Not, in fact, crazy delicious. Sort of inedible, really. You could do better at your average PTA bakesale.
Note that, contra Ittai, the problem here is not with pouring cake batter into a cup. The batter itself lacks moist goodness and would be unacceptable in cake or cup form.
Everything. You know what’s particularly, surprisingly cheap? CDs. New, popular, major label CDs cost Rs 149 (about $3). Right before I left, I went to Planet M and bought 3 CDs and a DVD* for about $15.
Yesterday, I went to Other Music and spent $50 on 4 CDs. (And 3 of them were on sale!) Boo!
* Are you curious? No? Well I don’t care. They were: Asian Flava Vol 2 (a compilation of Indian hip-hop, which I developed an inexplicable fondness for), the soundtrack to Omkara (because the main single off that (the name of which I do not know because I don’t understand Hindi) makes me want to shake my booty like I just don’t care), Himesh Reshaminiya (because I like his beard), and the DVD of The Killer (which H and I almost went to see in Shimla, before we decided to spend the evening frantically trying (and largely failing) to make train reservations).
[UPDATE 9/17/2006] The booty-shaking track from Omkara is “Beedi”. Go forth and get funky.
After my cry for help last week, I’ve visited three new (to me) sandwich places in the NYU area.
for f in *.old; do mv "$f" "${f%%\.old}.new"; done
The quotes take care of possible spaces in the filename.
LonelyGirl15 is totally fake. Via Ms. Heffernen.
It’s odd: in the last week, as the noose tightened, the videos got much more plot-ty and contrived. The first roughly 15 videos had only the barest whiff of plot, which is what made them so intriguing. I think they were trying to seriously advance the story before the Internets tracked them down…
Searching for “soccer” in my previous posts turns up this post, pre-macaca, describing George Allen as “deeply odd and odious.” I am so fucking smart!
BTW, see here for why Mr. Allen totally knew what he was saying was racist (though his audience probably didn’t). Hint: He’s part French!
Quesadilla, Red Hook style
Originally uploaded by C+H.
Let’s keep it a secret between you and me and the readers of the New York Times, there’s some really great cheap Latin food available down by the Red Hook soccer fields. Tacos, pupusas, quesadillas so big they’ll break off your arm. Last year when we went, we were the only white people around. Now, there’s white people everywhere… If you’ve got a Fairway and some nice pupusas, you’ve got yourself a neighborhood.
[UPDATE 9/11/2006] Food is available every Saturday and Sunday during soccer season. You should go soon, because the season ends in a few weeks.
My Indian Citibank ATM card worked at the local Citibank branch. It did not work at the deli ATM or at some other random bank (Commerce Bank, I think). This is good because, without my knowledge (due to the closure of my company email account), I got a final payroll deposit of several hundred dollars.
I had my first post-India dosa today and… it met expectations. Which expectations were to be disappointed.
You may ask yourself: why would someone just two weeks back from India buy a dosa in New York anyway? And I would answer: because the dosa guy is one of the only interesting places to get a “fast” lunch near NYU.* The other top contenders are Two Boots and Mamoun’s.** (Now that I think about it, I haven’t been to Two Boots or Mamoun’s yet. Somehow today I had the overpowering urge for a dosa. (Damn you, id!))
On the upside, I noticed that the dosa guy also offers uttapam and puttu, which I know I like, but have not had often enough to be a snob about (yet).
People of the world: NYU lunch joints. Recommend. A satisfying lunch has to be purchasable for $5 or less*** and it has to be fast take-out.**** Within five minutes of Warren Weaver Hall is preferred. (Joe’s and Two Boots have me covered for pizza slices. Falafel, schwarma, and South Indian are also covered. (Duh.) If I start going to Chipotle on a regular basis, Hilleary will divorce me.)
* This will seem absurd to some. Having haunted the NYU area for 11 years, I am ridiculously jaded.
** Pamela’s merits an honorable mention (primarily and inexplicably for the peanut butter and apple butter sandwich), but they closed over the summer…
*** Private to Tobi: that’s like five billion Rupees.
**** Fellow NYU grad students seem to think sitting down for an hour at lunch is reasonable. They are wrong.
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