oh, and at the party saturday night someone was telling a story about this dude who is working on the L O S T video game. apparently the dude’s creative team needed to know what the outcome of the story was in order to create the game, if the ending is what i was told it will be color me disappointed.
Is it a nice place?
Nick told me he read in the Reader that dan the fan just turned 50. I had no idea he was so up there in age! I mean, he looks a bit older, but not 50.
it’s a bungalow on a tree lined street, it’s a great little house. has a small backyard, a garden, and a garage her husband tinkers around in since neither of them have cars. i am insanely jealous of that place.
yes, dan’s birthday party was last saturday, c0c0c0ma played along with al3x white, the d1als, and magnetix from france who were the nicest people. the place was packed to past capacity and the brownie to person ratio was still around 5:1. that was a crazy night, that was the night before the morning i stood outside the church listening to gospel music.
spelling Belmont correctly; remembering the existence of the Fullerton transfer; designing stickers to cheaply correct the last environmental graphic designers stupid mistakes
I think there are about 3 million people thinking that this is the job for them.
Four days without work OR ILX, wow.
Southern thxgiving was great, I got stuffed on shrimp + rice + veggies, okra, biscuits, and chocolate pecan pie. Then I ate like 10 biscuits for breakfast and gigged at a vast mall-city (weird).
Lots of going out and chillin out this week, I’m sad that it’s over.
Also saw The Man with the Golden Arm (good, but they really stick it to Sophie in the movie, huh?) and read In Cold Blood (which turned out to be a good follow-up to MwtGA since apparently Algren was obsessed with it?).
I don’t think I knew how much of a legend Dan the Fan was until I read that article — but then I don’t go to the same shows he does. I’ve only seen him two or three times. Once was when I was playing with Green, and then this summer he came to Cleveland to see the Dials.
My weekend was good. Yesterday Kr and I saw the new documentary about Jonestown, at the Siskel Film Center, which I definitely recommend, esp. if all you know about the event is “Kool-Aid laced with cyanide.”
This is where Jessa is going, and I’m really, deeply envious:
I’d love to go to Argentina but not to eat the steaks.
That writer writes like you, Kenan.
Also, I waited like a month for IKEA to deliver the missing parts for my sofa.
ooh... Mass murder. Coolio.
Yeah, it’s a pretty standard PBS talking-heads documentary, but it’s fascinating. I did not know that the People’s Temple started out as a progressive Christian church that championed racial integration and equality, and that was how Jones was able to attract so many followers. He even had three non-white adopted kids.
Yeah, but wasn’t he kind of a creepy Koresh-kinda guy who claimed all the kids as his own?
What was the doc called?
It’s about time for a good steak in me. It’s been too long.
Did anyone do any shopping on Black Friday? State Street was a mess. Surprisingly, Ikea was very tame.
Oh, he was definitely creepy — there are lots of allegations of him having sex with both male and female members of the church — and he was undoubtedly controlling, but I don’t think he literally thought of all children as his own.
The doc is called Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple.
...possessive apostrophe skills...
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I’m not usually a big steak guy, but after reading that article I want to go to a (inferior American) steakhouse for lunch.
Surprisingly, Ikea was very tame.
The trick to Ikea, I found, was to arrive as soon as it opens, know exactly what you want, and get the fuck out of there by 11.
I had some uncooked steak for lunch the other day and it was delish. It was like a steak ceviche—raw, but “cooked” by a citrus marinade. Seems weird that this was at Catch, a seafood place.
I hope it gave me worms that will help me lose weight....
Ikea opened at 10 and we got there at 11 and farted around until 2 and it never got that crazy. The 2 meals we ate there we were strangely fortunate in that there was no line for the cafe, but by the time we paid and sat down a line 20-deep had formed.
I would like to try that!
xpost, I mean steak ceviche.
I was a little upset that I was too stuffed from Tweet’s to eat anything at Ikea, even a 50 cent hot dog.
(xp) Was it different from steak tartare?
I think steak tartare is completely uncooked meat. This was a Thai sort of dish, I think.
