Category Archives: Entertainment
Only in America!
There is a fight this Saturday night at the United Center: Brewster vs. Golota. Supposedly its the first professional fight in Chicago in some long amount of time.
So, I’m sitting around coding and we’re hearing some screaming from out on Michigan Ave. We hear stuff like that all the time being located where we are. Finally, my curiousity got the best of me, so I went to look out the window and see what it was. “Oh, dude, its Don King.” So we went down to what was the official weigh-in for the fight.
Sadly, all I had was the crappy camera in my Hiptop2/Sidekick2.
Also, here’s a meta-photo of Rachelle taking pictures of the event.
That’s her hands and camera on the left. I suggest checking out her much better photos in this post on chicagoist
You want a toe? I can get you a toe, believe me.
Fiction and reality merge again!
From The Big Lebowski:
Walter Sobchak: You want a toe? I can get you a toe, believe me. There are ways, Dude. You don’t wanna know about it, believe me.
The Dude: Yeah, but Walter…
Walter Sobchak: Hell, I can get you a toe by 3 o’clock this afternoon… with nail polish.
From reality:
‘The jig is up’ – Assocated Press
SAN JOSE, Calif. – The finger that a woman said she found in a bowl of Wendy’s chili came from an associate of her husband who lost the digit in an industrial accident, police said Friday.
There’s a source control joke somehere
There’s a joke in here somewhere about committing cheeseburgers, I’m just not sure what it is.
Maybe its time to move away from directv to comcast
10:59 Mark Notarus: comcast is suprisingly benign.
10:59 Mark Notarus: they haven’t pissed me off once since i moved to them last fall.
11:00 Mark Notarus: their modem is even more reliable than anyone’s dsl
Now that’s saying something. You don’t get a better endorsement than that from MARK NOTARUS!
11:00 Mark Notarus: no shit.
American Idolatry
I’m really amused that the people at votefortheworst.com are trying to game American Idol.
8 dollars of liquid beef jerky
In the Chicago Tribune’s food section today there was the article: When smoke gets in your beer, drink up.
The article goes on to talk about a few Smoke beers, including Aecht Schlenkerla Rauchbier which I have had always referred to as “Marzen smoke ale” even though Marzen is the type (if I remember correctly) of beer and not a brand name. Also, I don’t speak German.
Smoke is a two-faced friend. It’s great on barbecue, but lousy on our clothes after a night out. A smoky Scotch is one of life’s rare pleasures, but a smoked beer? Well, that’s a pleasure maybe best not left to the meek of palate.
The above quote pretty much sums up my feeling on smoke ales. I like them, I like them occasionally, but not all the time. At the establishment formerly known as Bud’s that was the last beer on the Centurions club. I think that was a good pacing for having one of the smoke ales, about once every 100 beers.
“It’s like liquid beef jerky,” said Chad Wulff, manager of The Map Room, a Chicago tavern that caters to beer connoisseurs. “And it’s fantastic.”
When I hit the beef jerky quote in the paper this morning, I laughed out loud on the train and scared my fellow passengers. The first time we tried to order an Aecht Schlenkerla Rauchbier at Bud’s our favorite waitress, Deena, warned us that it was “8 dollars of liquid beef jerky, are you sure?” Being adventurous we of course said yes, but that is an apt description. Its just great to see it almost word for word from someone else.
Schlenkerla, whose aroma B. United’s Web site describes as containing notes of “smoked sausage, bacon [and] carpet,” gets its smoky flavor from beech forests that surround the area.
You can never go wrong with bacon and carpet!
In any case, I recommend that any beer lover at least try a smoke ale on two separate occasions before you decide if you hate it or not.
Morn!
I have a few friends who work at Morningstar, Inc. here in Chicago. Today comes news of their IPO.
CHICAGO — Morningstar Inc., the research firm best known for its mutual fund data, on Monday filed to sell about $140.8 million of stock in an initial public offering.
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The stock will trade on the Nasdaq Stock Market under the symbol “MORN” when it goes public Tuesday.
Anyone who watched Star Trek: Deep Space Nine will remember Morn as that dude who always hung out at Quark’s bar.
Hmm, I think this is my second Star Trek related post of the day.
And people wonder why the US is the fattest nation…
It looks like someone has defeated the hamdog, which I’ve mentioned before, at least in terms of pure grossness.
Pa. Eatery Offers New 15-Pound Burger
The burger war is growing. Literally. Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub, which lost its crown as the home of the world’s biggest burger earlier this year, is now offering a new burger that weighs a whopping 15 pounds.
Dubbed the Beer Barrel Belly Buster, the burger comes with 10.5 pounds of ground beef, 25 slices of cheese, a head of lettuce, three tomatoes, two onions, a cup-and-a-half each of mayonnaise, relish, ketchup, mustard and banana peppers – and a bun.
Oh my god, you killed Star Trek! You bastards?
Orson Scott Card had a pretty good commentary on the current “end” of Star Trek.
His basic position is that it should have gotten better with subsequent versions of the show, but ended up getting stuck int he 60’s television mindset of keeping it dumbed down and not making it “good” science fiction. I can’t say I disagree with him as it certainly has not improved with each spinoff.
Here’s my favorite line from the article:
Nimoy was the only charismatic actor in the cast and, ironically, he played the only character not allowed to register emotion.