Month: August 2020
While reorganizing my files, I found these photos of me with the accordion in various situations and decided to post them here, just for fun.
The one above is from the karaoke competition at the 2015 edition of the GIANT Conference, a great UX conference in Charleston. I’m doing Young MC’s Bust a Move, and won an Apple TV as a result. I still have it, too!
The photo below is from a party held at Social Game Universe’s offices on Toronto’s King Street West when I found a unicorn mask and decided to try it on:
Here’s a couple of pictures from a 2004 meetup with technology journalists Amber Mac and Leo Laporte:
For a brief, shining moment, I was in an earlier version Lindi Ortega’s band:
These photos are from two DEF CON conferences, DEF CON 8 and DEF CON 9:
These final photos are from Year One of the accordion — the year when I first took the accordion out into the world, yielding some surprising results:
It might actually be practical business attire for August here in Florida.
(Thanks to Bones for the find!)
It’s where Kamala Harris herself was born, not her parents, that makes her an American citizen. Beers seems to have forgotten that he himself is the descendant of “anchor babies”.
He’s also forgetten that the term — pejorative, bigoted tones aside — describes a baby with birthright citizenship.
If you don’t know what the above image is all about, just click on it. (Don’t worry, it’s safe for all audiences.)
For the past few months, the Florida Avenue building that housed King of the Coop and what used to be Florida Avenue Eats has been undergoing renovations. The end result is getting close: a side-by-side corner of deliciousness featuring King of the Coop’s Nashville hot chicken and new entrant Wicked Oak Barbeque’s pulled pork, pulled chicken, loaded mac and cheese and BBQ nachos.
They have a phenomenal mango barbecue sauce that works so well with their pulled pork…
…and their loaded mac and cheese is something else:
This locations puts King of the Coop and Wicked Oak a very short stumble away from Revolution Ice Cream and 82° West Distilling for drinks afterwards. I foresee some nice nights out — once we get COVID-19 under control. In the meantime, I know where I’ll be getting some take-out soon!
(For more info, see this article in Creative Loafing — Wicked Oak Barbecue opening new location in Seminole Heights — and follow Wicked Oak on their Facebook page.)