I started this off with breakdancing robots, but screw it...MOTHRA MONDAY

[kali921]

FLIST. So I had a big post planned about Palin's resignation and Robert McNamara's death, but that'll have to wait.

I so rarely get to use my King Ghidorah icon. Below you will see why I'm using it today.

But first! I got sucked into watching the new season of America's Got Talent last week

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[nefariouscory]

Maybe I should think about relocating - my Countries That I Want to Emigrate To Should Serious Shit Go Down list includes Norway (see Michael Moore), the Netherlands (see the Netherlands), and Costa Rica (small carbon footprint, vigorously green politics, happy). Who's with me?

Excellent. My plan is working!

I'd totally show you around and feed you Dutch delicacies that may or may not involve liquorice. I'm sure there are vegan stroopwafels and oliebollen :D

[kali921]

Ooooooh, keep tempting me! At this rate, I'll have to come visit. It's not like a fourth of my flist is Dutch or anything!

There is something so inherently wonderful about the word "stroopwafels." And yet most Americans are shamefully ignorant of that.

[nefariouscory]

Well, on behalf of the entire country (I checked, they're OK with it) I can say you're more than welcome. In addition to the food, we offer flower fields, canals, canal houses, cows, houseboats, history, coffeeshops, monkeys, bikes, museums, seals, mudflat hiking, thriving subcultures and, of course, fascinating words like stroopwafel.

[kali921]

The Netherlands will welcome me with open arms! Honestly, the only reason I've hesitated to come is because I have this weird thing: I do not speak Dutch, and I'm self-conscious about it in a way that, say, I'm not self-conscious about going to Japan and not speaking Japanese. I don't want to be the blundering idiot American, you know?

How's the Asian food there? I live on Asian food, what with being a vegan and all, so it's either that or whatever passes for the Dutch version of baked potatoes and steamed veggies. :-) Lessee, here in the States the Dutch are stereotyped as eating lots of butter cookies, chocolate, cheese (of course), and weird (read: delicious) sweet spreads on bread. IS THIS TRUE, MADAME? What is the scoop on Dutch bread spreads?!

Dutch Bread Spreads: LE SCOOP!

[nefariouscory]

IT'S ALL TRUE! Well, the bread stuff is. We enjoy lots of things on bread - marmelade, chocolate paste, cheese, ham, paté, peanut butter, various spreads, but also various kinds of sprinklesOur Regular All-Dutch Dinner usually consists of a) meat b) potato and c) veggies, so... prepared differently, but pretty similar to the US, if with smaller meat portions than common over there. Which is completely irrelevant to you. Moving on

I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE.

[kali921]

I SEE WHAT U DID THAR.

Oh, believe me, I know the Dutch are tres, tres cosmopolitan and sophisticated and that you all speak better English than I do and are generally all awfully cool people (like you!!). It's weird - I have no hangup about going places where I don't speak the language, but I have this intellectual glitch, this knee jerk cognitive flinch when I say to myself "self, go to Amsterdam already!" It's like I have this conception of the Dutch as being so awesome that to NOT speak your language is kind of an affront.

And yeah, I knew that Amsterdam had lots of Indonesian food - what with the history and all. Good to know that I can surf into grocery stores and stock up in Amsterdam the same way I can stock up here on Japanese, Cantonese, Tongan, and Basque delicacies at the corner store. But do you have umeboshi plums? They are the new staple of my diet! We can get umeboshi at corner convenience stores here in SF

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[nefariouscory]

Dude, we have our flaws, I promise! (Also, I have to return the love: I was in SF last year, and I love that city. So pretty and awesome! Also, there's one sushi restaurant in particular that I would kill to get back to, and I don't even eat sushi.)

I truly and honestly have no idea what umeboshi plums even are - I'm dreadfully difficult with food! I'm sure you can get it here, but... probably not at regular convenience stores, no

AAAAAAAAAAAAGHHHHHHHHHH

[kali921]

Mayonnaise?!

You people eat mayonnaise? Goyim food! Feh

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[nefariouscory]

Oh, yes, we love our mayonaise. We have it with our fries, our burgers, our frikandellen, and similar deep-fried food - although most of the time we use a less fatty alternative.

I am deeply, deeply amused that mayonaise disgusts you so. I was similarly freaked out when I saw my US friends eat it on their sandwiches. That's just not right. It doesn't go with bread, damn it!

Somehow, I like my vision of the Dutch collectively performing epic brinksmanship on the rest of the world every morning by being able to eat toast with sprinkles WITHOUT butter as the adhesive.

I'm kind of digging this image, too. Maybe I'll need to tell all my foreign friends about this and see how long it takes before it spreads the world as FACT.

You were out here last year? Wow, I did not know.I actually believe I mentioned it in your journal a few times! But yes, I was in SF for about two and a half weeks visiting my sister who was doing an internship there at the time. It was absolutely lovely. I also spent a bit of time up in San Rafael, as well as

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[kali921]

Oh my GOD, you did tell me that you were out here - I remember now. I'm SO sorry - next time, we'll definitely meet and I'll show you around! *burns with shame* Now I'm KICKING myself.

It'll be a little hard to pin down what sushi place you're talking about given that there are...probably five thousand sushi places just south of Golden Gate Park. *g*

I totally agree - mayonnaise on bread is wrong. But yes, Americans use mayonnaise primarily on sandwiches and as the stuff that holds chicken salad, potato salad, and macaroni salad together.

I am very amused that the wiki entry on fritessaus makes it clear that it is NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH FRY SAUCE, GOD FORBID.

You know, one thing I miss as a vegan: cinnamon toast. Toast with butter, cinnamon, and sugar. But that's why the Divine Construct created margarine!

And hey, where are you RPing nowadays? I've been meaning to ask you. And! And! Has your art been on television yet?! Isn't that coming up? (Forgive me, I'm behind on my flist.)

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[nefariouscory]

Haha! Don't worry. I'll probably be back there at some point, anyhow! And in the meantime, the vegan stroopwafels beckon!

You know, one thing I miss as a vegan: cinnamon toast. Toast with butter, cinnamon, and sugar. But that's why the Divine Construct created margarine!
Exactly! I'm not even vegan, and I love how many creative vegan alternatives there are to all kinds of food.

As for my RPing - I just had to leave the Nolanverse Batman game we talked about due to time constraints, but I'm still RPing at new-ish Firefly and Star Trek '09 games, all forum-based. They're a little quiet, but definitely fun.

And yes, the episode aired on Thursday night :) For my reactions and links, go here and here. There's currently an auction going on for my portrait which can be found here - it's currently at 450 euros and will end around this time tomorrow. Very exciting!

WOW.

[kali921]

WOW.

That portrait is stunning. Girl, you can draw. And I see that someone named "jan.slagter" was the "hoogste bieder" (highest bidder, one presumes) at 500 Euros, amirite?

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[nefariouscory]

Hee! Thank you muchly! :D

You're totally correct. The fun thing: Jan Slagter is the big head honcho of the network that airs that TV series, Omroep MAX. Not necessarily the same guy, but it'd be a pretty darn big coincidence if not. I'd been hoping to maybe get an e-mail or something after the auction ended, but it's been two days since it ended, so I guess not. Oh well!