James Pearl Thinks Blogging is Dead
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Red Mosquito
Formerly RLB the Scrapple Boy
How did this happen? I missed the re-naming ceremony.
Magic
Formerly 1sh0t1b33r
We seem to have similar tastes. The best Lobster Benedict I’ve had was on home made biscuits at 2 Cats in Bar Harbor, Maine. We’ve also hit that same Turkish spot after a Mohonk hike. Almost a hole in the wall, we were the only ones there, but the food was quite good despite. One of the babaganoush too. Food porn FTW.
My dad just briefed me on "whatever happened to monday" sounded as crazy as hell as a concept. I just watched "godless" mini series on netflex because i am a sucker for westerns no matter how ridicouls the final shootout is. I come to realize that sorta like the kid who idiolized cowboys over spacemen hence why sci-fi flicks never interest me, well except Saturdaynights "creature feature" 😱
@Norm I watched Hotel Beau Sejour... AWESOME! I liked it so much I'd watch it again and watch it with @Santapez because i watched it without him and feel a little guilty about that.
Also saw what happened to Monday. It's ok. I like noomi rapace but if you want to see a really amazing performance of an actress playing multiple roles, then watch early seasons of Orphan Black. tatiana maslany is AMAZING.
Also saw what happened to Monday. It's ok. I like noomi rapace but if you want to see a really amazing performance of an actress playing multiple roles, then watch early seasons of Orphan Black. tatiana maslany is AMAZING.
Unfortunately for us, there was no heat in the restaurant (Anapoli)... the food was good but we ate so quickly... I wouldn't recommend going there in the winter until they've fixed their heat problem!
gtluke
The Moped
The Ahi Tuna (wrap and dinner) at Bacchus is fantastic. And the Al Pastor Burrito is great at Mexican Kitchen (though this is a hole in the wall, not fine dining, you eat at a picnic table in an old house). The Gilded Otter is 'okay' for a brew pub, good for groups in the busy season. their french fries are really f'ing good though.
Mexicali Blue is take out only, good but the wait is abysmal. Taco shack is a dive but okay in a pinch, they are fast and have a soda fountain. Los Jalapenos is standard sit down meixcan fare. Los Agaves is pretty good, setting is a bit odd but when New Paltz is packed it's an option as it's on the other side of the freeway.
P&G's is a great low cost option, love their Cobb Salad and dinner specials. I usually make @JimN take me there when I'm on keto.
Main Street Bistro is the go-to for fancy breakfast stuff, but I prefer The Bakery as it's easier to get your food.
Been to Shatzi's only once, meh, mainly a bar.
Hit me up for entry passes to Mohonk if you go again.
Magic
Formerly 1sh0t1b33r
Cheese curds yo. Sad they got rid of the salmon burger.
I'll add Main Course to the must eat places in New Paltz, if you are into healthy, fresh, flavorful food.
You walk up an order, wait for your name to be called, then sit down an eat. Simple and affordable, considering the quality of food you get, plus the heat works well.
You walk up an order, wait for your name to be called, then sit down an eat. Simple and affordable, considering the quality of food you get, plus the heat works well.
Yeah this place has great food and always has at least one drinkable IPA. Melinda really likes the German place because Spaetzle, so we usually go there or Bacchus which has a much better beer selection. Gilded Otter is good too and you can sit outside when it's nice out. It's pretty tough to go wrong with all the great food choices up there.
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@gtluke - we will be back up to Mohunk for sure. It was really nice to be up there and frankly, in the grand scheme of things it is not that far away. Consider that usually when we go that way it is because we are going to Canada. So you get into the mental routine to drive north for 6-8 hours then SURPRISE, you're there. We will gladly take you up on the free pass offer. The guy at the visitor center chuckled a hair, and then said, "If anyone is up there, you can pay them the $15 each." It was almost 2:00 by then so he probably figure we were either going to be out there for 30 minutes or we'd be a SAR story later in the evening. Either way, he essentially comped us $30 by not charging us.
