All Things Chill

I want…
…to be a professional student. To live on a quieter street. To eat pounds and pounds of habenero chicken sausages without any indigestion problems. To have enough maturity to own a dog. My car. A new comforter with a sexy duvet. More friends my age. A 20 [...]

Wow. It’s been more than a year since I posted about the cheap Calphalon kitchen equipment that I bought @ Amazon. When I moved, I left all of my cooking gear back in Chicago. Sad. I miss my crepe pan. Sniff Sniff.
But… that also means that I [...]

A rough-n-tough ,yet kinda smart-n-classy square-toe offering from Puma? Yes please!
With its motobike story PUMA sets a new benchmark in the world of motorsport footwear. The V11 stands for a sneaker low cut, which features many motobike influences, such as gear shifter, specialized motobike outsole and a lot more.
The V11 runs for $100. [...]

One of the best movies I have seen in my life.
Tsotsi had me emotionally invested within 4 minutes and had me for the rest of the movie. Gripping and almost overwhelming, I could hardly breathe through out the entire film. I honestly haven’t been moved like this since that other [...]

I moved to San Francisco for culinary school.
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That’s it. LOL.
More deets tomorrow… tonite is reserved for fun!
<3 <3 <3
~Herschell “Chef-in-Training” Taghap

I headed over to the Ferry Building (in, at, around or near) the Embarcadero early this morning to find some fresh produce. Sadly, I think I got there way too early for the farmers to set up their tents, but I did manage to score a delicious breakfast sammich from a local purveyor with [...]

Lots of great music lately! Every couple of months, I get discouraged by the immediate future of music trends and swear off any new artists that come my way. I’m fickle dammit. Well anyway, once I lose all hope… a bunch of my favorite artists come with it and release new [...]

Sooo.. people have been asking me…

“Herschell, what the hell are you doing in San Francisco?”
Some of you already know, but I’ll spill the beans to the entire world come this weekend. It wouldn’t be ME if it wasn’t dramatic, right?
I had a fantastic day today. Let’s hope that I can ride this [...]

Get your dancing shoes Betsy… ’cause we’re gonna start Memorial Day weekend off propa. Here are the deets:
Please join us to raise funds for NextAid’s Eco-Multi-purpose center for children orphaned by AIDS in South Africa.
Featuring Landshark (aka Lance Desardi, Coco Machete, Om Records), DJ Garth (Grayhound Recordings. back2back, Wicked), Sen-Sei (Turnaround Sound, XM [...]

So, if you’ve continued reading Ars Technica during my little hiatus from writing gadget/Apple articles (I’m back btw), you might have noticed Nobel Intent… Ars’ premiere science journal.
I had the pleasure of meeting John Timmer (DrJay in the forums and IRC) from NI for drinks at Les Joulins, one of my favorite [...]

A couple weeks ago, after hitting up Qool Wednesdays with Alice @ 111 Minna, we stumbled on this band playing @ the cross streets of Market and Stockton. Don’t let the mediocre audio/video from my cameraphone fool you… they were pretty good live. Sorry about the duration of the video. I needed [...]

I was talking to Mr. Willmore yesterday, just catching up on a lil’ bit on general stuff, when he asked me when a new mixset would be coming out. Sadly, I don’t have my decks in SF, but I’m toying with the idea of just flying back to Chicago for the weekend just [...]

So full. I accompanied JYinYang (who I might add was quoted in the LA Times a few days ago) to a director’s dinner for Frameline30, an organization responsible for the international LGBT Film Festival, at Frission… located on 244 Jackson Street in SF. Here’s what SF’s Citysearch editor had to say [...]