one week in april
a trip to Philly, foster puppy update, Big Krispy, Dying for Sex, and MORE
Gritty’s Way
Liz and I spent the past week in Philadelphia, walking around and eating. Some food highlights: a selection of tacos from South Philly Barbacoa in the Italian Market, a cherry cordial iced latte from Reanimator in Fishtown, and a roasted carrot sandwich from Downtime in Mount Airy (plus a bagel, quiche, and ginger cookie that were all highlights in their own rights!!) We got iced tea and a stuffed jalapeno pretzel from Wawa. We got water ice from John’s TWICE. I won’t say we did it all, but we did A LOT.
We both went to college and lived in Philly in our very early 20s (before we knew each other and also not at the same time), so in addition to visiting old friends, we spent a lot of time showing each other the places where we used to live: dorm rooms, apartments, and a dysfunctional punk house that’s either condos now or I was remembering the street wrong. There’s a bench at my college where if you kiss on it, you’re supposed to be together forever, so we did that (there’s also a pole that if you “split it“ i.e. walk on separate sides of it, you will break up. We did NOT do that.) We stopped by the abode of Dyke Domesticity’s own Julia and Clover and talked about Millennial squiggle design, regional queer Signal groups, and Movie, their deviant cat. At the Asian Arts Initiative, I fell in love with a series of collaged lightboxes by the photographer and artist Colette Fu. At night in my friend’s guest bedroom, I fell asleep experiencing Colette’s work via her website.
