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After listening to NPR last night I think I need to go find the Cupcake Royale in Magnolia. Sounds sinful... they sell some cakes as well, so I could grab one for work one of these days.
NPR also featured Top Pot Donuts which I know about since Gene pointed them out... I've never been to their actual coffee shop though. I should check them out as well someday.
One of my favorite places to grab a cake for special occasions is A Piece of Cake, which is an Asian pastry shop in the International District right across the street from where the old Uwajamaya used to be. They do a fruit cake that has strawberries and kiwi and peaches and all kinds of good things placed between two layers of light cake, and then frosted with a frosting that is more like whipped cream than heavy sugar frosting. Yummy! And a bit expensive but worth it.
Lately while listening to NPR I've had moments where what was said and what I heard were two very different things. It started last week with a speaker that said, "This is a little Mormon Dane"... and for a second I was waiting to hear what a Danish Mormon had to do with anything... but of course he was speaking of something a little more mundane than that.
Then I heard a sentence that began with "The bird flew out..." and ended with "break in Asia." Huh? Oh, okay... The bird flu outbreak in Asia.
The next night they were doing a story about a woman in Africa, and after a little intro said, "Stay with us for this African Heroin Tale". Although I hadn't been paying close attention I had heard nothing that suggested a story about drugs or drug running, and anyway that hardly seemed a likely subject for an NPR special. But of course they meant "African Heroine Tale".
In the same show, the African woman interviewed (who naturally spoke English with an accent) kept saying the word "development", only the way she said it it sounded like "devil-lopement". Whatever that might mean. ^_^
Just some random silliness that I wrote down... mostly I laugh at British pronunciations and turns of phrase during the BBC news hour. Like their pronunciation of "ConTRAversy" or their liberal use of the word "row" (pronounced "rau") to describe any sort of disagreement or political fight.
NPR also featured Top Pot Donuts which I know about since Gene pointed them out... I've never been to their actual coffee shop though. I should check them out as well someday.
One of my favorite places to grab a cake for special occasions is A Piece of Cake, which is an Asian pastry shop in the International District right across the street from where the old Uwajamaya used to be. They do a fruit cake that has strawberries and kiwi and peaches and all kinds of good things placed between two layers of light cake, and then frosted with a frosting that is more like whipped cream than heavy sugar frosting. Yummy! And a bit expensive but worth it.
Lately while listening to NPR I've had moments where what was said and what I heard were two very different things. It started last week with a speaker that said, "This is a little Mormon Dane"... and for a second I was waiting to hear what a Danish Mormon had to do with anything... but of course he was speaking of something a little more mundane than that.
Then I heard a sentence that began with "The bird flew out..." and ended with "break in Asia." Huh? Oh, okay... The bird flu outbreak in Asia.
The next night they were doing a story about a woman in Africa, and after a little intro said, "Stay with us for this African Heroin Tale". Although I hadn't been paying close attention I had heard nothing that suggested a story about drugs or drug running, and anyway that hardly seemed a likely subject for an NPR special. But of course they meant "African Heroine Tale".
In the same show, the African woman interviewed (who naturally spoke English with an accent) kept saying the word "development", only the way she said it it sounded like "devil-lopement". Whatever that might mean. ^_^
Just some random silliness that I wrote down... mostly I laugh at British pronunciations and turns of phrase during the BBC news hour. Like their pronunciation of "ConTRAversy" or their liberal use of the word "row" (pronounced "rau") to describe any sort of disagreement or political fight.