Steak tartare is a meat dish made from finely chopped, or ground raw beef. It is often served with onions, capers and seasonings (the latter typically incorporating fresh ground pepper and Worcestershire sauce), and sometimes with a raw egg.
The Mexican version of steak tartare typically marinates the meat in lime juice, in the manner of ceviche, which has the effect of disinfecting the meat to a certain extent.
Hmmm. I’m not up on my tartares.
That’s just crying out to be mixed together and made into a meatloaf.
I don’t think I would like steak tartare. In fact I think I would hate it.
After some intense Googling, I will direct your attention to this fascinating account of the potential consequences of enjoying a nice beef tartare: http://fray.com/drugs/worm/01.html
Have you guys seen Yacht Rock? It is great and I think you would all love it.
You’re kidding, right?
I will direct your attention to this fascinating account of the potential consequences of enjoying a nice beef tartare
It’s illustrated? That’s not the editorial decision I would have made.
Ha ha:
‘“Monsieur,” he finally said, “ce n’est pas grave. Je pense que vous avez un ver solitaire.”
I had un ver solitaire? What was that? A solitary worm? A lonely worm.’
You’re kidding, right?
Oh hush. It’s like when Adamrl started a thread about this weird e-mail from Nigeria he got.
You’re kidding, right?
Is it old news?
I don’t recommend putting a yogurt granola bar in the fridge.
That uncooked meat looks cold and slimy.
Okay sorry, one of my friends just told me about it the other day.
Yacht Rock was all over FRM long ago.
But it is still teh funney!
Give Jordan a break! He lives in Madison!
Jesse, I have read that tapeworm account before, I think it was MeFi’ed many years ago? But I enjoyed it all over again!
Yacht Rock was all over FRM long ago.
You mean ILX.
But yeah, it’s great.
xpost-The internet isn’t delivered to Madison on a regular basis.
I think I got that horror on mefi, yes.
“enjoyed”
He lives in Madison!
haha
WTF is MeFi?
OH OH OH MetaFilter??
You mean ILX
No, I mean FRM.
No, I know you mean FRM, but no one reads FRM.
zing
oh snap
I’m drinking tea. I want caffeine, but have no Diet Coke and I don’t have the patience to make Vietnamese or Turkish coffee, and I have no drip coffee maker, so I’m drinking tea. As usual, it’s completely disappointing.
Yeah, tea is one suck-ass beverage.
But Diet Coke isn’t disappointing? Diffrent strokes, I guess.
I don’t think I’ve ever read MetaFilter. But back in 2000 I was all about Plastic.com.
Tea is way better than Diet Coke, wtf.
I have seen this movie about Jim Jones. I would like to see that documentary.
I live each moment for the next Diet Coke. Diet Coke is my morning beverage. It’s very portable and always satisfies. I love coffee, but it has some drawbacks.
Tea could suck a fuck, but for its caffeine. Except iced tea, which is OK. And sometimes chamomile and peppermint “tea,” but also iced.
I’m having coffee issues at home. I have a big old coffee maker with a carafe, but it’s really touchy for some reason. The coffee comes out either way too weak or way too strong, and I never had issues with my old coffee maker.
Then I’ve got this little “cup at a time” coffee maker, it’s got a permanent filter and you actually put your mug under the drip. The coffee is fine but it’s messy and, well, it only makes a cup at a time.
Aspartame is nasty and has a heavy, metallic aftertaste.
i’m about to go make myself a cup of throat coat tea. i like the licorice root/bitter fennel fruit aspect of it.
i have no coffee today. i don’t feel right.
Jesse u mad. Hot tea > iced tea. Black tea > herbal tea. Also, I don’t do caffeine.
Diet Coke tastes like emptiness.
I don’t HATE tea, but it always leaves me wishing it were better.
Diet Coke in a can, on the point of freezing is like drinking from the teat of a goddess.
Fuck a coffee, I just light up big bluntz in the morning.
Tea is what I drink when I have no time to make coffee. It is good, and I like tea, but it just reminds me that I would rather have coffee.
Speaking of, I’m off to get some coffee. Coffee coffee coffee.
xpost Yeh, drinking tea is like marrying the twin whose twin you are actually in love with. Or something like that.