I'll make sure that we shout out for food recommendations next time.
@MissJR - I will ask you all about Orphan Black tonight when we have dinner. Here's the thing. I am writing this sentence at 3:15 pm but by the time I post, we will either be eating dinner or be done with dinner. I suspect that today's media will be linked right here:
@UtahJoe - you know as well as anyone that the jacket stays forever. @Dominique mentioned getting a new jacket again this weekend (or, you know, every time she sees me in it) and I refuse. At this point, I am going to write this into my will, that I be buried in this jacket. On a more practical note, I really hesitate to buy new stuff when I am, let's say, "north" of the weight I want to be at. So aside from the Sheer Awesome of wearing this jacket in public, it just makes more sense right now. And on the north/south note, I got on the scale for the first time since my physical this morning, and I can say I managed to get through the full holiday season with a loss of 1 pound. That's a good thing.
@Carson - the lobster benedict is from a place in Basking Ridge called the Mockingbird Cafe. It is right around the corner from the YMCA we go to. It is a little shop that is a one-off, meaning that there is only 1 in the world. So it has some semblance of this thing that people might call "character". It also has some really excellent food, shitty coffee, non-hot water for tea, and a bunch of teenagers working there. But it is the second time we have been there and we will likely go back again one day.
After I watched Fight Club years ago I read a Palahniuk novel and absolutely hated it. I don't know what it was, but it just did not resonate with me at all. I suppose that I could give him another chance but I am not sure his style really fits with what I like? IDK, some authors just don't do it for me, even if a lot of people like them. David Foster Wallace was another one, with Infinite Jest. I put that book down after maybe 100 pages and declared that the Jest was on the suckers that read the whole thing.
More notes about weather. Ok let me clarify, because as D points out, I was vague. I will wake up and look at the weather, and plan my day around it like Luke suggests. But I will not give much of a shit about the weather before it gets here. So this morning is a good example. I had no idea it was supposed to be "warmer" when we woke up. Likewise, I had no idea it was supposed to sleet & snow today. Being that I do not plan to be outside today, it is of little difference to me. What I was really getting at is that I do not look at Thursday's weather today. Far too much can change between now and Thursday for me to care what's supposed to happen. I will often wake up and check the weather, though again, on a day like today I just don't care, as it has no effect on me.
And on that note, to @rlb - no, we have pretty much zero weekly planning as it comes to what we are going to eat. I mean, other than "food".
I was never a paper boy but I did help my friend deliver papers and collect. I would cover for him when he was away or whatever. I guess it was just a way to hang out, because I don't really remember saving money or anything like that. I think maybe I did the route for a few weeks in the summer one year. I do remember we used to go collecting, and that was always a blast. I remember the little punch books you would rip the tabs out of and give them to the customers to prove they paid. I look back now and I think of the people who used to live in town, and now I wonder what they were doing in their real life. As impossible as it seems there was a small apartment building in Bloomsbury. I mean we must be talking 4 units, max. And there was this weird woman who stank of perfume or whatever it was, and she lived in 1 of them. I don't remember what her name was but looking back, if I had to guess, she was living on some sort of opium den. I mean, I am sure that's not the case at all but she always seemed so spaced out, and stunk of perfume so much. I mean, like a potpourri factory had blown up in her apartment, kind of stink. She was always nice enough and whatnot. But I think she couldn't have been over 30-40 ish age range. I wonder what her story in real life was. Aside from collecting papers, nobody knew a thing about her. In a town of less than 1000 people, you pretty much know everyone. I feel like her name was Mrs. Sondt, Sandt, something along those lines. The Google fails me.
As a kid you don't think that adults have real lives very much. I look back now and wonder.
@fidodie - I think when your son was saying "better than 4" it's really his equivalent of saying "This is what I will say to you instead of the smart ass remark I really want to say to you."
