Tuesday, March 30, 2004

- so hot right now -

"Have you seen Zoolander?" seems to have surpassed "Where is Gretel?" as the most common response when people meet me for the first time. Star Wars references now rank a distant 3rd.

Monday, March 29, 2004

- better than ice cream -

Umami's green tea tiramisu is to die for. It's even better than MoonPenny's "orgasmic" tiramisu.

Wednesday, March 24, 2004

- cliff's notes to the rescue -

Answer to yesterday's question (from the always dependable Cliff's Notes):

Friar John, whom [Friar Laurence] dispatched with details of the drug that simulates death and spares Juliet from a bigamous marriage with Paris, returns with news of an "infectious pestilence" that caused him to be quarantined with a fellow prelate. When Friar John was released, he could neither send his message to Mantua nor find a messenger willing to risk infection in order to return it to Friar Laurence.

Tuesday, March 23, 2004

- romeo+juliet -

From Clueless:

Heather: It's just like Hamlet said, "To thine own self be true."
Cher: Hamlet didn't say that.
Heather: I think I remember Hamlet accurately.
Cher: Well, I remember Mel Gibson accurately, and he didn't say that. That Polonius guy did.

Monday, March 22, 2004

- hot in herre -

I think we should pass a law that would prohibit people from going shirtless in public unless they have visible abdominal muscles. The world would be a much better place. And don't even get me started on the fat girls with low-rider jeans. Ugh.

Sunday, March 21, 2004

- march madness -

Do not root for Stanford. Stanford kids need no more breaks in life.

- Rick Reilly, Life of Reilly

Tuesday, March 16, 2004

- cornelius the tourist -

You wanna see pain? Swing by First Methodist Tuesday night. See guys with testicular cancer. That's pain.

- from Fight Club

Saturday, March 13, 2004

- the bitch is back -

As it turned out, I can barely add up my own hand, let alone keep a running count on a six-deck shoe, so I stayed away from blackjack tables this time around. I did win 50 bucks playing slots though. Not too shabby, eh?

Oh, did you see that vicious hit by Bertuzzi the other day? Holy shit. So much for the theory that allowing fighting eliminates the need for cheap shots. Will they now ban fighting in hockey? If the NFL can do without it, so can the NHL. With Bertuzzi suspended for the rest of the season (and the playoffs), it looks like Lord Stanley will once again elude us this year. Damn...

Sunday, March 7, 2004

- vegas baby! -

3 interesting things I learned this week:

• 95% of the hundred-dollar bills in circulation have minute traces of cocaine embedded in their fibers.
• Heroin is 800% more effective than morphine.
• A Canadian passport can fetch up to $5000 in the black market.

Friday, March 5, 2004

- really lost in translation -

Lost in Translation's Korean title roughly translates to "can love be translated?"
Good grief.

Thursday, March 4, 2004

- obligatory post about that new mel gibson movie -

No, I won't go to that new Mel Gibson movie with you, so stop asking.

A little back story: back in '96, I entered now-defunct MrShowbiz.com's Oscar contest and correctly predicted winners in *every* *single* category -- every single category except for best picture, that is. I foolishly picked Sense and Sensibility, and of course, Braveheart went onto claim the big prize (undeservingly so, I might add). I didn't win that shiny laser disc player, and I've been boycotting Mel Gibson movies ever since. Yeah, I'm petty like that, but that's ok -- I had Subway for lunch.