Choc Full of Chicken
I was lucky enough to score a free meal at Mango Tree so long as I observed some restrictive criteria and jumped a few hurdles. I had to be in and out before 8pm and stick to their set menu. I had assumed they would sting me for everything I touched beyond the set menu such as rice, water and obviously wine and coffee. Fabulously, I only had one cocktail, water was complimentary and rice came with the curry. The cocktail was divine but overpriced at £9 even though it had a extraordinarily decadent hibiscus coiled on the side. The starter of the meal was chicken satay and the main was green chicken curry so you can imagine my delight having already eaten a chicken baguette at lunch today.
My online life has been a bit odd lately as I've had a couple of different people point out a few different blogs that actually 'name' my screenname and talk about me in a not so positive light. These are public blogs of which I'm not 'friended to the person' so don't subscribe to their entries. I don't mind having critics and detractors. I'm a very opinionated and outspoken person so I'm quite used to those. What I do mind is the weird and slimey underhanded way they've gone about trashing me LOL. I see the posts as a weird cry of 'be my friend' and really all they do is push the person away from me more as I appreciate up-frontedness and honesty. Nothing more and nothing less. One of these posts included assertions that I 'hated them'. Weirdly, they made this post while I was in the same room as them and they've never once approached me in person to discuss any issues. If there was any confirmation required by me (and there wasn't) that restricting contact with said blogger was the right thing to do then that was it.
Helvetica turned 50 today. I guess I'd never considered that fonts could be so young. I can't even begin to imagine how one goes about designing a font which doesn't exist. I have attempted to use Helvetica much to the annoyance of my colleagues all day today in order to celebrate it.
I've been trying to work through my feelings about the death of Jerry Falwell. I've grown up under the black cloud of this mans ministries and philosophies. I certainly can't get upset over Falwell passing away, I just wish that it meant the end of nasty ideas like his as well. I tried to find a video of Sandra Bernhardt singing/reworking of Sylvester's Mighty Real and Do You Wanna Funk? in which she rants about Falwell 'Fighting the Funk' but instead, you'll have to settle for the original. Get your swiggling hips out and shake it for every single person that Jerry doomed to hell in his lifetime.
My online life has been a bit odd lately as I've had a couple of different people point out a few different blogs that actually 'name' my screenname and talk about me in a not so positive light. These are public blogs of which I'm not 'friended to the person' so don't subscribe to their entries. I don't mind having critics and detractors. I'm a very opinionated and outspoken person so I'm quite used to those. What I do mind is the weird and slimey underhanded way they've gone about trashing me LOL. I see the posts as a weird cry of 'be my friend' and really all they do is push the person away from me more as I appreciate up-frontedness and honesty. Nothing more and nothing less. One of these posts included assertions that I 'hated them'. Weirdly, they made this post while I was in the same room as them and they've never once approached me in person to discuss any issues. If there was any confirmation required by me (and there wasn't) that restricting contact with said blogger was the right thing to do then that was it.
Helvetica turned 50 today. I guess I'd never considered that fonts could be so young. I can't even begin to imagine how one goes about designing a font which doesn't exist. I have attempted to use Helvetica much to the annoyance of my colleagues all day today in order to celebrate it.
I've been trying to work through my feelings about the death of Jerry Falwell. I've grown up under the black cloud of this mans ministries and philosophies. I certainly can't get upset over Falwell passing away, I just wish that it meant the end of nasty ideas like his as well. I tried to find a video of Sandra Bernhardt singing/reworking of Sylvester's Mighty Real and Do You Wanna Funk? in which she rants about Falwell 'Fighting the Funk' but instead, you'll have to settle for the original. Get your swiggling hips out and shake it for every single person that Jerry doomed to hell in his lifetime.
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