Archive for August, 2005
- you can now transfer video directly from your computer to your tivo. such an incredible idea, and long overdue.
- Five-Star Bars may very well be the best candy bar ever created. The hazelnut one especially could bankrupt me. They cost $2.69 apiece at your local whole foods, and yes, they are absolutly worth it. of course, we have the ability to make one last 3 days.
- probably one of the best traditional-style thin-crust pizzas we’ve ever gotten at regina’s in the north end. the key is to order your pies well-done, so they’re all blistered and charred, and ordering them either plain or with one topping at the most. otherwise, they get really heavy and undercooked. trust me.
- my first bike ride in about 15 years around fresh pond. and i didn’t hurt myself. and mad mad props to the folks at harris cyclery, who got our bikes back in working order after spending 10 years in a garage for only the cost of a tuneup. the jokers over at another bike shop wanted to charge us three times the amount and replace a whole bunch of parts that didn’t need replacing. jerks.
- a visit from mark and maureen. congrats to them on closing on their first house this week. i’m looking forward to seeing their sausage-making production go waaaaay up.
- a saturday morning private screening of wedding crashers. private, meaning that at an 11:20am showing on a saturday morning when it’s 80 degrees and sunny, you’re pretty much guaranteed to be the onlyones there. I think 1 or 2 other people came in later, but we pretty much had the whole place to ourselves, which is a bit freaky. as far as the movie goes, like others have said, the first 3/4 of the movie are tremendous, with the last 1/4 a bit of a letdown. still, vince vaughn and owen wilson should exclusively do movies together for the rest of the careers.
- the question we kept asking ourselves while watching the MTV VMA’s was “who?”. my god, i suddenly feel really old when i don’t know who 50% of the people they introduce are. i think they were all some sort of rap or r&b guys. is this what popular music has become? it’s really weird that coldplay looked really out of place there? i think i’d much rather watch the brit awards.
- speaking of brits, bon voyage to gordon and karen who leave for london in the next week.
- i’ve been meaning to write this for month now, but i keep forgetting. i spend a fair amount of time at the gym. the the gym i see a number of young females wearing one of two things: 1) shorts with something written on the butt. 2) shorts and tops that are way too tight and their bellys and “back-fat”hang over the edge. ladies, ladies. please, for your own good, stop this trend. no one, and i mean no one, looks good with words scrawled across their ass. it just makes it look really big and misshapen. and if your fat is being pinched by your clothes, guess what? they don’t fit. when did it become acceptable for girls to show off their big bellys? it’s weird, i’ve noticed this at the beach too. these skinny teenage girls with buddah bellys. is it their diet? some sort of genetic defect in this generation? now i’m not some sort of old codger and i’m most certainly not some conservative prude (if there’s an opposite of that, i’m it), and i’m not saying that everyone needs to be super-skinny (not that i’d be against that), but please, have some respect for yourself, and more importantly, the guys who have to look at you. thus concludes this public service annoucement.
- i guess these are the dog days of summer. not a whole lot going on. and i can’t get enough of these 3-day weekends.
- another visit to duxbury beach. i’m pretty sure this is a record for most beach days i’ve ever had in a summer. not that i’m complaining.
- i’m about a third of the way through Candyfreak : A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America. Steve Almond’s (yes, his real name) examination of his own ridiculously funny candy obsession and the world of candy in general.
- and because of the book, i had a crazy craving for peanut M&M’s. actually, i wanted some of the new mega M&M’s, but i couldn’t find them. they sure hit the spot though.
- pizza of the week: grilled baby squid, homegrown sweet-100 tomatoes, garlic, chili flakes, oregano, basil,and olive oil.
- frogurt flavor of the week: coconut. yes, i said coconut.
- our bikes are in the shop getting fixed up, our helmets have been ordered, we have a pump. expect major cycling injuries this coming weekend.
- i did some bidding on ebay this week. i’ve determined that there’s nothing you can’t buy for really cheap on ebay.
- crash. i had heard a lot of great things about this movie but never really paid attention to what it was really about. a really intense and thought-provoking film about race relations and such with a number of intertwining storylines. and who knew that ludacris could act?
- i managed to smoke some chicken on the grill without setting the entire grill on fire. third time’s a charm, i guess.
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