Saturday, October 2, 2010

Cornell Collegetown Bagels



Located at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. This Collegetown Bagel-ry is located at the heart of Cornell mainstream area. It sits at the corner of a street right next to a bridge and some woods. As you walk in, the workers are all so kind and great you with a "good morning" or "good afternoon." This place is a definite place to grab a coffee and a bagel with whatever you desire as its topping, right before you head to class. The menu, so cute. They hand-write in colored chalk all the items they have from, bagels to sandwiches, to coffee beverages, to smoothies. They also add all the ingredients and a fun description to each item. It takes up about four chalkboards; it's huge! It just gives an overall comfortable, and fun vibe to the cafe. Outside, were set up tables and chairs for the customer to sit at. I wouldn't advise sitting on the chairs if it rained the previous night, by the way. But aside from me speaking about the atmosphere, let's talk about the food. Honestly speaking, as a food critic, the coffee was alright. Not something I would go out of my way just to get some of their coffee, but more like coffee I would buy if I only had ten minutes to grab on my way to class. I got the Bagel with Nutella. Yeah I liked it. I mean, you get what you asked for: a honey wheat bagel with Nutella. Nothing so out there or under the gourmet category. For those of you who don't know Nutella.. Get to know it. Nutella is a creamy hazelnut spread that nicely compliments breads, bagels, crepes, etc. So the bagel with Nutella didn't shock me at all, I got what I wanted, and that was nice. Coffee: three out of five stars (sorry, didn't really satisfy me). Bagel: five out of five; thanks for not throwing and surprise curveballs. Visited on 8/11/2010.

Broken Obelisk

Thank goodness for having taken AP Art History in high school.

Here is one of six of Barnett Newman's Broken Obelisk monuments. This particular one is installed in the Red Square in University of Washington- Seattle campus. It's a pyramid and an obelisk, making an "X" intersection between the tips. It's sort of a juxtaposition; two of Egypt's main attractions united at the tip, yet an equilibrium is reached when the two meet.