When you think traffic cop you think of a dude who’s slightly overweight or maybe an old guy. Not on my street. I often see an attractive, older blonde woman walking around in her uniform with her ticket computer thing, ready to discipline any parking violator that crosses her path. The first time I saw this woman I thought to myself “she can give me a ticket anyday”. Well turns out this morning I got a ticket from her. It wasn’t as great as I had imagined.
No more posts?
If you’re wondering why I haven’t been posting well you might want to ask this guy.
Robbed! Well Not Really.
My car was broken into last night. I can’t say anything was stolen. What I can say is this is the stupidest crime ever committed and I think I’d rather go to jail than live with the shame of having broken into a car to steal a GPS, not finding a GPS, then just taking the GPS mount that indicated a GPS may have been in the car and leaving everything else.
Throughout the day I thought of things to catch our mentally deficient criminal. For instance, put a sign on my car that says “ENJOY THE GPS MOUNT, LOL”. Then I can buy a webcam and point it outside at my car and get some footage of him bashing my window again since he’d realize I was mocking him. I’m assuming it had to be someone on my street since no one would really just be passing by. Out of the 3.5 years of living here it’s the first time anything like this has happened, Somerville is just going downhill.
The Week In Pizza Comes To An End
A great week of eating pizza once a day. I feel a little more flabby than usual but that’s about it. It was a fun week of trying to find new places to go for pizza and I’d say I’d probably go back to 3 out of the 5 places. That’s a pretty good percentage of win right there. My favorite was the cheeseburger pizza from Stone Hearth, mainly because it was very unique and very tasty. Now if you’ll excuse me I need to finish my pizza coma.
Sweet Tomatoes
For the final day of pizza week I got an eggplant pizza from Sweet Tomatoes in Newton Center. I gotta say that when dealing with pizza with fried eggplant on it you can’t really go wrong. The flavor of the eggplant really takes over the entire flavor of the pizza. This was very similar tasting to my favorite Angelina’s as well as Pinocchio’s. Eggplant pizza is by far my favorite but Angelina’s is still my favorite place to get it.
Nerds Rejoice!
I have just upgraded my wordpress to the latest version. If you’re counting at home that’s 2 posts today, wooo! I’m not sure I like this new admin layout but I’m sure it just takes getting used to. I think I was running a really, really old version of wordpress, something like 2.0.2 maybe? Woops!
I also upgraded my theme from chaoticsoul 1.0 to 1.3. So exciting!
Cambridge House of Pizza - Hamburger and Mushroom
I’ve driven by this place probably close to 1000 times but never gave it a look, in fact I think it took someone to point it out to me for me to realize it was there. The conversation was something like:
someone, “how’s the pizza there, it’s called House of Pizza, they must know their stuff”
me, “there’s no house built out of pizza around here”
someone, “no that pizza place right there in front of us, duh”
me, “oh, there’s a pizza place there? oops”
The pizza was pretty small for 7 bucks. I was able to eat the whole thing and fairly easily. I’m not sure why I got hamburger and mushroom but the combo was pretty good. The hamburger had some spices on it which gave it a good flavor. I wasn’t really blown away by it but it was good enough that I’ll try it again sometime.
Pinocchio’s Pizza - Eggplant
I was very pleased with the eggplant pizza from Pinocchio’s. There’s a place right near my house called Angelina’s where I always go to get eggplant pizza. It tasted almost exactly like that. Nice and simple pizza, just fried eggplant on top of a normal cheese pizza. Delicious! When I called I asked for a small eggplant so when I got there they had made me a small eggplant sub, oops. I asked for the pizza and paid for the sub too so it was eggplant overload as I had the pizza for lunch and sub for dinner.
Mystic Pizza - Cheese / Pepperoni
I have never seen the movie before but since we were at Mohegan and it was only 12 miles away we felt we had to make the trip. It turned out that traveling 12 miles in the backwoods of CT is like traveling 50 miles anywhere else. I had no idea what to expect and only knew that this place was the set of a movie with Julia Roberts in it.
We got there and they had the movie playing on the TVs. My first thought of course was “Wow, do they have this on loop the whole time they’re open? And this movie was made in the 80s? That’s great to be proud of it but kinda sad they’re still holding on to it. Employees have to hate this movie.”
We ordered a classic pie of half pepperoni, half plain cheese. There was nothing special about it, it was just pizza. It brought me back to pizza I had as a kid from a place in Suffield, CT, called Billy’s pizza. What reminded me of Billy’s was the look of cheese and the same grease consistency from the pepperoni. Maybe all CT pepperoni comes from the same place.
In conclusion, if this is a slice of heaven then heaven needs an upgrade of some sort.
Stone Hearth Pizza - The Cheeseburger
The first pizza of the week! Stone Hearth took the place of one of my favorite places, DiMio. Since this is now in the place where Dimio was I figured it had to be good, plus there are a bunch popping up over the city. I went online and checked out the menu. The pizza that stood out to me was the cheeseburger pizza so I went with that. It was really good. There was a perfect mix of beef, cheese and onions to make it taste like a real cheeseburger even though the crust was whole wheat. It was small enough that I could eat the whole thing in 1 sitting so I did. I’ll be going back to this place for sure. And for those wondering the World of Warcraft similarity had absolutely nothing to do with my decision to go here.