After a long week at Book Expo America I had a nice dinner with Team Tyrus at a nice Greek restaurant in midtown. I got really experimental and way outside of my comfort zone on this one (like the Indian restaurant below). When we were done, I asked the waiter to help me catalog what I had just tried. Here [...]

On Tuesday night I ventured into the world of Indian food. The owner of the restaurant said he’d email me with a list of what I had. Here is that list. Special  Menu: TO WHET THE APPETITE Baghari Jhinga -(Shrimp in Savory Sauce) Lemon Flavored Basmati Rice STARTERS Chicken Malai Kebab Lamb Seekh Kebab Vegetable Samosa Brocolli Garlique Mint /Tamarind [...]

I hope everybody is doing well. I’m back in NYC right now, and like last time, I’ve managed to knock a bunch of foods from the list of things I’ve never tried before. As of this morning, the list can be divided into two parts, and calculations will be a bit hazy until I get an email. First, here are [...]

Clearly Justin Bieber consulted an old LeRoy family photo album when trying to choose his style.

*experiment* listen to me read the following blog entry by clicking TheDioPost For as long as I can remember I have been interested in the darker side of things. Who can say with any degree of certainty what leads us to find certain things fascinating? All I know is that what I write and find compelling is usually somewhere removed [...]

I did a brief interview today and I was asked to give the three books that I would assign to the world if I was a teacher. That, of course, got me to thinking (and probably too much), but here is that list. (1) Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger BUY IT~! As a piece of fiction, I am still [...]

I’m in the middle of cleaning and organizing a bunch of papers and photographs. Now that I’ve got a scanner that works (through the magic of wireless networks that I can’t begin to understand), I’ve decided to digitize some of the photographs. In the collection I’ve got old Bleak House photos, stuff from 2004 Book Expo America, various release parties [...]

Well, I’ve had my 30th new food since February, and it’s probably another selection that will make some folks scratch their head and say, “How in the hell did you go this long without having…” Potato Salad. There, I’ve said it. In 34 years of picnics, family gatherings, and miscellaneous parties I have never (until last night’s dinner) had potato [...]

I’m in NYC for the first of two May business trips. Before coming out here, I was confident that I would add to my new food total at some point. My NYC friends took it as a challenge to see who could introduce me to what. And in my first four hours in the city, I was made to make [...]