Holiday….It would be so nice if we took a holiday….

The weekend  started with a happy hour drink at sidebar with Marsha Mardock from the fabulous pet boutique Noble Beast and her friend Chris after a couple cucumber vodka and soda. Marsha and I headed over to a meal at The Clarendon Hotel and its fairly new eatery Gallo Blanco Cafe. From there the weekend  Paul slowing down to enjoy a Holiday cookout! Paul and I hosted Kathleen Bartolomei and Meghanne Bearden. I went to Sprout’s and Tan Phat, the local Vietnamese market and loaded up on veggies that include eggplant, okra, and baby bok choy. The BC was amazing on the grill, the okra got a little over done (OK it would have made better toothpicks) I ate the only good one before I  realized my mistake. I will be doing it again, but with a better eye on the okra. Kathleen treated us to a famous bundt cake, lemonade with pink lemonade drizzle + yum yum cool whip. I just finished off the last piece tonite. After a shot of Vanilla Vodka for one of us, we move our party to the below ground movie theater of Eileen Brill Wagner (I use her full name so her google alert will pick it up.) Though there was a brief stop at Tan Phat again to get a bunch of treats to experiment with. The best looking was the Moon Festival pig made of Lotus Root the shape was very real. On a taste scale the winner was a banana bread that was really tasty. The best name was “Jacker” but it was mostly whipped air and bad creme filling. After our indulgence of odd treats we made our way to the basement and watched Helvetica. It is a really interesting documentary about the font. It raised the awareness of the people in the room about Fonts. I filled out an RFP for the Museum Association of Arizona and changed it all to Helvetica. Right now,  I typically use Futura, but choose the H font to honor the weekend and Paul took pretty the entire day off and enjoyed himself.

I will never look at Helvetica the same, it will bring memories of a great day. Do you have any font stories?