Low Rise

Low Rise by Peter Root

Staples. Wow. Peter Root! Check him out here!

Seasoning Personas

OK, these are the names and the labels from the new series of pizza seasonings. Each one has a little story to go with it that I think perfectly sums up the character of the seasoning.

There is nothing artificial in any of them. It's all just dried peppers and spices and chilies etc. and a ton of salt. They are delicious and available at Pizza Shop on 7th and A -- where the badasses go to eat pizza pie. I think all the info is below. Enjoy them responsibly. One of the varieties is only available after ten. I'll let you guess which one.







Some of the labels and copy from the seasonings.

Spices Dropped

This is Pizza Shop on 7th and A. It's my favorite daily eating slice in the city. No offense, Ultimate, Two Boots, Patsy's, Alegria on 10th.

Kevin from the Turbo Turbo A.C.s runs the place and seems to know as much about making pizza as he does about making music and looking sweet!

He's also carrying my new line of pizza seasonings. That's right I have pizza seasonings now. They're like spicy bad tempered foster children to me. I love them so.

Check out these and Kevin's pecs at:
PIZZA SHOP
110 Avenue A
New York, NY 10009
(212) 614-9798

Alternate, with Lila May!

Some of the Halloween Line up.

Metroid!


R-Tronika!


DjZesto

Pistola!

This is Going to be Beautiful...

So... This is a draft of one of the posters for the Halloween party I am doing with CarolaP, DacyD, Mapu and Alex Eyeball from Eyeball records. Normally I don't use the term off-the-chain, but I am in love with this new space, and have been wanting to do a party Uptown for ever-so-long.

If you live in the city, keep your eyes peeled for these cards:

They're good for free entry and a free drink.

In case you wondered...

I'm doing just fine.

Trespass Magazine

Me and Doug are in the new Trespass. Out Today in London, and probably some of your sweeter magazine stores right here in the city. You can also get it here.

PS. 28

New mural at my daughter's school. Wish I would have taken a photo of the old one.

Eat This Society

Classic from a bygone era.

Wow! Just found this flier for me and Juan Mapu's old psychedelic rock night at the Monkey Room on 187th. That place was a lot of fun. Haven't been for a few years, but I'll try to get the camera up there soon and kick down a report.

Now for a true gem of a bygone era click let Josh Music and Early Mike melt your ears off with Spirits of Turpentine!

Katherine Sharpe

Holy Modal Rounder! I just found out my good friend and occasional fencing partner Katherine Sharp is writing this thing for ReadyMade magazine. You should totally go check it out right now! It's about not using plastic for a week.

What does that mean? You ask. Go find out dude.

I wrote something for ReadyMade once. It was about this guy who made a wine-rack out of a box-spring for his cool, little coffee shop in Burlington Vermont. Never got paid. Could really use that $100 right now Shoshana.

All that aside I do really dig the magazine, and Katherine. She publishes 400Words. It's sweet.

So is she, but her writing packs a powerful punch.

Katherine Sharpe. Check her out!

Carla Torres

So, do you remember our friend who brought us the huge, mind-numbingly delicious Tiramisù a few weeks back. Well she moved into the building with an illustrator named Carla Torres whose illustrations rocked me from my neck to my knees. Her site is really worth a look.

They also had the best housewarming party I've been to in years.

Carla Torres. Check her out.

Wooster Collective

Am I late on this Wooster Collective thing? I am? Awesome.

Renzo Ortega.

This dude has quietly been building a pretty impressive body of work over the past several years.

Check him out here.

Update on Taqueria Alayna's

Unbeknownst to me, pretty much simultaneoulsy as I wrote my review of Taqueria Alayna's, they were in the process of selling the shop and preparing to open an actual sit-down restaurant in San Antonio.

While I am, on the one hand very happy for their supposed upgrade, I also was pretty devastated to hear this news. After further inquiry, I learned that the owner's daughter was going to stick around to assist the new owners during the transition period. This gave me hope that at least they were going to try to stay true to Alayna's as best as possible.

Since the switch over, I have gone there a couple of times. The portions are still generous, the tacos are still tasty, and the hot sauce is... well it's good. It's not the same. It's close and it's good, but it's not quite the same. That extra little kick seems to have dissipated.

Overall, still a great taco stand. But a little of the something special has moved to San Antonio with the original owners. Oh, and now they're called Taco-Mex (lame).

Still worth the trip though. I'm getting a little hungry writing this...

Selections from my daughter's camera

While at first these may simply be images taken from the point-of-view of a 4 1/2 year old girl, they do seem to hold a perspective on the world that delves deeper into the artisitc mind of said girl.

Without having any instruction other than "here's where you look and here's the button you press." she has frequently abided by the photographic composition Rule of Threes. That rule being that were you to split the photo into nine boxes, the subject of the photo should not be in the center box but rather just off center near one of the four hash marks created by the horizontal and vertical lines.

For the most part the composition and any artisitc merit could easily be written off as merely accidental or random. But at the same time one can't write it off alltogether as simply chance.

I'm not saying these are works of genius that should be on display in the Whitney (although should the curator of the Whitney happen to read this please feel free to contact me about working something out) but some of them are at least as good as any pretentious art school undergrad.

That being said, I did have to scroll through a lot (a lot (I mean a lot)) of pictures of the cat and close-ups of her brother's face where the flash completely blanched out anything that made him recognizable.

Look, the bottom line is I thought some of these were pretty cool to have been taken by a little kid. I like 'em, thought someone else out there might also. (But seriously, my kid's a badass photographer, right?)

Lila May is turning six

Be Nice. Eat Good Food.

A wonderful friend of ours stopped by the other night and proceeded to almost die for about nine hours. It was a tough night, but that's what you do.

Last night the same friend stopped by with a gigantic whole Tiramisù and a beautiful thank you card.

The Tiramisù was mind numbingly good. I have actually passed this place a few times and wondered if it was worth checking out. It is. Seriously, I didn't even think I liked Tiramisù. Wow.

If you decide to stop by and try a piece I recommend eating it to this jam by Comets on Fire.

So anyway, it's like I say... Be nice, eat good food.

Cafe Lalo. Check it out!
201 W 83rd St
New York, NY 10024
(212) 496-6031

Brooklyn Public House

This place is about as good an afternoon beer and burger place as I can think of. Especially if you happen to be in Brooklyn in the afternoon for some weird reason.

The service was awesome. The bartender was friendly as hell and helpful and seemed to know what he was talking about. Three qualities bartenders often lack.

The burger he recommended was ridiculous and delicious, just the way I like them. The wings were ... well they were the kind my wife likes. Ten points. Everything was great except the homemade chips. they were seriously crap. Don't know if it was a bad batch or they were experimenting with using pine instead of potato that day, but it really didn't matter. Everything else was so good I just gave the chips to a jogger.

Brooklyn Public House. Check it out!
247 Dekalb Ave, between Vanderbilt and Clermont, Brooklyn

Josh Wonderful Josh

Josh Musick took me out to see Star Trek the other day, the day it opened at 10:00 a.m. on the I-Max. That's right, I'm friends with Josh Musick, and I saw Star Trek. Then he took me to the Brooklyn Public House and got me that burger in the photo above.

What a great guy. Here he is pictured below with the New York monument that he says best sums him up.