
Doughnut Face
*NEW* Rating system involving East Asian emoticons pilfered from the Wikipedia entry on “Emoticon”:
<(^_^)> = good
⊂( ゚ヮ゚)⊃ = good
(*_*) = what-the-fuck good
(-_-;) = shameful
I ate at these places:
Pok Pok (*_*)
Park Kitchen ⊂( ゚ヮ゚)⊃
Stumptown ⊂( ゚ヮ゚)⊃ (more…)
Categories: travel
Tagged: portland, stumptown, whiteface
Here is my photo essay for National Geographic (Nat Geo, no italics (italz in the biz) in the biz) on last week’s Barack Obama celebration dinner. Up first, duck fat garlic bread.

Why did I do this to the world?
This wasn’t a stroke of genius. I thought we had butter when in fact we did not, and the duck fat was right there dancing the tarantella in my freezer, courting me. Another flickr picr:
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Categories: Cooking
Tagged: barack, duck fat, legislative agenda