Seeing to the future
When the weather widget shows two days of snow, it’s time to go “uh-oh!” No more I’m sore.
Fevered Snow Dreams
It was a weird dream early this morning perhaps caused by setting the furnace higher than normal to keep me warm.
We went to the beach for vacation, Virginia Beach. Through the miracle of technology and High Speed Rail, the beach was connected to the Paris metro. We decided to visit Paris to while away the day.
While in Paris, Banksie was hugely popular. He was doing a stencil of multi-colored brick. No idea why it was cool, but we decided we could do the same. We made our own stencils to hit up the Paris metro.
I put my stencil on the wall. It doesn’t look right. Then I figured there were no holes to shoot spray paint through. It wasn’t a stencil, but a regular rendition of multi-colored bricks. That ain’t gonna work at all.
As I pondered all this, the boots of gendarme show up. Uh-oh, busted!
He makes his way over and starts accusing me of graffiti. I calmly explain to him that I haven’t done anything. That you caught me with picture of colored bricks tacked to the metro wall. That you caught me with a bag of spray paint. That I hadn’t done any painting just yet, so how could I have done any graffiti.
I look over to see if the Seed has taken any notice of this and skeedaddled as he had successfully made a multi-colored brick wall stencil. Nope. No such luck.
That’s when the gendarme starts taking me away to run down the Seed. As he tries, the gendarme gets hit by a car, rolls onto the street, and lies there.
We get out of there fast. CapSwell is in line buying return trip tickets. We get in line. The lady takes our fare, but takes a break. We’re waiting in line now for days for her to come back all the while hoping that the gendarmes do take us away. Tired of waiting we get out of line and try to purchase tickets at the lunch counter in the metro station. We succeed, but by then the line to the trains is several days long and it will take us more time just to get to the queue to get to a train.
Sigh. Paris in the summer.
Good and gone
Done for the year. Sayonara to the biggest storm to hit Bmore ever!
Tweet Blogging
Because not every one is on twitter…
I’m watching Twister and wondering how many named actors can be thrown in this flick.
Jan De Bont, you magnificent bastard, I read your book!
Adventures From My Netflix Queue: The Ramen Girl
Watching the weather and seeing the snow come down in bunches, it’s best to stay in doors. I’ve got nothing better to do, so I pop my latest Netflix into the DVD player. It’s early for this DVD almost a week and I’ve just put this in — a new record.
Today’s movie is The Ramen Girl. It has been in my queue for a year now always the bridesmaid but never the bride. I keep pushing in down, but since the movie stars the late, Brittany Murphy, I figured I would have to honor her memory by finally watching her flick. No disrespect to her and her memory.
The Ramen Girl is about Murphy’s character going to Japan to follow a boy who then dumps her. Stuck in a foreign land what is she to do. One night in the rain she follows her tears to a ramenya. There she tastes heaven and decides that she should be a ramen cook. The rest of the film is about her learning to cook ramen.
The best part of this film is that it explains the mystery of ramen. You think it’s all about the noodles, but really its the broth. I’ve got plenty of ramen in my cupboard, but I don’t really want the packet broth. If I can make a decent broth, those square dry ramen noodles may almost taste good.
So, Murphy attempts to become a ramen chef. It is hard life made even harder by the her lack of understanding Japanese. But she does learn. Little by little. Not Japanese, but ramen and the broth. Eventually, she gets to become the successor to her sensei, and learns about ramen.
After the movie, I had a bowl of arroz caldo. Not ramen. But I don’t think I do a good broth just yet.
3 of 5 stars
Snow is down. And more still coming
Did I bring the wrath of Mother Nature upon us when I doubted the capabilities of the snow I saw falling last night?
Snow is coming down
Went out in the snow to check out what and how it’s coming down. It’s a mess. More like sleet than snow. I don’t think we’ll be getting that two feet, because it’s too wet and it’ll compact itself down. I think it would be more like a foot.
Unless it keeps coming down until tomorrow evening like they say it will.
Cheese curls
Looking for snacks before the storm?
I wish Planter’s still made their cheese snack line especially their cheese curls. I loved that they advertised on the can that it was made with real cheese flavor. Hmm, made with cheese flavor? That doesn’t sound like it was made with real cheese though.
As far as getting snowed in. I’ve already got some ramen and some eggs. I just need the salty snack to help while away the lonesome day.
Suzumiya Haruhi no ShÅshitsu
I’ve posted a version of this one before, but I had to remind you once again. Opening today!!! Wish I could be there!
Real Ravens Fans?
Real Ravens Fans?
Originally uploaded by browsermetrics.
In the current issue of ESPN, the magazine, (Feb ?) they asked fans of
this year’s losers who they’ll root for in the Big Game. Here’s who
the Ravens fans are gonna be rooting for. This one is hard to believe.
No true Ravens fan would cheer for the Colts. They asked the wrong
people. Must’ve been fair weather fans.
When I read this I did a spit take and snapped my head back! I may not
be a die hard Ravens fan, but I won’t root for them over the Saints.