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Foodstuffs; a NYC mind-fudge

One of my favorite things about visiting NYC was the delicious foodstuffs. Everywhere you turn the streets were inundated with people selling all kinds of delights. Sometimes you'd be walking down the street and you'd smell something unprecedented. Because so many smells were mixing together, you weren't sure if it was a good smell or an evil smell. It was like so many smells - some good, some bad - converged to create a super-smell that somehow broke your smelling system. Anyway...

All of you know there is a hot dog stand on every corner, but did you know each of these hot dog stands is also home to a magical pretzel cooker? Well they are! For only two U.S. American dollars, you can get yourself a saltily delicious pretzel!

If that doesn't suit your fancy, you can always go to Magnolia's Bakery. This little ditty is home to some of the best pastries in New York City. Above you can see two of the company's creations. The one on the left is a Macadamia Nut Cheesecake and the one on the right is a Pumpkin Cheesecake. Both selections delighted our pallets.

If you are feeling slightly exceedingly more carnivorous, feel free to stop by the famous Carnegie Deli. While we didn't see Aurthur Fonzarelli or Bowser from Sha Na Na there, we did see pleanty of meat-filled sandwiches, like the above Woddy Harrelson, which was filled with 8 inches of corned beef and pastrami.

Where else could you find so many foods melted into one condensed location? New York City, my friend, New York City. So if yuo are looking for some good eats, you know where to go.

The Big Easy Way

This past weekend, Emi and I had the opportunity to go to New York, New York. Let me just say, We had a blast!

I'm going to be featured as a guest blogger at www.dottingthemap.com, so feel free to check there to get some in depth travel posts.

In the meantime, I'm going to be putting up one or two pictures a day and tell the story of how the Sorensen's owned the Big Easy!

Top o' the Morning to Ye!!!

As many of you know, today is a pretty special day. For those of you who are simply spying on me via WWW, prior to being declared St. Patrick’s Day, March 17^th was foredestined to become an even more of an important day; my birthday! Turning 26 has been pretty awesome so far; I’m feeling pretty good about where I’m at in life and what the world has in store for me. As Gwen Stefani would say, “I’m feelin’ hella good.”

Last year was good, but it definitely had its ups and downs. Last night I had a pretty crazy dream which signifies, what I call a time of my life filled with awesomeness and good times.

In this dream, I was riding my bike* along and suddenly I noticed in the trees that there were snakes all around. Being an appreciator for all things slithering, I immediately stopped picked up a medium sized slithering beast. I’m no ophiologist, but I think it was a python.

Anyway, so I pick up said snake and begin to ride my bicycle. As I’m riding along, the snake freaking bites me in the face, but nothing happened (other than the fact that a freaking snake tried to kill me). I then proceeded to squeeze the snake. This quickly proved to be a not-so-good idea because then it bit my hand and I couldn’t get it off. I tried everything and eventually pried its jaws open and threw it on the ground. It began to race quickly away from me (probably because it recognized I had commandeered a shovel from somewhere). As it’s making its escape it slithered right into the belly of a much larger snake (anaconda?) which seemed to be much friendlier towards me. I thanked the snake for assisting me claim victory over snake “A” and after that I woke up.To help you fathom what it was really like I attempted to recreate the series of events.

What does this mean? I think the first snake signifies my 25^th year of life on this earth and the second snake represents the upcoming year. The eating of the 25^th year symbolizes the 26^th’s year of superiority in all things awesome. So, you ask, what does this all mean? Well, this year is going to be a good one!

Of course this could be a combination of the following:

• Listening to too much Aquabats, namely Attacked by Snakes
• Looking on KSL and Craigslist for bikes (*If you have one you are looking to sell, let me know)
• Killing snakes in Resident Evil 5

Comics?

Last weekend, Emi and I went and saw Watchmen. I was hoping to have read the book prior to seeing the movie, but alas, I did not. I liked the movie a lot, especially the first 20 minutes and the part about Rorschach's history. Now, upon discussing the cinematic successes of Watchmen, some may argue it was not as good as the comic book graphic novel. I have since started reading Watchmen and let me tell you this: it's pretty awesome. The characters are more developed and because I'm a little slow I can go back and read the parts I didn't understand. Hindsight has also made me feel happy I saw the movie first. So was the book better than the movie? Probably. Was the movie pretty awesome? Yeah. Will I see the movie again after finishing the book? Most definitely. Now, the following video compares the awesomeness of Watchman to the awesomeness of X-Men. I'll just let you view the clip for yourself.