you are dancing in black

danceinblack @ 2008-12-26T14:34:00

2008-12-26T19:38:42Z

Happy feast of St. Stephen.......oh and hope you had a merry Xmas, happy solstice, and Feliz Channukka.

Love,
DIB

oY!

2008-12-03T05:10:12Z

I haven't posted in oh so long or read your updates. I'm kinda stuck here in NY. Seems like alot of us are looking for work. Things are mostly up these days. I have some new friends to go out with. also, I've reconnected with some old chums from ages past.

Oh and I have a gig cooking Sundays at my all time favorite diner the Miss Albany. I have been eating there since the early 90's and worked there part time for a couple years in the later half of the 90's. They also have a dish on the menu I invented in like 1995 called Georgian eggs. 2 eggs any style on a bed of sweet potatoes and red onions with a spicy peanut sauce on top. It came about when the produce company delivered sweet potatoes instead of white and I was on a thai kick.

Miss you peeps!

DIB

PS I'm on twitter as well.

Last on the bandwagon!

2008-09-30T17:12:12Z

Ok so confirming my role as follower and not leader!

The rules:
1. Take a picture of yourself right now.
2. Don't change your clothes, don't fix your hair...just take a picture.
3. Post that picture with NO editing.
4. Post these instructions with your picture.

Look at me sunburnt on a cloudy day!

Where's my fucking bailout ?

2008-09-22T23:35:14Z

Um,

If the greatast "finacial minds" of America can't get the economy right why should I be responsible for my bad decisions ?

I say let it tank. Put your money under the bed. Deposit Backed by a good old fashion shotgun.

There's my tirade,

DIB

danceinblack @ 2008-09-18T21:35:00

2008-09-19T01:53:30Z

Hey I haven't posted in 4 weeks!
In the last 3 weeks I have managed to shake off the FUNK I have been in since March 2007. It really is like a weight has been lifted and the sun has come out.
Everyone seems to be buzzing through life. I'm sorta standing still right now.
Though I have been somewhat productive I have been doing projects around my Mom's house that she hasn't taken care of since I was a Kid.
Its weird to be staying at the same home I grew up in. What's even stranger is that it is a mobile home that was moved about 10 miles from where I grew up. Sometimes I think I will take a walk across the street to my Godmother's house and realize I'm 9ish miles away.

I've been doing some preserving of wild foods and local produce and blogging about it on a new myspace page called cookinblack.

For kicks I have been going to Albany and dancing AND drinking at Fuzebox 80's night. It is no Hero's but I met a kewl bunch of peeps. I ocassionally run into former local isolatory there as well.
So I'm heading home this fall lookin for a job and digs and tying up lose ends here.

To my darling exwife!

2008-08-02T01:25:32Z

Anecdotes of your loser ex's are not nearly as amusing now that I am one of them.

That is all,
DIBikins

danceinblack @ 2008-07-24T20:54:00

2008-07-25T00:58:22Z

Happy Birthday girlvanized!!!

You rock !!! and stuff.

Long distance hugs n such.
<333
DIB

danceinblack @ 2008-07-17T23:13:00

2008-07-18T03:14:57Z

Hey,

Did you get a look at the Moon? it was big and yellow and full! And it's the same moon all my friends are looking at so far away.

danceinblack @ 2008-07-16T00:46:00

2008-07-16T04:48:40Z

Safely arrived at my Mom's house in upstate NY. No Mom No Mom's dog.

Just me and Schuyler and quiet darkness!

The Movening!!!

2008-07-11T21:58:57Z

Ok so If you can come help out this weekend I'm planning on Saturday and perhaps Sunday for van time. If I can get a rough head count I will know how much foods and BEVERAGES to buy as well.

Cheers!

PS 37 mary st Arlington MA

danceinblack @ 2008-07-09T21:27:00

2008-07-10T01:39:38Z

Thank you all oh so much!!!

Mom is going to be OK. The delusional stuff is gone her face has filled out again and the swelling in her injured wrist is reduced. Time to pull DIB's life together.

So Saturday is going to be my main moving day. We'll probably all be Xmortised. So we could start lateish. Feel free to call for directions address etc I'm going to endevor to be all packed. I'm going to move everything to my ex's basement-garage. Then I will probably bounce between NY and Home for a little splitting my time checking on my Mom and setting up Job/digs in NE. Of course Tuesday AM Interview offers started to role in!!!!!

