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  • Three Weeks Till Certain Humiliation

    It’s three weeks until the Las Vegas Rock N Roll ½ Marathon and I am pooping one of those small, rectangular units of building material, often made from fired clay, and secured with mortar. I’m shitting bricks is what I’m trying to say. I don’t know if I’m ready. Or if I will be ready.…

    thepoelog

    November 14, 2011
    running (away)
    new shoes, running, running-related injuries, whininess

  • Food Porn: Meyer’s, Louie Mueller

    Before we went to the king of all BBQ festivals, we had our own little mini festival after touching down in Austin. Last year, my personal-pit-master-for-life XFE and I made the pilgrimage to Lockhart for Smitty’s and Black’s. This year, we went to Elgin for sausage and Taylor for everything awesome about BBQ. We started…

    thepoelog

    November 4, 2011
    food (of all types), travel
    Austin, Barbecue, Matt and Melissa, Texas

  • Another Reason Michael Vick is a Jerk

    The main thing to know about this year’s Texas Monthly BBQ festival is that I threw up. That puts thePoeLog household at two-for-two on throwing up after the BBQ festival. They should probably hire us as spokespeople. Last year was my meat-lover-for-life XFE’s shot at toilet glory. This year was all me. (*Disclaimers: Neither of…

    thepoelog

    November 3, 2011
    food (of all types), travel
    Austin, Barbecue, Matt and Melissa, vomit

  • Run Review: Run for the Water 5k, Austin, Texas

    I’m back! OK, what did I miss? I mean, Kim and Kris are still happy young newlyweds, right? And Jessica Simpson is totally not preggers, right? And Rick Perry gave an amazingly awesome speech in New Hampshire that’s going to help him regain the top of the polls, right? Oh, so…..none of those things are…

    thepoelog

    November 2, 2011
    running (away), travel
    Austin, Races, running, Sweat

  • No Time to Blog. Stuffing My Face with BBQ.

    No, seriously, I’m at the Texas Monthly BBQ festival right now stuffing my face. I’ll have a couple of posts about the weekend next week; including, obviously, LOTS of food posts, and a race review of the Run for the Water 5k. In the meantime, I thought you might like to read a little essay I wrote…

    thepoelog

    October 30, 2011
    food (of all types), travel
    Austin, Barbecue, Chicken Shit Bingo, Texas Monthly

  • Food Porn: Juan in a Million’s The Don Juan

    Even as you read this, I am hurtling through the sky, heading to God’s Country, aka Texas. Specifically, Austin. I got my bachelor’s degree in Austin at the fine University of Texas. Took me seven years. And, if you’ve ever been to Austin, you know why it took me seven years. Why would you hurry…

    thepoelog

    October 28, 2011
    food (of all types), travel
    Austin, breakfast tacos, government cheese, Juan in a Million

  • Shark Week is Apparently EVERY Week in Australia

    The problem with planning your vacations far in advance (well, the problem with XFE and I planning our vacations far in advance) is that it gives one of us plenty of time to hyperventilate over any news story coming out of that vacation location. For example: My wanna-be-Crocodile-Dundee-boyfriend XFE and I are going to Australia in March…

    thepoelog

    October 25, 2011
    travel, Weird Crimes
    Australia, Death bed, panic attack, sharks

  • Hotel (and Airplane) Crashing: OpenSkies, Le Meridien Etoile

    Now that we’ve wined and dined and shopped our way through Paris Poe-style, you might be wondering (or, more realistically, not) how we came to be on this fabulous last-minute trip. Blame Travelzoo. My travel-agent-for-life XFE and I are both signed up for Travelzoo’s weekly email deal alerts. And every week we’re tempted beyond belief…

    thepoelog

    October 23, 2011
    travel, trip report
    airline review, hotel crashing, hotel review, Hotels, Le Meridien Etoile, luxury travel, miles and points, Open Skies, Paris, Space Invader, Starwood Properties, trip review

  • Food Porn Paris Part Deux: Where the Salt Meets the Caramel

    Sick of hearing me blather and brag about my wonderful weekend in Paris yet? Too bad! You guuuuyyyys, I haven’t even gotten to the best parts yet. Oh wait. I did already write about the shoes, didn’t I? Yeah, those were the best part. But other interesting stuff happened as well, I swear. Just humor…

    thepoelog

    October 21, 2011
    food (of all types), travel, trip report
    Food, Food Porn, L’Atelier, Market, Paris, trip review

  • Food Porn: No Such Thing as Bad Wine in Paris

    One of the things I was most looking forward to on our Paris trip was eating. Let me rephrase that slightly, one of the things I most look forward to anytime I take a trip is eating. But in Paris, this was especially the case. It’s just such a foodie town. And this trip was…

    thepoelog

    October 19, 2011
    food (of all types), travel, trip report
    Auberge de la Reine Blanche, Chez Dumont, duck confit, Food Porn, local foods, oysters, Paris, souffle, trip review
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