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Started the month off with a proper Odessa breakfast.
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Odessa breakfast. Even got a cup of soup.
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Odessa lunch with Grant on Wednesday afternoon.
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Met up with Grant at Odessa (RIP!) to give him the keys to the cabin so he could go up there for a few days.
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Met up with Vin for a big breakfast at Odessa on Friday morning.
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On Thursday morning we went to Odessa for breakfast before Brett, Amy and Max headed back to DC.
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Had myself an Odessa pancake breakfast!
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...meet Grant for a bon voyage breakfast at Odessa.
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Grabbed a solid Friday Odessa lunch with Grant. (Back 2 back Odessa for the win!)
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Jane came over for a late night breakfast-foods dinner date!
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...that understand about making ugly faces in photos when you're eating.
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On Tuesday Lizzy came over to my apartment and we spent the afternoon going through lots of my photos for a book she was working on about the NYC rock scene in the 00s. (The book, Meet Me in the Bathroom, was released in late 2017 and featured five of my photos!). Congrats, Lizzy!
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Big O breakfash with Grant!
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And then met up with Grant at the Big O for a late lunch. Clean plate club!
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...and then went to grab a giant breakfast at Odessa with Aki, who was in town visiting from Vancouver!
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...with Grant!
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...for a Wednesday afternoon lunch feast...
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Had a nice Odessa Saturday catch-up with Grant after spending Thanksgiving with my family in Hilton Head, SC
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Here is a photo of what I consider an excellent Sunday afternoon and just an all-around good way to end a month. Get up and walk to the diner and have your favorite pancakes and read Larry Livermore's punk rock memoir about living in a cabin in the woods four hours north of San Francisco and starting Lookout Records. Spy Rock Memories by Larry Livermore
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Friday was a crappy day and while sitting alone at Odessa looking at the menu, it occurred for me to order a beer there for the first time.
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Kristina was in town visiting so we pulled out all the stops and took her to Odessa!
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Had my an excellent Odessa dinner and read a book about Yeshe Tsogyal.
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...how I'll be spending the next 50 years. (Odessa-willing!)
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On Friday morning I went over to meet Grant for breakfast for our weekly conversation centering mostly around WHAT'S IT ALL ABOUT?
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...to one of the most all time COMFORT meals I've ever ordered.
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Got my Odessa on with Grant for lunch...
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...to the BIG O for grilled cheese and two sides of veggies.
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Post-work lunch at Odessa on Wednesday.
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Grill cheese, french fry, spinach salad combo!
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...then we met up with Mike and his brother for drinks at Dudley's and then late night latke's at Odessa!
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Had myself a solo Odessa breakfast experience. (Yes, those are chocolate chip pancakes).
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Back in the East Village, we celebrated our afternoon wave-jumping triumphs with an Odessa feast!
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...and Odessa every day!
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...soothed our troubles with 1am diner-feast at Odessa.
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Met up with Grant to celebrate our Seinfeldian life at Odessa.
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On Friday afternoon, Grant arrived back in New York after spending the holidays with his family in England.
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...headed over to Odessa for pancakes and mantalk.
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Celebrated my day off on Friday with breakfast-for-lunch.
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Meredith and I hid out from the 100+ degree heat at Odessa.
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...headed over to Odessa for our traditional "welcome back to NY" breakfast.
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Odessa brunch! Blueberry blintzes, blueberry muffins...
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Fork in the socket.
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Then later that afternoon I had lunch with Tyson who had to take a break to listen to mixes that he'd just been sent for his band's forthcoming record.
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There's no place like home (like Odessa).
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...and then we went to Odessa to meet Fran & Gurj for lunch!
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Grill cheese with waffle fries (also with cheese) and an order of potato pancakes to split with Pauly! Holy moly.
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Later that afternoon, we met up with Karen for Odessa brunch!
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...and Jen met us there!
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My Odessa standard: two-eggs over easy with chocolate chip pancakes!
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Amy's sister Emily joined us and we ordered us a BREAKFAST FEAST! Check out the spread!
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...Eastern European establishment.
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Super-late that evening (3am!) we ended up at Odessa with KTB and Davo who had just recently arrived from London!
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Ain't nothing to help you recover the next morning like a big old DINER BREAKFAST! Erika and Scott getting ready to dig into some recovery grub!
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Late, late, late night, we went to Odessa and got grill cheeses (Mike put BACON on his!), french fries, pierogies and latkes! Delicious!
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Lisa went the breakfast route.
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Afterwards, I rode my bike all the way back downtown in the freezing cold and met up with Lisa and Pauly at Niagra. We had a couple of drinks and then decided to hit Odessa for some late night grub.
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On Saturday morning, we all got up bright and early and hit the Odessa Dinner for some brunch. Clockwise from left: Tom and David from Apartment, Kim, Meredith, Niki and the Fatty. (By the way, check out the brains on the Fatty reading Richard Dawkins a full two years before he became a household name!).
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...eating junkfood at the Odessa.
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4am found us back in the East Village at Odessa's for some late night grub.