Archive for August, 2006
Festival Blogging
August 23, 2006A little birdie told me that the Toronto Film Fest’s doc program has a new blog. Go check it out.
#12
August 13, 2006
Everything in the glass cases was unfamiliar to me. I saw a Colombian woman ahead of me buying 6 of these so I thought they must be good. I pointed and asked for one. “Esto?” she asked, holding one up. Yes, I said, feeling very conspicuous. I was the only white-bread girl here, the only “foreigner” in this shop. I paid my 60 cents and I don’t know what it’s called but it’s perfect with coffee in the morning. It’s a sweet bread with chocolate sugar formed in thick rows on top. It’s like nothing I’ve ever had before. I’m used to American bakeries (and European ones as well) which are filled with elaborate eye-catching treats that call out “choose me, I’m so pretty!” But at a Colombian Bakery it’s different. Everything looks like a plain roll, nothing is dancing before you with puffs of cream or flecks of gold. Well, there was a cheesecake in the corner and a tray of something that looked like chocolate chip cookies, but even they were different. It’s one of the things I love about this neighborhood–I am pretty much the foreigner here.
Existential Stink
August 10, 2006Gawker is building a list of the smelliest subway stations, mostly consisting of descriptions such as “rotting meat”, “ass”, “human waste”, etc. But one reader pipes up with this suggestion:
“Worst smell is when you pass 989 6th Ave…the smell of emptiness”
D.C.
August 8, 2006
Sorry for the non-uniform photo sizes. I have not mastered the photo editing for this new blog software yet. The above is Shark Week at the Discovery Channel headquarters in Silver Spring and the insanely gentrified D.C. Chinatown.
Eff This Heat
August 2, 2006I’m in Maryland waiting out the heat with central air and automobile transportation. I have new pics but forgot my wires to upload so they’ll have to wait until I get back in a few days.
p.s. my phone died I’m not ignoring you.
