tea-bonics

check out this flickr page of signs from teaparty rallies around the u.s.

do i laugh, do i cry?


tea-bonics

Montreal Bagels in New York City! Let the bagel wars begin!!!!

Fresh St-Viateur bagels are now available in New York City every Saturday morning at the new Montreal-style Deli in Brooklyn - Mile End.

In celebration of the tremendous honor of New York Magazine's Best of 2010 award, Mile End Montreal Bagel is now offering a special rate on pre-orders of Montreal bagels. The hand rolled bagels are picked fresh out of the St-Viateur wood fired oven at midnight on Friday and driven directly to Brooklyn; in other words, from Mile End to Mile End. Available for pickup at 10 AM Saturday, each dozen is now $16.

*** Mile End is now also a vendor at the Brooklyn Flea Market, where they will be selling freshly-imported Montreal bagels, Quebec maple syrup and slicing fresh lox to make bagel/lox sandwiches! ***

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I miss NYC. I miss being able to afford 12 bagels for $16.

odds & ends

1. Justice Stevens is retiring from the US Supreme Court and the interwebs are abuzz with speculation about who Obama will appoint to take Stevens' seat. This article (linked here) is an excellent write-up of a different kind of diversity, sorely lacking on the bench.

2. How f*cked up is Facebook? Rather, how f*gazied are the people on Facebook? Apparently enough so that an application called "Follow Me After I Die" has been created, which allows users to stay connected from beyond the grave. Holy Murphy! The application allows for the creation and dissemination of a final facebook status -- an after-life status message if you will. Like what: "It's all good; I just ran into the Philly Cream Cheese lady and there are bagels for everyone!".

3. I see London, I see France. Well I only saw London, and it was one altogether too short exhausting week of wedding fun & merriment. The two muppets (happily married couple) are on their honeymoon, leaving the rest of us to pick our sleep-deprived selves up from the floor and haul ass back to work.

4. Speaking of work: teaching rocks, marking sways. It's a necessarily evil, however, but who knew it would take so long to do! Not me.

london calling

i've been in london for about a week now. my friend got married on saturday. the jet-lag this trip has been awful - and the combination of jet-lag + lumpy mattress (at the travelodge i stayed at for 3 nights around the date of the wedding) + indian wedding chaos = little to no decent sleep. i thought i had left a suitcase at j.m.'s and m.r.'s in greenwich to take the rest of my stuff back home, but i hadn't. the grey suitcase is somewhere else. but i can't remember where. ny, toronto or vancouver, possibly, i suppose. i'm heading off to buy a suitcase to take my ridiculous supply of books, etc. back. unbelievable how many books i buy and manage to accumulate in a short period of time. i need to get one of those kindle type things. i wish there was a place where i could rent one and try it out for a month or so to see if i'd actually like something like that. i do very much enjoy the tactile nature of reading books and part of me thinks i would hate a kindle, but i definitely wouldn't hate the capacity of a kindle, especially since i am now looking into buying a suitcase for 40 pounds + extra baggage fees, all of which probably will cost more than a kindle!

anyway. i will write more about the wedding & my time in london soon.

p.s. m.r. made eggs bennie today for breakfast (mine was everything minus the eggs) and monmouth coffee. j.m.'s and m.r.'s is the best B'n'B ever!