Posted in Reviews on Jul 1st, 2008
You don’t always have to be #1. In fact, I’m happy to barely hang on to the top 10 in the City Paper’s neighborhood rankings. Two weeks ago, the CP ran the much-touted and talked-about Hoods & Services feature. And this week’s print issue sums up the City Desk blog chatter (think letters to the [...]
Posted in Reviews on May 21st, 2008
There’s nothing like squirting a Gu, chewing a chew, or popping a Shot Blok to make you feel like an athlete. It’s not just because it looks cool to tear open little packages with your teeth or deftly swipe a bike’s water bottle from its cage at 25 m.p.h. In addition to all that, [...]
Posted in Green living, Reviews on Feb 27th, 2008
Zero impact non-consumption is the trend of the day among green folks. But sooner or later you’ll have to buy, and at that moment you should get on over to Greater Goods.* It’s a one-stop shop for greener stuff and a cleaner conscience. I’ve been aware of it since the owner came to Gallaudet’s Focus [...]
Posted in Reviews on Feb 21st, 2008
A couple of weekends ago, a classmate and I decided to meet at Tryst on a Sunday afternoon. We could lay out our books and notes, we thought, sip some lattes, and spend a few hours chipping away at the assignment at hand.
No such luck.
We arrived at Tryst only to see a roiling crowd of [...]
Posted in Green living, Philosophizing, Reviews on Jan 23rd, 2008
It’s been a while since my passionate vegan days (around ages 15-20). But as a Google search of my name reminds me, I was once a teenaged vegan idealist who snatched at the first glimmers of the e-networking world as a member of the Vegetarian Youth Network (scroll down to “New Paltz”). On this proto-listserv, we exchanged [...]
Posted in Reviews on Jan 19th, 2008
This is something I did once and haven’t done since. I’m reviving the practice for this week, though. Ready? This week’s prizes are…
1) Closest Brush With Fame: this prize goes to me. For getting my first piece posted in The Jew and the Carrot.
2) Most Disappointing Experiment: Injera-dillas. The theory was they’d be like quesadillas [...]
Posted in Philosophizing, Reviews on Dec 17th, 2007
Tyler Cowan, author of Discover Your Inner Economist and a professor of economics at George Mason University, came to DC a little while ago.
The fun thing about Cowan, according to my friend Alok who became riveted by the guy’s speech, is that he applies his normally snored-at field to everyday life, giving an economist’s perspective [...]
Posted in Reviews on Nov 30th, 2007
Through the tickling grapevines and the smell of oncoming winter, a blonde rushes through the door. Her coconut milk cheeks flush hibiscus as the warmth envelops her. She embraces Taw Vigsittaboot and kisses his handsome, creased cheek. This one, he knows, likes her orders spicy.
Thus begins an essay I wrote for my Johns Hopkins nonfiction [...]
Posted in Belly laugh, Reviews on Nov 2nd, 2007
This week has been a fun one for food, so I think a few awards are in order.
1) Funnest Food Day for Kids, of course, goes to the inimitable Halloween. There is just no other time when you can go right up to strangers–in their own homes, no less–and instead of getting shooed away or [...]
Posted in Reviews on Oct 29th, 2007
Apple cider is simply delightful. I was reminded of that again this fall. A cup of mulled cider, I’d argue, is better than a glass of red wine at the end of the day or with dinner. And even though it tastes just like biting into an apple, it won’t get bruised or mealy while [...]
