Rachael Ray

The Food Network personality I love to hate does it to herself.

"I love bubbles." - Commenting on a cocktail.

"It's sweet and salty at the same time." - Commenting on Tandoori chicken.

misc

apparently, i have a lesbian tattoo...Birkenstock tan line on my foot.

off to bed i go.

i can't find my charger for my ipod. the tragedy. no really.

semantics

Map of Tassie = Female genitalia/pussy

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.tas.gov.au/tasmaniaonline/about/tasmap-600.gif&imgrefurl=http://www.tas.gov.au/tasmaniaonline/about/map.asp&h=692&w=569&sz=43&tbnid=YkdoIra2l0UolM:&tbnh=139&tbnw=114&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dmap%2Bof%2Btasmania&start=2&sa=X&oi=images&ct=image&cd=2

Public Reading

I don't know what I find more disgusting, seeing a grown man read Playboy while eating a slice of pumpkin cheesecake at Barnes and Noble, for fucks sake or the Kung Pao Chicago that tasted nasty and felt raw at Ken Kee's in Chinatown Chicago? Apparently, if you don't feel like eating turkey on Thanksgiving, the Chinatown and probably Devon are the places to go. Apparently, if you're a 40 year old man with weird tie-dye pants on, Barnes and Noble is way better than your toilet.

My (hand) Canon is dead. The digital one. (I love Pulp Fiction.) I'm sorta glad that my camera is out of commission. I have a reason to get a smaller, cooler one. A Canon, of course. But shit, where am I to find $300? Takes away from the travelling fund. Maybe I was smart enough to get the protection plan? I have to look for the paper work. All I can see on the screen are purple waves.

"Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to celebrate this thing called life..." Oh, Prince. If you adore Kevin Smith, look up "Prince and Kevin Smith" on YouTube. It's a clip from Kevin's college guest speaker circuit. He has a good story about the Prince Documentary.

bad PR for nurses

The White Stripes
Get Behind Me Satan

"The Nurse"

The nurse should not be the one who puts salt in your wounds
But it's always with trust that the poison is fed with a spoon
When you're helpless with no one to turn to alone in your room
You would swear that the one who would care for you never would leave
She promised and said, "you will always be safe here with me"
But promises open the door to be broken to me

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/whitestripes/thenurse.html

ben and rivers

I really love Ben Harper. The lyrics, music, funk, rock...love it. I listen to Diamonds on the Inside regularly yet I haven't gone out to try any of his other stuff. Maybe next week.

http://www.benharper.net/?page=bio&id=1

As for my other music crush, Weezer, Rivers Cuomo especially, I ate up all of Video Capture Device: Treasures from the Vault 1991-2002. With and without commentary. He has or had a serious Asian fetish as showcased in Pinkerton. This came up in conversation a few weeks ago. (I myself sounded like a freak spewing my in dept knowledge of Rivers.) Across the Sea starts off with "You are and 18 year old girl, who lives in a small city in Japan." If you're familiar with
the rest of the song, you have to laugh at the fact that he validates that everything is ok since she's 18 years old. Then there's "God damn you half-Japanese girls, do it to me every time," in El Scorcho.

Gosh, this talk of Weezer is making me want to put Ben Harper to bed and listen to my Weezer.

Additionally, Pinkerton came out when I was a freshman in college. I need to get a life. Or I need to get new good music. ]
Any suggestions?
I saw some dude named Ben Lee a few weeks ago. Claire Dane's ex-bf. He didn't do it for me. And talk about self-promotion.

Amen Omen.

Massive Change

You still have til Dec 31st to see the Massive Change exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art. Admission was yesterday/Tuesday...I think...I hope...otherwise, I just stole from the museum. There is hope in turning around all the crap we're doing to our planet. We do need to make a massive change b/c as of now, we are taking a massive shit on our earth.

http://www.mcachicago.org/exhibitions/exh_detail.php?id=53
http://www.massivechange.com/

shopping

Is it odd to be a 28 year old female and think shopping is such a vapid activity that it makes my skin crawl and I want to run far, far away? It's not Michigan Avenue that makes me feel this way. It's a signature of Chicago. Tourists please come and pay the 10% tax. Lincoln Park, specifically, Armitage and Halstead, really tests my gag reflex. It's the activity of shopping and the people. I pity the men dragging behind their female companions. I really do. It hit me the other day while walking around with people I like. And the time before that, I walked around with my sister who is a fucking badass
and fun to hang out with. Those times I thought, hot damn, that was a total waste of my existence...I'm out of here.

