Food Review: Pan Tai, Wilmington DE
Pan Thai is a restaurant in Wilmington, DE. There, I said something nice. Well, maybe not nice, more factual, but that’s as good as this review is going to get.
Food Review: Sinclair’s, Newark DE
Sinclair’s is a breakfast/lunch place on the corner of Chapel Street and Main Street in downtown Newark. Their specialty seems to be pancakes, with a new flavor every day. If you like the flavor of the day, then I suggest that you try them, since the next time you go there may be a flavor you don’t like, and that’s the only pancake you can get.
Food Review: Dominick’s Pizza, Bear DE
Another in the line of periodic and rare food reviews.
Dominick’s Pizza is a hole-in-the-wall place near People’s Plaza in Bear, Delaware. Located next to a somewhat scary-looking gas station, it isn’t the kind of place most people find themselves drawn to. My wife and I have talked about eating there off and on over the last couple of years, and we finally got around to trying it. We ordered delivery both times, and the driver was the nicest and most pleasant delivery person I’ve encountered since Joe from Joe’s NY Pizza in Florida, 12 years ago. She smiled and behaved more like a waitress than a UPS driver, something that startled me and stood out, in a very good way.
Christmas Carols
There are many songs of the season that evoke warm feelings of nostalgia or spark childhood memories. For me, Burl Ives’ “Holly Jolly Christmas” is one of those, as every time I hear it I can see the battered 8-track of my childhood, Burl’s white-bearded face smiling at me like Mr. Kringle himself. Other songs just evoke a joy within, not necessarily tethered to a memory but engendering a feeling of happiness and of the season. Again, for me, Bruce Springsteen’s “Santa Claus is Coming to Town” and Paul McCartney’s “Wonderful Christmastime” (if that’s the name) are two of those songs. This post has nothing to do with anything that I have described above.
Ennui
–noun: a feeling of utter weariness and discontent resulting from satiety or lack of interest; boredom: The endless lecture produced an unbearable ennui.
It doesn’t mean what I exactly thought it meant; I was right about the weariness and discontent, but not that it results from boredom. I was musing on it the other night when I was thinking about a general down feeling I’ve been having lately. A discussion with my wife yesterday over lunch I think helped enlighten me a bit. After finishing my story, my life then lacked a purpose. Purpose is something I’ve struggled with before, and it makes sense that after finishing a big project that dominated my time, that I would suddenly feel untethered and unsure of what to do.
Oy
Reminders that you’re getting older are never fun. Like when you’re talking to someone about a song or TV show, and then you realize that they weren’t even born when you were listening/watching…in high school. Or when you’re standing in line to buy the new Xbox 360 game and realizing the people ahead of you and behind you buying the same thing are all 20+ years younger than you. Today, my reminder is dealing with being at a bar until closing time during the week.
5 Top-Five Things for Thursday, 12/3
1. The top 5 most depressing chain stores to shop in: Radio Shack, K-Mart, Big Lots, any Dollar Store, and Ross.
2. The top 5 singers whose legacy benefitted most from an untimely death: Michael Jackson, Kurt Cobain, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, and Selena.
Exposing Zombie Myth #1
Pop culture is always about getting things wrong from the sake of entertainment. The world will end in 2012! At least it will if you listen to the crackpot Mayan calendar idiots. The Mayans would have a bit more credence with me if their nifty calendar predicted their own civilization’s downfall. Zombies are not immune to pop culture’s relentless assault on truth, so here I will elucidate and try to correct one of the biggest myths about zombies: that they eat brains.
Winter in Derenemyn 