Enriching Your Mind

Regarding a bar in Austin called The Tiniest Bar in Texas:

With its extended patio (haphazardly tented in winter, so it feels like a claustrophobic carnival) and covered porch, I doubt that the Tiniest Bar is actually the tiniest bar after all, but I don't really mind. Places misrepresent themselves all the time—Whole Foods often serves things which are cut into pieces, there's a Central Market pretty far south, the Library isn't actually a library, and Casino el Camino has nothing to do with gambling or ugly cars. So if the Tiniest Bar in Texas wants to call itself the Land That Never Was or the Set of the "Tonight Show" or Canada, I don't really care. I'll happily go there and wile away the evening with a couple of Fireman's #4s or a cheap bloody Mary anyway.

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Regarding Escamoles, one of Uphaa.com's Bizarre/Disgusting Foods:

Escamoles are the eggs of the giant black Liometopum ant, which makes its home in the root systems of maguey and agave plants. Collecting the eggs is a uniquely unpleasant job, since the ants are highly venomous and have some kind of blood grudge against human orifices. The eggs have the consistency of cottage cheese. The most popular way to eat them is in a taco with guacamole, while being insane.

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Food + Dancing

We put in a big sandwich order today, and I accidentally wrote "No lettuce, no tomato" instead of "no mayo." Fortunately, I corrected it in time - I would have been very unhappy. As a follow up:

Me: I'm the dumbest person ever.
D: Yeah, that's what I've been telling people.

In other news, it's the one-year anniversary for Kick Butt Blues! We're celebrating with a semi-formal dance tonight. I have a pretty dress and everything! Now, if I can just shake this being-tired business...