Author: corey

freshish direct

Since my fantastic yet controversial local Organic market (Healthy Pleasures) left my neighborhood apparently due to a lease dispute I’ve been forced to explore other grocery outlets. Hollie recommended Freshdirect and I broke down and tried it.

Here is the text of my feedback to customer service:

1) The mixed fruit salad is not very fresh. This is Manhattan, I can get fresh fruit seven different ways on every street corner so the standard is high. I would prefer to get higher quality, ideally organic mixed fruit selections. Throw some surprises too. Some papaya, kiwis perhaps, mangos maybe, more berries please.

2) I ordered a pre-made salmon w/ cajon spices. It was tasty and fresh except the middle was completely uncooked. I managed to finish cooking it, but that’s basically cooking which is what I didn’t want to do and why I bought pre-cooked dinners.

3) I find the boxes you pack everything in to be extraordinarily wasteful. One piece of cheese in a box big enough to hold three VCRs can’t be efficient. Why not adopt reusable, heavy-duty plastic containers like Homeruns used to use?

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laser-light show that might not suck?

SonicVision is a groundbreaking digitally animated alternative music show. SonicVision takes audiences in the Adler Planetarium’s StarRider Theater on a mind-warping musical roller-coaster ride through a fantastical dreamspace. With a mix by Moby … the music ignites this one-of-a-kind computer-generated musical and visual experience, which uses next-generation digital technology to illuminate the Planetarium’s dome with a dazzling morphing of colorful visions.

Radiohead – Everything in its right place Audioslave – Cochise U2 – Elevation Moby – Into the Blue Stereolab – Metronomic Underground White Zombie – Blood, Milk & Sky Goldfrapp – Utopia Spiritualized – Ladies & Gentleman We are Floating in Space Brian Eno & David Byrne – Mea Culpa David Bowie – Heroes Coldplay – Clocks Fischerspooner – Emerge
Prodigy – Firestarter Queens of the Stone Age – First it Giveth Moby – We are All Made of Stars The Flaming Lips – Do you Realize? Zwan – Honestly Moby – God Moving Over the Face of the Waters

Seen on MTV2, the network that I thought was supposed to feature music but has already started the slide into “programming” which sucks hard.

Maybe, could it possilbly be ok?

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lookout

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Captainhoof / Rance

There is rampant speculation as to who is the person behind this blog penned by the pseudonyms Rance and/or Captainhoof. Best guesses include Jim Carrey and Owen Wilson.

http://captainhoof.tripod.com/blog/

Choice excerpt:

I Can Do No Wrong, And That’s Not Right
Take this Meeting:
Me: I’ve got this idea for a movie. You’ve got this guy, a robber. He and the First Lady fall in love at first sight when he’s holding up the branch in DC where she banks, and they go on the lam together, like “The Fugitive.” Nathan Lane is the guy. JEssica Simpson plays the First Lady.
Associate #1: It’s great!
Associate #2: Just like all of your ideas!
Associate #3: You’re like God, except you have better ideas!
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What’s your guess?

 

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Novelty

From a great article from Epicurious about how to tip/bribe your way into the most exclusive restaurants:

I was clearly in another league of exclusivity. Lay eaters wouldn’t dream of trying to enter a restaurant where if you order verbena tea they bring the plant to your table and a white-gloved waiter snips the leaves with silver shears.

I fully admit to falling big-time for this type of novelty. It actually ties in to the whole Purple Cow thing that Seth Godin talks about.

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on heroes

Reading Rory @ Neopoleon.com and he recounts a story of watching U2 play a crappy show and follows it with this:

But I like that. I remember walking away from the show thinking that I had just watched some of my heroes really biff it, and, lord, it was reassuring. There’s nothing worse than believing that the people you look up to are perfect.

That’s why it was nice for me to learn that:

– Bobby Fischer is totally nuts

– Audrey Hepburn wasn’t the most loyal of significant others

– Even Gates’ billions couldn’t stop that pie

– Carl Sagan, brilliant as all-get-out, was uncannily close to a bowling pin in shape

– T.S. Eliot, although probably the greatest poet in the universe, didn’t have a sense of humor, and couldn’t write himself one

– Michael Jackson used to be able to dance, but his later life as a scrawny white woman hasn’t turned out as well as it could have

– Kurt Vonnegut can’t quit smoking, and he sometimes says really stupid things

– Chris Sells doesn’t have a photographic memory (you can be smart and still lose your car keys)

– Harrison Ford is not Indiana Jones or Han Solo, but really just a big weenie with a helicopter

– Sting is an uber-egotesticle jack-ass

– George Lucas, he man responsible for creating my childhood, also destroyed it

– Peter O’Toole – well, there’s actually nothing wrong with Peter. He is perfect… 

 

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