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November 2006
Dirty Places in Gainesvillle
I’m very amused by the 12 dirtiest restaurants in the Gainesville area. Should I really find this amusing since we visit two of these restaurants on a very regular basis and have visited others (or ordered from them) quite a few times? Should I really find this amusing since TW really should not be exposed to food prepared in restaurants with as many violations ans these have (or had). Hell yea I should be amused and I’m pondering the idea of breakfast at 43rd St Deli this weekend (or maybe Jeff’s instead, we’ll have to call first to see if he has bialys.)
Yea yea, food safety is important but you can’t live your life worrying about every restaurant you walk into. I figure if TW drops dead from food poisoning or e coli after visiting Waffle House, she’ll be ok with that – Waffle House makes a great "last meal".
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Daily Dose of Cupcakes
In honor of World Toilet Day (Sunday) and the World Toilet Expo, we should all make some toilet topped cupcakes, shouldn’t we?! Yes we certainly should. Particularly if you are like me and have a photo collection of toilets from around the world. Or if you are like TW who spends more time in the bathroom than most. World Toilet Day cupcakes are totally in order!
If you’re serious about your toilet cupcakes, then Ruby Lane has some nice vintage items that could be used. Expensive but nice collectibles, if you’re into toilet collectibles. On ebay you can track down lots of different types of “bathroom sets” – a wood look, (or you can just go to oakridge and grab the toilet only). I prefer porcelain.
Happy World Toilet Day!
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I wanted to be Oliver, but he’s a boy….
Do you have the Ferrick cd, skinnier faster live at the BPC? Or have you seen Melissa sing Mr Bumble live, as an intro to Drive? If your answer is yes to either of those, then I have to ask if you have ever wondered about "Matt Dorman"?
Do you wonder what he’s doing now? Do you wonder how he feels about being part of the intro to Drive? Do you think he has a different version of how he came to play Oliver and Melissa found herself playing the "big fat man who was mean"?
Well I’m pretty sure that this Matt Dorman is not the Matt Dorman whose mother was the director. But I’m wondering if this Matt Dorman is the dude who got the part. (that second link is a PDF but click it if you have ever wondered….)
What do you think? Am I the only one who thinks about these things? Is there even a real Matt Dorman or did Melissa just make it all up?
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The Emperor’s Children
I’ve done it. I’ve finally read all of the books from the Booker Short List. The Emperor’s Children was the last. It was also one that I thought I would like more than most of the others. Now that I’ve finished, I’m finding it difficult to decide just how I felt about it – other than pleased it did not win the Booker. I also find it troubling that this book was on the Booker Short List at all – what got it there? Simply the 9/11 storyline? It feels that way to me, and I don’t like it.
I liked the book, I enjoyed it very much. But it didn’t feel like a Booker nominee to me. It felt like any other nicely written novel I’ve read this year. The characters were incredibly typical, stereotypical even, and predictable. Not a single shocking characteristic, not a single surprise, no unexpected twists. These characters could be dropped into a zillion other books and fit right in.
None of this is bad – it wasn’t a bad book. It was a good book. I liked it. And, I’m glad it didn’t win the Booker. You should read it though, you’ll like it too.
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OK this is worse….
At least I think it’s worse to hear that Larry King doesn’t use search than it is to hear Bush uses the google.
Just as an aside, because I know you are all interested, Roseanne Barr is totally reminding me of my grandmother in that clip. And it’s sort of freaking me out. OK it is really freaking me out. I’m going to have nightmares.
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Lorelai, you suck!
I expect suckage from Christopher, he has always sucked and he always will. His new life as super dad lasted oh so very long, didn’t it? Totally blew off his grown daughter who he screwed over for 22 years and blew off his latest spawn (who has grown far too quickly, casting screwed up big with that one) when he insisted they get married RIGHT NOW. Super dad indeed.
Anyway, suck we expect from Christopher but not from Lorelai.
I cannot believe the writers, non-Palladino that they are, would so totally have screwed this up. I do not care if the spoilers I’ve read are true or not, bad move – totally bad move and unnecessary. Whoever came up with this idea and whoever gave the go ahead for it ought to be shot.
Lane, Zach and Mrs Kim – I love them. I hate that Lane is pregnant but love how they are treating the storyline.
Rory falling apart makes some sense, but not to this degree. She knows what she wants to do with her life – she has always known what she wants to do with her life. Why we’re seeing this depth of confusion, I do not know.
Maybe she and her mother have both been replaced by pod-people and that will be how they resolve this during sweeps. The real Gilmore Girls will return and explain that evil pod-people tied them up and left them in Lorelai’s garage and impersonated them. Thus no Mrs Hayden and no Rory acting like a wishy washy 16 year old.
Non-Palladinos – you suck worse than Palladino did in the last season.
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I’m #1!
I’m really quite proud. Better luck next time, people! For now, (and for all time), I am the #1 search result (using google Canada of course) for this excellent phrase: how did i advice my friend’s dauther use cell phone big bill mom upset so she is not a normal hid.
What’s even more special than being #1 for this phrase (using google Canada of course) is that my blog was so helpful to this person that he/she/it came back again, with the same search phrase, 3 minutes later. I rock!
OK I Lied
I said I was going to blog important, brilliant stuff on my vacation day and I obviously didn’t do that. In fact I probably blogged less yesterday than on a normal workday. Whatever. I enjoyed my day off and did absolutely nothing interesting or worthwhile except read and chat with TW and blogsurf and wonder why I wasn’t doing anything important.
Since I took two days off, I’m now officially behind at work and am playing catch up so you’ll just have to wait even longer for important, brilliant observations from me. But really, that’s ok, because my very good friend skeeter has officially announced her long-awaited blog. Go over there and play, she says brilliant and important stuff all of the time (and wears white cotton panties while doing it, just so you know).
Autobiography of a Face
I ran into a problem while reading Autobiography of a Face. Besides I just said I was swearing off Irish authors, and Grealy was from Ireland, I just finished her book, As Seen on TV and had listened to a few chapters of Patchett’s Truth & Beauty. Too much Lucy Grealy and all of it sounds the same. In fact it all sounds the same because in many, many cases the stories were told in virtually the same way in all three books.
Once I resigned myself with that, sort of accepted it the way you accept the re-telling of family stories over and over again, I enjoyed reading the book. I’m sorry Grealy died, particularly the way she died. Very sad and melodramatic, the latter of which she probably appreciates – wherever she is.
I wonder what all of those people who went to school with her think about her now – what they think about themselves – what they say about Lucy to their children.
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