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Vietnamese Grocery Shopping in San Gabriel

scifilullabies — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 01:48:30 +0000

It’s not everyday that I’m bringing my big camera to the grocery store. In fact, I’ve lived in New York City for almost a decade and never had the impulse to snap a photo of the Brooklyn Bridge or the Statue of Liberty. I find myself taking photographs to document experiences, not filling a mandatory [...] Related posts:

Dinner With Greeks

scifilullabies — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 22:48:48 +0000

I realize I’ve strayed from the “travel” part of my blog, but I shall return to form after my South Africa trip in November. Meanwhile, I’ve been practicing my portrait-taking abilities at dinner parties in the neighborhood. Related posts:Dinner With Friends in Brooklyn Restaurant Almacén Secreto Michael and Heather’s Wedding, Montauk Club, Brooklyn Related posts:

Dinner With Friends in Brooklyn

scifilullabies — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:00:13 +0000

I live for a good dinner party. So when Emily suggested a cookout with our blogging-minded friends, I jumped at the opportunity. But the "North Brooklyn Bloggers Banquet" would not be a spectator event, I was alerted. Each participant would either cook or assist in the preparation of a dish and then publish their experiences in a blog post. So, with my camera and a curried squash soup in tow, I joined the group at Liz and Joe's lovely apartment in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. There, I found a kitchen full of delicious aromas and Sunday conversations. Beans and corn were being shucked, avocados expertly peeled. Breads and tarts came in and out of a very busy oven. Someone plopped a case of PBR into a bucket of ice. All the while, Kenan, inconspicuous sketched portraits on a simple notepad and Jake screwed on his brand new 50mm 1.2 lens to his 5D Mark II (jealous!). I helped myself to some delicious rosé from the fridge and then got down to work. And by "work" I mean snapping tipsy shots, sampling sliced tomatoes from the balcony-garden, refilling my glass one more time. A quick thunderstorm. Some strong sun. Occasionally, we took our drinks to the balcony where a hammock was stretched and looked down at the garden below.

Swinefest

scifilullabies — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:17:24 +0000

Last weekend, I went to my first-ever pig roast, dubbed "Swinefest 2009" in Pine Plains, New York. The affair included four roasted pigs, 40 kegs of beer, and fireworks so close I tasted ash on my beer. It was all miraculous! Apparently, these huge gatherings centered around a barbecue and hillbilly music -- we camped at the edge of a cornfield and woke up to the lyrics, "she was rocking the beer gut" blasting from a pickup truck -- are fairly common in the Midwest, and Kelly had been to more than her share of them. Yet, as a newbie and a creature of city-life, I enjoyed it. I even took part in the dance party under a white tent filled with hay to the Jock Jam beats of Sublime and Blink 182. Nothing says, "we're no longer in New York City" than standing on top a picturesque hill overlooking the beautiful Catskill mountains and all of Hudson Valley in full greenery with the smell of burnt flesh in the air and a bottomless plastic cup in your hand. Jake watching fireworks. Related posts:

Lobsteroids

scifilullabies — Sun, 31 May 2009 22:35:57 +0000

Lobsters on steroids shot on polaroids — Lobsteroids! Chauncey Creek Lobster Pier, Kittery Point, Maine. Related posts:Julia and Sam’s Wedding in Ithaca, New York (51 Photos) Kara and Zach’s Good Luck Wedding, Savannah, Georgia Related posts:

Breakfast in LA

scifilullabies — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 17:44:01 +0000

I’m normally a cereal-for-breakfast kind of guy. I stock my cubicle cabinets with multiple varieties of corn flakes and wheat thingies, and alternate them on a daily basis. But not when I’m home visiting my parents in LA. There, I eat things like spicy goat bone marrow soup, with all the hanging layers of fat, muscle, [...] Related posts:

One Night in Nashville

scifilullabies — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:57:34 +0000

Us New Yorkers were debating whether there was a need to “go out” in Nashville, Tennessee. We had just consumed a luxurious meal at F. Scott’s Restaurant & Jazz Bar where seared scallops cooked in barbecue sauce was consumed (¡nunca máis!) along with some type of ordinary fish cooked rather ordinarily. It’s amazing how spoiled [...] Related posts:

Meeting My Maker

scifilullabies — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 07:34:52 +0000

One of the highlights of Kelly and my current road trip through the American South has been the Maker’s Mark distillery tour. We had grand aspirations of covering a majority of the American Whiskey Trail, most of it dotted along the Tennessee and Kentucky borders, but several factors, including time constraints, shitty weather and the [...] Related posts:

A Southern Barbecue Experience

scifilullabies — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 03:44:25 +0000

At age 27, I’m ashamed to admit as a fanatic carnivore, I’ve never had proper barbecue until today. Sure, I’ve been around it, smelled it. sampled it. I was even fortunate enough to attend the Big Apple BBQ festival as a member of the press a couple of years ago. The greatest barbecue chefs from [...] Related posts:

Restaurant Almacén Secreto

scifilullabies — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 03:26:58 +0000

Balconies in San Telmo, Buenos Aires. We didn’t know what to expect with a place like Patagonia. It may have been an odd choice to head to the Southern Patagonian Ice Field at the start of winter, but we didn’t care. We wanted to see Patagonia and we had two weeks of vacation to do it. Fourteen [...] Related posts: