In the "Justin Clearly Took Too Long To Put This On The Site" Department: Diana Nock of The Intrepid Girlbot depicts the title character as Wonderella for Halloween! You can check it out in the gallery!
Favs - Pork buns, very velvety texture, sweet bbq inside with plenty of pork, my fav
Some sort of pork ball, wrapped in bacon, dipped in mayo.
Pork shu mai
Shrimp "roll ups" in some sort of rice noodle
"Donut" with I think coconut or pineapple curd
Eh - chicken feet, good taste but too much work for little reward
cow tail (I think), see above for chicken feet
Fried bread wrapped in noodle, a bit soggy.
Testing Zoundry Raven, a desktop blogging client. Using an image by Emma Vieceli to do so. You can find the print for sale here. Post2Blog never did drag and drop very well. I’d like a desktop client that was as smooth and easy as Tumblweed for Tumblr, to be honest, but there doesn’t seem to be one that clever and slick for Wordpress.
If the bumf is to believed, then swiping this image of Emma doing a bookstore PA should just paste in here:
(Sorry, Em, I’m using you as an experimental animal, but I had to google the link for your print shop and this was right underneath in the search results.)
Tumblweed is a clever app because it matches the intent of Tumblr: fast, easy scrapbooking for the internet. Wordpress clients tend to match the intent of Wordpress, as a place to write long blogposts. No matter how the theme of your Wordpress site actually changes that supposed intent. This site has gone through its tumblelog phases, but it’s hard to tumblelog in a big complex client, and bookmarklet apps don’t seem to work so well any more.
Anyway. Let’s see if this actually works.
(Automatically crossposted from warrenellis.com. Feel free to comment here or at my internet church at Whitechapel. If anything in this post looks weird, it's because LJ is run on steampipes and rubber bands -- please click through to the main site.)Also, they have/had been closed for a while. Driving by I noticed a hand written sign on the door but I never pulled over to read it. I wonder what was going on.
Never before have I felt ripped off by a restaurant, until I visited them last night with my wife and her friend. (I really want to use the word "raped" instead of "ripped off" but I do not want to offend.)
I specifically ordered (by saying EXACTLY): "I'll have the Steak with the Ponzu Citrus sauce and a Spicy Tuna Roll to start". My wife and her friend both ordered salads to start and sushi as their main course. My wife also ordered a Fried Chicken appetizer for us to share.
IMPORTANT: It should be noted that the person who seated us, took our order, and serviced us the most was the woman who owns the restaurant with her husband.
When the salads arrived, I was also served a plate of thinly sliced fish in a tasty sauce. I just assumed they were serving me that in lieu of or addition to the soup that was supposed to come with my meal. My wife said I should find out what it was so we could order it again. But I simply forgot as were all in conversation the next time the waitress came around.
Then our sushi arrived.
I started wondering where my steak was after a while so I asked the owner/waitress. She seemed awfully confused, immediately placed an order, and brought out my soup.
Soon after, my steak arrived. What a friggin rip off! $26.00 for a few ounces of steak cut up and mixed with 3 asparagus stalks, a few pea pods, a few green beans, 2 cherry tomatoes sliced in halves, and 2 tiny pieces of potato. The steak was OK at best.
Then our bill arrives and the real fun begins. There is a mysterious $14.00 charge for "Fluke Citrus", which we inquire about. The owner tells us that she thought I ordered that and not the steak, which would explain why my steak did not come out until I asked and also explains my mysterious appetizer.
I get that people have trouble understanding people from another country speaking a language that is a 2nd language to you. She could have just much trouble understanding a white American guy speaking with a NY accent as I can have understanding a Japanese woman speaking English.
But clearly either there was a mistake/misunderstanding made on her part or she just scammed us to the tune of $14. The right thing to do is not charge us for the "Fluke Citrus" seeing as how we had a bill for $208 ($158 when factoring in the $50 Restaurant dot com certificate we used) and we were clear that we felt a mistake was made.
The owner was unbending in her stance that she thought I ordered the appetizer when it was clear that a mistake was made on her part. She finally asked us "what do you want me to do?"
We said we shouldn't have to pay for it and her response was "well it is an expensive appetizer". Apparently the customer IS NOT always right.
While their Sushi is good, my experience with a crappy, overpriced steak entree and the check mix up/scam is enough for me to tell you to avoid this restaurant like the plague. I've had bad meals and bad service before but I have never been blatantly ripped off at a restaurant. Now I have.
I just wanted to add that the decor in the restaurant is not sparse/minimal in a good Japanese sort of way. It just looks plain & cheap...and it is way too harshly/brightly lit. They are charging high end Manhattan prices and fail to deliver in every way.
Also, if the restaurant is supposed to be about Japanese cuisine, why did the owner go on Ch. 7 news to cook something as pedestrian as Chicken Terriyaki?
I happened to be in the neighborhood last week and enjoyed a delicious meal.
