Along with a number of other area bloggers, I’m participating in the “First Annual Pittsburgh Celebrity Bloggers NCAA Pool.” My involvement would seem to indicate that the term “Celebrity” is being used very loosely here, but the two dozen or so other participants are rather impressive. I watch very little basketball. I do usually tune …
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Gin: the original flavored vodka
I’m not a big gin drinker, but I’m a fan of Bombay Sapphire. Yes, it’s pricey, but it’s also crisp and has pleasing herbal flavors. Ten botanicals, to be exact: almonds, lemon peel, liquorice, juniper, orris, angelica, coriander, cassia bark, cubeb berries, and grains of paradise. The grains of paradise make the drink, of course. …
Book centipede
Saw this at Pinky’s Paperhaus — I still haven’t finished logging my library in LibraryThing, but marking up this list seems doable. But who came up with this wacked out list?? Such bizarre choices. Rules: “Look at the list of books below. Bold the ones you’ve read, italicize the ones you want to read, cross …
Liveblogging the Pittsburgh Symphony
A quick note from the blogging event at the Symphony: You should be here. I’m very sorry you’re not. We’ve enjoyed amazing performances of three wonderful works, plus the bonus of meeting the composer Christopher Theofanidis. For the second work, Beethoven’s Concert No. 1 in C major, the soloist was Yefim Bronfman, who I am …
What to do this weekend
Three activities this weekend that will make it worth your while to dig yourself out from the snow: 1. The Muckleman is playing at City Theatre through February 18. At the opening night party I asked some people at the bar to help me summarize the play in ten words. We came up with this: …
Spirited Cuisine: Brandy
This is the fourth installment in the Spirited Cuisine series from Sri Bala (Shaman) and me. Each round, I select a liquor or spirit, and Sri creates a dessert recipe incorporating it. Find Sri’s posts at his blog and mine here within the Lush Life category. Brandy is the world’s oldest spirit — as old …
“I’ve never thought twice about the safety”
I’ve been on a video shoot this morning, so I haven’t read much of anything about the convention center collapse in Pittsburgh. But from what I’ve read so far here here and here, the David L. Lawrence Convention Center seems to be turning into Pittsburgh’s version of Boston’s John Hancock Tower. The building’s most dangerous …
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BlogFest 9
It’s time for the first BlogFest of 2007! WHAT: Pittsburgh Blogfest 9 WHEN: Thursday, February 22, 2007, 5:30 PM to 9:30 PM and beyond! WHERE: Finnegan’s Wake (near PNC Park, 20 General Robinson St., North Shore, 412-325-2601), in the Pub Room WHO: All local bloggers AND: Creating Text(iles) (in absentia), Inner Bitch, My Brilliant Mistakes, …
Spirited Cuisine: Drambuie, “the drink that satisfies”
This is the third installment in the Spirited Cuisine series from Sri Bala (Shaman) and me. Each week or so I select a liquor or spirit, and Sri creates a dessert recipe incorporating it. Find Sri’s posts at his blog and mine here within the Lush Life category. Last fall on BBC America, I started …
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Coffee update
I’m drinking 100% Colombian from 8 O’Clock Coffee again today. (See previous posts for background.) Have had about 2.5 cups, which amounts to about 20 oz as I use 8 oz Irish coffee mugs for my daily brew. No headache so far. The coffee tastes much the same as yesterday: It’s nothing to write home …