TCB: happy jeans contest

[volvo240thebest]

; )

[ah_long]

Went to Japan for a few days, got my fix of food!

 

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[Somar]

Holy shit that is uncensored foodporn!! 

[redragon]

Goodness me...that much foodporn in a thread should be illegal.

[aho]

lol I could recognize that ramen anywhere! I do prefer maxing out on extra garlic though! jealous!

[Paul T]

RIght, don't think I've been giving enough TLC to this thread in the last few months so thought I'd do a bit of a photo-dump.

 

back in October we had a beautiful trip to Paris. So sorry to see what's happened in the city since; so sad to see much of the response to it, too.

 

 

Back in London. We saw a cock on the street.

 

 

I love walking out every morning; you really see all the shades of the seasons. The leaves have gone from golden red to a bleached orange.

 

 

and then the morning frosts...

 

 

Weekend just gone I had a lovely, lightning trip to NYC - I was doing a bunch of radio and an in-store to launch my Brian paperback in the US, plus a review of Lazarus, the new play using Bowie music.

 

I flew over on Thanksgiving itself, and the in-store was Black Friday at Book Court in Brooklyn. I had some radio in the morning at boring hotels, then was all a bit of a rush. But it turned out really well - the store was full, with people not buying Black Friday stuff. Well, buying my book, so that's OK. (it's a small store admittedly so not too hard to fill but was nonetheless wonderful). I love good US book stores so it was wonderful to be part of the scene  for an evening.

 

After the reading and Q&A I got taken for a drink by a journalist to a local craft beer bar. I think the craft beer movement has gone too far on the East Coast - pretentious, too many high-alcohol IPAs that are like a parody of the real thing. Then the journo's girlfriend turned up and started shouting at him that he said he'd be an hour max and now it was nearly three hours, what the hell etc etc. SO all in all I felt I'd had a value-for-mney day!

 

Friday morning I want back to one of my old haunts in the West Village. Even over the last 12 years it's become heavily gentrified - although the Highline, which they've turned into a park, is beautiful.

 

 

 

 

Edited December 2, 2015 by Paul T

[Paul T]

I had a very good lunch of a Peruvian Ceviche - it's distinct from the Mexican, Spanish or Jamaican versions as they use a particular yellow pepper called, I think, Aji Amarillo.

 

 

I also dropped in and said hello to the Levi's Meatpacking guys!

 

 

 

Then was time to pickup TIckets for the show.

 

Right next door is one of my favourite bars, the Great Jones cafe. It's opposite Andy Warhol's old office, where he let Basquiat stay - the street is also the location of a fantastic novel by Don Delillo about a rock star who disappears and holes up in a rambling apartment there. (David Jones aka Bowie of course disappeared to an apartment a few blocks over). I stayed in a building over the cafe in 2009, the year of the big freeze. It was there I got the news that Ron Asheton of the Stooges had died. I wrote his obituary wrapped in a duvet in a freezing loft, and sent it using the cafe wi fi sitting on the snow-covered steps.

 

Saturday morning I wanted to go somewhere different, and had the idea of going to Coney Island, off-season. It was a good idea.

 

 

 

 

Needed a high-class clothing item for the nipper and think I found it...

 

Edited December 2, 2015 by Paul T

[Paul T]

It's so beautiful with no-one around...

 

 

 

 

I'd bought the -T-shirt so I needed the lunch.

 

 

They were out of soft-shell-crab, boo, but they had a lobster salad sandwich for $7, yay! I don't normally drink at lunchtime so it was especially good to have the beer-buzz at 1pm. Lighthouse Ale - really really good nice and cold with the lobster. Yummy.

 

 

it's going to be hard to write about the show, as I didn't really like it. But on the way back I found a mis-spelt Psychic sign. Pick your own joke here...

 

 

It was a 5am start for the plane home, so we saw the sun come up as  we sped south in my Uber cab...

 

 

Now, as Frankie sang... it's nice to go travelling but it's oh-so-nice to come home. This morning:

 

 

 

 

update, my son just saw your post, Ah Long, and was just about salivating over the keyboard...

Edited December 2, 2015 by Paul T

[aho]

Ladies and gents, Paul T!

[volvo240thebest]

great update Paolo!

[garden gnomes in space]

i cant drink IPA's anymore, mostly because of the uber alcohol and the hops sledgehammer that gets shoved down your throat.  When they leave an after taste of a skunk in your mouth, there's too much hops.  

[Bobbo]

Have you tried session IPA's? Way less booze and also not as intense hops flavors. 

