Blog Master G

Everyone’s writing about it. And all the dogs are doing it. Every Thursday this summer, Broadway shop Sloppy Kisses is hosting Yappy Hour at The Inn at Saratoga, a bit further south down Broadway. The event started June 21, but last night was our first time going, and Happy Dingo McGee made his debut, along […]

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Inspired last night by Alex & Cati’s infamous pizza-ettes (see here and here), Jen and I decided to take a stab at making them ourselves (OK, well mostly Jen, but I did more than my fair share in eating them!). We made 4 of the wheat pita-based wonders — 2 with feta and artichoke hearts […]

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Saturday brought us back to our old college town of Poughkeepsie for our third and final wedding of the summer: That of Sam and Amelia in the Vassar Chapel, the very same place where Jen and I got married nearly 4 years ago. All 3 weddings we attended this summer were all friends from Vassar, […]

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Yet again, Michael Moore delivers. Friday night Jen and I joined Tom and Anne for Sicko, Moore’s latest film about the shoddy state of the health care industry in the U.S. The San Francisco Chronicle review of the film (my usual source for trusted reviews) gave it the standing, clapping man, its best review. The […]

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Tonight when there was a lull in the pouring rain I grilled up some broccoli marinated in vinaigrette and some fake jalapeño-cheddar hot dogs. Along with Jen’s homemade pasta-coleslaw salad and fried potatoes, it was a most delicious hot summer evening meal. I ate two of the not-dogs, and I’m pretty stuffed. On the 4th […]

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Living the American dream, we spent (the first part of) our 4th of July on our porch (before heading to Matt & Dana’s for a BBQ), reviewing and learning how to tie various sailing knots, such as the bowline, the figure 8, and a number of other knots kindly provided by Grog. Back in the […]

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Last Sunday, on the morning after the 2nd Annual Sangria Social, a houseful of happy and hungover friends somehow awoke before 10am. The house was only slightly a disaster zone, but we didn’t care. We weren’t fazed by the fact that a 7-month-old and his parents would soon be arriving. On their way to Montreal […]

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This morning I awoke to a house without coffee (the horror!). So before I did just about anything else — aside from gathering up my collection of 12 “1 free small cup of coffee” cards (good in exchange for a free pound) and a handful of change ($2 worth for half a dozen day-old bagels) […]

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OK, so after yet another long, fun-filled weekend, I spent most of today blogging. It’s probably the longest continuous blogging I’ve done in the history of my blogging — and now that my archives total 1,595 posts (this will be 1,596), that’s saying a lot! — and surely the highest number of consecutive posts in […]

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With Jane here in Saratoga and Teresa & Eva in Albany visiting Alex & Cati from Spain, ’twas the season for sangria. Last Saturday evening the stars and the moon were in alignment and Sangria Social Dos came to life. It had been almost exactly a year since the original Sangria Social 2006 was born, […]

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