Haiku of wild dog tacos and new york anime festival
I'm on a roll. Two weeks in a row, we have a completely random haiku. It's lovely, ain't it? Lately I just don't feel very poetic on Sundays. This Sunday the fridge was graced with the line, "I want more wild dog tacos." So you see that it just had to be used! I think that line came from Matt, so big props for saving me some work. What would really help the Sunday Haikus (which now mostly fall on Mondays), is if I could have a lifeline.
This past weekend I wanted to go check out the Maid Cafe at the NY Anime Festival. Yea, that's right, a maid cafe, where the waitresses and waiters dress up as maids and butlers. If you've never been to an anime convention before (and I hadn't until this past Saturday)... I highly suggest it at least once in your life. I also went to the NY Comic Con this year, and that one would work too. But if you get a chance to attend a convention where all the people are super duper diehards... it's pretty intense. If you think foodies are nuts, this is like foodies who are nuts, and wear costumes. Pretty great if you think about it.
And during my time at the Anime Fest, I also this two people who dressed up as Doraemon. I totally forgot about Doraemon but it was like the most important cartoon of my childhood. Too bad I suffer from long term memory loss and can't recount any memorable episodes. Any one out there know Doaremon too?
Unfortunately, I couldn't spend all day at the Anime Festival and the Maid Cafe wasn't up and running by the time I had to leave. Having left without hearing a maid call me "Master", the only possible solution was to seek out something soft and sweet. A chocolate tort from Sullivan St Bakery (you know, the one run by Jim Lahey.
If you're wondering what it tasted like, the closest approximation would a brownie. Soft and chocolatey, it was just what my stomach needed. And that was actually followed by some Piece of Chicken wings. Mmmmmm... dessert before fried chicken. My stomach was happy. I highly recommend this combo if you're ever in that area of town.
Anyway, mini announcement that I'm taking a week off from blogging. This week you'll get three guest posts from two different friends. Hopefully this week I can focus on some of the backend work for the blog. You've no doubt noticed that most blogs have tagging and it's something that I really need. I also want to add some google maps on here so we'll see how difficult that is. And yesterday the blog turned one-year-old. Maybe in year-two, I can do some new things, stop being illiterate, and try to take more pictures. See you in a week!
I loved Doraemon when I was little too, I still remember the theme song vividly. So catchy.
The cartoon also made me like dorayaki (red bean cake) since it was what Doraemon ate.
Grace
September 29, 2008 8:05 pm
I also suffer from long term memory loss. Brownie will randomly try to have conversations with me about favorite episodes of Sesame Street and whatnot, until I remind her that I've done some illicit things that basically wiped my memory clean.
Happy blogversary. Goggle maps aren't that hard, we figured them out just haven't put any up because we're lazy. Enjoy your week off!!
Blondie
September 29, 2008 9:25 pm
Yes, happy blogaversary! and many more.
Jonathan
September 29, 2008 10:14 pm
Happy 1-year from me too!
Grace
September 29, 2008 10:17 pm
hey, I want to be a guest blogger! Here's what my entry would look like: Yesterday I wanted to try out The Good Fork in Red Hook, so yesterday I made Matt take the Ikea bus with me. I thought, "It's Sunday at 6, nobody's going to be there!" Then we showed up, and there was an hour wait! So we ended up going to Fairway and bought grass-fed steak for dinner. And made key-lime pies. Key limes are annoying to zest and juice. Too bad I didn't take pictures...But the moral of the story, is to call ahead!
Ang
September 29, 2008 11:40 pm
Wow. Happy blogaversary!
Yvo
September 30, 2008 5:31 pm
Grace,
Yea! Those red bean cake thingies. Yum. Oddly enough, the show did not make me like cats more.
Blondie,
Doesn't it suck when illicit things wipe your memory? That and blacking out...
Grace-athon,
Thanks! :)
Ang,
If you write that, times 5, then ok. And we can add some pictures. voila!
Yvo,
Thanks!
Danny
September 30, 2008 11:31 pm