Thank you my posse for all your offers of help, kind words and positive vibrations,
S

danceinblack @ 2008-07-08T08:33:00

2008-07-08T12:48:09Z

Somewhat,

Spent the night the night in the Hospital with Mom. She has visibly changed after 4 bags of iv. She's the shrunken old lady I remember now. She is mostly lucid except she will stop and ask me why I sat in the driveway racing my motorcycle engine instead of coming in to help her.

Just washed the bathroom floor she laid on for 4 days. Yes is was as gross as you might imagine. It makes me so sad to look in there and think of what it must have been like to lay there.

All in all she seems to be coming around.

In addition I need to be out of my apartment in Arlington by next tuesday. I may just store all my stuff at my ex's house also in Arlington. So any charitable packing moving help when I get back to town would be greatly appreciated.

PS seven eight one three six eight three three eight five

Thanks for listening,
S

Panic

2008-07-07T21:20:35Z

Just found out my Mom is on her way to the hospital after 4 days on the bathroom floor. Call me I'll be on the road for the next 4 hours

Ughhhhhhhhhhh!

2008-07-07T02:11:54Z

Ok so, It's been ever so long that I've been looking for a job. For awhile I was looking for "The Perfect job". Now I'm looking for a job.
In addition I now have the excitment of having to be out of my apartment by July 15. I have esteem issues at the best of times and right now I feel like a worthless sack of shit and assume everyone I know thinks I'm a loser and is avoiding me. That said I rationally know this is not true but the record keeps playing.
Worse comes I will go stay with my Mom in Upstate NY while I continue to look for work. THIS WOULD SUCK my Mom likes to point out my failings and when there are some real ones to point out it can get ugly.
I feel like I am wasting my life not doing art or cooking fine dining but i'm also afraid to aim high and fail big. Instead of failing small as usual. I have also expanded my job search to Providence as the pay and rents there are more functional and I would still be near to Boston.
Thanks to felinesque industrialsteveand girlvanizedfor poking me with the motivational stick !

Jairb!

2008-06-12T17:54:44Z

So bubele,
I had an interview at a Kosher office cafe today it went realllllllllllly well. Tomorrow I get to test my metal in the kitchen, one for meat and one for dairy of course.

PS I just started a foodie myspace page called cookinblack and posted my first blog. last night I dreamt I went to a book store in my old office building and there were food books being given away. Oddly enough my new office building is about 2 miles from New England Mobile book fair If you don't no it you are missing out. So anywho I'm perusing the stacks when the call comes to invite me back. I got meself a book on picking wild mushrooms and New kosher cooking.

Matthew Sweet "Girlfriend"

2008-06-03T03:45:07Z

I want to love somebody
I hear you need somebody to love
Oh I want to love somebody
I hear youre looking
For somebody to love

cause you need to be back
In the arms of a good friend
And I need to be back
In the arms of a girlfriend

I didnt know nobody
And then I saw you coming my way
Oh I didnt know nobody
And then I saw you coming my way

Dont you need to be back
In the arms of a good friend?
Oh cause honey believe me
Id sure love to call you
My girlfriend
[solo]

Dont you need to be back
In the arms of a good friend?
Oh cause honey believe me
Id sure love to call you
My girlfriend

cause you
Got a good thing going baby
You only need somebody to love
Oh you got a good thing going
Youre only looking
For someone to love
cause you need to get back
In the arms of a good friend

And Im never gonna set you free
No Im never gonna set you free

Stayed tuned for this public service announcment...........

2008-05-29T16:47:48Z

SquEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooohooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooohoooohooo!!!!

I can haz nice Ladi? (WARNING: RAMBLING POST OF DOOM)

2008-05-26T18:13:55Z

So new beginnings all around,

My last connection to former relationship ERA Boston is severed. Thursday 5/16 I removed my chef's hat and threw it at my boss and admonished her to go fuck herself. I leave behind a fabulous group of customers, tolerable coworkers and a hulking wreck of what used to be an awesome job that gave me creative control. Over the past 6 months I went from kitchen manager/Chef to Utility/cook under the new boss. I don't recommend the exit I took but fortunately I work in one of the last professions where one can audition for a new job.

