That changed Monday afternoon.
Naturally, this happened on Twitter â and what happened after that is particularly instructive. Letâs go!
Emily Nussbaum is Pulitzer Prize-winning critic for The New Yorker who is working on a book about early reality television. She tweeted: âLOL, just watched an episode of The Dating Game in which the prize was a trip to glamorous ⦠Roanoke, VA. That seems more like a punishment.â
Now, some context: That particular episode was from 1970 and featured Karen Carpenter â yes,
that Karen Carpenter â choosing a blind date from among three contestants. That same episode also included her brother, Richard Carpenter, who won a date to somewhat more glamorous San Francisco. He posts on You Tube that âneither one of us went on our date!â but thatâs beside the point.
It had taken me my entire adult life and required traveling 4,500 miles around the world, but halfway up a frozen waterfall in Norway, I could cross something off the bucket list: I was finally in Conrad Anker’s pants.
I was also in Steve Swenson’s gloves… The French Ace Mathieu Maynadier’s jacket. And German ice-wizard Matthias Scherer’s sunglasses.
Matthias Scherer on
Flågbekken. Photo: Heike Schmitt.
While the gravity of the coronavirus pandemic was beginning to dawn on much of the world back in early March 2020 the frenzy of buying essentials like skim milk and toilet paper in unreasonable qualities was still weeks away my main concern at that moment was that Lufthansa had lost my luggage during my four-flight marathon travel day to the Arctic Ice Festival here in the small village of Tennevel, in Troms, Norway. I was going to be here for nine days and, stranded without my personal gear, the Petzl athletes had taken pity on me and kitted me out as best they could.
Here s just a sampling of local family-style take-out options.
Beacon Hill at Home Order at beaconhillathome.square.site for free dinner delivery within a 10 mile radius of Beacon Hill. Deliveries are 3 pm to 5 pm Thursdays or Fridays. (Pictured above.)
The Ivory Table Catering Company Dinner boxes feature three days of ready-to-heat meals, including entrees and sides ($49 per person/per box). A recent weekly three-meal lineup included entrees of French onion soup, slow-cooked barbecue chicken and penne with a brown butter pumpkin cream sauce. All include a variety of side dishes. Add dessert or breakfast sandwiches to your weekly order, which is due by Saturdays at 3 pm. Order at store.ivorytable.com. Pick up on Tuesdays at 1822 E. Sprague. Add $10 for delivery.