Wilfrid
-
Posts
3,003 -
Joined
-
Last visited
-
Days Won
73
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Articles
Events
Posts posted by Wilfrid
-
-
Actual sleet right now.
-
1
-
-
Thanks but Memphis isn't on my list. I have done Tennessee a lot. Trying to get to new places.
-
I guess I am cheerful. My apartment is so clean I don't dare touch anything. I treated it to a deep clean, partly because I had read about a Brooklyn-based Latin women's collective. I would be paying the women and their own business rather than some .com.
It was great, but two women working hard for 6 hours is obviously 12 hours of cleaning. They should have charged more!
I did tip heartily.
-
1
-
-
On 1/19/2025 at 2:07 PM, Wilfrid said:
I retired to the bar at the Meriden where the drinks are well made. My only companion at the bar, a stunning young African woman keen to click glasses with me. We had really good conversation...
Re-reading this thread. Amazingly we are still in touch, although she moved to Marbella. Social media has its uses.
-
Clarksdale does look great but not sure it's a good idea to visit only Clarksdale. Combining with Jackson means almost four hours on the Greyhound and that is not going to be a roundtrip; I'd come home via Memphis, only 90 mins on the bus.
Am I missing something?
-
Today's nine-course tasting menu at Hisop includes...
Aioli of sea urchins
Artichokes with cod fish maw and black butifarra sausage
Chanterelles with eel and passion fruit
Venison with chard, chocolate and squid
A dessert featuring trompetas de la muerta
95 euros for the whole thing, 130 with wine pairings.
No I am not in Barcelona. Heaven knows why not.
-
Milk & Honey did that too, pre-Attaboy, he commented irrelevantly.
-
-
Starting to think about my next domestic leisure trip. I had initially thought Alabama and Mississippi might be combined, but I underestimated distances (and I am not driving).
Just to help me narrow things down, I would welcome any opinions about the best cities to visit in those states. Obviously I am looking at Birmingham and Mobile and Jackson (Clarksdale looks interesting). Anything better?
-
"Any dietary restrictions?"
Yes, nothing fermented.
-
1
-
-
Still thumbing through the old diaries I started keeping when I came to New York to live. Some surprises. Apparently I saw Pharoah Saunders at Iridium. No memory of that.
Then, March 19, 1998, one of my New York highlights. I vividly remember duetting with Goldie Hawn ("As Time Goes By") while riding the elevator in my building. I had known she and Kurt Russell had the penthouse, so it kind of made sense. We were both tipsy. What I could not have remembered, but what the contemporary diary entry tells me, is that it was two in the morning.
-
3
-
-
Strong recommendation for "Or Something" which I randomly discovered on Mubi. Basically a woman and a man, Mary Neely and Kareem Rahma, thrown together by circumstances on a cold, wet day in New York. They cover a lot of ground in every sense (including my neighborhood). They are funny, angry, dumb, believable. And there's a hilarious cameo by Brandon Wardell as Teddy.
Can't say much more without spoilers. It's just really good.
-
Rosner's piece on Jamaican patties in the city is very useful, but when placing the snack on a pedestalshe writes as if empanadas didn't exist. Odd.
-
Second part of my chicken gizzards from, oK, Kmart. Added some mushrooms and a spoonful of sour cream. So good, and this was two dinners from less than $5 of the main ingredient.
-
1
-
-
Paola Ruiz, she came in when the original rhythm section left. She's really sweet (translation, she remembers me when I show up).
Fun fact, she gets to do all the parts from tracks where male singers were on the original, like Beck on "Boom Boom Back" and more extensively on "Stranger." And the crowd go wild.
Of course it's not like she sounds like a dude, but Ana and Cisi already have their parts.
"Stranger":
-
-
I apologise for my inappropriate hyphen.
-
1
-
-
One of the great pleasures in my life for a while now.
-
I did see a Television reunion performance, but the last time I saw Tom was on the 14D bus when he was perhaps pretending to be asleep.
Long before that I was in the USPS on 14th Street in line to pick up a package behind someone who looked vaguely familiar. He got to the front of the line and quietly asked for a package for Richard Hell.
-
Just finished Farewell and for all its many faults, when the power comes it really comes. The story about the ants a couple of pages from the end; he is knowingly trying for Dostoevsky but in a few simple sentences.
And the end should make anyone cry.
-
So, I was supposed to eat these gesiers/gizzards/mollejas last night, but I like them cooked really slow and tender. Some cultures flash fry them and eat them crunchy like chicharrones. So I gave them three hours in a casserole with onions and some wine last night.
I had bought them from a K-Mart so they had a Korean marinade and I poured that sauce in as I warmed them. So good. Less than $5 and I only ate half tonight.
-
Hinds first album released 10 years ago today. On the playlist for tonight.
"Castigadas en el Granero" is still a climactic point in the live set. And I still don't know what it's about, even translated.
-
@backyardchef Did not see it. Thank you.
-
1
-
-
I finally got around to Elena Ferrante's so-called Neapolitan novels. I've been dipping in and out for a while and will finish the fourth volume tonight.
I say "so-called" because (as the author herself has pointed out) this is simply one novel, published in four volumes because it's something like 1700 pages. In the original Italian, the novel is called L'amica geniale.
Wikipedia says: "The Neapolitan Novels, also known as the Neapolitan Quartet, are a four-part series of fiction..." What? I cynically wonder if this is a ruse by the English language publishers to encourage people to start with any volume, which would be a huge mistake.
Anway, I'd avoided these for a while because of my suspicion of anything that's really popular, but they are certainly highly readable. I did tire occasionally of the endless romantic flings with indistinguishable local boys (Rino and Nino and Marcello and Michele and so on...) but the main female characters are interesting. And to my surprise, the fourth volume is the best. Very long novels can exhaust themselves.
The longevity of Steve R
in Sports
Posted
I get all that from walking down the street somewhere like around Times Square. Obvious physical effort plus figuring out very fast what other people are planning to do (stop, swerve, stop again, jaywalk badly).