June 2008
42 posts
Even more incentive for Hop Obama
Our neighborhood bar, Pacific Standard, on 4th Ave & St. Marks Place, just started pouring Sixpoint’s Hop Obama beer again, and is holding a raffle.
“Citizens, rejoice—Sixpoint has finally made a new batch of Hop Obama, and we’re one of the first NYC bars to get it. Our keg arrived approximately 10 minutes ago, and will go on (with our bobblehead tap handle) as soon as...
An email from Emily's mom
Date: Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 5:20 PM
Dear Ben and Arin, I understand a chicken in Brooklyn has been named after me. First, let me say what a distinguished honor this is for me. You may be shocked to learn this is, in fact, the first chicken named after me (to my knowledge).
Though I am no man’s fool, and suspect this honor was bestowed in direct correlation to the stupidity of my name, I...
Entry #2
Lani’s next blog post about mom.
Wow, today was the best day ever. I passed the family nurse practitioner boards, and the chickens came in the mail. That’s me and Roz below. (Looks strikingly like the goat picture below. Coincidence? No, destiny!)
This blog post is dedicated to Kenny
An excerpt question from my NP boards practice exam today.
Q: What is the purpose of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)?
A. Level the playing field with respect to employment and other opportunities for disabled persons.
B. Create a federal entitlement program for AIDS patients.
C. Guarantee wheelchair access to every residential and commercial building.
D. Authorize interpreters for...
Wow, there are such great things on the internet.
Do Nerds Like Cheese More than Ordinary People?
Seeing that a few years ago my husband decided to stop eating cheese as his new years resolution, and then inadvertantly ate three straight meals that included cheese products, I’d vote yes. (Wired magazine takes a poll.)
Entry #1: Owning Our Processes
My sister’s first blog entry for Lilith magazine. (I’m pretty proud of her.)
My Father and the Figtree
A poem by Naomi Shihab Nye from Words Under the Words.
For other fruits my father was indifferent. He’d point at the cherry trees and say. “See those? I wish they were figs.” In the evenings he sat by my bed weaving folktales like vivid little scarves. They always involved a figtree. Even when it didn’t fit, he’d stick it in. Once Joha was walking down the road and he saw a figtree, Or, he tied...
My dad guest-hosting the bay area radio show...
“The offending mass is most often beyond the examining digit.”
– Margaret Fitzgerald, in her book ‘NP Certification Exam Prep,’ on why DRE is an ineffective method of colorectal cancer screening.
WatchDid the Tour de Queens last week in sweltering heat with Ben and Naveed. Looking forward to the park avenue car-free zone from Brooklyn Bridge to East 72nd Street on Saturday mornings in August. This is so great.
The 3rd Annual Great Hot Dog Cookoff
For all those who remember the risotto competition fondly, here’s another one for you: The 3rd Annual Great Hot Dog Cookoff on Saturday, July 12 @ 2pm in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. I’m competing in the veggie dog category, since I really want to perfect that oh-that-hot-dog-tastes-like-couch food.
Please come out and support me! (Judges are picked randomly from the crowd that day, so...
“Mary had a little lamb
And when she saw it sicken
She shipped it off to...”
– “The Jungle,” Upton Sinclair’s 1906 novel of the poor conditions in America’s meat-packing industry
OMG, so many new sweaters!!!
From NY Times article, ‘In the Land of Co-ops, Coops’
Hens typically produce an egg every 25 hours, a rate that has left some of New York’s small-scale chicken keepers with more eggs than they can eat and the problem of what to do with their bounty.
Ms. Smothers has taken to whipping up classic cocktails that call for egg whites, like gin fizzes. Ms. Mackin sometimes sells eggs from...
Fish heads are where I draw the line.
So with all this salmonella talk, I planted my tomatoes this week (better late than never). I figured I’d search around for some good advice first. so I started with farmer Cynthia Sandberg’s blogpost ‘How to Plant a Tomato.’ Now I should’ve suspected something when I saw the name of her farm, but oh no, I just kept reading. So, Cynthia says the key to a good tomato...
More reasons to grow your tomatoes at home.
June 10, 2008 Dear Colleagues, Since mid-April, over 140 persons have been identified in 16 states with Salmonella Saintpaul, an uncommon serotype. Preliminary investigation by state health departments and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has implicated tomatoes. New York City is currently investigating Salmonella cases to see if any are related to the outbreak.
Although...
The reason I haven't tumblogged in awhile...
a photojournal.