 

I quite often find a couple of Founders All day IPA in my basket when I visit The Bastard System.

[bradl]

i cant drink IPA's anymore, mostly because of the uber alcohol and the hops sledgehammer that gets shoved down your throat. When they leave an after taste of a skunk in your mouth, there's too much hops.

Only beer I really drink at the moment. Alcohol content doesn't really worry me to much, but a nice 70-80 ibu is perfect. Really just like something strong, so my tastes might change to stouts when I can find a good one.

[Paul T]

there are many good IPAs still; my local, Greenwich Meantime, is lovely, the basic Lagunitas is pretty good, and I'm sure I've had decent ones from many smaller makers in California.

 

But on this trip I had at least four that aren't zingy, they're acrid - including the Lagunitas Maximus which is fizzy and simply nasty, hence a parody of the style. And they're all the worse when given a five-minute over-rehearsed pretentious-bollocks spiel by your bar-tender.

 

In fact, they're a bit like horrible over-slubbed super-heavyweight denim!

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[Maynard Friedman]

You can always rely on Paul T for an appropriately-timed beer-denim segue!

[volvo240thebest]

 Aye Paul I just happen to dislike just as much Ipa's and superslub heavy weight denim haha!

i just love when a beer tastes of beer, something is becoming more and more rare this days.

I'm not at all a connoisseur nor a beer enthusiast (more of a wine person myself) but my favourite beer is a nice draught La Chouffe, mmh...

Anyone into lambic beers here? Been invited to a lambic taste beer night last time I was over in Belgium and had a hard time to resist till the end.. worse than Ipa's, for God's sake!

[Maynard Friedman]

The beer, the beer, the beer, the beer, the beer

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear, oh dear, oh dear

Just a bit of lambic pentameter for you!

[Paul T]

After reading Maynard's jokes, I need a strong drink.

[Bobbo]

Big fan of lambics! A friend of mine got me this bottle to celebrate my new job in Gothenburg a few weeks back. Now to decide when to drink it...

 

 

But tonight I'm having a bitter from Gothenburg. Cheers.

 

[Frost]

So, you guys are saying that I SHOULD start that alcohol thread..

[ah_long]

 Aye Paul I just happen to dislike just as much Ipa's and superslub heavy weight denim haha!

i just love when a beer tastes of beer, something is becoming more and more rare this days.

I'm not at all a connoisseur nor a beer enthusiast (more of a wine person myself) but my favourite beer is a nice draught La Chouffe, mmh...

Anyone into lambic beers here? Been invited to a lambic taste beer night last time I was over in Belgium and had a hard time to resist till the end.. worse than Ipa's, for God's sake!

 

if you have a chance, try the punk IPA by brewdog, it might change your mind. 

 

I'm a hardcore IPA and stout drinker.. but I love all sorts of beer (except for light beer)

[ah_long]

Only beer I really drink at the moment. Alcohol content doesn't really worry me to much, but a nice 70-80 ibu is perfect. Really just like something strong, so my tastes might change to stouts when I can find a good one.

 

If you see it in the stores, there's one called the three musketeers porter, it's a really nice porter that has scents of coffee, caramel and chocolate. Not too thick if memory serves me correct.

 

http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/11056/46644/

[garden gnomes in space]

im just tired of this trend of packing as much hops as possible into a beer, just for bragging rights.  Im not up on the craft beer scene much, but this was the trend a few years ago and it was disgusting.  If everything is balanced, so be it.  but a shit load of hops and a shit load of alcohol just tastes bad to me.  

[holio cornolio]

The beer, the beer, the beer, the beer, the beer

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear, oh dear, oh dear

Just a bit of lambic pentameter for you!

That actually made me laugh out loud (and not just type lol)

[volvo240thebest]

14 months for my pair.

 

different lighting

 

left backpocket in dire need of some TLC

 

right backpocket too

 

best roping of all my pairs

[Bobbo]

Sure paid off changing to bigger intervals between your washes mate, they look great! 

 

Also good to see that it is possible to do that so late into the game and not just go sparse from the get go. 

[volvo240thebest]

thank you B, now they're ready for a wash though. I'll hold til the end of the week and then wash and possibly repair the back pocket...

[heavydoom]

when will the fluff go away on the tcb 50?  it's creating havoc inside my car, the fluff is all over my dearborn duck chore coat!!!!

[volvo240thebest]

three four months of regular wear and 3/4 washes and there won't be any more fluff