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Wordless Friday

Posted by plumpdumpling on January 14, 2011 – 12:00 pm      
Filed under just pictures, living in new york is neat

The clothes in this store are truly awful from my style point of view–think 70s hippie as envisioned by a Mexican goatherder–but I really appreciate what it adds to the city architecturally:

Our table after a night of whiskey tasting with my friends Anthony, Roy, and Jeff, where we learned that whiskey is supposed to be spelled without an E:

On the railing of Brooklyn Bridge Park after a lunch at The River Cafe with my visiting German friend, Jessica:

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11 Comments

  1. ells says:
    January 14, 2011 at 1:19 pm

    It’s not SUPPOSED to be spelled without an “e.” With scotch, yes, and also, often, with Canadian. But Irish and bourbon generally have an E. And it’s not an error, it’s a difference.

    So there!

    Further reading: http://dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/04/whiskey-versus-whisky/

    • plumpdumpling says:
      January 14, 2011 at 1:53 pm

      Dang, it really turns me on when you go all alcoholic all over my blog.

      That’s a really interesting post that makes me pleased to be a lover of language and an ardent defender of the words and phrases I hold dear. (I WILL NEVER SAY THAT I’M STANDING “ON LINE, TRY AS YOU MIGHT TO CHANGE ME, NEW YORK!)

      • ells says:
        January 14, 2011 at 2:01 pm

        Oh guuuurl I can booze it up better.

        When I went on the factory tour at Jameson’s in Dublin (which was way more fun than the stupid guiness tour, by the way), I volunteered and got to be on the tasting panel at the end of the tour. It was a blind taste test of four different whikeys, and by the end I was plowed. I had such a tiny little tolerance back then. So cute!

        And yes. Standing on line is dumb. Your canadian spelling of words like coulour, on the other hand, is adorable.

  2. Cristy says:
    January 14, 2011 at 1:51 pm

    Love the building! Is Curious Brain the name of a boat or exhibit or something?

    • plumpdumpling says:
      January 14, 2011 at 2:00 pm

      Oh, Cristy, I’m so glad you asked! It forced me to go back and look at the other pictures I took that day to see if there were any clues, and I found another railing that said, “TALL MASTS OF MANNAHATTA!” I figured they couldn’t just be random sayings, so I Googled them, and they’re from Walt Whitman!

      Stand up, tall masts of Mannahatta!–stand up, beautiful hills of Brooklyn!
      Throb, baffled and curious brain! throw out questions and answers!

      It’s so wonderful! Here’s the whole poem.

  3. Jessica R. says:
    January 14, 2011 at 2:35 pm

    I love that middle photo. It looks so calm and cozy… and really makes me miss alcohol.

    • plumpdumpling says:
      January 14, 2011 at 3:41 pm

      In reality, it was a warehouse packed to the gills, and at the end of it, they raised the entire back wall of the building and pushed us out into the freezing night air.

      But I’ll let you romanticize your alcohol. I know that’s important.

  4. Kim says:
    January 15, 2011 at 12:32 am

    Whiskey can totally have an ‘e’! Irish and American do. Scotch whisky is the one without. I don’t know about Canadian. I want to go whisky/whiskey tasting. Invite me places, god.

  5. Mrs. Bachelor Girl says:
    January 16, 2011 at 1:21 am

    Good LAWD, you take good pictures.