energy bar review installment 002
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Met-Rx Big 100 Colossal Meal Replacement Bar, Peanut Butter-Pretzel format
having consumed one of the other flavors of this specific kind of gross workout-freak food last week, I decided to never eat them again. But then I saw there was a flavor with whole pretzels embedded in it like rubies so I bought one. It was terrible but it did look cool. Do not eat unless you are desperate or have some kind of metabolic disorder where there is a literally a fire in your stomach and you have to throw dense wads of matter into it constantly to avoid baking yourself or just exploding or something.
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items found and mostly discarded during desultory housecleaning, 9/11/11
:: Ticket for Continental Airlines flight 1126 from EWR–>MDW, July 4, 2006
It was a very clear night, and you could see July 4th fireworks going off all across the country for most of the flight. Actual non-forgettable visual experience, top five in life, in all honesty. Reaffirmed a personal article of faith: always, always get window seat.
:: 3/31/2008 5:02 PM credit card receipt for $14.12 for copy of William Vollmann’s ARGALL from Powell’s on 57th in Chicago, found at page 15 of William Vollmann’s ARGALL.
I was broke then and had an inchoate plan of moving away from Chicago to achieve critical distance on my mid-twenties (and because I was bored at work). I am broke now and have scaled-back inchoate plans of purchasing a stairmaster or maybe only eating carrots and brown rice for the rest of my life.
:: Bookstore bookmarks:
– St. Mark’s Bookshop, 31 Third Ave, NY, NY
Currently circulating a petition asking that shop’s landlord lower monthly rent, on the basic premise that “bookstores are nice.”
– Borders(R) Cleveland Area Stores
Chain went out of business earlier this year.
– Citybooks, 1854 Coventry Road, Cleveland Hts., OH
I thought this bookstore had a different name. If this isn’t the same store that used to be called Mac’s Paperbacks then I am not sure if I have ever been in this store.
– Strand, 828 Bway, NY, NY
Still there. They have since upped their “miles of books” claim. I have resolved my longstanding prejudice about people with Strand tote bags. One of the 3.5 sentences in this paragraph is a half-lie.
– Unnameable Books, 600 Vanderbilt, Brooklyn NY 11217
This was in the replacement copy of SWAG fka RYAN’S RULES by Elmore Leonard that I bought to replace the one that I gave back to Stephen Witt after borrowing for five years. During those five years, I tried several times to relocate Unnameable Books on foot, which used to be in Park Slope, but moved without much ceremony to Prospect Heights. Since it didn’t really have a name, no one knew what I was talking about when I asked where that bookstore was.
:: Save-the-date postcard for a November 2010 wedding in Puerto Morelos, Mexico involving my stepcousin.
Said wedding was called off approx 1 month after I received this card. I wasn’t going to make it, because I was broke then and I didn’t/don’t have a valid passport.
:: Heavily faded receipt for chicken fajita burrito from Chipotle at 10 E. Jackson, Chicago IL, 3:54 PM, January 27, 2006.
Not sure what I was doing downtown in the middle of the day on a Thursday. I had a 9-to-5 job at that point. Also, said burrito cost $6.17 with tax. Price of Chipotle is increasing way way in advance of real wages at least in my life.
:: Amtrak ticket stub for train #318, Chicago IL to Indianapolis, IN, June 1, 2005.
I think I went to see the Formula 1 race/get out of Chicago. I was extremely unemployed at that time and would not have had any money, so I am guessing Ashley paid for my ticket. Which was only $20, it warrants mention. This train was delayed by a stopped freight for something like 2 hours IIRC.
:: Promotional card to download a sampler from Southern Lord Records, 2008.
Not sure what Southern Lord Records is but the graphic design (and label name) suggests instrumental metal.
:: 1985 Topps football Reggie Camp card, poor condition
This was in unread, yellowed copy of Margaret Atwood/THE HANDMAID’S TALE.
:: Postcard of fresco from chapel of St. Francis at Assisi
Unmailed but written on by college-era girlfriend, delivered by hand as bday communique 2010. It says “29! Shit! Here is a fresco from St. Francis of Assisi’s chapel to cheer you up. Happy birthday [heart] T”
:: Receipt from yupscale sandwich place in Manhattan dated 6/21/2010
It’s itemized, and the items read in entirely “LAMB $9.00 DIET COKE $2.00”
