For those of you out there who are always game for trying new things, I feel you. Seeking to expand my horizons of ethnic foods, I have now sampled cuisines of these nations or peoples (requirements include that the restaurant or setting be ostensibly committed to providing cuisine in a particular style):

1. Navajo
2. Mexican
3. Cuban
4. ( Read more... )

centennial sportsplex ran a special1 on annual memberships yesterday only. i bought one. never have i been a new year's resolution type guy, but getting "ripped"2 is on the agenda. if anyone, regardless of skill level, would ever be interested in hitting the tennis court, holler at your boy.

cheers,

drew

1the price was right, for year-round ( Read more... )

7 lists of 7 (bold items kept from kinard's reponses. thanks!)

Seven things I plan to do before I die:
1. travel extensively, seeing places like angkor wat and macchu picchu2. own and maintain a working telescope, preferably a dobsonian, and spend time under the stars at least once a week ( Read more... )

::political post!!!::

how about this news item?

It's official: Americans can no longer take prescription birth control for granted. Yesterday, Monday, July 25, anti-choice representatives in the U.S. House made it clear that they support pharmacies that refuse to fill birth-control prescriptions - and that women have no right to birth control ( Read more... )

list 7 of your favorite songs of the moment in your own lj and then tag 7 others to do the same. and add a lyric of the song that best fits you at the moment.

(in no particular order)

1. peter and the wolf -- profokiev.
lyric: And now, imagine the triumphant procession: Peter at the head; after him the hunters leading the wolf; and winding up ( Read more... )

here follows a listing, messieurs et mesdames, of my ranking of each of j. k. rowling's fictional harry potter offerings. criteria are intangible but of primary importance are writing quality, coherence/cohesiveness, and enjoyability.

1. prisoner of azkaban -- has been my favorite since it was released. good balance of dark wizard goings-on as ( Read more... )

here's a fun way to practice mind-reading ability: try to talk to impatient clients in the bank drive-thru when the intercom system is broken. either unable to read or simply not thwarted by error messages, the lemmings continued to buzz in. how strange! how bizarre! such behavior begs me to ask why even bother having bank policies at all? let ( Read more... )

ooh, there's no bread, let 'em eat cake
there's no end to what they'll take
flaunt the fruits of noble birth
wash the salt into the earth

so they think that most likely marie antoinette didn't say "let them eat cake" but just the same, vive le pain! npr's susan stanberg crafted a lovely story on morning edition today about the revival of ( Read more... )

sure, it starts innocently enough...

you're comfortable in the burrow when a dozen old, short men with grizzled beards lumber into and take over your dining room...singing outrageous songs, drinking your best port, smoking your finest pipe tobacco, and worst of all, breaking your dinnerware. one lucky thirteen later, and its off on a quest with ( Read more... )

because so many of you, my dear but few readers, are in positions of intoxicating cachet and clout, i thought i would humbly request you put in a good word for me (i.e., secure for me the position) should you find yourself on a corporate ladder with an empty rung reserved for the ombudspersoni am quite qualified to listen to and resolve complaints ( Read more... )