Monday September 1, 2008
Hey, after more then a month off, I made a post at the new place, about the Hurricanes and whatnot. Just letting you know. Been a long time, and I have some aspirations of beginning to do stuff over there on the regular.
Thursday July 24, 2008
Dino Felipe reviewed on Pitchfork. 7.2: not bad.
Monday July 21, 2008
A front page article in today’s Sun Sentinel pities the poor weather reporters at local TV stations, who have to decide whether to interrupt your programming with hurricane updates or wait for the commercial. Poor babies. You know what? Wait for the frigging commercial. I don’t care how close the storm is to Bermuda. All I care about is is we are actually in a hurricane watch. It’s just not that hard.
Sunday July 20, 2008
Coast Guard target practice boat. The drawbridges on the Venetian Causeway instantly go up for the Coast Guard boats that cruise the neighborhood regularly, but this was my first time seeing this boat, presumably used for deep-sea target practice.
Saturday July 12, 2008
Wow: the mayor of Miami met with the participants of Critical Mass today. (via SFDB)
Friday July 4, 2008
This is the old blog. Go read the new blog, Buildings and Food.
Monday June 23, 2008
Amid news of Carlos Miller being found guilty of resisting arrest in his police-photographing case, we have this: Artist Momoko Sudo harassed and intimidated by Coral Gables police for looking funny and photographing their motorcycle. (via Artblog)
Wednesday June 11, 2008
An illustrated demonstration of the new optical voting machines and accompanying article. It’s like taking a test in college, with multiple-choice bubbles you fill in with a #2 pencil. But so then why do the scanners need to be at the polling stations? Why not a big fast scanner at election headquarters?
Somebody heard my bitching and the Herald has a re-spiffed Twitter feed. If you’re still listening, what we’d like is a feed that updates 2 or three times per day with the cream of the local news.
Thursday June 5, 2008
Lookie here, the Herald has a few Twitter feeds: main, Cuba, weather, and Dolphins.
Sunday June 1, 2008
Home safe & sound. Thanks to all for the good wishes, and for keeping tuned. Blogging resumes tomorrow, with all the trip show and tell and whatnot. Meanwhile, welcome back our weather map, in honor of the first day of hurricane season, and see the twitter updates resume their modest old spot on the sidebar. Unless they keep slowing down the site, in which case maybe gone for good. Also, bear with me while my handlebar-numbed hands reaccustom themselves to a keyboard. It’s been a long ten days.
Wednesday May 21, 2008
Manola gets hassled and bullied at the Raleigh hotel. Idiots.
Tuesday May 20, 2008
“Timberlake turns to us and introduces himself and then, out of nowhere, pulls the girl over and says to her, ‘meet my friend Josh.’” — Stories of folks’ run-ins with celebs at miami.com
Exactly wrong: Miami Dade commissioners are considering raising public transportation rates. Just as they’re cutting routes. And just they should be doing the exact opposite. Also: cut property taxes and raise transit fees = more taxes for the poor, fewer for the rich. Nice work, folks. Update: The Herald agrees.
Scenes from Lung Gong BBQ eel center, house dumplings bottom right, spicy pickled turnips (if everyone tells you to try them you probably should) center right.
Beef tongue, heart, and intestine. I’m not kidding, and it was great (although it did not a tripe convert make of me; if you don’t like chewy meats, stay away from the white bits). Again, order from the traditional menu and the dry-erase boards posted in the restaurant. You may also to check out LG’s website, charmingly devoid of a menu or any other useful information, or any actual photos of any actual dishes served at the restaurant.
Monday May 19, 2008
Haha — Rick Ross’ new album gets a 2.4 on Pitchfork. Update: Ross’ fried seafood joint, Hip Hop Grub Spot, was highly praised in the New Times’ best-of. It’s on 441, a couple of blocks north of Ives Dairy Road. (thanks, CB)
Google map with all the fires currently burning in Florida. From this page on the Dept. of Forestry website. I don’t need to tell you people that the Southwestern winds are bringing the smoke right over us.
Tuesday May 13, 2008
Sassy photos from Miami (NSFW). Chinese food in the belly button: do not try this at home.