Ok so what would have happened to earth if the dinosaurs did not go extinct? Would there have been a higher intelligence like humans? Would we have killed them all off? On that note, were dinosaurs so unsophisticated that they were not really able to survive long-term no matter what? I don't know the answer to those questions nor have I tried Google for the solutions. But these are things I think about when I read the notes on "intelligence". I guess this is really something we will never know, at least in our lifetime. We would need to find 100s of planets with some form of life to see what level they have attained. As it has been pointed out in the world at large, if we are thinking of intelligent life as being able to produce radio waves, we on earth are less than 100 years at that level.
I guess those are questions you ask when you get stoned. Like drinking, this is something I just stopped doing 1 day. It was never an active decision. I just stopped. So ~20 years later, I guess that makes me someone who does not really get stoned and as a result, look upwards and think about these things. I find that itch is scratched these days by reading.
Dinosaurs couldn’t make this:
@gtluke - we will be back up to Mohunk for sure. It was really nice to be up there and frankly, in the grand scheme of things it is not that far away. Consider that usually when we go that way it is because we are going to Canada. So you get into the mental routine to drive north for 6-8 hours then SURPRISE, you're there. We will gladly take you up on the free pass offer. The guy at the visitor center chuckled a hair, and then said, "If anyone is up there, you can pay them the $15 each." It was almost 2:00 by then so he probably figure we were either going to be out there for 30 minutes or we'd be a SAR story later in the evening. Either way, he essentially comped us $30 by not charging us.
I'll make sure that we shout out for food recommendations next time.
@MissJR - I will ask you all about Orphan Black tonight when we have dinner. Here's the thing. I am writing this sentence at 3:15 pm but by the time I post, we will either be eating dinner or be done with dinner. I suspect that today's media will be linked right here:
@UtahJoe - you know as well as anyone that the jacket stays forever. @Dominique mentioned getting a new jacket again this weekend (or, you know, every time she sees me in it) and I refuse. At this point, I am going to write this into my will, that I be buried in this jacket. On a more practical note, I really hesitate to buy new stuff when I am, let's say, "north" of the weight I want to be at. So aside from the Sheer Awesome of wearing this jacket in public, it just makes more sense right now. And on the north/south note, I got on the scale for the first time since my physical this morning, and I can say I managed to get through the full holiday season with a loss of 1 pound. That's a good thing.
@Carson - the lobster benedict is from a place in Basking Ridge called the Mockingbird Cafe. It is right around the corner from the YMCA we go to. It is a little shop that is a one-off, meaning that there is only 1 in the world. So it has some semblance of this thing that people might call "character". It also has some really excellent food, shitty coffee, non-hot water for tea, and a bunch of teenagers working there. But it is the second time we have been there and we will likely go back again one day.
After I watched Fight Club years ago I read a Palahniuk novel and absolutely hated it. I don't know what it was, but it just did not resonate with me at all. I suppose that I could give him another chance but I am not sure his style really fits with what I like? IDK, some authors just don't do it for me, even if a lot of people like them. David Foster Wallace was another one, with Infinite Jest. I put that book down after maybe 100 pages and declared that the Jest was on the suckers that read the whole thing.
More notes about weather. Ok let me clarify, because as D points out, I was vague. I will wake up and look at the weather, and plan my day around it like Luke suggests. But I will not give much of a shit about the weather before it gets here. So this morning is a good example. I had no idea it was supposed to be "warmer" when we woke up. Likewise, I had no idea it was supposed to sleet & snow today. Being that I do not plan to be outside today, it is of little difference to me. What I was really getting at is that I do not look at Thursday's weather today. Far too much can change between now and Thursday for me to care what's supposed to happen. I will often wake up and check the weather, though again, on a day like today I just don't care, as it has no effect on me.
And on that note, to @rlb - no, we have pretty much zero weekly planning as it comes to what we are going to eat. I mean, other than "food".
