Archive for June, 2004

06/28/2004

  • so the emails that i get from random people who read this site are a little strange, but i admit that i really do enjoy them. if you’re one of those people, email me, and you could get a shout-out, like aimee.
  • the first in a series of cooking lessons for patti, josh, and filly.
  • a random friday night out at deluxe and taiwan cafe. and we finally got to try new stuff at tc. and probably the best hot and sour soup ever.
  • going clothes shopping for the first time in about 6 months.
  • yes, we have to plan out visits to baja fresh. and i don’t care that a burrito is 800 calories. they’re good.
  • saved!. go see this movie.
  • finally using the random credit that we accumulated at marshall’s. thank god, because i was sick of carrying all of those cards around.
  • bloglines. the best site i’ve seen for reading all of your blogs in one place.
  • i can’t believe i forgot this last week. north shore. it’s on O.C., but then again, nothing is. but it’s a damn good summer show.
  • brendo frendo’s journal
  • the thrills, so much for the city
  • i ran 4 days last week. that’s probably the most i’ve run in a week since before i ran the marathon in 2000
  • i love a good christina’s run
  • after a many-year hiatus, susanne will pick up the golf clubs again this week. fore!

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06/21/2004

  • once again, a 3 day weekend. 5 day work weeks are for suckers.
  • dinner with ross and karen
  • speaking of which, our old grill now has a new home.
  • dinner at franklin with kate. she wasn’t nearly as crazy as i was expecting.
  • we ate an obscene amount of fruit last week. a watermelon, a honeydew, a pineapple, half a pint of blackberries, a pint of strawberries, 4 or 5 peaches, a bunch of grapes, and a bowl of lychee nuts.
  • the curry tuna salad at formaggio kitchen. especially on toasted nashoba brook olive bread.
  • our plan to get formaggio to start selling sweet scoops. one employee at a time
  • the seafood section at super88. super cheap, super fresh (in many cases, still swimming), and super good
  • graduation in rye. although frying on the cement bleachers was not a good time
  • father’s day dinner in watertown, and father’s day lunch in hingham. and some damn fine grilled leg of lamb.
  • slower.net
  • 990000.com
  • i love bill clinton. i’d vote for him again in a heartbeat.
  • matt nathanson, beneath these fireworks
  • velvet revolver, contraband
  • “hey, new jersey! i used to have one of these too. if you get caught, i didn’t serve you.”
  • the gentleman gourmand
  • the seige of fulton avenue. featuring susanne’s cousin alex!.

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06/14/2004

  • a jam-pcked week and weekend
  • the sox on tuesday with dickie. and finding free parking.
  • steven graduates
  • mystic river
  • udupi bhavan with jon and carolyn. especially the “little cups of heaven”
  • verrill farm
  • a disappointing visit to nashoba brook bakery in west concord. but at least we got a loaf of their olive bread
  • verrill farm’s strawberries and scallions
  • tivo now includes the home media option for free. looking at pictures, streaming your music, and remote programming. it’s all pretty cool
  • i saw john malkovich while running yesterday
  • the bar at upstairs on the square has become our cheers
  • the post on gothamist that caused jason calacanis to lose it and the resulting fallout. be sure to read the IM transcripts. that dude is a big baby nutbag.

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06/07/2004

  • the season finales of the sopranos and arrested development
  • friday night dinner with steve, lisa, and hudson
  • baby octopus
  • saturday lunch in hingham
  • my mom thinks my hair looks greasy
  • saturday dinner with gordon and karen. and another excuse to make grilled pizzas which go very nicely with the expensive wine that gordon brought
  • the wopr is dead. long live the new wopr.
  • “frankie’s gonna get quacked”
  • watching ocean’s eleven in the kitchen.
  • for the first time in recent memory, we didn’t go out to eat for a single meal this weekend
  • whatevs.org
  • mailreader.org
  • curbed.com
  • gastropoda
  • mark and maureen’s travelpod is up to number 2 on the month’s most popular
  • i know this is about the ‘86 mets, but you gotta read this

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06/02/2004

  • squid
  • just kidding. this is for the real squid, maybe my most faithful reader.
  • and speaking of squid, super88 has the biggest, cheapest squid i’ve ever seen. and baby octopus. and pretty much any other seafood that you could want. except soft shelled crabs. the one thing i actually went there looking for.
  • the jon-carpenter webcam
  • finally getting the new camera
  • yes, i still have a lot of hair
  • the sox game with mike and patti, despite the 140 7th graders sitting all around us.
  • oh, el pelon, how i’ve missed you…
  • the “thanks for doing our really complicated taxes for us” dinner with jon and carolyn at Union
  • mastering the grilled pizza on the new grill. and the best one we’ve ever made, shaved fennel, tomato, and pecorino. damn, it was good.
  • dinner with kristina and kyle
  • lots of free pizza doughs from bertucci’s. dummies.
  • mvp baseball 2004. i even went out and bought a new controller so i could play it.
  • a new giant batch of Sauce courtesy of our $5 flat of tomatoes

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