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03/02/2009 14:15 #47924
Ladies Night.I went out for a lovely meal at one of my favorite West Village restaurants, Tartine, on Friday with (e:hodown) and crew . It's a cute little French place that is BYOB and therefore pretty reasonably priced. Ho and I started the evening with a quality martini at Quality Meats. The woman next to us at the bar (a classy Upper East Side alcoholic) was imbibing a rather curious cocktail - the beef broth martini made from muddled lemon and lime, Campbell's beef broth, and vodka. Some photo highlights:
02/26/2009 12:10 #47893
Drunk HistoryMy new favorite web series.
02/24/2009 11:34 #47874
WooohoooI'm all finished with the PhD thesis committee meeting from hell, and it looks like I'll graduate some time this year.
Time for hi fives and booze with (e:hodown) and the rest of my favorite bitches.
Time for hi fives and booze with (e:hodown) and the rest of my favorite bitches.
tinypliny - 03/15/09 17:19
Cancer molecular epidemiology (focus on breast cancer and tumour immunology) :D
AND WOW. MSK! Woohoo!
Cancer molecular epidemiology (focus on breast cancer and tumour immunology) :D
AND WOW. MSK! Woohoo!
businesscheese - 02/25/09 10:04
I sure did hear about that. People love to give us money for some reason. I didn't read up on the details...since I don't actually work at Weill Cornell I am a bit out of the loop.
My lab is at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, even though my degree will be granted through Cornell.
What are you piling higher and deeper in?
I sure did hear about that. People love to give us money for some reason. I didn't read up on the details...since I don't actually work at Weill Cornell I am a bit out of the loop.
My lab is at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, even though my degree will be granted through Cornell.
What are you piling higher and deeper in?
tinypliny - 02/24/09 18:07
Wow - small trivia. Did you know that your school has just received the LARGEST endowment (of its kind) anywhere in the world for initiating a K9 cancer biology/molecular epidemiology cohort?
Also, your school holds the future of the corn genome in its hands (or claws - hoever you choose to look at it. I prefer hands.) :)
Congratulations on the good news. My committee is meeting next month - but I am not even close to graduating.
Wow - small trivia. Did you know that your school has just received the LARGEST endowment (of its kind) anywhere in the world for initiating a K9 cancer biology/molecular epidemiology cohort?
Also, your school holds the future of the corn genome in its hands (or claws - hoever you choose to look at it. I prefer hands.) :)
Congratulations on the good news. My committee is meeting next month - but I am not even close to graduating.
businesscheese - 02/24/09 17:58
Aw, thanks lilho. I hope you come visit us soooooooooon.
Aw, thanks lilho. I hope you come visit us soooooooooon.
lilho - 02/24/09 17:36
i love drunk phd scientists!
i love drunk phd scientists!
theli - 02/24/09 12:08
Grats.
Grats.
businesscheese - 02/24/09 12:07
Biochemistry and Structural Biology. Basically I use really expensive and dangerous instruments to try to get a picture of proteins at atomic resolution. Nerd-tastic.
I'm at Cornell. The biomedical PhD stuff is in Manhattan, not Ithaca.
Jessica, ever since we got martini making supplies at home I've had at least one per night. Dangerous.
Biochemistry and Structural Biology. Basically I use really expensive and dangerous instruments to try to get a picture of proteins at atomic resolution. Nerd-tastic.
I'm at Cornell. The biomedical PhD stuff is in Manhattan, not Ithaca.
Jessica, ever since we got martini making supplies at home I've had at least one per night. Dangerous.
tinypliny - 02/24/09 11:49
What is your field of focus? and NYU?
What is your field of focus? and NYU?
hodown - 02/24/09 11:39
I can't wait to booze it up (mostly cause I miss you ladiez, but also because I'll start to have the DTs if I don't drink soon)!
I can't wait to booze it up (mostly cause I miss you ladiez, but also because I'll start to have the DTs if I don't drink soon)!
02/23/2009 17:47 #47872
Three cheers for drinking!
businesscheese - 02/24/09 11:09
Just an iPhone. I have a real camera too, but you can't very well whip out the DSLR when you're trying to capture a spliff smoking subway rider.
