endorsements.
things i am backing these days:
pret-a-manger: ah, this wonderful eatery, with locations all over midtown, brings me back to london school of economics days, when young, slightly hungover americans (and myself) would duck into the joint right across the street from school to scarf down exorbitantly priced, ready-made sandwiches. the nostalgia factor is present, but not the dominant reason i have made pret-a-manger my new go-to lunch place (ousting cosi's and chipotle's). first of all, it's all organic, for those of you who care. secondly, it's quick and convenient (right around the corner from work). and most importantly, it's cheap (far cheaper than london)... today i bought a half-sandwich (i love that they have half-sandwiches), soup, and a bottle of water: $8.00. sweet. also, their packaging provides endless entertainment, i enjoy that they make references to lord of the rings (elevenses), especially since i've been eating like a hobbit lately (i have about three breakfasts a day.)
sudoku toilet paper (via make you go hmmm). there are many wonderful places to do sudoku. you can do it in bed, or on the subway, or when you get to work during your lunch break. but the best place to do it, by far, is on the can.
older men. i'm a reformed ageist. i will now raise my ceiling from 26 to 30.
jameson irish whisky. i confess to never having tried jameson without a shot of bailey's and a half-pint of guinness. now that i've tried it with nothing more than an ice cube, i can say that i like it. god bless triple distilling.
brooklyn: did you know that there is a world outside of manhattan? only my second time leaving the island for another burrough (not including the numerous times i've missed my stop and had to travel back on the subway). actually, what i really back is the polish bar, europa, we went to in greenpoint, brooklyn, which seemed to have been plucked from the streets of warsaw: polish bartender, polish waitresses, and the quintessential european dance floor. you know what i'm talking about. and no evening is complete without a polish hip-hop artist singing about the hardknock life of pierogies and slaw.
facetiousness: usually, i'm a very honest person. but, i now understand the appeal of what cameron would call "embellishments." except, i wasn't really garnishing my stories as much as i was downright lying. i'm going to blame it on jason, who started the whole thing by telling me that he was born in a manger in spanish harlem. so, i thought, "two can play at that game, and anything you can do i can do better." over the course of two hours, i told one of the biggest whoppers of my life, and jason was none the wiser. he was particularly stupefied when i convinced him that i had never left the united states, in my whole life, except once when i was stopped en route to windsor canada, and spent five minutes on the canadian side of the border before being sent back to michigan. before we parted ways, i clued him into the fact that the only truth uttered that evening was that i lived on the upper west side. oh, and that i had gone to u of m. the look on his face was priceless.
pret-a-manger: ah, this wonderful eatery, with locations all over midtown, brings me back to london school of economics days, when young, slightly hungover americans (and myself) would duck into the joint right across the street from school to scarf down exorbitantly priced, ready-made sandwiches. the nostalgia factor is present, but not the dominant reason i have made pret-a-manger my new go-to lunch place (ousting cosi's and chipotle's). first of all, it's all organic, for those of you who care. secondly, it's quick and convenient (right around the corner from work). and most importantly, it's cheap (far cheaper than london)... today i bought a half-sandwich (i love that they have half-sandwiches), soup, and a bottle of water: $8.00. sweet. also, their packaging provides endless entertainment, i enjoy that they make references to lord of the rings (elevenses), especially since i've been eating like a hobbit lately (i have about three breakfasts a day.)
sudoku toilet paper (via make you go hmmm). there are many wonderful places to do sudoku. you can do it in bed, or on the subway, or when you get to work during your lunch break. but the best place to do it, by far, is on the can.
older men. i'm a reformed ageist. i will now raise my ceiling from 26 to 30.
jameson irish whisky. i confess to never having tried jameson without a shot of bailey's and a half-pint of guinness. now that i've tried it with nothing more than an ice cube, i can say that i like it. god bless triple distilling.
brooklyn: did you know that there is a world outside of manhattan? only my second time leaving the island for another burrough (not including the numerous times i've missed my stop and had to travel back on the subway). actually, what i really back is the polish bar, europa, we went to in greenpoint, brooklyn, which seemed to have been plucked from the streets of warsaw: polish bartender, polish waitresses, and the quintessential european dance floor. you know what i'm talking about. and no evening is complete without a polish hip-hop artist singing about the hardknock life of pierogies and slaw.
facetiousness: usually, i'm a very honest person. but, i now understand the appeal of what cameron would call "embellishments." except, i wasn't really garnishing my stories as much as i was downright lying. i'm going to blame it on jason, who started the whole thing by telling me that he was born in a manger in spanish harlem. so, i thought, "two can play at that game, and anything you can do i can do better." over the course of two hours, i told one of the biggest whoppers of my life, and jason was none the wiser. he was particularly stupefied when i convinced him that i had never left the united states, in my whole life, except once when i was stopped en route to windsor canada, and spent five minutes on the canadian side of the border before being sent back to michigan. before we parted ways, i clued him into the fact that the only truth uttered that evening was that i lived on the upper west side. oh, and that i had gone to u of m. the look on his face was priceless.
posted by cheeky monkey at 5:08 PM
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SUDOKU TOILET PAPER?? Why didnt i read your blog sooner? Im going to buy like 8000 rolls.
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