05th Nov 2007

Thanksgiving in the Can

I just completed a monstrous shop for Thanksgiving today on FreshDirect.com, an excellent NY-area online grocery. Surprising the company hasn’t yet tried to branch out beyond the NY region, but I guess they’re focused on excellence before world domination. What a pleasure to have all that shopping taken care of on November 4th with a commitment of delivery sometime between 9am and noon on Wednesday November 21, the day before Thanksgiving.

They even have a feature enabled finally that I’ve been thinking of for years: the ability to choose a recipe and then have all the associated ingredients populate in your shopping basket automatically. I don’t use Fresh Direct more than a few times a year, but it’s always a great experience.

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03rd Sep 2007

Goodbye Astroland Park, Coney Island

Fearing the worst for Coney Island’s inimitable Astroland Amusement Park, which may or may not open again next year after being sold for a mere $30 million to greedy real estate developers who plan to tear it down, I decided to go alone to the place tonight for a photo excursion. Holy shit, is the Cyclone fun!

Cyclone big dip
Inside the Astrotower
Shoot the freak
The Cyclone
Needle thing
Skin the wire
Nathans
Arriving


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