ps’ work shows it off.
J Train, panorama, [...]

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Peanut Butter Burger

July 20, 2007 – 11:03 am

Now matter how depressed I got in New Orleans, I still had to eat. A tip from the ladies at Molly’s on Toulouse led me to Yo Moma’s with instructions to try their peanut butter burger.
Yes. Peanut butter. On a burger. I was also told that if I don’t like mayo, I should tell them [...]

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June 28: Tony Day

June 28, 2007 – 12:35 pm

It’s Tony Day, not just because Joe’s book has garnered some good reviews — ?the only excuse for the continued existence of boxing is that its battles have occasioned some of the best writing any sport has ever inspired? — or because he likes telling the story. It’s Tony Day because ?Galento [is] a champion [...]

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Sweet Meatcake

May 11, 2007 – 7:16 pm

First it was meat hats, then SuperModelMeat. Now it’s meat cakes.
Yes. Three layers of meat, with ketchup and potato frosting.
It all happened when the groom announced that a man’s cake should be made of meat, ’cause ?wedding cackes are all girly.? Apparently a red velvet armadillo groom’s cake isn’t manly enough.
Funny thing, now there’s [...]

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Nukerator, We’re Nukrawavable

April 27, 2007 – 12:35 pm

Will, Cliff (both above), and I recorded this song in one take in late 1999. Though, calling it a ?take? is overstating it. We were beyond silly drunk and lacked any talent for the task, but we had a mic in front of us, a guitar, and a willingness to open our mouths and let [...]

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Reminder: Paris Hilton To Retire In 60 Days

April 21, 2007 – 12:39 pm

Amid all the ?ZOMG Paris Hilton is pregnant!? rumors, it’s worth remembering that the girl famous for doing nothing (except repeatedly having her racy photos and video leaked) is retiring in two months.
Yep, on June 20th 2007, Paris is give up on public life. At least that’s what she said in Newsweek:
She?s certainly managed to [...]

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DeLoreans Are Back In This Future

April 20, 2007 – 12:05 pm

If the DeLorean looks at all like a Lotus Esprit, it should. Both of them were designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro, and much of the engineering work was done by Lotus founder Colin–to add speed, add lightness–Chapman. Amusingly, John De Lorean also owned a company that manufactured snowcats under the DMC name.
Owners and wannabes can join [...]

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Who Will Be First To Put A MetroNaps Pod In Their Library?

March 29, 2007 – 3:25 pm

MetroNaps started business in 2004 with a boutique in NYC’s Empire State Building, selling 20 minute naps for $14 bucks. The company has slowly been opening franchises around the world, but MetroNaps co-founder Arshad Chowdhury says overwhelming interest from office folks who wanted to install the pods on-site as an employee perk. So the company [...]

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I Missed Lebowski Fest!?!?

March 16, 2007 – 10:11 pm

As usual, beatnikside had to tell me what I missed: Lebowski Fest. It looks like everybody was there. The Dude Jeffrey Lebowski, Theodore Donald ‘Donny’ Kerabatsos, Walter Sobchak, Maude Lebowski, Bunny Lebowski, the rich Jeffrey Lebowski with no legs, and his lacky Brandt. And don’t forget Jesus Quintana or Treehorn’s Thugs. And certainly don’t forget [...]

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Happy Holidays

December 25, 2006 – 12:00 am

tree, holidays, liquor, nips, happy holidays

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