March 2009
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Rich Harvest
Harvest Vine — 2701 E Madison St Seattle, WA 98112
Tonight was our second meal at Basque cuisine restaurant Harvest Vine, located on the back side of Capitol Hill. Serving small plates in a tapas tradition, the Vine is a great venue to try a few bites of each dish that comes to the table.
The first time around, four of us sat scrunched tightly around a tiny beaten copper table in the...
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Thus Baked Zarathustra
Ever since I stumbled on the Seattle Edible Book Festival, Leif and Nick and I have been brainstorming what punny book-themed dish would be best. Some of our favorites are below, though my entry will hopefully be unveiled at the Festival proper!
No Chutney for Old Men / No Country for Old Men.
The Bars My Mastication / The Stars My Destination. (Lemon bars will take you wonderful places).
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I THOUGHT OBAMA WOULD BUY ME AN IPHONE →
…and that he would take me to that cool bar he was always talking about.
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“Glittering Clouds” Imogen Heap
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WatchGomibako trailer is a pile of trash
I want to play! I hope this eventually gets released in the US. Also, I’m digging on the “Causing much mayhem dropping drama!” theme.
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To Each...
Tonight, I saw a man order a glazed donut and an iced chai. He then proceeded to dunk the donut fully into the chai, submerging it, and then break it into smaller chunks with a spoon. Once this donut chai mush was thoroughly mixed, he then began to spoon gulps of it into his mouth.
It was simultaneously the most disgusting but most creative thing I’ve seen in a long time, apart from the...
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Spirits, Spooks and Science
A friend of mine recently recommended Gunnerkrigg Court, a sprawling, story-based webcomic about a mysterious school that instructs its pupils in some very unconventional subjects. I began it and finished all 538 pages in one night, delighting in both the supernatural tangential humor and the very compelling plot on which the whole works revolves.
That plot centers around a grave little girl with...
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WatchFez: A crazy hit among indie game fans at last year’s GDC. Now that a year has passed by, a new trailer has arrived to steal the show yet again!
Absolutely glorious. Can’t wait to play this one!
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Full-Circle
It’s now time for your weekly music-related unnecessary knowledge! The parties concerned are Daytona USA and Street Fighter II. Thanks to the wonders of YouTube, I’ve been able to see what happens when classic tracks from both games get reinterpreted by the other side.
Subject 1: Daytona USA - The King of Speed
Takenobu Mitsuyoshi was a bit of an infamous composer over at SEGA...
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The Seattle Edible Book Festival →
In another chapter of the chronicle of Food Art that fascinates me so well, The Seattle Edible Book Festival is on April 4th. Sponsored by Fry Books, you need only pick a book and make some sort of terrible or terribly enlightened edible pun on that book. Above, from left to right, we have The World According to Carp, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Bread, and The Legend of Sleepy Challah....
So, I promised to blog the US Barista...
mindset: “Help, I’m Alive (Acoustic)” by Metric...
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Goodbye, P-I
From the 146 year-old-Seattle Post Intelligencer paper, whose final print issue came out today. I tried to grab a copy, but by 9:45 am every news box I saw was empty already. The globe atop the PI building, about which there is a nicely nostalgic article in the NY Times, is still spinning sedately for now.
When reading local news, such as the Seattle Times and the Stranger, the decline and ruin...
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Mmm, peroxide dessert
As I have mentioned in the past, I am oddly fascinated by food that is also art. That is a frickin’ cake, up there. A life-size Barbie chocolate mud cake to be precise, made by Jean Michel Raynaud. The head, arms, torso and the flared skirt are, of course, not edible, but the incredibly realistic and detailed skirt piece sure is. The rucking and rouches at the bottom—not to mention...
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Preview of Intentions
I do in fact exist, contrary to my recent posting habits here. The sole reason being that, like the myriad posts I make regarding games, I do work in the games industry as well. Once a crunch time hits, that’s basically all you’re doing. When stuff needs to get done, it gets done, despite the hit other anciliary things may take.
That said, there are many topics that have been brewing...
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Free Scott Pilgrim →
It seems like we spend a lot of time hyping Bryan Lee O’Malley’s “Scott Pilgrim” series, which strikes me as a little funny, since I’m only a casual fan of it. However, since there’s lots of news about it—between the in-production movie and new trades coming out left and right—it keeps on showing up.
Without further caveats, above is where you can...
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Wrangling "Watchmen"
Yep, the Herders all went to see “Watchmen.” Our opinions varied somewhat, but I think we found it to be above our expectations and all-around better than we feared. It is not howlingly awful, nor is it transcendantly brilliant. We all agreed strongly that it stuck impressively to its guns and its source material, and that some portions (including a brilliant history-altering opening...
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The Sizzling Sound of Music - O'Reilly Radar →
“Berger … has them listen to a variety of recordings which use different formats from MP3 to ones of much higher quality. He described the results with some disappointment and frustration, as a music lover might, that each year the preference for music in MP3 format rises. In other words, students prefer the quality of that kind of sound over the sound of music of much higher quality....
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Iron Depths - Remix Theoretical Dungeon BGM
I had...
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Order of Tales →
I spend a lot of time trying to convince people to read certain comics both online and off. If I think you’ll enjoy it, you’ll receive emails on it, calls about it and even get hit in the face with the trade if you’re in proximity. I’m successful in varying degrees (:coughQCcough:) but there are some comics onto whose bandwagon some folks still need to clamber.
One of...
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Gaming's Pinocchio
Becomes a Real Boy Girl
The Great Giana Sisters have a legacy in gaming. Scheduled to come out in 1987, a year after the US release of Nintendo’s Super Mario Bros refined the platforming genre, the game was in stores for a brief moment… but it wouldn’t last long. Just as soon as it was released, legal pressure forced them to remove it from the market. The reason should become...
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Futurama -- That's All They Wrote
The fourth and final Futurama movie was recently released, marking the end of production of any new material (so say the creators). The four direct-to-video movies seemed a direct response to the posthumous popularity that the show enjoyed on Adult Swim and on DVD, and they deliver fairly well. The notable thing about each film is that by skirting television censors, the writers and animators have...
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“Song of the Traveling Daughter” by...
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Horrible web design - The Guild
Every time I try to watch an episode of The Guild I reel at the horribleness of both The Guild’s official site and their sponsor, MSN.
Until tonight, I thought that the official site was a couple of episodes behind, because instead of displaying the current episode when the page loads they display an earlier episode (right now, #10). The list of episodes in the sidebar directly to the...
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