Greetings from Carrboro, So what if it’s on my iPhone. Completely could be hacked. You must admit that under some honest scrutiny, this “idea” that Valentine’s Day is truly on the 14th starts to fall apart like a bad perm on a rainy day. For one, it’s not called “February 14th day.” And wouldn’t you call it that if […]
Game of Thrones Dinner 2/1
Greetings from Carrboro, Good thing the Starks didn’t choose to make Orange County home. Somehow Carrboro’s a town more suited to an optimistic familial mantra of ‘coexist’ than to something quite as bleak as ‘winter is coming.’ And then there’s the eternal problem of where exactly do you put a bloody broadsword in a Prius? […]
Mama, I made it.
Greetings from Carrboro, The earliest photographs of me are sincerely prophetic. In them, I more closely resemble a rather jolly bag of potatoes packed into a woefully undersized romper than an actual child. If that didn’t speak to the seriousness of baby-me’s appetite for pleasure, my seven chins certainly did the trick. It makes […]
We’re open all weekend!
Greetings from Carrboro, Snow, shmow. Whether a lot or a little, Acme will be open. All weekend long. Even if you share with us that decidedly southern genetic defect to purchase large quantities of sliced bread and gallons of milk at the mere mention of icy precipitation, you shouldn’t really want to eat any of it. Because, […]
New Year’s at Acme
Greetings from Carrboro, It couldn’t hurt. Really. The way I see it, anything that purports to provide a yearlong spate of health, luck, and wealth is worth a shot. You with me? And it’s not like you have to eat a bowl of fire ants or light your hair on fire to be the beneficiary […]
Acme Feast of the Ribs
Greetings from Carrboro, Gold. Franckincense. Myrrh. Ribs. That was the original lineup as described in the Dead Sea scrolls. I swear. You can look it up. The ancient story goes that along their epic route, the wise men got wise. And sort of had an epiphany on the way to Epiphany. Basically, they ate the ribs. Every […]
🎁 December at Acme
Greetings from Carrboro, The leaf won’t budge. Not an inch. In fact, the shiny new leaf that I had planned to turn over seems glued, nailed, and riveted to the ground with a rather large, angry gorilla standing on it for good measure. Again. December is like that. Well, December is like that for me. […]
Bubbly Dinner at Acme 12/14
Greetings from Carrboro, Yes. It’s true. My family drank Cold Duck. OK, not the kids – we got Meier’s sparkling grape juice that was on the wrong side of delicious. But the holiday table was all about bubbly beverages and festive stemware. One day it would just appear in the refrigerator right next to the […]
Weekend At Acme 11/11 – 11/13 & Thanksgiving Menu
Greetings from Carrboro, The only day that my sister ate sweet potatoes was Thanksgiving. It was a family tradition – Senator Russell’s Sweet Potatoes. With an emphatic, brace-yourself emphasis on the sweet part. It was more a concoction of butter and brown sugar and pecans and, well, more brown sugar whipped into something akin to […]
Halloween @ Acme
Greetings from Carrboro, Not only was I not allowed to dress up as anything scary, but my mom gave out apples. Shiny, grocery store apples. Red Delicious, if I were to guess. It was a wee-bit better than handing out little toothbrushes, but still everyone ritually skipped our house like the plague. Even the littlest kids […]
