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All topics this week were suggested by Sophie, MacKenzie’s mom.

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Saturday night I went to Cameo in Williamsburg to see Fall On Your Sword, a rather awesome band featuring my pals James and Wills.  While they defy easy genre classification (overheard throughout the evening: “sci-fi lo-fi,” “progressive geekcore,” “gay German disco”), two things are for damn certain - they get a crowd dancing, and David Hasselhoff eating a cheeseburger is even more glorious when seen on the big screen.  Each song is accompanied by a video mash-up of science fiction gems (Leia in her gold bikini, lots of Shatner, The Hoff in Knight Rider AND Starcrash), and last night’s show featured a very special tribute to Michael Jackson.  I’m not sure how I missed this, but apparently Jacko starred alongside Anjelica Huston in a Francis Ford Coppola film shown exclusively at Disneyland.  Captain EO can be viewed in its entirety on YouTube, but here’s a link to the climactic musical number, “We Are Here To Change The World,” which is a little bit like Star Wars meets Care Bears.

Also, somewhat inexplicably, Billy Zane was at the show.  If it’s good enough for Billy Zane, it’s good enough for me.

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Mark Rothko, or unused subway station ad space? Either way, this is what I felt like on the inside this weekend. No more details to come.  

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Meringue FAIL.  Sure, they look pretty, but those whimsical white tufts belie unacceptably chewy centers.  I blame the continuing inclement weather - we’ve had 17 days of rain so far in June.  Does this look like LONDON?  Do I choose to live in PORTLAND?  If I wanted gross, chewy meringues, I’d live in Ireland, now wouldn’t I?  The meringues were supposed to be the dessert course of a lovely meal featuring the first produce of my CSA season (radishes with buttered bread, sea salt; roasted chickpeas with chard, garlic scapes, shallots; chicken thighs with mustard, dill, and homemade yogurt), but instead I closed the meal with the bitter taste of failure.  Not delicious.

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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again⎯New York City has some of the most witty, intelligent, poignant and beautiful graffiti.

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Behold the pitiful state of my bike circa Saturday.  Last fall, my front wheel was unceremoniously stolen from the foyer of my building (Apt. 4L, I’m looking at you), and I couldn’t be arsed all winter to replace it.  But with summer in partial swing, I finally got my act together and trotted down to my local bike shop.  I’d say the intimidation factor was somewhere between walking into a weightroom full of ‘roided out meatheads and finding myself on a job where everyone else is a Teamster.  I don’t know anything about bikes (did you know wheels come in all different sizes??), but Henry at Brooklyn Bicycles managed to get me sorted with a new wheel, an extra tube, and perhaps most importantly, a cute wooden basket.  So now I’m ready to hit the streets, and by streets I mean only those that are flat or downhill.

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If you told me in the fall of 2007 when I was leaving New York for L.A. that I’d be back in a few years living in Williamsburg, Brooklyn I’d have said, “Let me borrow your blank prescription pad, because you’re CLEARLY on something not over the counter.” And yet, here I stand, on the corner of “loud music emanating from a car swaddled in an oversized Puerto Rican flag” and “overpriced brunch place that won’t hire me as a server even though I have a college degree, infested with bearded yuppie hangovers.” I don’t recognize this New York, but I’m looking forward to getting to know it this summer. 

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