salsa

Getting Settled

November 1st, 2008 · 10 Comments · Uncategorized

I’m up kind of early and not motivated to start organizing and unpacking yet. Yesterday after we moved in we had a lot of house calls.
The Latino dry waller who worked on this building came by looking for our developer, David. He had 6 containers of homemade salsa that his wife made and I [...]

Would You Buy Mike Ditka’s Salsa?

September 22nd, 2008 · 9 Comments · Uncategorized

Jewel, Roscoe Village, Chicago
First I noticed Mike Ditka’s wine being sold at Jewel, now salsa?

El Barco Mariscos

August 8th, 2006 · 9 Comments · Uncategorized

The outtakes from a post I did for Chicagoist on El Barco Mariscos. For more info on the restaurant, read the Chicagoist post. It was funny, we went a few weeks ago and yesterday when the post went up Dallas got a major craving for it again and we went back last night.

On this day...

2008: I Always Feel Like Somebody’s Watching Me — Roscoe Village, Chicago

2007: My Lava Lamp at Work —

2006: French Onion Soup Again — It’s been cold and gray and windy here for the [...]

2005: Behold! The Big Mac — Big Mac, Michigan Ave., Chicago I was pretty hung over [...]

2004: Whoa, I’m HOT — Make your own Virtual Model. (via Whatevs via Zulkey)

2004: What would you do for a bunch of free chocolate? — Fannie May Opening Line, Magnificent Mile, Chicago Fannie May Opening Line, [...]

2004: A Night With Kris & JJG — DePaul University, The Loop, Chicago Last night I met up with [...]

2003: Jess’s First Tooth! — Jessica’s First Tooth!, Oak Creek, WI (Photo by Richard) This is [...]

2003: The Trocadero is no more — About a year ago I was at the post office [...]

2002: My New Gangsta Name — R-Beezy or Rachizzle. Which is a better gangsta name [...]

2001: It’s Going to Catch Up — I was bad today and ate out for both lunch [...]

2001: Instead of a Christmas Tree — I bought a pretty little Christmas Cactus for my [...]

2001: IKEA Instructions — When you buy stuff from Ikea the assemby instructions are [...]