Louie Louie, oh no, I said we gotta go. Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah I said Louie, Louie, oh baby, I said we gotta go;

In the five years I’ve either lived or visited New Haven, I had never found an opportunity to visit Louis’ Lunch, the famous, teeny joint whose claim to fame is having served the first hamburger.  It’s right across the street from BAR, which is one of my favorite restaurants thanks to its delicious, cheap pizza [...]

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Arial is not Helvetica;

New Haven CT, July 1 2007, 3:12PM.  During the week or so that New Haven was turned into the city of Bedford for the Indiana Jones 4 shoot a few summers ago.

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Arial is not Helvetica;

Yale campus, September 9, 2008, 1:51 PM.

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Raindrops keep fallin’ on my head, and just like the guy who’s feet are too big for his bed–nothing seems to fit, those raindrops are fallin’ on my head, they keep fallin’;

It’s miserable out–grey, wet, icy and shitty–and I’m here listening to two plumbers rip out my toilet to fix a giant crack that’s leaking…something into the basement section underneath the pharmacy below us, and therefore we will be without a toilet until at least tomorrow.  Add to that a sizable 1/5th of our bedroom celing [...]

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When the world seems to shine like you’ve had too much wine, that’s amore;

The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Or:  Loving Darden and Lettuce Entertain You Restaurants
I consider myself extremely lucky:  when I want to go out to eat, I have an amazing variety of local restaurants to visit here in good old New Haven.  If I want wings, I go to Archie Moores; great pizza and beer, I [...]

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And since we have no place to go, let it snow, let it snow, let it snow;

Not sure where we picked it up, but neither Michael nor I have been feeling all that great this week…hence the lack of activity.  That said, we’re expecting our first signficant snow since February (the one that derailed me in the wilds of Chicagoland for a weekend), and therefore are expecting to be relatively shut-in [...]

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La strada arancia;

Due to some issues with the computer freezing up (damn updates), this didn’t get posted this morning, but I wanted to share it anyway:
Technically, I shouldn’t be writing this right now, but thanks to the longest 1-mile backup in recent memory on I-91 this morning, I’m out of jury duty until March.  Seriously, I spent [...]

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It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood, a beautiful day for this neighbor;

(Yes, I know, it’s not terribly original.  Blame it on the excess sun I got today.)
My neighborhood is rather uniqe in that it boasts a lot of vibrantly colored houses, and given that today is just freaking gorgeous out and we had a nice afternoon to ourselves, we first played some tennis, then we headed [...]

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Let’s play Twister, let’s play Risk;

If you’re in New York over the next two days, try to stop by Rockefeller Center, as the artist Chris Burden has created a 65-foot skyscraper out of roughly a million stainless steel pieces that are modeled after Erector Set parts:

Given that the Erector Set was invented here in New Haven, can Mr. Burden please [...]

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Hoppípolla/I engum stígvélum/Allur rennvotur (rennblautur)/I engum stígvélum;

(Note:  normally I don’t like posting the sources of lyrics, but because the above are in Icelandic, I will–this is from “Hoppípolla” by Sigur Rós’s album Takk… and if you haven’t heard this record, download it immediately.  It’s one of my favorite albums to listen while commuting because you can just leave it on and [...]

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