Just an iPhone. I have a real camera too, but you can't very well whip out the DSLR when you're trying to capture a spliff smoking subway rider.
tinypliny - 02/23/09 21:01
What equipment do you use for your stealthy photog skillz??! Very cool photo. This is easily the most entertaining photoblog from NYC around here. :)
What equipment do you use for your stealthy photog skillz??! Very cool photo. This is easily the most entertaining photoblog from NYC around here. :)
02/21/2009 14:11 #47849
Uncommon economic indicatorsWomen like this did not ride the subway (especially not the A train) prior to the economic meltdown.
Perfectly coiffed Anna Wintour bob, full length fur, teensy fluffy dog.
It's getting interesting.
Perfectly coiffed Anna Wintour bob, full length fur, teensy fluffy dog.
It's getting interesting.
businesscheese - 02/24/09 17:59
I was just in shock watching a man make out with a duck on the subway. I didn't even think to whip out my camera.
I was just in shock watching a man make out with a duck on the subway. I didn't even think to whip out my camera.
libertad - 02/23/09 20:43
Why don't you have a picture of the duck?
Why don't you have a picture of the duck?
tinypliny - 02/22/09 13:12
Wonder if he had ever heard of the Avian influenza virus...
Wonder if he had ever heard of the Avian influenza virus...
businesscheese - 02/22/09 12:41
I did once see a man with a duck in a baby carrier strapped onto his chest. He was nuzzling with the duck the entire ride. Truly odd.
I did once see a man with a duck in a baby carrier strapped onto his chest. He was nuzzling with the duck the entire ride. Truly odd.
metalpeter - 02/22/09 09:58
Since when can you take a Dog other then a seeing eye dog on the Train? hey why stop there why not a pet Tiger or maybe a pair of syamise cats?
I now so want to go to NYC. Even if I drove and I lived there I would have to go by train or live near work there is no way I would ever drive in that traffic.
Since when can you take a Dog other then a seeing eye dog on the Train? hey why stop there why not a pet Tiger or maybe a pair of syamise cats?
I now so want to go to NYC. Even if I drove and I lived there I would have to go by train or live near work there is no way I would ever drive in that traffic.
james - 02/21/09 14:37
Don't worry, the ruling class will still only ride the train for PR.
Don't worry, the ruling class will still only ride the train for PR.
Mmmm sidecar. I love a good sidecar.
I swear, my friends took me to a martini bar when I lived in Albany. They had a huge martini menu (on which the closest thing to a classic martini was a dirty martini, which is yum) that was a dozen illustrated pages long, as if an alcoholic commandeered a Friendly's menu.
It was full of familiar drinks with new names served in a martini glass. It was called a coffetini, but it was just a mudslide. It was called an agent orangetini, but it was just a side car with a splash of orange juice. It was like a thousand drunk monkeys mixed cocktails for a thousand years and recreated familiar drinks.
Martini that makes me want to punch someone: Apple-tini. Even worse: man drinking Apple-tini. Have some dignity and choke down a Scotch or even a beer.
I thought of that too, (e:James), and I remembered I'm not much of a bloody mary person either. I've also read about BBQ martini recipes. Hmmm
I've heard of a Bacon Martini that is served @ the Double Down Saloon.
vodka martini is perfectly acceptable. The name is qualified as such. And if you love it, cheers and bottoms up.
And I am going to have to pick up some beef broth. It sounds like a bloody mary for people who don't like vegetables.
For the record, I am a cocktail purist and believe a true martini is only made with gin. Delicious, delicious gin.
But I do find it amusing to add the suffix -'tini' to the end of alcohol concoctions that are so obviously not martinis. Like "Beef-tini". It's hilarious and ridiculous and I love it.
I know Vodka Martini is a sin, but it's delicious and it doens't give me a hangover so I'm sticking with it.
And that beef broth drink: actually delicious.
I get an urge to burn down an establishment that puts martini and vodka even remotely close together in its horrid brain. But that beefy drink sounds yum yum.
Can't get past the beef broth. It's the Martini you'll want to use a fork, but use a spoon, you'll want to get every drop!
Ah yes. By "classy", I meant "klassy". Should have qualified.
And surprisingly the cocktail wasn't all that bad. She gave Jessica and I a sip (before her boozy lips contaminated the glass).
What? Beef broth, citrus and vodka? Assuming it wasn't a joke, that "classy" lady needs remedial boozer therapy.
We are some boozy bitches!