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Near the corner of Juniper & 12th in Midtown Atlanta.

April 29th, 2006

Hi new readers!

Hello there! If you’re coming from Poynter’s E-Media Tidbits item, welcome to my blog. There’s a lot of stuff on here, including stupid jokes and pictures of food. I write about online journalism quite a bit - scan the archive of stuff here at LauraFries.com/archives/category/Journalism & the Media.

April 28th, 2006

Atlantans eating out today

You know your pig-butt is going to be wallowing it up at a local eatery at some point today. Guilt enema? Not from me. Try this all-cleansing activity! Pick a restaurant that’s participating in Project Open Hand, which delivers meals to homebound seniors, kids, and folks with serious illnesses. 20 percent of your tab [...]

April 26th, 2006

Robots Say …

… talk to the hand, fleshbag!

April 25th, 2006

Beach Burn, Portsmouth, NH

April 25th, 2006

Delectable Delights in the Northeast

What’s better than seeing Wilco in some crazy-ornate auditorium in Portland, Maine? Not the sandwich at Sebago Brewing Company Blech. My heart broke. Having eaten naught but nibbles the whole day through, I had high hopes for a pastrami on rye - which were cruelly shattered with this processed pink meat sandwich. Fie, fie! Fortunately, the beer [...]

April 25th, 2006

Pimp my snack!

Could the Internet get better than PimpMySnack.com, a website devoted to the step-by-step creation of giant versions of your favorite snack foods? I submit that it cannot. Feast. Above see the pimped out Rolo. Hot. (thanks to Larry for the linkage)

April 24th, 2006

Backwards on the Downeaster

Early morning sunlight filtered through the trees casts shadows on my lap, my book, making it difficult to read. My hand rests on the bulge of my belly, another clasps a soda, as I read Michael Pollan’s well-researched book that describes how, exactly, I’ve come to consume so many calories of corn processed into high [...]

April 21st, 2006

Veggie Lasagna Spirals, Larry’s House, Dover, NH

I made this for my friend Larry and his friends. Lasagna spirals, stuffed with ricotta, mozarella, garlic spinach, kalamata olives and roasted red peppers, topped with a fresh tomato basil sauce. Kinda. Awesome.

April 19th, 2006

Thoughts between Atlanta, Boston, and Dover, NH

On planes Without my tranquilizers or my iPod, I was reduced to inhaling the seat in front of me for comfort — long in through the nose, long out through the mouth, tasting the inexplicable smell of Johnson & Johnson’s No More Tangles. In Train Stations One fat construction worker with a bolognese-heavy Boston accent just poked another [...]

April 19th, 2006