Best lines (which is all of them) from that great 90s sitcom
46. Forty-six.
That number came up in quite a few situations today. Sort of like a subliminal reminder that the year rolls over and we have not got any more wiser.
I have some of the Sun Noodle ramen noodles in my freezer again. I also have some beef bone marrow and trotters in there as well. They are going to be aged really well so I better use them before they truly expire. Like how long do I have for these things? Months? Years? Some have been there that long so, like I said, I better get to using them.
I was thinking about making some tonkatsu ramen. Slow cooker using my Instant Pot? Okay. Perhaps I should use it as the pressure cooker that it was meant to be? Maybe. We’ll see.
On a sheet pan go the trotters and the beef bone marrow bones. This goes into a pre-heated 425F oven for 15 minutes just to give them color. No idea why.
As those roast, I chop up one onion, a handful of green onions, dried shiitake mushrooms, and two carrots. They go into the pot along with some ginger, some garlic, bay leaves, and peppercorns. Then the meat. Fill with water and set slow cooker to go over night.
Of course, this isn’t turning the broth into the classic creamy tonakatsu because 1) not enough trotters and pig fat 2) not boiling and 3) the mushrooms turn it dark. I think I was making that but then I really wasn’t. It’s just another soup base.
Hopefully, this broth is good. I’m looking to make my own homemade ramen in a cup for workday lunch. Let’s see how it goes.
Spooks are coming. It’s getting closer to Halloween and the decorations are starting to show up at your local place of shopping and retail. I was walking into one said place and happened to see this little adorable spook. It’s no Annabelle, but it still spooked me. That’s why I took a picture: so I can treasure it in the dark nights of autumn.
Boo!
I always considered Hoshino my third in Nogizaka. She’s so kawaii here. Not like she isn’t everywhere.
(Hopefully this one will stay up until it gets off the front page…)
It is not a horror movie. It is more an adventure with horror overtones — sort of a “Goonies” with Sloth being a very scary, creepy clown. The merry band of kids go on this adventure to rid the town of frightening Pennywise. They lived happily ever after. End Part One. Afterwards, I wasn’t scared to go to sleep with the lights off.
I’ve never seen “Stranger Things,” but one of the casts of It is from there. This film had a feel of that television show. First, because of the setting in the 80s. Next, because it seems to find kids who are free to roam around their town. Finally, because I have a feeling that It was modeled after the show. I’m sure I’m wrong, but in other ways I’m sure I’m right.
Not a bad film. Over the weekend I also caught the 90s version of It on television. Very, very different. Now I know what to look forward to in the second part.
3 of 5 stars.
I gave you Shiraishi Mai yesterday. Her beauty must’ve blown you away. Today, I’ll give you Nishino Nanase. Okay, megane + pony tail. I’ll take her back.
Not sure why, but I feel like trading in my Apple stuff…
Okay. Now I’m listening to some weird stuff. City Pop! A genre from the bubble 80s of Tokyo. I like the bit of funk they get into. It’s also a little bit like some chill genre. I think I’m going have to go to Japan…
If I was asked what computer to have for my job, I think I would choose 「マウス」. But only if it comes with Shiraishi-san as tech help.
I watched Annabelle: Creation. Maybe “watched” is a strong word, because I watched it from behind my fingers. Was it too scary? Not really, but I always watch scary movies from behind a veil of fingers. It’s a habit.
Not sure why I like too, but I do.
Scratch that I like to watch the scary movies because of the heeby-jeebies it gives me. I like the goosebumps up my arm. I like going home in the dark and wondering if I should leave the lights on. I like sleeping to the glow of the television if not to the light on. It’s weird but it’s fun.
Anyhow. Annabelle is a prequel to the first Annabelle film which itself was a prequel to the first Conjuring film. It wasn’t stupid scary like The Conjuring was and it doesn’t have the evil character like the Nun from the second Conjuring. She’s there but in a great cameo. LOL.
There were a few things that bugged me. There always is. Like that damn scarecrow. Why even have that? Then there’s the Demon. There’s too much of it.
Overall, that doll is still the scariest thing out there.
3 of 5 stars.
The Hitman’s Bodyguard is a movie you watch when there are no other movies to watch. Even then, you flip the channel to Chiller or TruTV, but you find yourself going back to The Hitman’s Bodyguard because that is your life at the moment.
Don’t waste your time. I already have. You were warned.
2 of 5 stars.
