Doppelganger!
December 2nd, 2006
I’m not someone who often gets mistaken for another person. In fact, I think I can count on one hand the number of times someone has told me I looked like or mistaken me for someone else. So, it was rather upsetting to find out that I have a doppelganger: Kitchen Wench at The Tudor Shoppe.
Just kidding. About the wench costume anyway; mustard yellow is so not my color. But not about the doppelganger. In the big, bad, blogosphere, there is a another Kitchen Wench. And she clearly has a better digital camera than me. More disturbing still is that she is also Asian and her name also starts with a vowel.
Okay, the vowel thing really isn’t weird, but the other similarities are a little troubling. As I see it, there are still a few things left to redeem me.
- She lives in Australia. Australia is far away. I am perfectly content letting someone else be the official kitchen wench of Australia.
- I have the .com extension (which I waited a full year to to purchase because some lady was using it to park her defunct catering start-up).
- It’s hard to photograph food when you live in a basement apartment.
- My basement apartment is awesome.
- If Slim Shady can do it, so can I.
- And, most importantly, this girl probably doesn’t know I even exist.
I live in a basement apartment too (unfortunately, my kitchen was designed by my gay landlord who doesn’t boil water, so no fancy stoves…or drawers for that matter) and have had problems with lighting my creations…until now. I bought these great Ego Fluorescent Digital Lights and they’re fantastic. Basically, they provide a great source of “natural light” that you can aim in any fashion on your subject. Even better, they can be mounted on a tripod for better lighting control. I’m starting to sound like a salesman, aren’t I? By the way, I also work in the Chinatown area…and can’t accept gifts over $10. I wonder if we work in the same building?