I guess cutting out that last bit of poison opened me to the following. I won't mention her by name in print yet as to not jinx anything. Recently I made the acquaintance of an awesome woman. We met Friday for the first time and spent time talking about our passions, eating and hanging out on the beach. A truly excellent day and apparently I passed the "introduce him to my sister and have him checked for axe murderer vibe" test 8 ;-) little do they know...(oops that was supposed to stay inside). This of course was followed by Night of the Dolls.

Anywho, Saturday it was help my mate industrialsteve move to his new digs followed by Hero's and the company of The girlvanized. Sunday I spent the entire day sleeping in followed by musings with Nick and V at Isteve's crib. Last evening I drove to Providence and Spent time in the company of "The Lovely Woman" who was stunning in her Elegant Gothic Lolita ensemble. After last evening it appears we will be spending more time together.
Huzzah!!!

You waited 5 weeks for this crap!

2008-04-24T20:18:11Z

Job Satisfaction is when a jaded middle aged Indian woman has a foodgasm when tasting your Dal Chana.

That is all.

YaY!!!

2008-03-20T00:53:24Z

Tomorrow Morning I go to court to officially end my marriage. Then its all over except the 90 day wait. Anybody up for a party around the begining of summer?!

Love you my Peeps
S

Nacho cheese sauce costs extra!!!

2008-03-10T20:02:09Z

PS sodium hypochlorite is not your friend!

2008-02-07T21:51:27Z

That post about who taught me how to cook got me away from the stress of my afternoon.

At 2:05ish I was readying my cleaning solution when I dropped a bottle of bleach that sloshed back in my face and into one eye. I did all the right things flushed my eye with lots of cool water. Boss said I had to go to ER for clearence anyway, It's amazing how prompt the service at the ER is when you say you got bleach in your eye. An hour and 1 liter of saline solution later I was back on the road.....and I got out of cleanup 8 ;-)

Writer's Block: Cooking Lessons

2008-02-07T21:41:28Z

Who taught you how to cook?

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So here goes,
My earliest memories of cooking (and some of my earliest memories period) are with My Godmother June. She used to make her own bread about once a week. She would give me kneaded dough and let me roll it and make little sweet loaves with raisins or chocolate chips or tiny pizzas.
Later I remember cooking with my Aunt Mary (RIP). She would instruct me in how things were cooked as I watched her in the kitchen and as the years went on let me do sides or peel veggies etc at Sunday dinners. We would talk about old time woodstove cooking game cooking and other dishes traditional to our family.
I also remember the big FAIL. On some Sundays we would go to my Aunt Marion's for dinner and though I wanted to stay in the kitchen and help cook I was banished to the living room to "Watch football with the men"!
around first grade craving a stable home life I started teaching myself how to make breakfast for my Mom and wake her frequently to ask questions. I would cook bacon, eggs and toast while watching Johnny Quest or the Scoobie Doo Mystery.
With all these woman showing me the way and so much love at the same time is it any wonder I became a cook.

weekend Shennaigans...or were they Hijinx?

2008-02-04T22:09:55Z

Saturday Night at Shelter was totally rockin BFF

girlvanized and I worked the Room. It was more packed than I have seen it. I am endlessly surprised by how nice and sexy and cool my friends and acquaintences are in this "scene". Such a fun night. Anyway, I hit the dance floor soon after arrival and didn't leave much after that, as my quads kept reminding me Sunday. Because of dance/alcohol related exhaustion Slept sitting up on BFF industrialsteve 's couch with girlvanized until sometime after dawn Sunday. At which time it was home to the little dog and more sleeps. Sunday evening the Magnificent ajwonderland and industrialsteve Created a spread that would make John Madden shriek. I ate foods until I nearly exploded then attempted suicide by profiderol........I don't reccomend this! Despite the malaise of some at the Pat's loss the party and company were awesome.

Dolls

2008-01-27T01:31:52Z

Last night dolls was a Pissah!

Caught up with old acquaintences turning them into new friends. YAY! The music was awesome and I danced my ass off and enjoyed a little bumpy/grindy 8 ;-) . Thats my goggle wink BTW.
My love,
DIB