Dasha Wannabe

Ok freaky episode number 26,000 on the weekend. I went to Washington Square Park to take Dasha to the dog run and low and behold there was a Dasha version 2.0. Her name was Zoe and they were almost identical. Zoe was six months old and a spitting image of the rat when he was a pup. It's not everyday you see a piebald dacca and I had to be careful I picked up the right one when I left.

Saxon and Parole

I don't normally get inspired to put up posts about the places I've eaten at. Maybe it's because I go out so much but for some reason I felt compelled to put one up for a place I went to on Friday night called Saxon and Parole (S&P). S&P is housed in the same building where Double Crown was located. It's infact owned and run by the same mob. Apparently contemperary Asian must not be quite in vogue and a refit was needed. 


Personally I really liked the food at Double Crown but anyway. Double Crown was famous for a secret door out the back which led to the bar next door and infamous as having the most popular toilets in NYC to get it on. Anyway this is about S&P so enough of the old.


After nearly 2 years I've learnt that to get in at any decent New York resteraunt you've gotta book way in advance so here I was nice and efficicent in booking this place almost a month before. Tracy, Louisa and I headed along and were seated in the upstairs section. I was a little nervous as the place was reviewed in Time Out this week and came out with 3/5 stars. It's definalty one of the more hip places in town at the moment but that's probably because it was new. We were also coming off the back of a fairly high end experience at Eleven Madison Park just two nights before so I was not sure what to expect.


We started with a random selection of Oysters, Ravioli, portobello mushroom mousse and miso glased bone marrow. My personal favorite was the bone marrow and I felt very Flintstone like when a dinosaur like bone came out full of the stuff. The mushroom mousse was also pretty good and went well on some bread.

The Starters

For mains we had short rib, filet mignon and I had a dirty hamburger. I managed to get them to put some egg and beetroot on the burger and it's the closest I've come to getting an Aussie burger in this town. All I needed was some pineapple and I would have been set.

Mains

The food had a real comfort factor without the bread crumbs. Tasty, yes. Interesting twists, yes. Mind blowingly original, hmmmm probably not but it got me writing a blog so something must have been good.

The race horses the place is named after.

The main bar

And While We're on the Topic of Time Lapses.....5Pointz

Last weekend Amanda and I went out to the Graffiti mecca, 5Pointz. Taking some inspiration from the new LomoKino I made a digi time lapse of the visit.

Williamsburg Shoes

So what is with the obsession of throwing shoes over power lines in Brooklyn?

Dasha The Model

I think I put up a post a couple of months ago about Dasha entering celebrity status and becoming a pretentious dog model. Anyway his portfolio has rapidly increased online and also completely randomly in the Gremancy Lomo store. I went in there to pick up a new camera I'd ordered and was looking around and my friend Amanda pointed out the fotoclip display was proudly displaying a photograph of Dasha. What is strange is that I never head into this store as I normally go to the West Village location. Crazy.

Halloween 2011

October has been and gone and this year's Halloween shenanigans was as crazy as ever. Abigdon Square was overtaken with pumpkins and there were all types of people wandering round the neighbourhood in interesting outfits. I cut a few laps with my ring flash and here were some of the results.

Time Lapse

A few years ago Nick showed me this awesome little application which created time lapse movies on your Macbook. The app is called Gawker and I cranked it up a few months ago to capture the hurricane which went through. The video I got ended up being 7 minutes long so I need to figure out how to shorten it before I upload it. Anyway I did take another one during summer which is much shorter and looks pretty cool. Stay tuned for the hurricane.

Dasha from the Inside

We'll you've seen so many photos of him from the outside I thought I'd put some up of him from the inside. 


He's been a little under the weather and so we took him to the vet this morning and it appears there is something lodged in his stomach :-(. We're hoping it will come out naturally over the next few days. Tracy took great delight in allocating the task of stool analysis to me. Joy.


Last year  pet owners spent on average about 600 bucks at the vet. I wish we were part of the average.