another bacon chocolate bar
This does not have the pronounced salty, bacon taste as the Vosges Mo’s Bacon Bar. It is quite tasty but I would never recognize the bacon without it being on the label.
Futzing About the Apartment
How is that you can go months without seeing a single cobweb and then, all of a sudden, you find them in every single corner? I feel like Charlotte’s Web has been reenacted in my apartment.
I’m Old or Hey You Kids, Get Off My Lawn
Speaking from the point of view of someone that used to buy Garbage Pail kids candy, ewwwww. You use the “toilet plunger” to pick up the candy sugar like Lick ‘Em Sticks. Except a quick google search shows Lick ‘em Sticks is only in my brain and the name back when I was a kid was Lik-M-Aid. Now called Fun Dip as Lik-M-Aid is apparently too difficult. Or maybe it is a gateway drug to chewing tobacco?
Nope, the niece and nephew are not getting these. The Batman and Snow White Pez dispensers I found at the same place are great though.
Things I Love About DC
Random summer dance parties on city street corners.
What We Did After Batman
M Chat Sighting
I was sauntering up 7th Ave in New York City yesterday working my way toward Penn Station after a business meeting in the Meatpacking district when I spotted the same graffiti cat I had fallen in love with in Paris. I hadn’t realized Monsieur Chat had made it to the US so this was a very happy surprise.
Paris
NYC
Mom, before you worry about me in places like the Meatpacking district - it is now full of high-end fashion houses (including one of my clients) and over a hundred people waiting in line to buy a new iPhone at the Apple store. The worst crowds I have ever experienced, thicker by far than anything I have ever seen at Walt Disney World, were at Penn Station at rush hour. I suspect the sold out Bon Jovi show at Madison Square Garden certainly helped the body count.
Smithsonian Folklife Festival
Originally uploaded by Karon
The Folklife Festival has outdone themselves with an amazing Bhutan Buddist temple in the middle of the mall. I spent a few hours on the mall and only made it through the Bhutan sections of the festival so I have NASA and Texas still to go. Yes, Bhutan, NASA and Texas is a strange combination, I have no idea how the Smithsonian comes up with these festival choices.
Edit to add: This image is part of the Smithsonian Photography Initiative slideshow of the “Best of the 2008 Festival”.
Sometimes it is good to walk home in the rain
Originally uploaded by Karon
You Can Not Leave Without a Panda
You Can Not Leave Without a Panda
Originally uploaded by Karon
This is the back wall of The Panda Store at National Zoo. You have to love their truth in advertising. I did succeed in leaving without buying any stuffed pandas. However I suspect a stuffed red panda and clouded leopard will make their way to my niece and nephew this holiday season. I like those animals better than the giant pandas.
Money Has Changed Hands
I can now say I have officially sold my first photos as I have delivered said pieces to one of the buyers and received money. Whohoo! Three more deliveries to make. I sold six pieces and am doing a trade with another artist for one her prints for a total of seven Artomatic framed photos that I will not have to find a home for in my apartment.