Month: August 2004

The other day Jeanne and I stopped at Thai Orchid in Marlton for lunch. It’s on Route 73, just south of the 70-73 intersection and right behind Champps. I don’t consider myself an expert in Thai food (I’ve probably had it 7 or 8 times now), but this place was awesome. Their lemongrass soup was…

This is the weirdest game ever. It’s a browser based RPG where you can choose between character classes like turtle tamer, disco bandit, and seal clubber. Here’s one of the battles I fought in the “Haunted Pantry.”You’re fighting an undead elbow macaroni Inside the Haunted Pantry, you encounter an undead elbow macaroni of unusual size.…

A while back I wrote a script to calculate how many times people have played at the open mic. I ran the script again and here are the results! Note: It’s probably not 100% accurate.

If you look back through my archives you’ll find an article about what I would do if I were ever hosting an open mic and surprisingly I think I held true to those ideas (ok, the star idea was really lame).The sign up sheet should be available well before the show starts. Ideally the open…

An electronic, indie-rock, hip-hop duo? I saw RATATAT when I was out in San Francisco and they were amazing. Here’s a quote from the Pitchfork review of their self-titled album.Ratatat is a collaboration between lead guitarist Mike Stroud and bedroom producer Evan Mast, with piercing sheets of guitar and synthesizer yoked to a bass-heavy metronomic…

I can’t wait for the new Black Keys album, Rubber Factory. You can download a few tracks from the Fat Possum website. My favorite of the released tracks is definitely All Hands Against His Own. here.

Tonight I finally checked out the all new Grape Street Pub in Manayunk. The new location is on Main Street in Manayunk in the old Chemistry building. At first you walk in and think, “Wow this looks totally different from Chemistry,” but once you walk around for a bit you remember where the pool tables…

Last week when we were returning from San Francisco I left a certain item on my keychain that I usually take off when I fly. Here’s a photo of it. Yes. I had a knife with me on the 2500 mile flight from San Francisco to Philadelphia. I completely forgot it was on my keychain…

For our honeymoon, Jeanne and I took a trip to San Francisco and the Napa Valley. I just posted a bunch of pictures from the trip, so check them out.

I hoped she wouldn’t leave before I got back, but Treehouse favorite Sarah Allen and her family have finally moved down to North Carolina. She made an impression on me the first time I heard her at the open mic, which I wrote about on February 20th, 2003.15 year old Sarah (something, don’t remember the…