There’s another chance to save 50% off at a Wallingford business with the Green Lake Moms / Wallyhood Deal Coop: in today’s deal you pay $15 for a $30 certificate good for make-up, non-prescription medicine and other merchandise at their Wallingford store.…
Snippets
Gorgeous, sunny Sunday morning at Green Lake. Snippets of conversation overheard while walking around in the opposite direction to most people:
“I make a ton of chicken nuggets, when I make chicken nuggets” “Remember that movie The Turning Point with Mikhail Baryshnikov?” “I can’t sit down and focus on anything for any length of time” “She drinks several large mochas a day” “He’s always dated white women.” – “I know” (mutter) – “Okay, that is NOT TRUE!”I tell ya, 75% of the people I work with have ADHD” (is this the same person who can’t focus?)
“He started relationships …
Envy
As one of the Seven Deadly Sins, Envy seems middling. Worse than Gluttony or Sloth but not as bad as Wrath or Greed.
I was in Fremont the other day and experienced a pang of Envy. Over a cute, new little pie shop. The pies were little and the shop was little and the whole thing was shiny new and super cute. The thought crossed my mind, “Why don’t we have one of these in Wallingford?”. Some time later I stumbled across another gorgeous new place there with organic/sustainable sandwiches all done up in blond wood and big chalked-up menus. …
Sweet “Cedar Rapids”
There’s a type of movie we’re pretty familiar with. It’s set in a small town and is full of local oddballs who do wacky things but have hearts of gold. It’s easy for these movies to get condescending and make fun of its characters. What’s refreshing about Cedar Rapids, the new comedy at The Guild, is that it follows the formula but with affection and respect.
As you can guess from its name Cedar Rapids is set in the the down-to-earth, American-car-driving, nasally-vowelled, sensibly-shod, cholesterol-consuming, beer-drinking, unbelievably-cold-wintered, practical, comfortable, and unpretentious upper Midwest. Believe me, as one who used …
Mighty Deal
Wallingford’s own Mighty-O Donuts is the Green Lake Moms / Wallyhood Deal of the Day today: $8 for a dozen donuts (regularly $15.75). Organic ingredients, no chemical preservatives, no trans fats, no colorings or artificial flavors: their chocolate-topped is topped with chocolate, the cinnamon-sugar has cinnamon and sugar.
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Puffin’
(Attendees at Wednesday night’s Wallyhood meet-up had the opportunity to meet Grandpa Wallyhood, who is visiting from Back East. As he has in the past, he offered to write a piece for Wallyhood during his visit. His latest entry is below.
Why he chose to take such a benign view towards pot-smoking now, instead of during our high school and college years when it would have made our life easier, we can’t explain.)
Just think of it as a small museum in Wallingford. Some beautiful blown-glass sculptures displayed in attractive enclosures, some artifacts made for and by natives of the …
Not A Number Not A Movin’
We just got a call from Kara over at Not A Number who, you may remember, told us just last week that they were likely going to have to move out of Wallingford for good. At the eleventh hour, a reprieve has come! Here is the message we got from Kara on our voicemail:
Exactly a week to the day after we announced at the Chamber lunch that we would be closing or moving probably outside the entire area of Wallingford, we have just now completed an interesting discussion with our current landlord. After last night we were pretty set …