Tom & Alissa

Tom came home early last night! We went to Biscuit BBQ to celebrate. It’s right around the corner from us. We’d actually gone to Night & Day, a restaurant that was in the same building, a few weeks ago, and then I was sitting on the couch reading Time Out and read that “the new Biscuit BBQ is in the same space that Night & Day once occupied”. Buh? You know you’re a New Yorker when . . .

So we went, and enjoyed pulled pork, biscuits, gravy, potatoes, candied yams - lots of carbs, but totally worth it.

In other news, we are going to Hiro Lounge to see Damien Rice tonight. It appears that those who say it’s an “intimate venue” weren’t joking; the site states that the room has a “standing reception” capacity of 200 and a seated capacity of 60. No wonder it sold out. (But fear not, friend, he plays the Beacon Theater in December. Check his site for details and scroll down.)

And now, because I just can’t quit linkage:
Microsoft Firefox - someone has a sense of humor. From the site:

Microsoft Firefox 2007 automatically shrinks text to abysmally small sizes, so all webpage content can fit onto a single apostrophe on your final printed page. This saves ink.

And for those of you who might not be awake yet, yes, this is a joke.

For those who eschew lemmingness in general but happily jumped on the Moleskine bandwagon because they’re worth it, there is moleskinerie. Check out this un-Moleskine related but still really cool BookCut entry:

And in a similar vein is Notebookism!

The girls on the Free People blog (yes, the clothing brand) are doing a meatless-wheatless-mushroomless foodswap/cookoff, and they have some yummy recipes up today for lentil dal and vegan shepherd’s pie. Tom and I are neither vegan nor wheat-intolerant, but I grew up around very very health-conscious folks and I’m always a little bit happy when I find recipes like this. (Also, we own two of the red “latte” bowl in the first picture, and four mini ones. Got them from Anthropologie. Good prices, too.)

I know I mentioned it before, but I am drooling over Paris Breakfasts nearly every day. Lovely watercolors, chocolate, the list goes on. Eye candy!

Last, but not least at all, I’ve been a devoted design*sponge reader for some time now, but I totally missed her Brooklyn Design Guide. And who knew? She’s a Park Sloper too. Every writer in NYC apparently lives in Park Slope. It’s quiet here.