03 Apr 2010

R: B and I finally got our acts together and after more than four months of talking about doing it, we made the Bacon Explosion aka the Baconator aka Death-by-Bacon. Or rather, I made it by myself since, B did not have courtesy to show up at the appointed time. (Drunk bastard). I was worried even as I was shopping for the ingredients, wondering if I could sneak in turkey/chicken sausage but in the end I gave in to my baser pork-loving instincts and went for the spicy Italian sausage that the recipe calls for.

It was a relatively easy prep but the cooking time is an hour per an inch so we had to wait three to four hours for our little piece of bacon heaven to emerge. Once it did, it looked and smelled AWESOME, albeit deadly. I really hadn't eaten all day thanks to the shopping and the other small errands I had had to run beforehand, plus I'd been drinking beer for the three hours of cooking time so maybe I ate a little too fast...I almost immediately felt my body slow as the cholesterol and fat coursed through my veins, plus I felt dizzy with the sudden sodium rush. Not to be overly dramatic but I could swear my left-arm was going numb, too.

It pains me to admit but bacon was a bad choice.

C: Trying to avoid the crowds from the Anime Boston Convention 2010, we made our way away from Newbury and Boylston and down toward the South End. One of my favorite parts of the Spring are the semi-displaced old men that set up shop along the streets, peddling random sh*t that they probably found in the garbage or slickly absconded from inattentive apartment movers. There is a guy that sits outside of Red Mango on Comm Ave/Huntington, with his little white dog. M noticed a vase that looked like a Jonathan Adler Dora Maar, so we stopped to check the price. The man warned, "That one's very expensive...Fifty - yeah, Fifty dollars." Closer inspection revealed that it probably wasn't an Adler piece, and though $50 is a steal when it looks like a piece that easily costs $500, we declined.

Here are a few of his other treasures - I think this message is a winner.