I was never a paper boy but I did help my friend deliver papers and collect. I would cover for him when he was away or whatever. I guess it was just a way to hang out, because I don't really remember saving money or anything like that. I think maybe I did the route for a few weeks in the summer one year. I do remember we used to go collecting, and that was always a blast. I remember the little punch books you would rip the tabs out of and give them to the customers to prove they paid. I look back now and I think of the people who used to live in town, and now I wonder what they were doing in their real life. As impossible as it seems there was a small apartment building in Bloomsbury. I mean we must be talking 4 units, max. And there was this weird woman who stank of perfume or whatever it was, and she lived in 1 of them. I don't remember what her name was but looking back, if I had to guess, she was living on some sort of opium den. I mean, I am sure that's not the case at all but she always seemed so spaced out, and stunk of perfume so much. I mean, like a potpourri factory had blown up in her apartment, kind of stink. She was always nice enough and whatnot. But I think she couldn't have been over 30-40 ish age range. I wonder what her story in real life was. Aside from collecting papers, nobody knew a thing about her. In a town of less than 1000 people, you pretty much know everyone. I feel like her name was Mrs. Sondt, Sandt, something along those lines. The Google fails me.
As a kid you don't think that adults have real lives very much. I look back now and wonder.
@fidodie - I think when your son was saying "better than 4" it's really his equivalent of saying "This is what I will say to you instead of the smart ass remark I really want to say to you."
Ok so what would have happened to earth if the dinosaurs did not go extinct? Would there have been a higher intelligence like humans? Would we have killed them all off? On that note, were dinosaurs so unsophisticated that they were not really able to survive long-term no matter what? I don't know the answer to those questions nor have I tried Google for the solutions. But these are things I think about when I read the notes on "intelligence". I guess this is really something we will never know, at least in our lifetime. We would need to find 100s of planets with some form of life to see what level they have attained. As it has been pointed out in the world at large, if we are thinking of intelligent life as being able to produce radio waves, we on earth are less than 100 years at that level.
I guess those are questions you ask when you get stoned. Like drinking, this is something I just stopped doing 1 day. It was never an active decision. I just stopped. So ~20 years later, I guess that makes me someone who does not really get stoned and as a result, look upwards and think about these things. I find that itch is scratched these days by reading.
Dinosaurs couldn’t make this:
gtluke
The Moped
That's cool that they didn't charge you. In the climbing community people piss and moan about the fee. For climbing it's more, $21? I think? But a year pass is like $80 so whatever. I end up donating a few hundred bucks a year to them. As far as non profits go, they are awesome.
I witnessed a pretty bad accident climbing, basically the guy next to me falling off the wall. I was one of the first people on the scene but somehow one of the other people to beat me there was a highly trained park ranger who had already begun medical treatment and arranging his extractment. We all helped carry this guy out. It was amazing and I will never ever ever complain about paying to get in. It's private property, those are privately paid rangers and every one of them is super f'ing nice. This is NOT the case on the other side of the street at Miniwaska State Park. We had a run in with a super pissed off ranger who wanted to go home early and really laid into us. We still had a half hour to get out of the park and were in our car. The parks are basically connected and appear the same but are run totally differently. Also connected is the Mohonk Mountain House, also private property. That's a whole other world over there. They share their groomed XC trails with Mohonk Preserve members which is nice. You just aren't allowed in the physical hotel /lake and no bikes at the skytop overlook. And you have to pay if you park on their property. I park at the preserve and bike/hike over. Sam's Point Preserver is ALSO connected but only by hiking trails. I really suggest checking that place out in the fall, it's super beautiful, doesn't look like anything else on the east coast.
Next time check out a similar loop just on the other side of the trapps bridge. On that side you get a view of all the cliffs and climbers. But you can't make the loop in the snow, only out and back half way as the rest is left for XC ski only. Actually if it's under 25deg and you have a fat bike you can ride the XC trails too!.