vanilla face

watched Borat last weekend. initially, i decided that it was too
painful to watch all over again, but after calling several friends
"vanilla face" all week, i think there's a chance i could see it
again. especially with people who haven't seen it but want to...the
news articles i've read about the response to the movie have basically
mentioned the same thing. the one that stands out is about the frat
boys who are suing the production company...if you're an asshole
drunk, you are probably an asshole sober. and you have the same
asshole views regardless of sobriety.

btw, my mom overheard my sister and i talk about Borat...she mentioned
that it means something like "fuck you" in Tagalog.

whine

To Ms. Korea 2006, homey, and manho, it was fun tonight. robin left too soon.
i'm wasted.
bolused myself with 240ml of filtered water.
see you at brunch
see you by the Pixis
see you at the museum

i detest rachael ray.

prose before ho's

you're supposed to raise your kids

I'm listening to W. Bush right now. Apparently, we have spoken and
want partisans to work together, etc...um isn't that what you should
have been doing anyway!!!!!

bootifool

Hilarious.  Times Select is free this week.  If Saddam's being sentenced to death right before midterms, then by golly, let Times Select be FREE!!!

Everyone says that Karl Rove is a genius. Yeah, right. So are cigarette companies. They get you to buy cigarettes even though we know they cause cancer. That is the kind of genius Karl Rove is. He is not a man who has designed a strategy to reunite our country around an agenda of renewal for the 21st century — to bring out the best in us. His "genius" is taking some irrelevant aside by John Kerry and twisting it to bring out the worst in us, so you will ignore the mess that the Bush team has visited on this country.

 

http://select.nytimes.com/2006/11/03/opinion/03friedman.html?em&ex=1162962000&en=6941bfa9e3aad086&ei=5087%0A

 

Vigils

http://www.goodmantheatre.org/season/Production.aspx?prod=50

Watched this performance this afternoon. Liked it. $15 a ticket is a
steal. The Owen, the smaller theatre at the Goodman, made me think
Shakespeare in Love and theatre in the round. I'm not a theatre
person so this might sound dumb. What the actors did on 1 set, with
the lights, music, etc, was cool. You really get a glimpse of what
the widow's frequent thoughts and regrets and their frequency are
like.

dark humor

I heard something like this the other night:

"When I see an amputee about to be hung, I can't help but start
yelling out lettters."

NYC Marathon

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/03/sports/sportsspecial/03lance.html?em&ex=1162702800&en=1ecc004e7f8a446c&ei=5087%0A

Kinda seems unfair that Lance will have former marathon champions
Alberto Salazar and Joan Benoit Samuelson, and Hicham el-Guerrouj with
him.

Good luck tomorrow. Weather should be great.

coffee and phlem

Whoa, I just realized I didn't have coffee at work today. I guess I didn't have a chance to think about it when something from the previous shift is kinda fucked up and you have to fix it... and another kid's mom is crying about something.

Voice is hoarse. But it's so sexy. Minus the phlegm, of course.

My neck hurts and I don't have full ROM. And my good foot (compared to my post-marathon condition) hurts! WTF. Maybe I need to go back to the sports medicine doctor. I really enjoyed putting on their
disposable examination shorts...i swam in them.

Watched Marie Antoinette the other day. Great. I managed to squeeze in 2 naps during the flick. It did have a dance scene just like any teen movie. Not impressed. Lost in Translation is definitely S. Coppola's best movie. But it's interesting to present the teen queen this way. I was impressed that they showed a woman painting M.A.'s portrait with her kids...Le Brun is her name...one of the few female
painters at the time.

One more thing about Halloween. So, I dressed up as Mrs. Mia Wallace from Pulp fiction...red mark on my chest, syringe, wig, etc. However, the majority of the people from the party didn't get it. It must have been before their time. The older people, like me and the doctors, got it though.