Last Night at the Lobster

Am at the Lobster in Topeka, KS, sipping a Lobsterita I might add, and explaining O’Nan’s book to the bartender when she says, “People on the coasts always make fun of this place, but I like it. Pays my bills.”
I feel pretty bad, of course, because we’re only there to celebrate the kitchiness of the [...]

12 June 2008

Wednesday: rain in Utah, snow above in its mountains, and hail in high winds of Wyoming.
Thursday: sitting in a Topekan cellar waiting out a twister.
Altogether: driving ‘cross the salt plains and into Salt Lake City at eightish, with the sun lightin’ up the green hills surrounding town. Whitecaps looming past Wyoming’s southern horizon, only coming [...]

10 June 2008

We’re starting by letting go. See ya in Salt Lake City, UT.