I would love to give you guys a bicycle tour. You can bang out 50 unique miles of gravel up there with stunning views the entire time. It's really quite an awesome place.
I forgot about the German place by the trapps, that's a sweet spot too. Not exactly sure what's going on in there with the hiring process but the majority of the staff there is 6' tall bombshells. The pretzel is my favorite menu item. Or rather the mustard is. Holy crap is it good.
I can write up a dissertation on the variety of the farm made apple ciders and apple cider donuts available up there but that can wait till September 😉
That barn on my street with the 100+ year old apple cider press uses only New Paltz apples. She sold off her apple trees and acreage decades ago but still makes cider.
I witnessed a pretty bad accident climbing, basically the guy next to me falling off the wall. I was one of the first people on the scene but somehow one of the other people to beat me there was a highly trained park ranger who had already begun medical treatment and arranging his extractment. We all helped carry this guy out. It was amazing and I will never ever ever complain about paying to get in. It's private property, those are privately paid rangers and every one of them is super f'ing nice. This is NOT the case on the other side of the street at Miniwaska State Park. We had a run in with a super pissed off ranger who wanted to go home early and really laid into us. We still had a half hour to get out of the park and were in our car. The parks are basically connected and appear the same but are run totally differently. Also connected is the Mohonk Mountain House, also private property. That's a whole other world over there. They share their groomed XC trails with Mohonk Preserve members which is nice. You just aren't allowed in the physical hotel /lake and no bikes at the skytop overlook. And you have to pay if you park on their property. I park at the preserve and bike/hike over. Sam's Point Preserver is ALSO connected but only by hiking trails. I really suggest checking that place out in the fall, it's super beautiful, doesn't look like anything else on the east coast.
Next time check out a similar loop just on the other side of the trapps bridge. On that side you get a view of all the cliffs and climbers. But you can't make the loop in the snow, only out and back half way as the rest is left for XC ski only. Actually if it's under 25deg and you have a fat bike you can ride the XC trails too!.
I would love to give you guys a bicycle tour. You can bang out 50 unique miles of gravel up there with stunning views the entire time. It's really quite an awesome place.
I forgot about the German place by the trapps, that's a sweet spot too. Not exactly sure what's going on in there with the hiring process but the majority of the staff there is 6' tall bombshells. The pretzel is my favorite menu item. Or rather the mustard is. Holy crap is it good.
I can write up a dissertation on the variety of the farm made apple ciders and apple cider donuts available up there but that can wait till September 😉
That barn on my street with the 100+ year old apple cider press uses only New Paltz apples. She sold off her apple trees and acreage decades ago but still makes cider.
Magic
Formerly 1sh0t1b33r
I only ever did Minnewaska loops until I set out on this solo mission a few months ago. https://www.strava.com/activities/1201373705 Will gladly go back any time! Love riding those trails.
I find Mockingbird Cafe 80% of the way there. Yeah it's got some character. I think me and @MissJR 's favorite places are small breakfast places with character.
Mockingbird cafe just hits on that 80% but fails on that other 20%. You can get a good food item, but then yeah you may have shitty coffee. It doesn't ruin the experience but doesn't make us run to go back often.
That reminds me, you mentioned going back to Durham and I was going to insist last night that next time you go there to go to the Duke Gardens and to the art museum right by them.
Mockingbird cafe just hits on that 80% but fails on that other 20%. You can get a good food item, but then yeah you may have shitty coffee. It doesn't ruin the experience but doesn't make us run to go back often.
That reminds me, you mentioned going back to Durham and I was going to insist last night that next time you go there to go to the Duke Gardens and to the art museum right by them.
Magic
Formerly 1sh0t1b33r
I've gone into the Mountain House to use the bathroom and get hot chocolate. That and xc skiing in front of the club house dining room at Baltisrol Country club are probably some of the ballsy things ive done on skis.