17,649. There’s a lot to love about “Back to the Future,” but one of my favorite parts is that they were so ahead of the curve, there was apparently nobody around to consult as to how to pronounce the prefix “giga-” before shooting, and this “one point twenty-one jigga-watts” was…
7,304. I wish Sling Blade had done for John Ritter’s career what Pulp Fiction did for John Travolta’s.
I’m going to see “Gravity” tonight. I’m no Hollywood historian, but this must have been the easiest movie pitch ever. I can get that film greenlighted in three words, Jim: “Clooney in space.” And… we’re done. To spice up the moviegoing experience and to incorporate a little excellent food thrift,…
I frantically directed my taxi past buildings with addresses like “54-48 47th Drive” and businesses like Maspeth Pallets, a place in non-subwayable Queens where, as the name suggests, you can buy wooden pallets. There are industrial warehouse-y areas in New York City that are destined to become thriving (like Bushwick,…
A big day at Portable Chef World Headquarters… we’re featured in Vogue’s article “A Movable Feast: Fashion Week’s Best Anytime, Anywhere Meals.” Check out the full article on the Vogue website and click over to the dinner slide, #5.
I thought I had a great kitchen at home. Then I moved into a professional kitchen, and promptly realized that my home kitchen was crap. A home kitchen is set up to look nice. A commercial kitchen is set up for efficiency. Efficiency of space, efficiency of equipment, and most…
I have an awesome milk provider. Every weekend an Amish couple brings me raw milk, which would be illegal if it weren’t, um, for my pet; this stuff is a game-changer. For the first time since 1985, I now sit down and have a glass of milk from time to…
#1,047. Check out the brand-new entry in the Oxford Dictionary Online: • twerk, v.: dance to popular music in a sexually provocative manner involving thrusting hip movements and a low, squatting stance. Twerk is not yet in the Oxford English Dictionary, just in the junior-partner ODO. It’s still just a……
I woke up to this this morning: Caught the great Jay Z/Justin Timberlake concert at Yankee Stadium the night before. Some notes: First: There are two scenarios in which a New Yorker’s throat can’t help but get a little belumped hearing “Empire State of Mind,” even if it’s for the…
The most difficult thing about my speed climb of the 4,884-meter peak Puncak Jaya, the tallest and most technical climb in Indonesia, was not repelling the near-constant sexual advances of climbing partner Rosario Dawson. Neither was it managing to keep my custom-made climbing tuxedo, made entirely of technical fleece and…
