A Pleasant Surprise - 1

Sunday Paper

Article in the Grand Rapids Press about a new restaurant in Holland -- right on 8th Street in downtown -- called Crust54. Always looking for new restaurants, but they had me at the words "Chicago Deep Dish Pizza". Especially as the photograph looked more like a stuffed pizza than just deep dish. After the loss of Joe Chicago's and Stromboli's (DW), we were down two pizza places, including the one which made a proper Chicago stuffed pizza. (sigh)

Stock photo from Crust54's website.

Wednesday Errands

So I had to hit Holland before 5pm on an errand this afternoon -- perfect for ordering a pizza to pick up for our dinner. Medium (12"), Chicago stuffed, sausage, mushrooms, green peppers and black olives. Couldn't get a parking spot, so I sort of double-parked and called them back and they brought it out to me. Nice service. (grin)

Oh my. Yum.

A good Chicago stuffed pizza is dense anyway, but this one is also firm. The sauce wasn't loose or watery. The ingredients had some real composition to them -- the sausage and the lovely serious black olives especially -- and a serious and tasty crust.

We will definitely be back for more. They also claim to do New York pizza, which has its own merits. If they channel New York as well as they channel Chicago, that could be pretty great.

Ah, pizza. And relief at no longer being abandoned. (double-stuffed-grin)

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A Pleasant Surprise - 2

Paid!

Email from PayPal this evening that I had received money from Canada. Yay, we like getting paid, especially for my SF writing.

Back in April, I got word that Neo-opsis Science Fiction Magazine had bought my short story "The Once and Future Tomato" (DW). It'll appear in Issue #22 this month in actual print, not online.

The seventh story is The Once and Future Tomato by Dr. Philip Edward Kaladon(sic). This is his second Canadian publication so far in 2012. His story “Your First Real Rocket Ship” won third prize in the Friends of the Merril Short Story contest and is currently available online courtesy of the Toronto Public Library.

You can check out the rest of the contents for Issue #22 here.

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