Trio and other stuff

Today more than most days, I mourn the loss of Trio Pizza (17th and P). Yes, I know Hank's Oyster Bar, which replaced it, has received good reviews. Yes, Alberto's Pizza (21st and P) has always served much better pizza. But there was nothing as perfect as Trio Pizza at the end of an exhilarating bike ride -- like the one I did today -- sitting at one of the outside tables, eating a pizza pie while drinking "beer" (before Trio's tried vailnyl to go a bit upmarket, they didn't even have a brand name for the cheap draft they served), as the sun went down. The pizza by the slice at Alberto's may be the best thing this side of the Lincoln Tunnel, but it just isn't the same experience.

I have a couple of CDs coming to me from Amazon.com. One of them is Blue Scholars, which I discovered because the song "The Ave" was the song of the day on KEXP's podcast (an excellent way to get free new music, by the way). The other is Gnarls Barkley, because my friend Junebug recommended one of their songs, "Crazy," as the song of the summer.