19 September 2008
As my conversation with Kristy and Patrick at the bar last weekend turned to politics, two other patrons within earshot expressed their disdain with icy silence proportional to our increasing application of decibels. It became clear that their body language was expressly directed at us, and we considered the possibility that continuing our conversation would lead to the necessity of physically incapacitating two men larger than either of us. In short, we began preparing for a bar fight.
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24 September 2007
Had I visited Montréal when I was 19, buying too much second-hand music, attuned to markers of soi-disant hipness through vodka hazes, and leading a life of dissipation, dressed in dubious vintage, it would’ve been the place I would’ve liked to grow old. It strikes me as a stubbornly unique place, the one city in all of North America that acknowledges its European colonial heritage as integral to its identity — Vieux-Port cobblestones, haute cuisine, and all things vintage — under a Francophone umbrella.
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11 April 2007
I had tried, or I should say, I am still trying and writing and researching and conversing and attempting to construct a narrative that somehow casts the activities of my European vacations and the months between as myth and metaphor, a microcosm of the improvisational information architecture, anomalies of sociology, and decline of western civilization in the first decade of the 21st century. Given the pretentious mess that promises to be, this chapter of my pop-music autobiography may be the closest thing to a straight narrative of my week’s sojourn in Brussels and Paris, 11-19 November 2006, I might extract from that unwieldy text.
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8 March 2007
Found on a 200 mL tub of Tesco Finest crème fraîche.
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9 February 2007
Palapa flan ice cream, banana, wild honey, grated Scharffen Berger 99% cacao, grated pecans, mint garnish.
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6 May 2006
Left: Häagen-Dazs vanilla, Bosc pear, candied walnuts, chocolate syrup, one strawberry, one Perugina Baci, shaved Scharrfen Berger 70% and crumbled pistachios. Right: Häagen-Dazs strawberry cheesecake, strawberries (¾ pound), shaved Scharrfen Berger 70% and crumbled pistachios.
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