A manager at Catch told me that he sleep walks and eats, and a few nights ago he ate a couple of slices of pizza and drank 6 cans of Coke in his sleep. I believe him.
Diet Coke is gross. That said, I will drink it if 1) depressed, because it reminds me of my mom and/or 2) it has booze in it.
Tea is the world’s beverage. I like it a lot. I also like licorice, caring for dogs, waking up early, mangos and walks on the beach of moderate length.
Maddie used to have coke in the mornings. I don’t really drink soda, but when I do it’s almost always diet coke (diet vanilla coke RIP).
Tea is the world’s beverage.
Indeed. There’s something hideously provincial in not liking tea.
That coke article is interesting. I didn’t know all that stuff.
There’s something hideously provincial in not liking tea.
Holy shit, you’re being Kenanish again.
What about walks on beaches of other lengths??
No, Kenanish is when I say something that I don’t even really believe myself.
Nope, short is pointless and long is boring. Just moderate. I get bored just walking on the beach. If you want to maybe stop for a cup of tea, do some kartwheels on the beach, or write our names in the sand with our toes, that would provide a nice diversion.
No, Kenanish is when someone gets needlessly haughty.
LOL:
Jen: if i had to eliminate coffee or tea from my life, i would kick tea in the ding dong and never drink it again
Wait, are the walks of moderate length, or are the beaches? (X-POST: I see.)
I had a boss who was a Diet Coke fanatic, as in several empty lipstick-stained cans littered around her office at any given time.
YUCK
There’s something hideously provincial in not liking tea.
Give me a break, I live in Madison.
Tea is versatile — all the varieties!
I don’t like tea. I also don’t dislike tea. I guess I don’t really think about it. I can also say I’ve never had a cup of tea that I could call “good” or “great”, but I have had plenty that were underwhelming.
Also: Give me a break, arbiter of taste.
zing
Jesse: ding
me: dong
all this talk of java has me looking for a new coffee maker.
also, i love overlong, pointless walks on the beach and i miss having an ocean in wintertime to take those walks on.
ocean in wintertime
I read that as “ocean in wartime” and didn’t even think that was weird.
John, there are lots of different kinds and preparations of meat out there, it’s very versatile!
Our office kitchen has a variety of teas for free but it really DOES matter whether you drink quality tea or crap because the office tea tastes REALLY BAD to me, but tea at home is always just what I wanted. So I submit that it’s possible tea-haters aren’t drinking the good stuff. Either way, Diet Coke is NASTY.
I feel pukey. Not. Good.
That said, I love a fine cuppa tea, especially Sleepytime with honey.
John, would you say you are more into downers than uppers? Do you ever drink regular Coke?
John, do you prefer dolls or meth?
Note: I don’t hate tea in the least. In fact, I quite like it, as the drawer full of various kinds of bagged, loose, herbal, and caffeinated tea in our kitchen and the ownership of my very own proper tea pot demonstrates. I just vastly prefer coffee. Coffee is a magical drink.
Coffee is a magical drink.
OTM.
I just vastly prefer coffee. Coffee is a magical drink.
This is indeed true.
But boy, bad coffee is *really* bad. Bad tea is just kinda flat or tinny tasting, but bad coffee... woo. Ashtrays and assholes.
John, would you say you are more into downers than uppers?
No, I miss coffee terribly. I *loved* the mental/creative stimulation it provided.
My antipathy for Diet Coke is mostly the empty metallic taste. Regular Coke is too syrupy. But I can’t drink either, so the point is moot.
Also: Give me a break, arbiter of taste.
I take back “hideously provincial,” ok?
I like the ceremony of tea. The leaves, the little cups, the teapot. It’s different than coffee. Coffee is like a strong, fierce hug or a whack on the butt and tea is like cuddling for an extended period of time. Sometimes if you’re at work and you want a pick-me-up, tea is not what you’re after. But if you seek comfort, tea is what you need.
That said, every morning I want a strong whack on the butt from my coffee.
We’re the coffee generation. The movers and the shakers.
I kind of feel that tea is a drink, whereas coffee is a food. It’s got body, somehow. I dunno.