What's up with this broze own tour thing tonight at Fool's Foundation? Anyone going? Come on, I need someone to tell me what's cool, I can't be expected to make up my own mind.
I would like to give an official thumbs up to Jarhead and recommend it highly. Unless a shitload of great movies come out at the end of the year it's sure to make my top 5. For the record, 40 year old virgin is on track to become number one, perhaps the first time a silly comedy has ever placed at that spot for me. I'm contrasting that to Woody Allen's bittersweet-style comedies. Sure Jarhead is meandering and weakly plotted, but that war was pointless, hence plotless. Why everyone gotta hate on Sam Mendes?
Tried to go to Chaat Corner on Northgate with the Head but it was inexplicably closed on a friday night!?! They have a brand new ad in the SNR so I don't think it could be out of business. We salvaged the trip by going to 524#2, which was excellent as always.
I also made my third trip to Dragonfly and this place just keeps improving. Our cali-style sushi roll was really, really tasty. The best I've had in Sac in a while. The Dragonfly menu stands out because of their numerous healthy options, and both that we sampled (a tofu veggie bowl and a thai chicken soup) were flavorful and satisfying, especially the thai chicken soup. This is in sharp contrast to, say, Paesanos, where I ate on saturday (I know, it's insane but I spend the majority of my money on food). Everything on the menu is a total gut bomb. Even the salads come drenched in cheese and bacon. All the pastas have a cream sauce, and the pasta I got was swimming in orange oil. I felt ill rather quickly after eating there.
By cali-style, I mean that it's the sushi with mayo sauce, etc., not a california roll.
ReplyDeleteA comedy in the top 5? Let alone number one. Be honest, has the barrage of mindless comedies I have made you sit thru had any effect on you? Besides forcing you to smoke copious amounts of weed to stay entertained?
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ps did I spell "copious" correctly? (cope-y-us). What about "barrage"? Little help over here?
A friend of mine sent me this funny bit of baseball sillyness in an e-mail. Thought you'd be interesed. I am too lazy to track down the link to this article, but here are some exerpts.
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I swear I read this story in Time magazine who did a profile on Hideki Matsui from the Yankees... can you imagine any other athlete having a profile quite like this.....
"...Throughout it all, Matsui remained almost unnervingly low-key.Instructed to stay in the team dormitory and refrain from dating during the first several years of his career, so as to devote all his concentration solely to baseball, Matsui agreeably complied, without so much as a whimper. Indeed, his only eccentricity, if it can be called that, is his extensive
private library of adult videos. His refreshing ability to laugh self-deprecatingly about his porno collection, reporters say, is one reason why fans and even nonfans have taken to him so much."
It gets better....
"And, of course, he likes to watch his much vaunted porno collection, tapes that he often trades with Japanese reporters. As one Japanese journalist put
it, describing Matsui's affinity for such unique Japanese cultural institutions like the no-panties shabu-shabu in Japan, "Matsui is a horny guy. All of us are horny, more or less. But Matsui doesn't attempt to hide the fact." Yet another win for the Japanese Everyman."
Imagine you finally get a Time magazine write up about being a cross culture icon and they go on and on about your affinity for Porn!.... Hilarious....
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Maybe this is more of a Barnesyard kind of comment, but I figured heckasac has to up the spicey-ness of her blog to keep readership high. I hear she has her sights set on next years News and Review award already!
Charles
i ate at chaat corner on saturday night (i called ahead to make sure it was open) and it was really amazing.
ReplyDeletethe samosa chaat is a must, the naan was good, and the chicken tika masala was good, but different.
i wrote more on the sacramento foodies group on myspace.
-greg
can you link to the foodies thing? i wonder what happened on friday? i got cheated!
ReplyDeleteand speaking of foodies, i am very intrigued by the term "no panties shabu shabu". I would google it but I'm afraid to see what would come up. Isnt' shabu shabu when you cook the meat and stuff in the boiling oil (or water)?
http://groups.myspace.com/sactofood
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your review is making me jealous! i have to try again this week.
ReplyDeleteand nobody answered me about the ff show, so I listened to some mp3s and it they pretty cool. i might check it out.