I saw Team America on Friday.
It'll probably be the last movie I watch in Manhattan because it's hideously expensive. Josh and I bought discount tickets from the law school (the kind that you have to wait until 10 days after the movie's release), thinking that we'd scored a great deal. When I handed the passes over to the guy, he says, "That'll be $5.00." I gave him a quizzical look since I figured we wouldn't have to pay anything at all. He says rudely, "You have to pay $2.50 per ticket in New York." There was nothing I could do but hand over the money. We bought the passes to save money since all screenings are over $10. We wound up saving $2 per ticket by going through the school.
Weak... LAME!!! (South Park fans will understand)
However, Team America was worth the price and it lived up to my expectations. I think it was a good movie to end my "work" week. I smile every time I think of the little puppet of Kim Jong Il prancing up to the screen and saying, "Harroooo!" My other favorite part of the movie: Michael Moore being called a "fat socialist weasel." Or should my favorite part be where he blows himself up thinking that he's doing something that'll serve the greater good of America? I'd take that over him making another one of his movies.
Team America... f@*k yeah!
Sunday, October 31, 2004
Saturday, October 23, 2004
Bo-leen
The day before our legal research final, a number of my legal writing classmates were discussing its supposed difficulty. The general consensus was: "I heard it was really hard."
Josh told me that his classmates were talking about the same thing and that one student said he exam had asked questions about something called "boleen."
Boleen? What's boleen? I thought it was a vaccine for cows! It took me several hours to figure it out.
Did his classmate mean "boolean" as in the searches?
Josh told me that his classmates were talking about the same thing and that one student said he exam had asked questions about something called "boleen."
Boleen? What's boleen? I thought it was a vaccine for cows! It took me several hours to figure it out.
Did his classmate mean "boolean" as in the searches?
Sunday, October 17, 2004
Kitties!
The one on the left is Eli (after Eli Manning) and the one on the right is Mordecai (Morty for short).
Thursday, October 14, 2004
Good Eats
I met Alton Brown!!!
Yes, kiddies, I met my culinary hero. He does not refer to himself as a chef, but as "the world's grooviest home ec. teacher." Ever since I found out that he was going to be at the Union Square Barnes and Noble today, I worked my butt off all week so I'd have a few free hours to attend the discussion and book signing. He's awesome and even funnier in real life than he is on the show.
During the Q&A, someone asked him about Iron Chef America (he just finished taping 10 new episodes of it, which will air in January 2005). "Is it rigged?" Alton Brown answered, "No, it's the farthest thing from rigged. We don't stop the clock and we don't unplug people's appliances or give them pots that have holes in the bottoms." It turns out that the chefs aren't completely surprised by the secret ingredients. AB revealed that they're given a list of 5 possible secret ingredients and come up with recipes in advance. That was followed up by, "How do the chefs get the other ingredients?" AB explained that the chefs are given an allowance of $500 to buy supplemental ingredients. He said, "Morimoto had a list of 3000 items, that had stuff like 15 kinds of kelp and one kind of mushroom that grows on only one hillside in Japan that I can't even pronounce and it looks like a 4 year old dead duck." And what does Food Network provide for the chefs always? According to AB, "Salt.... and water."
My meeting with AB? Awesome. I was mad that I didn't bring my camera because they had a Barnes and Noble on the stage who was taking pictures for people. It turns out that the girl sitting next to me was also a first year law school student and we were talking about exams and our experiences so far, and when she found out that I didn't bring my camera, she offered to take a picture for me and e-mail it to me. I don't think I thanked her enough. When I got up to the stage to meet him, he said, "Hi, I'm Alton Brown," and shook my hand. I told him, "I'm a big fan" and he held a hand up over my head to compare my height to his, giving me a puzzled look. I added, "I learned a lot from your show," and he said, "Thanks, that's why I do it."
I realized when I was about to get on the subway that I left my umbrella by my seat in Barnes and Noble. I guess I was so excited about getting to meet Alton Brown that I left my crappy, falling-apart Rutgers umbrella there.
I think it was worth it.
Yes, kiddies, I met my culinary hero. He does not refer to himself as a chef, but as "the world's grooviest home ec. teacher." Ever since I found out that he was going to be at the Union Square Barnes and Noble today, I worked my butt off all week so I'd have a few free hours to attend the discussion and book signing. He's awesome and even funnier in real life than he is on the show.
During the Q&A, someone asked him about Iron Chef America (he just finished taping 10 new episodes of it, which will air in January 2005). "Is it rigged?" Alton Brown answered, "No, it's the farthest thing from rigged. We don't stop the clock and we don't unplug people's appliances or give them pots that have holes in the bottoms." It turns out that the chefs aren't completely surprised by the secret ingredients. AB revealed that they're given a list of 5 possible secret ingredients and come up with recipes in advance. That was followed up by, "How do the chefs get the other ingredients?" AB explained that the chefs are given an allowance of $500 to buy supplemental ingredients. He said, "Morimoto had a list of 3000 items, that had stuff like 15 kinds of kelp and one kind of mushroom that grows on only one hillside in Japan that I can't even pronounce and it looks like a 4 year old dead duck." And what does Food Network provide for the chefs always? According to AB, "Salt.... and water."
