If we don't set high bars, how shall we ever excel?

[aliwilliams]

Weekend goals:

• Eat a really good burger. I've been craving one all week, and I keep getting home too late to get a Five Guys one (which is a B+ burger, elevated by the fact that it's close by)(By the way, I only recommend Five Guys to people who really like super-flat burgers, which I do).

• Buy The Wordy Shipmates. I've been wanting to purchase it

Comments

[rockmarooned]

I'd definitely recommend Rachel over Lucky Ones. The latter might feel like a ripoff at twelve bucks. And if it didn't have McAdams, yikes.

And if you don't see RocknRolla this weekend but go another time, let me know! I wanna see that and it won't be playing upstate for awhile yet.

[aliwilliams]

Will keep RocknRolla in mind for future viewing. I don't know why I want to see it, other than (a) Gerard Butler and (b) the fact that I remember laughing "jiggawhat?"-style all through Snatch.

I really want to like The Lucky Ones. I love road movies. Darn it.

[slightlyoffaxis]

*Is #1 because of that How I Met Your Mother episode? That kinda made me want a burger.

*I usually hate Halloween/costumes, but I'd DEFINITELY go to a Halloween party where everyone has to dress up as their high school self. I'd be all flannel and Marvin the Martian tee shirts.

[aliwilliams]

Maybe? The episode is totally similar to a time that a lost a bar in the East Village, when I couldn't find it online (it was new) and I couldn't remember how I'd walked home. I made Sara wander the EV with me in hopes of stumbling over an Eastern European bar that looked like a front for nefarious mob operations, serving a wine called Bear's Blood. (Of course, NOW it's easy.)

The spot they were tracking down reminded me of the Burger Joint on the inside. In fact, when they started talking about how unfindable it was, I was expecting the trial to end in a hotel lobby, behind a curtain.

Yeah, definitely craving Burger Joint now.

[wmetoile]

"But...it was here! Filled with Romanians! I don't understand."

[wmetoile]

I am totally up for something low-key on Saturday night when I get back from Pennsylvania (should be back by 8 or 9). And burgers. I think I'll have a burger tonight. Mmm, burger.

I dreamed Suzy moved to Alaska. Which is ridiculous, because why would the Navy send anyone to Alaska?

I invited Matt and Amanda to come watch the second parade on Halloween and have margaritas. That's as far as I've planned.

[missfee]

to dress up as my high school self i would have to stop eating entirely and grow my hair at least six inches. basically, i'd need more than two weeks notice to make that happen. and get my dad to send me a pair of my old doc martins. sigh for doc martins.

i enjoy both burgers and movies and beer and would be down with any combination thereof.

i also need jeans that work with boots (basically winter jeans) if anyone wants to go run the filene's/loehmann's circuit with me.

[cstixx]

I would have to be on katie's diet/ hair growth plan to get back to high school Cristin, as well. And I would have to wear nothing but Blues Traveler concert tshirts over long sleeved tshirts, also with doc martens.

At work we once had a graduation party themed party where we were all supposed to come dressed as what we were in high school. The results were pretty amazing. This is an excellent party idea. My other favorite one in this genre is Everyone Come Dressed As What You Want To Be When You Grow Up. Hilarity ensues!

[kate_the_agent]

Totally, let's rock the HS themed Halloween costume party. Like I really need an excuse to wear a cheerleading costume. Not that I have (or would fit into) my old one, but my actual high school pom poms are in my sisters basement. Totally worth shipping for this occasion--and I HATE Halloween.

[maggith]

See, I would have to cut off all my hair, and though that is technically possible to do in two weeks, it would make me cry and cry for the years I've spent growing it out. Also: Doc Martens, Eddie Bauer sweater.

I'm bummed everyone's being so down on Halloween, because this is the one year I have the perfect costume and I'm pretty sure it's going to end up that I have nowhere to wear it. I MUST dress as Tina Fey doing Sarah Palin! MUST!

Mmm, burgers.

[twencenboy]

They have Five Guys in NY now? And I thought the chain was expanding too rapidly when they sprouted up in Charlottesville and Baltimore!

Speaking of meat, I'm in the process of moving, and I have a pho place, a supposedly excellent hamburger joint, a steakhouse and a barbecue joint all within a block of my apartment. I certainly know how to pick a veggie-friendly dining area!

[anyway413]

Also in St. Louis (I think)