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.

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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.

My biggest mistake...

... Was waiting so long to watch this video at Hey Future...

Eggs Horrible Eggs

Rangers defender and former St Miren hotshot Kirk Broadfoot was injured and spent a night in the hospital after an egg he was microwaving exploded in his face.

Broadfoot scored on his debut for the Scottish national team in a memorable 2-1 victory over Iceland last September and has been a regular with the club ever since.

Eggs! Check 'em out!

ROSS MACDONALD

Been more or less bragging to everyone I see about (more or less) finishing my book shelves. Seriously they look sweet. Pictures when I remember to get batteries. I've been particularly big headed about a new French collection I recently acquired. And Ross Macdonald (I'm reading The Underground Man) handed my butt to me once again with this beauty.

"The walls were lined with books,many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present."

Asshead.

Hank Thompson

Hank Thompson. 3rd Black baller in the bigz. Great in the field. Killer at the plate. Pretty darn good as a New York City cab driver. Crappy armed-robber. Model prisoner. Top notch playground director. And of course, all the rest...

My man.

My other man Ted Hamm wrote book about him that drops at the end of the month, and he asked me to read from it at the big release party at THINK! Sweet!

Thursday May 28, Think Coffee, 1 Bleecker St (at Bowery)

Demolition Depot!

Some finds from a recent trip to Demolition Depot.


This boat shaped wet bar is sweet, but too big for our den.


Nuff' Said!

Demolition Depot
216 East 125th Street
between 2nd & 3rd Avenues
212-860-1138
Check it out!

Festo Aqua/Air Penguins

Please check out the air penguins if you haven't yet.

Go!Festo!Go!Festo!Go!