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赤丸新味 @ 一風堂ラーメン
The second closest place to our residence in Japan a couple years ago (if we wanted to eat ramen) was Ippudo. We had many red and white bowls during that year.
So when we were in New York a few weeks ago we had to try the American version of this chain. The menu was very different, but they still had the red bowl which tasted very similar.
Andrew McCutchen rips one off of Chris Capuano
Andrew McCutchen has had an incredible first half of the season to lead the Pirates to first place in their division at the All-Star Break. If he does the same in the second half, it is fairly safe to say that the Pirates will be in the playoffs for the first time in forever and McCutchen will be holding the NL MVP award. If you double his first half stats they come out to be 116 runs, 224 hits, 36 home runs, 120 RBIs, 28 SBs, and a .362 batting average. Wow! Can he do it?
McCutchen didn’t do so great in the Home Run Derby last night, but he did better than Cano.
Today’s photo is from my April trip to Dodger Stadium.
Wolf Hoffmann of Accept
…was a very fun day.
Yankee Stadium panorama from Monument Park
This weekend Roger Waters is performing The Wall at Yankee Stadium twice (Friday and Saturday nights). When I took this photo at a Yankees-Braves game last month they had an advertisement for the second date (which wasn’t sold out at the time) and it gave me goosebumps. Unfortunately, I will not be in New York this weekend, but I have extremely fond memories of seeing this tour in San Francisco.
I took today’s picture from Monument Park in center field before the game, approximately the same place where Roger Waters will be performing The Wall. The photomerge of five pics messed up the netting that protects the monuments from home run balls. I attempted to Photoshop the netting away, but I became frustrated and was ready to delete the images off my hard drive. Then it occurred to me that this isn’t all that different from the wall Roger will be building and destroying in center field this weekend, built on the edges to begin with, fully built by intermission, and destroyed during the second set.
For another panorama of Yankee Stadium that isn’t a mess see this prior entry.
Samuel Adams grave stone in Granary Burial Ground (aka The Old Granary)
My view of American history has changed over the past month. First, I read David G. McCullough’s 1776 which seriously altered my take on the revolution. The year 1776 was actually a very dark period in American history (until the last week) as independence seemed very difficult to come by in July and nearly impossible by mid-December with numerous defeats and retreats.
Seeing the actual places in New York and Boston where some of the events of 1776 occurred after reading 1776 also gave me a new perspective.
July 4 is celebrated as Independence Day even though independence didn’t actually come until the war ended in 1783, and the legal separation from America’s point of view came on July 2. But the Declaration of Independence was signed on July 4 so that is the day that stuck.
Today’s photo is of the tombstone of one of the signers of that document, Samuel Adams. His father started the brewery that many know the name Samuel Adams by today. However, the modern Samuel Adams beer of the Boston Beer Company didn’t get started until 1984, despite the commercials which make it look like it has been brewed since the 18th Century.
View from Metropolitan Museum of Art roof garden
Today’s panorama of Manhattan is a photomerge of about 10 images. I didn’t intend for this to happen, nor did I notice it until I returned home from New York and looked through some of my photos, but the lady in the foreground on the far left moved between the time I took the first picture and the last pic so that she appears on both ends (in the background on the right) of this panorama! This photomerge covers nearly 300 degrees of mostly Central Park.