A More Cosmopolitan Jew... Back to LA!

Last night's dinner party

glynnis:

Fall salad with roasted beets, cinnamon cranberry chèvre, pears, toasted walnuts, and vinaigrette

Butternut squash risotto

Fesenjan

Key lime pie with twice the lime juice and sour cream topping

Thanks to everyone for coming to eat!

I turned 21 yesterday i.e. last last night. Julian’s friends Indra and Aaron of Peaking Lights fame invited us over for a delicious dinner of phad thai, along with Zola Jesus (the goth barbara streisand aka. banshee of the midwest). Then the 5 of us went out for desert and festivities to The Weary Traveler (Roasted beets ‘fall salad’ seems to be extremely popular this year, they are serving it at the Willy St. Coop in Madison and at TWT as well.) Anyway, in honor of Katia, whom I was supposed to visit in Chicago for my b-day until she got sick and Julian’s bumper got torn off, I ordered a chocolate martini as my first official, legal beverage and waited until the stroke of midnight to take a sip.. Katia insisted on several occasions that the first drink must be extremely girly, so I delivered. I paired with a slice of key lime cheesecake which made for a heavenly combination.

I came home today to California and of course my mother made a family b-day dinner for me… complete with not only numerous thick, juicy steaks, but a rack of lamb as well…. oh post-soviet mommy, how I love you. My favorite part of dinner is always when she tries to lie to my sister about the kolbasa not having pork in it, and then my sister throws an outraged fit at the table about how no one respects her pseudo-religiosity and then everyone criticizes her husband for not liking fish (i.e. he won’t eat pickled herring or crab salad!!!! outrageous!!)

Home sweet food-guilt, conflict-ridden, home.

Tonic is a campus bar, FYI

cbk:

“Tonic is hosting their Student Loan Night (first Saturday of every month). You can bring in your student loan ticket, and whoever owes the most money gets a prize.” -FoBoBlo

My mother.

Ida says:

novembre 1st, 2009at 23:28(#)

Hi Julian.
I love your music, it’s so soothing and relaxing.

This is a comment my mom left on this interview after she decided to google Julian so she could figure out what his music sounds like.

WHY GOD NEVER RECEIVED A PHD

sixstepsback:

migue-e:phlogiston: elpasajero: joanic:

1. He had only one major publication.

2. It was in Hebrew.

3. It had no references.

4. It wasn’t published in a refereed journal.

5. Some even doubt he wrote it by himself.

6. It may be true that he created the world, but what has he done since then?

7. His cooperative efforts have been quite limited.

8. The scientific community has had a hard time replicating his results.

9. He never applied to the ethics board for permission to use human subjects.

10. When one experiment went awry he tried to cover it by drowning his subjects.

11. When subjects didn’t behave as predicted, he deleted them from the sample.

12. He rarely came to class, just told students to read the book.

13. Some say he had his son teach the class.

14. He expelled his first two students for learning.

15. Although there were only 10 requirements, most of his students failed his tests.

16. His office hours were infrequent and usually held on a mountain top.

17. No record of working well with colleagues.

This is… pretty funny. kinda. Julian laughed at numbers 8, 9, 11, and 16. I cite him as an example b/c he is a real-life graduate student.