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Pork in East Williamsburg
Another pork-related guest post from Michelle: Less than 24 hours after Felix returned from Shanghai we cycled over the B’Burg Bridge for more summer weekending in Brooklyn. This time 85 degrees with...
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Department of weird banners, Cambridge edition
The University of Cambridge is celebrating its 800th birthday this year, and so all around the town are banners like this one: The obvious question, of course, is what is the significance of those...
View ArticleUmbrellas, cont.
Old friends of mine might remember a question about umbrellas I had back in the 1990s. Has Mark Hurst come up with an answer (page 25)?
View ArticleOn Dave Weigel
So I haven’t updated felixsalmon.com in forever, and I feel I’m very late to the Dave Weigel party, having spent most of my day doing other things like watching the World Cup and swimming in the...
View ArticleAmerican Express blows me a raspberry
My name has been pronounced many weird ways over the years, but never quite like this:
View ArticleThe hateful Jonathan Franzen
I’m a fan of the New Yorker on Facebook. So I should be able to read the Jonathan Franzen essay about David Foster Wallace and Robinson Crusoe, no? No. Turns out that TNY’s clever gimmick about opening...
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Kermit kontest
The fifth annual* Von Salmon Wine Contest returned to the East Village last night, and this one was the nerdiest yet. Rather than use grape varieties (Pinot Noir, Merlot, Rioja) or region (Beaujolais)...
View ArticleCooper Union’s response
Here is the response I received from Jolene Travis, Assistant Director of Public Affairs, Media Relations at Cooper Union, after she read my post. Dear Felix, After reading “Occupy Cooper Union”...
View ArticleJargon Watch, Media Edition
In her Fishbowl NY exit interview, Rachel Sklar says that she’s “excited to do stuff in other verticals”. Earlier today, a friend of mine in the media unselfconciously used the words “surface” and...
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Victory
Only twice have I seen lots of American flags on the streets of downtown New York. Once was after 9/11; the other time was last night, after the election of Barack Obama. An impromptu midnight street...
View ArticleThe Prop 8 Hypocrites
This is the kind of thing which tipped support for Proposition 8 over the 50% mark: The NYT boils the story down to one paragraph: A total of $73 million was spent on the race there, a record for a...
View ArticleHave the Democrats moved to the left?
Brad DeLong: One way in which 2009 is different from 1993 is that the Democratic Party is far to the left of where it was back then–let alone back in 1977. Is the Democratic party the only major...
View ArticleBroken link datapoint of the day
Four years ago, Apartment Therapy ran a Sleeper Sofa competition. (Evidently, four years ago the switch from “sofabeds” to “sleeper sofas” had already happened.) Apartment Therapy put together a...
View ArticleTasting menus
Pete Wells will tell you, and show you, and talk about, what you get for $1500: a 20-course meal, with paired wines. Gael Greene has the play-by-play, including this: Several tables have emptied even...
View ArticleFurther Adventures in Fried Pork
Have you been to Back Forty recently? The first thing on the menu is a $4 starter of “Pork Jowl Nuggets with Jalepeno Jam” which is, I swear, the single greatest dish being served in New York City...
View ArticleAlex Kuczynski’s Moral Blindness
How is it possible that Lisa Wilson, in a three-sentence, 58-word letter to the editor, can raise more serious and more interesting moral issues surrounding the institution of surrogacy than Alex...
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Pig’s head
A special guest post by Michelle Vaughan: The butcher at Marlow & Daughters ran after us. “Wait. Are you sure you know what you’re doing?” Us: “No, not a clue.” Him: “Make sure to soak it in a...
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Pedestrianize Broadway! (Redux)
Back in 2005, I put up a blog entry entitled “Pedestrianize Broadway!” in which I waxed rhapsodic about Broadway being made a pedestrian thoroughfare at least from Columbus Circle down to Union Square....
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Studio Sale
My incredibly talented wife, Michelle Vaughan, is having a studio sale tomorrow — come pick up some bargains! The official announcement: Flat file sale by the work of Michelle Vaughan… there will be...
View ArticleA public wine contest
If you’ve been reading on this blog about the various wine contests I’ve held over the years, you might have wondered when you’d be invited to one. Well, that day has now come! Michelle and I have...
View ArticleWhite wine contest results
A good time was had by all at the wine contest last night, the rain notwithstanding. The wonderful Pasanella & Son laid on five wines for us, all of them sauvignon blanc or thereabouts. Wine A was...
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Eclipse
It was touch-and-go there, pretty much all the way. In the days leading up to today, Stefan was obsessively checking the forecasts and the satellite pictures, looking at an enormous thundercloud, at...
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