Cupcake Lady

i'm a cupcake fetishist and a food-truck fan. as such, i've been following this woman's tweets <http://twitter.com/ButtercreamPhl> for weeeeeeks now, and stalking her website (<http://buttercreamphiladelphia.com>), and even sending along excited email updates when she'd posted that she'd appear at clark park farmers' market about a month ago...

but i've never actually had one of her baked delights. seems i'm just never in the right place at the right time!

in fact, today i actually rode by 34th and walnut at exactly noon, and didn't remember to stop! oh despair!

well, i hope she's serving next wednesday, the day before thanksgiving, because i'll *definitely* be in the neighbourhood at noon!

Yummy Doodles

cake and cupcakes have been on the brain lately, what with the NYT doing a piece on the hilarious cake wrecks blog (<http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/14/dining/14cake.html>), and free chocolate cupcakes on the corner of 34th and walnut this past tuesday just as i was in need of a quick pick-me-up snack before biking to a philobiblon meeting in center city, and the buttercream cupcake truck (<http://buttercreamphiladelphia.com>) twitter stream now part of my google reader feed, and kristen roth '05's amazing cakey confections...

and then, this: <http://www.flickr.com/photos/girlfish1303/4014215141>

slurp!

An Evening Frittered Lightly Away

take:

1) a convenient, if somewhat loud and snotty, location (mad mex, on 34th and sansom -- rock music in the background about 20dB too high, plus they had the most intense ID-checking machine and weren't afraid either to use it or to chase down evaders).
2) a delectable wine (a glass of potent chardonnay).
3) good company (wim). and
4) deep, relevant, honest conversation.

mix well. consume. walk away happy, contented.

totally worth the mediocre guacamole and the one wharton gent who spent part of our evening blow-own-trumpeting to us.

25 Mistakes

(at least i *think* that's the right number -- the number of mistakes you inevitably make when you commit a murder...)

now, this guy wasn't out to kill anyone, but he's obviously such a twit he wouldn't have been able to keep the number down below, oh, say, 1978352601^2.

<http://www.journal-news.net/page/content.detail/id/525232.html>

Burglar leaves his Facebook page on victim’s computer
By Edward Marshall, Journal Staff Writer
POSTED: September 16, 2009

MARTINSBURG - The popular online social networking site Facebook helped lead to an alleged burglar's arrest after he stopped check his account on the victim's computer, but forgot to log out before leaving the home with two diamond rings.

Jonathan G. Parker, 19, of Fort Loudoun, Pa., was arraigned Tuesday one count of felony daytime burglary.

According to court records, Deputy P.D. Ware of the Berkeley County Sheriff's Department responded on Aug. 28 to the victim's home after she reported the burglary.

She told police that someone had broken into her home through a bedroom window.

There were open cabinets in her garage, and other signs of a burglar.

The victim later noticed that the intruder also used her computer to check his Facebook status, and his account was still open when she checked the computer.

The victim later noticed that she was missing two diamond rings from her dresser in the same room as her computer.

The two rings were worth more than $3,500, reports indicate.

During the investigation, a friend of the victim told her that he knew where Parker was staying, in the same area as the victim's house.

Police then went to the home and spoke with a friend of Parker's.

The man said Parker had stopped by his home occasionally, but he said the man didn't live there.

He also said that the night before the burglary, Parker asked him if he wanted to help break into the victim's home but he refused.

As of Tuesday evening, Parker remained in custody at the Eastern Regional Jail on $10,000 bail.

If convicted he faces one to 10 years in prison.

(needless to say, i found this link on fb. hah!)

One Phone Call

if i were an ordinary indian citizen, with a muslim name, travelling to the u.s., and if i got held up at newark airport for secondary screening en route to chicago, and if i used my one phone call to call the indian consulate to help get me out of the airport as soon as possible -- would i succeed?

also, would i cause international headlines?

please, someone tell srk that, no matter how gorgeous his eyebrows, he's not above the law. and please, someone also tell the indian consulate in nyc that, if he has recourse to their emergency-vip-law-bending unit, we should all get to put their phone numbers in our phones, too -- and to use them when necessary.