We also had cheese/spinach pies, those great fries, Spartan chicken on pita and a lovely tomato salad loaded with creamy feta. I agree about the generous portions and I find their prices to be reasonable. I always enjoy their food.
I'm pleased you enjoyed your experience. :-)
So back to Trois Pommes. First of all, the owner is always there, either baking or serving and is the nicest woman. I should really know her name by now because she's always so sweet to my daughters, but for now we remain anonymous friends. The scones are amazing. That's what I always get, a cup of black coffee and a scone. They made me understand the love of scones. Never understood why someone would waste so many calories on a lump of flour and butter (actually, I did have a weak spot for the orange scone at Au Bon Pain, but felt dirty after eating it, knowing it was probably full of a bunch of processed stuff I didn't want to know about.) Trois Pommes scones are amazing (I'm eating a pumpkin one as I type). My kids love the cookies with royal icing on them and, while those things are generally flavorless textureless wonders, these don't suck. And every other pastry we've tried has been equally great. This is just such a nice place. I don't think they are hurting for business; there are always others there when I visit, but I wanted to put a shout out to them. I've been in Park Slope for over 6 years and this is the first bakery I think we've had that really has something special to offer.
I'd probably be inclined to walk up the hill and hit some of the restaurants in Brooklyn Heights, or even walk over to the Atlantic/Carroll Gardens area. I'm surprised by how quickly you can walk to a lot of better eating areas from Dumbo, and the walk is rather enjoyable.
THE BLOG AT THE END OF TIME offers up not one but two–TWO–politically incorrect 1950’s parodies of Earl Derr Biggers’ venerable Honolulu-based Oriental detective Charlie Chan. The first is from Atlas’ (Marvel’s) WILD, the second from EC’s own personal in-house MAD imitation, PANIC.
http://theblogattheendoftime.blogspot.co
Ah, the Christmas stories are returning! Here’s the first I’ve seen but I’m sure we’ll see tons over the next few weeks. This one’s from a 1967 BUGS BUNNY CHRISTMAS FUN issue from Gold Key.
http://magiccarpetburn.blogspot.com/2009/1
DC Comics used to run a text page from time to time called something like the Covers Game back in the sixties. Fans would write in and note how many different covers they could find with variations on a certain theme. SEDUCTION OF THE INDIFFERENT sort of revives that with a handful of comics covers featuring marionettes!
http://seductionoftheindifferent.blogspo
Finally, there’s always room for Ditko! That’s Steve Ditko as in Craig’s upcoming book THE ART OF DITKO (Order yours today!) and also as in the story “Forever and Ever” as reprinted at the Ditko Blog.
http://ditko.blogspot.com/2009/11/unusua
Phobos is a story of young people locked in underground bunker. Directed by Oleg Assadulin and produced by Fedor Bondarchuk (director of 9th Company and Inhabited Island), this horror thriller is promised to be released on 11 March 2010. The movie stars Petr Fedorov (Inhabited Island) and Agnia Kuznetsova (Gruz 200).Rainy summer evening - young people are arriving at the new trendy club named Phobos which is still under construction or re-construction - since it's a former bomb shelter which is reconstructed to become a club. At first, the partiers sees nothing wrong, but soon the bunker doors turn out to be locked, and the teenagers get trapped underground without light and communication. None of them realize how dangerous their situation is. All of them will need to cope with their fears before the bunker will let them free.
The early teaser trailer, coming from American Film Market, shows some production rudiments, but however gives a clue what this film is about.
Comparing these dogs is like comparing apples and oranges since you have two different styles. The dog used at Bark's is a German style beef and pork dog. Shake Shack uses a kosher style all beef dog from Vienna in Chicago. Even though you have contrasting styles, I would say that the dog at Bark's is better provided you don't load it up with too much crap. I've been to the Shake Shack and had a plain hot dog and a Chicago style. While I enjoyed the plain (with mustard) more, it was nothing special. Skinless, fairly bland and not served hot enough. This was a good 6 or 7 years ago, so they may have gotten better, The Chicago dog also wasn't served hot enough and wasn't what I consider authentic. A typical Chicago dog doesn't have green peppers, which mine did, and cucumbers. A few places in Chi Town do serve dogs with cucumbers though. In my opinion the dogs at Shake Shake are overrated. Perhaps they are better now. And although I like a dog prepared in water once in awhile, I prefer grilling or frying. Shake Shack offered a skinless dog boiled and not hot enough. Vienna beef dogs go better with a lot of toppings (thoughg I prefer just mustard) because they aren't as tasty as Sabrett (Papaya King, Gray's, Katz's), Hebrew National, Nathans, Best, or the beef dogs were used to here which can stand alone with just mustard.
Bark serves a brand (Hartmann's) which is one of the 2 or 3 best I've had in it's category of German style pork/beef dogs. It has a natural casing, which is much better than a skinless dog, all things being equal. And it is prepared on a hot griddle which adds some flavor and char. A better way of preparing a dog than leaving it in a pot of fetid water. The 2 places near me that I like best that serve dogs prepared in water serve them hot and leave them in the water for the right amount of time. This way they are fresh and don't lose flavor or snap. One place finishes the dogs off on a griddle for added crunch.
