Wendy and I at Fatty's Cafe for Brunch last Sunday!
Who reads this crap? Actually, the cool thing about having no privacy online means I have a pretty good idea of who! I thought you might be interested to know, about 50 people read each post. Not so many, but on 3 continents (plus England)! Ego sated! Thanks!!!
On to the subject at hand:
One of the best things about New York City is the food. More specifically, almost any food you can imagine. Being a giant melting pot, you can get people who actually come from the country whose cuisine they're making, and if you try a few places, you can find those people who actually did it for a living in that country before. I have become so spoiled by good food that I worry about living somewhere else...
BBQ Ribs joint
Filet Mignon!
What's left of our massacred Korean
Various exotic meats turned into burgers!
Louisiana Mac&Cheese and some tasty balls...
Crazy Korean Fruit Platter!
Delicious French Food
French Or'devours
breaded salmon and LOBSTER(!) Mac&Cheese!
And oooh the desserts!
BBQ at my buddy's house with home-made sausages!
Pastitsio - Greek lasagna!
Locomoco (Hawaiian) delivered
And let's not forget Japanese food. There are Japanese restaurants here that are completely unauthentic but represent all the cool things America wishes were true of of Japan, like Ninja New York, or Matsuri. There are also Japanese restaurants so authentic you step inside and might as well be in Japan, such as Riki.
Ginger Ramen (not the best, but perfect broth!)
Yakiniku Teishoku (Japanese lunch set)
The other cool thing here in NYC is bars! Tons of fun bars, struggling to distinguish themselves and get you drunk at the same time! It's like the perfect wife, but less expensive, and I guess less loving if you start to throw up, so don't take my comparison too seriously.
Currently my favorite beer
A tasty lambic beer at and Irish Bar
I think I've mentioned before that my favorite bar is Crescent & Vine, a relaxed jazz-filled wine and craft beer bar with friendly patrons and even friendlier staff. Being located directly across the street from my house doesn't hurt either!
A saucy couple at C&V
Beer made in scotch-aging barrels? 'nuff said!
Believe it or not, that's my "bliss" face
If one bar deserves props despite far away and over crowded on nights with musical performances, it's the Way Station. Why? Because it's owned and operated by a freakin' nerd like me! The whole place is decorated half Steam Punk, half Doctor Who, with custom cocktails named and colored based on different doctors' sonic screwdrivers, a Pangalactic Gargleblaster that is literally whatever the bartender feels like putting in it that moment, and "The Companion", a can of Pabst Blue Ribbon and shot of whiskey!
TARDIS bathroom (It's bigger on the inside!)
Bookshelf with macrame K9
Dark and Stormy (Kraken Rum and Ginger beer... delish!)
The doctor and his companion :)
Matsui back in Yankee Stadium, but...
I'll leave you with some more pics from cool places I've worked since my last post! Thanks for tuning in!
That's my sister! Bonnie D.Stroir
Taking personal pics while our cameraman actually works hard
As I sit contemplating how to catch you up with my life these past couple months, my first thought turns to our absolutely unpredictable weather!
This spring, New York has been hot and cold, raining on and off like that Katy Perry Song! Ultimately, I shouldn't complain. I've managed to dodge going out for too long in the rain (except once coming back from shooting a story at "Internet Week NYC"), and I've managed to avoid getting sick for months!
This blog title refers to the motto of House Stark: "Winter is coming." If you don't know House Stark, then you probably haven't seen HBO's series "Game of Thrones", but I bring it up because, after watching the first 10-hour season in less than 24 hours, I started downloading the unabridged audio books for my commutes to work. Calling the book series, A Song of Ice and Fire, extensive would be an understatement, with each audio book clocking it at over 30 hours. This means I have had more than three months entertainment of, basically, crack for the fantasy-lover. Best of all, thanks to my brilliant, librarian girlfriend pointing it out to me, I've been able to download each audio-book, for free, from the New York Public Library, without even leaving my house! I am currently about two thirds of the way through book 4, A Feast for Crows, and since there will be at least seven books when the author George R. R. Martin finishes the series, you can be sure I won't be talking to anyone on my way to and from the office for several more months.
This also means I have been neglecting my favorite podcast, "The Joe Rogan Experience", but I managed to make up for that by finally seeing him live! Yes! I paid a fortune to buy originally $40 tickets online from "StubHub", which is basically sanctioned, online ticket-scalping, but whatever! Not only was Joe Rogan hilarious and worth the money, the show was opened by my two favorite podcast guests Duncan Trussell and Joey "Coco" Diaz! Duncan brought the house down early with his spiritual pot-head brand of humor, and Joey, a New York native transplanted from Cuba, told stories about the tumultuous "good old days" in NYC and New Jersey, and punching prostitutes "just out of respect" (His humor is not for everyone, but if you enjoy bawdy, there:s no one better!). After the show Wendy and I hung out to get our pics taken with them, so I have these as mementos!
Sir Duncan Trussell
Two of my most favorite people in the world
As soon as I returned from my vacation in Thailand, North Korea decided to attempt to launch a satellite into orbit, or as some people put it: "Test a long-range missile", funny how different two perspectives on the same event can be... But anyway, that meant long hours following their UN representatives, asking for comments, and kept my jet-lag going, basically for the entire month of April.
Work these past few months has flown by, too. Often times, the weekend comes and before I feel like I've had a break, it's suddenly Sunday night! But no sooner do I think, "Where did my weekend go?", than it's already Friday again! Here are some photos I've taken while on interesting jobs, just from the last month:
These are a few of my coworkers on the roof of our building, overlooking the Hudson:
The Space Shuttle comes to NYC
Don't forget to click on photos to see them larger.
Halfway up the new 1 World Trade Center
71st floor, shooting stand-up report in front overlooking Brooklyn
We were where the top edge of the glass stopped
Inside the first floor of 1WTC
The smaller test engine is for the Mitsubishi MRJ
At Pratt & Whitney in Hartford, Conn.
Craig Newmark of Craigslist.org giving a speech about the internet.
Internet Week in SoHo (in between rain storms)
My reporter interviewing Krishna, a Google+ user
My first trip to the New York Stock Exchange
I got a little artistic on this one, but we were in Times Square covering Facebook being traded on NASDAQ
Hope you've enjoyed! Tune in next time to hear about a Doctor Who-themed bar in Brooklyn and lots of photos of delicious food!