My meeting with AB? Awesome. I was mad that I didn't bring my camera because they had a Barnes and Noble on the stage who was taking pictures for people. It turns out that the girl sitting next to me was also a first year law school student and we were talking about exams and our experiences so far, and when she found out that I didn't bring my camera, she offered to take a picture for me and e-mail it to me. I don't think I thanked her enough. When I got up to the stage to meet him, he said, "Hi, I'm Alton Brown," and shook my hand. I told him, "I'm a big fan" and he held a hand up over my head to compare my height to his, giving me a puzzled look. I added, "I learned a lot from your show," and he said, "Thanks, that's why I do it."
I realized when I was about to get on the subway that I left my umbrella by my seat in Barnes and Noble. I guess I was so excited about getting to meet Alton Brown that I left my crappy, falling-apart Rutgers umbrella there.
I think it was worth it.
Sunday, October 10, 2004
Fortuitous circumstances
Yesterday, I studied all day in the library, and around 6:00, I couldn't go on any longer without food that wasn't 95% sugar. I think I give myself diabetes when I study in the library. Yesterday it was KitKats and today it was crispy M&Ms (one bag was stale though). Josh and I decided to have steak at this rather good find downtown. We had an appetizer of warm potato, black olive, and goat cheese salad followed by a hanger steak with shallot sauce, side salad, and a huge pile of the best fries I've ever had. Josh had a pork tenderloin with garlic mashed potatoes, also extremely delicious. The bill came to $36.00. Wow.
I realized after we left the restaurant that they rang our bill up incorrectly. They gave me an entree that was $14.95 as opposed to my $16.95 and didn't charge us for the appetizer. Whoops.
Today, we went to Century 21 so Josh could buy a coffee maker for himself. I guess it's a long overdue purchase. Since he bought a coffee maker, we figured he'd need coffee to use it, so we quickly made our way over to Dunkin Donuts before it closed. We got coffee, but I also succumbed to the temptation of munchkins because they had the jelly ones there. I asked for 25, but the Dunkin Donut guy said that they were going to close soon, so he'd give us everything. I think I got more than 50 munchkins and then he asked us if we wanted any donuts or muffins because he'd be throwing them out anyways. We left the store with a dozen donuts too. I only asked for a couple sugared donuts, but he crammed in a lot more.
Now I know when to buy donuts!
I realized after we left the restaurant that they rang our bill up incorrectly. They gave me an entree that was $14.95 as opposed to my $16.95 and didn't charge us for the appetizer. Whoops.
Today, we went to Century 21 so Josh could buy a coffee maker for himself. I guess it's a long overdue purchase. Since he bought a coffee maker, we figured he'd need coffee to use it, so we quickly made our way over to Dunkin Donuts before it closed. We got coffee, but I also succumbed to the temptation of munchkins because they had the jelly ones there. I asked for 25, but the Dunkin Donut guy said that they were going to close soon, so he'd give us everything. I think I got more than 50 munchkins and then he asked us if we wanted any donuts or muffins because he'd be throwing them out anyways. We left the store with a dozen donuts too. I only asked for a couple sugared donuts, but he crammed in a lot more.
Now I know when to buy donuts!
Friday, October 08, 2004
Duds
Recently, I had a friend, let's call him/her "X", say that they were going to visit during the weekend. Me being me, I wanted to clean up my apartment before the arrival (otherwise, the mess would stay until it grew legs and was able to walk out by itself).
Two hours of cleaning go by and a phone call comes around 8:00. Guess what? X's not coming because it's too late and X has to go to work tomorrow. Why doesn't that surprise me (even though I'm mad)? Considering that particular friend's track record, X is performing on par, doing what's best for X and if friends are screwed along the way, it's okay as long as X gets what X wants in the end. Consideration of others (other than perhaps a signficant other) is not an option.
A good friend, no?
Can any of you guess who this dud is?
Two hours of cleaning go by and a phone call comes around 8:00. Guess what? X's not coming because it's too late and X has to go to work tomorrow. Why doesn't that surprise me (even though I'm mad)? Considering that particular friend's track record, X is performing on par, doing what's best for X and if friends are screwed along the way, it's okay as long as X gets what X wants in the end. Consideration of others (other than perhaps a signficant other) is not an option.
A good friend, no?
Can any of you guess who this dud is?
Monday, October 04, 2004
TMI!!!
This past Friday, I decided to have pad thai for dinner because I was exhausted from the week's classes and didn't feel like cooking. While Josh and I were waiting for our noodles, we overheard the conversation between a man and woman at the bar a couple feet away from us. The woman, in her 40s, was talking loudly about how she used to do crack and heroin. The man made a comment about how unusual it was for someone of her situation to be so vocal about what happened to her.
"What do I care? I can say that I used to shoot up heroin while giving a guy a blowjob! I talk about it because I still want to do it!"
That was a little more than I ever wanted to know while waiting for take-out.
"What do I care? I can say that I used to shoot up heroin while giving a guy a blowjob! I talk about it because I still want to do it!"
That was a little more than I ever wanted to know while waiting for take-out.
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