Everyone has their own tastes and preferences when it comes to brands, styles, and methods of preparation. Although half if not more than half of the time I go for an all beef dog, in this instance Bark wins hands down in my taste test.
- 14:53 Woah, 10 hours of sleep. That was beautiful! And thanks to the Thanksgiving Drinking Game, I passed out before PeeWee on Conan. #
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I can’t get it out of my head, a comment Warren Ellis made months ago about the blog being, effectively, dead. The blog as a medium unto itself, that is. He may have been paraphrasing Bruce Sterling in turn, but I find myself agreeing.
You know I’m a reject from the gameblog bubble; I did short and angry stints at Kotaku, Destructoid, and Wired. I was not exactly a hot property, but my special brand of artless gonzo made me lukewarm, maybe, in a brief arena of madness where venture capitalists would PayPal me $12 for a paragraph about how much I despised the latest Mario boilerplate. Mr. S laughed at me in the car about this yesterday. “I was railing against the rampant payola in the game industry,” I shouted, “I was the only motherfucker righteous enough not to sit up and pant at the prospect of a weekend at the Burbank Hilton and all the Bawls I could suck down!” He suggested that some modicum of tact would have brought me through the subsequent gameblog collapse with a cushy writing gig, and plenty more paid trips to Tokyo Games Show.
Tact is not what the people wanted, I replied, bringing my fist down on the dashboard. Which is a half-truth. And I was laughing.
Blogging is dead for me. I always hated the word. Ectomo lies fallow, maybe salted under. The front page is a wasteland of itty bitty posts I’ve slapped up out of guilt, with the occasional, still-warm contribution from Ross Rosenberg. Qais Fulton is happily jobless, and still cannot be induced to post at all. John Brownlee, ostensibly my partner in all this tentacular scree, has vanished utterly. I glimpse him, sometimes, through scraps of internet fog, frolicking overseas. He seems happy. His last batch of posts was brilliant, and met with ferociously stupid commentary from what remains of our audience. No word from him since, and I don’t blame him.
What do we do with the giant retard baby that is Ectomo, sloshing around in bathwater that is, at this point, mostly urine? It’s tempting, to just shut the doors and walk away while it quietly drowns. We were never paid for this, anyway. Attempts to monetize have been pathetic, at best. Laughing Squid and Kircher Society (which seems to have vanished) and the rest of the graceful-goofy culture blogs have our material well in hand. I don’t even read RSS feeds anymore. I quit a few months ago, much as an experiment, and have felt no urge to return.
Twitter has Zeno’s Paradoxed our Internet experience down from occasional, hearty meals to a steady glucose drip. Serious Writers™ have taken to pithy observations in 140 characters, chewed on and spat out over the course of their day like a chaw habit. The only people who object are the ones showing dangerous signs of Goddamn Kids and Their Fancy Gadgets, like JWZ, who objects to Twitter based mostly on the character limit. He insists that no well-composed thought could possibly take so few letters to express; the format has already been explored in IRC, etc. But the man has been working his LiveJournal for close to a decade now, and based on his rejection of various other platforms (like the iPhone) his objection to the Twitter format is sort of an endorsement in of itself (sorry Jamie). This little sugar-dribble internet podium is the future. Thinly-sliced.
I use my Soup.io religiously. The button is there, totally divorced from the looming anxiety attached to opening up a Write New Post in Wordpress. The content gets published with no expectation of annotation. I’m only now looking at Tumblr because it seems to be winning the platform war and too many people I know have signed on, and now I’ve installed a bookmarklet that purports to make Wordpress dance just like Tumblr.
I’m ashamed of letting Ectomo deflate. When we started, there was this swollen mass of untapped material. We felt the call to bring this mass to our readers, whom we regarded with affection. We wanted to chum them with this wonderful stuff. But we ran low on new ephemera, the comments grew stupider, and the jokes got stale. About the fortieth time someone sent us that Japanese porno screencap of the girls sucking down octopus slime, I began to feel uncomfortable. We’d had an explosive landing that had dug us into a mile-long furrow of Lovecraft, moustaches, and—actually, that was about it. A teensy stack of wacky in-jokes, discarded somewhere in limbo.
How do you cap off a website? I suppose we just leave it there, like we did with Table of Malcontents. It’ll hurt.
I’ve toyed with the idea of radically changing the format. Use Yahoo Pipes, Tumblr, Soup, and the rest of the aggregators to scrape up and plop out material from our writers’ various haunts, to the Ectomo front page. Ectomo was always sort of intended as a catchall for the four of us, but we never made use of it that way. After exhausting all other options, it may be time to turn it full-auto and let it generate itself from now on.
The generation that gets these jokes should feel ashamed for the burden we're putting on the generation that doesn't get these jokes.
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