May 15, 2008
a few things of note
Posted by timfoolery under Andrea, chicago, dissertation, moping, seattleNo Comments
1. Our hero cut chunks out of two fingers yesterday while trying to slice some galangala. I think that’s what he called it, but google had no pics to share with you. It looks a little like fat ginger with rings. Anyways, he may be absent from his blog since yesterday he could only moan about how little he could do with only 8 operable fingers, and then dribbled blood about the house.
(tim: it’s that goddam galangal, see image on right.)
2. We saw a wonderful play last weekend — Dead Man’s Cell Phone at the Tony award-winning Steppenwolf. Lots of great scene changes and creative uses of light and props, which capped off great acting — including acting drunk! Laura’s mom tipped us off to this little treasure, the Saints — a volunteer usher org that allows you to see plays all around chicago fo’ free!
3. We’re headed to Seattle tomorrow! Our hero is being honored for stellar dissertation-writing and we are all proud. We hope to see you there! And, we hope to have some nice pics to color this increasingly bland site. If our hero is too gimpy to take some, perhaps he can flash his pearly smile once or twice.





Between the church of 4-shizzle (seriously), a pinata store, and several check-cashing and liquor stores (conveniently located next to each other), there’s a nice carneceria named el nuevo mundo a couple blocks from our house. It’s pretty small, but has a halfway (ok, quarterway) decent produce section and a nice deli where they make their own salsas, sausages, and pickled vegetables. I saw them making a batch of garlicy, orange tomatillo salsa today and asked how much it was. The guy behind the counter smiled and told me it’s spicy. I told him I like spicy. He smiled again and got one of those styrofoam containers used for packaging meat, put a handful of in-house pork rinds that he had been eating and dumped a ladleful of the hot stuff on top. I am now addicted to pork rinds and tomatillo salsa, which is a shame since I had been trying to get in shape after hiding in my apartment all winter. Tonight we had some terrific mahi tacos with avocado, pickled onions, that salsa, lettuce, some Mexican sour cream (waay different, more like thick buttermilk), a couple Bohemias, and some really fresh corn tortillas made about a mile away. Dare I say, better than any Mexican food I ever had in Seattle. I’m already looking forward tomorrow night’s sup: the pork chops in a green mole chock full of pumpkin seeds.

