Top Ten for Last Week


1. The Decemberists at the WOW Hall. Petra Haden took lead vocal for an amazing cover of Kate Bush's "Wuthering Heights."

2. A half-pound of guanciale from Pastaworks.

3. Being verbally assaulted by a self-proclaimed "big ol' queen" named Jose a.k.a. "Mitch the Bitch," and feeling very bad for his boyfriend, a really nice guy named Chris who looked *very* embarrassed.

4. Dinner at Colosso. Blogged below.

5. New cookbooks: MFK Fisher's "With Bold Knife and Fork" and Alford and Duguid's James Beard Award-winning "Flatbreads and Flavors."

6. Slighty abused but still serviceable pizza stone, borrowed from my brother, for use in cooking recipes from #5.

7. Iron Chef Batali givin' a serious ass-whoopin' to his really sweaty competitor, whose name I cannot recall at the moment.

8. Thursday night, not St. Paddying, but spent quietly with my MC, ending in a fake tattoo of an orange cat on someone's posterior.

9. Discussing teenage alcohol and drug-induced illegalities with Marc Covert while COPS played in the background.

10. Several poem acceptances.