Weekend @ Acme 1/27 and Valentine’s Day
1/27 Normal.dotm 0 0 1 300 1711 Acme Food & Beverage Co. 14 3 2101 12.0 0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false Greetings from Carrboro, Men of the world, look out – here he comes. Again. Cupid. It’s important not to dwell too much on how the image of [...]
Weekend @ Acme 1/20
1/20 Normal.dotm 0 0 1 261 1488 Acme Food & Beverage Co. 12 2 1827 12.0 0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false Greetings from Carrboro, Lord, the faces I must have made. Year after year. Every single time that I tried one. For my father, the whole thing [...]
Week @ Acme 1/5
Normal.dotm 0 0 1 287 1639 Acme Food & Beverage Co. 13 3 2012 12.0 0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false 1/5/12 Greetings from Carrboro, There’s nothing quite like a looming apocalypse to quash ambitious New Year’s resolutions. I’m not sure if this end-of-days involves volcanoes, flaming [...]
Week @ Acme 1/5
1/5/12 Greetings from Carrboro, There’s nothing quite like a looming apocalypse to quash ambitious New Year’s resolutions. I’m not sure if this end-of-days involves volcanoes, flaming meteors and general geological mayhem or if this is the type where the chosen get whooshed naked to paradise leaving the rest of the clothed masses to feel [...]
Week at Acme 12/20
Normal.dotm 0 0 1 179 1021 Acme Food & Beverage Co. 8 2 1253 12.0 0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false 12/20 Greetings from Carrboro, I really hadn’t planned to buy my mother water skis. Or that zebra print nose-hair trimmer. Because I realize now, as presents go, [...]
Weekend @ Acme 12/6 & Champagne DInner 12/19
12/6 Greetings from Carrboro, It really doesn’t make any sense. At all. Look at the rest of the world. France has Champagne and crémant. Spain has cava. And Italy has prosecco. Sounds lovely, right? And classy. Festive, even. So what did the great American marketing machine contrive for our bubbly drinking pleasure? Cold [...]
Weekend @ Acme and Champagne Dinner 12/19
12/6 Greetings from Carrboro, It really doesn’t make any sense. At all. Look at the rest of the world. France has Champagne and crémant. Spain has cava. And Italy has prosecco. Sounds lovely, right? And classy. Festive, even. So what did the great American marketing machine contrive for our bubbly drinking pleasure? Cold Duck. [...]
Week @ Acme 11/22
11/22 Greetings from Carrboro, There was a time in my life when a certain unavoidable contingency embraced “Gobble, Gobble” as an appropriate Thanksgiving greeting. This was deemed the holiday bookend to that ever popular Christmas shout out “Merry, Merry.” Both were spoken with a rather nauseating peppiness that’s usually the domain of local [...]
Week @ Acme 11/15
11/15 Greetings from Carrboro, I’m pretty sure that it absolutely ends tonight. OK, I know. I know. Never say never. But serving dinner on the patio in November is always iffy. Much less this late into the month. It’s just too cold. The chairs outside are soon stacked and put away. Mulch [...]
Week @ Acme 11/11 and Bordeaux Wine Dinner
11/11/11 Greetings from Carrboro, We were suckers back then. At least, I like to imagine it wasn’t only me who swallowed their spiel – hook, line, and sinker. Either way, those salesmen could smell the earnest naiveté on me and would lay it on thick. They wore golf shirts and tassel loafers [...]
