gettin’ off your high hat

Here we are, the Day after Christmas, messing around with Aneel’s signature hat. Aneel and his wife Nayan and daughter Ayesha and son Arjun and nephew Karran and niece Cookie have individually and collectively as a family embraced us as friends. Ayesha has been calling Scott from Kuala Lumpur since she left Goa after a […]

beet soup recipe

For those readers avidly following our Hero’s ribbiting tale, you will be pleased to know the beet soup worked! Aneel won the bet but refused to take Scott’s $10 wager. Recipe For The Loon’s Beet Root Soup Boil your cut up beets. Reserve the water you boiled them in ( yes, it’s supposed to be […]

space traveling

Here we are waiting for the froggie to poop. It’s been waaaay too long. Prescribed laxatives have not done the their job. This is how morphine and fentynol and dilaudid can complicate gastrointestinal problems. Our friend and host Aneel Verman at Sur La Mer insists he has the cure: beet root soup. Aneel finally got […]

christmas gifts

Our Christmas Day so far… Scott wrote a ribbeting poem under the influence of morphine that you can read here.. Soon after he had an uplifting phone call from his high school buddy, Pickles, who has been sending Scott daily emails of funny videos and arresting images such as the photo shown above. Sanjiv checked […]

the high point of oct high point market 2012

Scott got his bad news the Friday that began the 2012 High Point International Furniture Market week. Fortuitously, many if not all of his decades-long colleagues, designers,and friends in the furniture market from around the country and the world (including newer friends from the last five years or so) were in High Point. What an […]