Season Two Begins

Well, here we go--yes, I'm going to attempt another stretch of blogging.
Nick--if you are reading this--I still want you to create a new song to accompany season two. Read your YouTube mail, I sent you a message over a month ago!

Have you seen the new blog video?! Thanks to resident creative director, Peter, for once again creating something fun to watch while listening to that catchy Adam's Blog Theme.

As to keep from just a boring recap of the summer, I am now pleased to introduce this summers TOP TEN! A sampling of the best items, occurrences, people and places of Summer 2008. If you were involved in any/all of them: thank you! If not, I hope this write up conveys some of the essence that was this past summer.

TOP TEN PART ONE

Prilosec OTC
Seriously, Prilosec is a life-saver. After struggling for nearly 3 weeks with horrible stomach pains, Prilosec worked its magic and fixed my tummy. Now, who knows what really was wrong with me.... self-diagnosis (thank you various websites) and a call to my mother would have me believe that I was suffering from gastritis. Peter, on the other hand) thought (and maybe still thinks) I needed to have all of my organs removed (he would call me everyday to let me know that having your gallbladder out was a very routine surgery--doctors even race each other to see how fast they can do it.) This story has a happy ending thanks to the 14 day dose of Prilosec. I'm back to eating (and drinking) whatever I want.

Brunch
Having been known to have thrown a few famous brunches in the past, I wondered if I could ever capture this magic again. The answer is YES.

The 12 hour brunch began in the morning with lots of homemade little treats and lots of champagne. It continued into the evening with more champagne, wine, and whatever else we could get our hands on by the end of it. I nearly destroyed the apartment during a performance of Wicked--I was trying to wrestle the broom away from Bob and ended up falling backwards and almost hit our bar. The night ended with me trying to lock Bob out of the apartment after a fight?/altercation occurred between some of the guests. All in all, a good time was had by all--but I think especially me.

ZHJ
Bob's twink Zach makes the list with his humorous appearances here in Boston this summer. During the first visit, Zach refused to eat anything but dessert mints at the Chinese restaurant--well, thats not really true--he did try some fried rice, but after pouring salt on it, he decided he didn't like it. On the second visit, we all kayaked on the Charles (well, Peter, Bryan and I actually canoed). Bob and Zach went together in a kayak and it was fun to watch as Zach rowed Bob around like he was Cleopatra on the Nile. Third visit: "Is it okay if I sleep under your covers, Bob?" (enough said) Fourth and most recent visit was for lunch with Zach and Zack (Zach's boyfriend). After a confusing episode with pesto sauce, we discovered that new Zack was very funny--despite not knowing who Julia Child was.

Les Gurmundos
My side project for the summer was as contributor to Bryan's food blog. Les Gurmundos has sparked a BLOG WAR with rival food blog, Boston Chomps--it is just a little too suspicious that she reviewed Stella's RIGHT AFTER I posted my review--same goes for her review of Flour Bakery which appeared moments after Peter posted something on his visit there. Currently Gurmundos is ranked 4th on the Restaurant Blog Leaderboard. Chomps is 3rd. But the Gurmundos are gaining....

Part of being a Gurmundo was spending way too many nights at restaurants during Restaurant Week. I think Peter and Bryan went to 100 restaurants that week--and you can read about all of them on the blog--go there now--beat Chomps! BLOG WARS!

Sea Legs
http://thebatterysdown.com/songs/sea_legs-clip.mp3

Need I say more....check out The Battery's Down website over on the right margin!