I’ll Eat To That
Travel diaries, food porn, random rants, and various musings about stuff that I feel like musing about.
Blog Posts
TYOLD Day 22: Muskrat Sam
The news broke today that the Captain & Tennille are getting a divorce after nearly 40 years of marriage. This has inspired my Differently for today which is this: I am coming out of the closet. No, not that... I did that years ago. I'm coming out of the closet...
TYOLD Day 21: Remembering Sh@# I Didn’t Want to Remember
I finally broke down and saw Dallas Buyers Club tonight. It is looking increasingly likely that Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto are going to win the Academy Awards for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor, so I figured I kind of had to. I didn't want to watch the...
TYOLD Day 20: Keep Moving
Noting it is Martin Luther King Jr. Day, I realized that I had never watched the entirety of his famed "I have a Dream" speech. I had read it, at some point I'm sure, and had seen the abridged version (the last few minutes that include the most famous lines), but I...
TYOLD Day 19: Misadventures in Baking
I wanted something sweet. I always want something sweet, but that's beside the point. What matters here is that I wanted something sweet but wanted to try something different so I experimented with brownie baking. I took some regular brownie mix (I know - leave me...
TYOLD Day 18: Passing Torches
There's a guy who lives in my building who is, officially, the nicest guy on the face of the earth. I don't know him, really, other than passing him in the hall or the parking garage on occasion, or maybe running into him in the laundry room, but he always greets me,...
TYOLD Day 17: Differently Spontaneous
I heard a commercial on the radio this morning on the way to work. I don't remember what product they were selling, so in the end it wasn't that great of a commercial, but it featured various people saying that they were resolving to do things that would fall in the...
TYOLD 16: The Boringest Place On Earth
Woodland Hills is the capital of the boxy office building, with acres and acres of office parks that are filled with boxy buildings that are always beige, if not in color than at least in style, often both. The complex I work in is a massive affair with seven...
TYOLD Day 15: Shaken, Not Stirred
Two shocking admissions.... I am 47 years old but have never owned a proper set of martini glasses and, although I made them for others when I was a bartender, have never made myself a proper vodka martini. Both of those egregious oversights have been corrected....
TYOLD Day 14: Keep Calm and Carry On
I have lost my poker face. I used to be really good at masking my emotions, good or bad, in public or professional settings, maintaining a calm visage most of the time. I have never actually played a serious game of poker (something for TYOLD?) but I would have been...
TYOLD Day 13: Radio Daze
I have a suck commute. Yes, there are others who have worse, but the roughly 14 miles of the 101 Freeway through the San Fernando Valley that I have to traverse every day is one of the seven circles of hell. That drive, which should take less than 15 minutes to make,...
Deeper Dives
The Year of Living With Cancer
In 2012, I was diagnosed with Esophageal Cancer. To help myself cope with it, I wrote about it. A lot. And yes, the picture of Angela and Jordan will make sense at some point if you read enough.
The Year of Living Differently
After cancer, I decided to try to mix things up and do something different every single day for a year. Did I make it?
50 for 50 by 50
To celebrate, or perhaps to distract myself from, my impending 50th birthday in 2016, I embarked on a project to give $50 to 50 different charities by the time I turned 50.
Gun Violence
A page full of facts to help you be better informed about the issues surrounding gun violence in the United states.