This week - I stumbled on this funny food video on Serious Eats: ‘Waiters Who Are Nauseated by Food’
The skit is from the Dana Carvey Show and it features my two favorite funny men on TV: Stephen Colbert and Steve Carell.
They’re outrageous without being ridiculous. I love checking out old school video with these comedians. It’s interesting to compare their comedy origins to their current stints on NBC and Comedy Central.
A couple of weekends ago, we went to mass at St. Ignatius in the City by the Bay. It’s a beautiful Jesuit church next to the University of San Francisco.
The mass had a running commentary for the Lenten season. It was weird but it would have made more sense if we caught the explanation at the beginning of the ceremony.
After church, we kicked off our private taxi service. We picked up my Medill buddy, Sara, near UCSF. Next, we went back to Topeka (a street in SF. Serious!) and picked up my Kansas co-worker, Dana. We made it out of Bayview and headed down to the Mission to see Susan and Tom and their doggies.
It was a beautiful Sunday night — meeting new people, catching up with friends and eating good food. I was running on fumes and a couple of hours of sleep but I was just happy to spend time with my friends.
Susan and Tom introduced us to Circolo. It’s a hip Asian-inspired restaurant in the Mission. On Saturday nights, it turns into a dance club. The servers were nice and patient with our group. I am always a sucker for foie gras and I enjoyed our goose liver trio. This appetizer had three preparations of foie: savory, sweet and succulent. I also digged Susan’s entree: a tasty sea bass with a miso glaze. The fish tasted delicate, with a delightful buttery aftertaste. I also enjoyed my veggie dish, the shitake risotto. The creamy arbrio rice was the perfect canvas for the yummy chunks of mushroom.
Bottom line: it was a pleasure to explore new flavors with this intersection of friends from Berkeley, San Francisco, Medill and Kansas.
I’m at the age when I have to worry about these things. According to my mom, grey hair plagues the women in our family at a young age….and I figure 27-going-on-28 is young for old looking hair. So, yesterday, I used a little bit of our tax refund and splured on a new do’. It feels fab in the hot weather. This week - it got up to 90+ degrees in Topeka (and our air conditioner isn’t working ).
I picked Salon 808 for my new do’ after I saw Dana’s piece for my morning show. My new do - plus eyebrow waxing and products - ended up being less than what I paid in Berkeley three years ago for my first professional coloring job. Wow. Back then - all I did was get coloring and a hair cut. I got more bang for my buck in Topeka at Salon 808. I love the cost of living in the Sunflower State.
And on to some new things on my blogs…
- I have a new podcast. We’ll see how long that lasts…
- I also created a platial map for our European adventure. I think I’ll make another map for our cross-country road trips. I love that you can publish maps to blogs - and you can incorporate the zooming functions and the satellite views from google maps - into your blogs. Platial and the Google API rock my world!
found this quiz on bigcracker’s xanga site….too cute…
You’re Texas! You aren’t really much of your own person, but everyone around
you wishes you’d go away, so you might as well be independent. You’re
sort of loud-mouthed and abrasive, but you do have a fair amount of power. You
like big trucks, big cattle, and big oil rigs. And sometimes you really
smell. But it’s not all bad, you’re big enough to have some soft spots
somewhere in all that redneck madness. Take the Country
Quiz at the Blue Pyramid
and now…a Texas joke from Maxim
A girl from Texas and a girl from New York were seated side by side on an airplane. The girl from Texas, being friendly and all, said: “So, where y’all from?”
The girl from New York said: “From a place where they know better than to use a preposition at the end of a sentence.”
The girl from Texas sat quietly for a few moments and then replied: “So, where y’all from, BITCH?”
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In My Belly!
