• Last Books Read

    (T) This Perfect Day - Like a blast from the past, I felt like a 10 year old again reading this 1970 Ira Levin sci-fi. How life might be if everything around us was controlled to be efficient and healthy. Surprisingly, nakedness and sex plays a big role...
    ***

    (T) In Defense of Food - Eat food. Not so much. Mostly plants. An informative read on why Westerners spend so much time trying to eat right and almost always get it wrong.
    ****

    (T)Are You There Vodka? It's me, Chelsea - The ramblings of Chelsea Handler. Pretty funny. Good candy.
    ****

    (T) Namesake - I didn't enjoy this book. At all. I do now crave Indian food.
    *

  • Last Homemade Meals

    (K)Rice & Beans - Kelly makes great, classic Brazilian food

    (K) Striped Bass and Greens - With ginger and onions and includes microwaving the fish. It's damn good.

    (T) Split Pea Soup - A classic. So easy. So good.

    (T) Braised Pork Belly - A My first experience making pork belly. Super simple. So rich. So cheap. Why we pay so much for this in restaurants is beyond me.

  • Latest Restaurants



    Enoteca Barbone -Still awesome Italian/Babboo rip-off. I really like the owner, prices and pasta.
    ****

    Slurp - New Vietnamese restaurant in LES. We were the only ones there. Comparable to Compuchea, but better and cheaper
    **

    SavorNY - A FoodCandy article on the wall! Tapas from around the world. Pretty good
    ***

    Taisho Yakitori - Best in groups, Taisho is maybe my favorite restaurant in the city, currently.
    *****

    Clinton St Baking Company - An LES brunch favorite, the pancakes and crab cakes are some of the best we've ever had, but the line outside on a weekend make it something only worth it on the weekday.
    ***

    Chickie Pig's - Literally across the street, Chickie Pigs servers up thin, oval-shaped pizzas in a brick oven. Focus is on the crust and not the toppings.
    **

    Banjara - Finally! Good Indian. Embedded in the 6th St Indian madness is Banjara with delicious curries, dosas and samosas.
    ***

    The E.U. - A new chef prepares European comfort food including a thick and rich cassoulet, braised short ribs and Chicken and Dumplings along with a wide assortment of european beers. Very good.
    ***

    Falai - Modern Italian. Homemade Pasta. Creative Dishes like Beet & Lobster Risotto. One of the best meals had in NYC so far.
    *****

    Cafe Glechik - A Ukrainian cafe in Brighton Beach known for their dumplings. Try the veal and the Siberian.
    ***

    Rosario's Pizza - A tourist favorite of the LES, we read about this in one of our guide books. Pretty good pizza, but nothing special. Stay with the cheese.
    *

    Trattoria Spaghetto - Also mentioned in our guidebook, this Italian eatery actually turned out a better than expected lunch.
    **

    NY Noodletown - A decent Chinatown stop for Shrimp Wonton Noodle Soup. Reminds me of Canton Wonton Noodle House in Seattle
    **

From Internet to Real Life, or Blog-Stalker

Posted on April 10, 2008 by kelch25

Last Wednesday I met up with Molly, aka Restless Reader, and Laura, aka Queen Bee, ringleader of Oh, Bee-have! for dinner at Lan Cafe, a vegetarian/vegan Vietnamese restaurant in the East Village.

Molly is a former co-worker from Seattle, and although I lost touch with her, it’s been good hanging out with her here. Before I even met her again in NY, I started reading her blog via Seno’s blog. Also thanks to Seno, I discovered Laura & Friends’ much worldly and interesting blog. So you can say that I had been admiring Queen Bee (QB) from afar. Seno called me a dork for it, but whatever, he reads random people’s blogs as well. I’m not sure he is as prone to obsession as I am, but that’s besides the point.Meeting with people that you read about more than you personally get together with is is a funny thing, you see. It’s like they already know what you’re going to talk about, but not really. I had read a while back about QB’s promotion, and when I first met her, I pondered whether I should congratulate her, but with Seno’s always “encouraging” words, decided against it for fear of being a blog-stalker. Leaving comments on QB’s site was also out of the question because that is even weirder and creepier.

But then came my most famous post about David Arch-u-leta (intentionally misspelled) and I realized, this MySpace/Facebook generation feels no qualms about leaving comments that are bereft of punctuation or capitalization, murderous of proper grammar, and in many cases, totally incomprehensible, on a blog belonging to a person that they’ve never met and most likely will never meet. Here’s a whole generation that feels entitled to tell everybody in cyberspace what they think with no fear that their 3rd-grade grammar or their immature opinion will make strangers think any less of them. Such audacity made me realize that I too, could do that. And so I shall. Whether I’m a dork or not.


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One Response to “From Internet to Real Life, or Blog-Stalker”

  1. queen bee, on April 15th, 2008 at 2:48 am Said:

    let’s all stalk each other and make this really meta. then meet at the shack over burgers to discuss. hee hee.

    kelly, i used yelp today to pick out the restaurant where david and i had dinner, all because you turned me on to yelp probably without knowing it, so that makes me just as much of a blogstalker.

    xoxo

    PS it was a really yummy place — just east of hell’s kitchen. maria pia. just outstanding old-school italian.

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