Posts from — December 2007

I’m still in SA. I’ve been eating a lot and hanging out with the folks. I thought I’d link up some flickr pics though.

It’s a nice morning in San Francisco today. It’s still a bit chillier than what I remember for most winters, but hey, that’s okay. It’s not raining, so I’m happy. And of course, I’ll be in San Antonio this week so hopefully I’ll stay in the sunshine. I was worried I was getting a cold but (knock on wood) I think I’m okay.

Granted, I’m still feeling the effects of a great laid-back Friday night over at Kenny’s (the other Kenneth). He had a bunch of people over for wine and that boy pulls out some good stuff. There was a lot of good champagne and some great wines that I need to keep an eye out for (Sinister Hand, Malm?, Shady Lady, Don David Malbec). Plus they pulled out some nice older wines too. I was one of the few firmly camped out by the cheese and crackers.

Another great Bittman column: 101 Simple Appetizers in 20 mins or Less. I like the way the list is organized- “on bread/crackers”, “on toothpicks”, “on skewers”, “finger foods”.

More links:

More deer shooting protesting from people who don’t seem like they understand animal population control. I wonder if they’d feel the same if someone planted non-native eucalyptus trees in their backyard right before fire season.

My tumblr blog – I’m just saving links and tweets for now.

Law and Order:KFC

Congrats to the Bivings Report for their award.

An odd/interesting article about the history of Kwanzaa.

Sysadmin tries to axe Cali power grid (via tris)

Boing boing post about an Icelandic “shopping terrorist”.

Roger Ebert’s 10 Best Films of the Year article is up. I’ve only seen one of them though.

There’s a slight error in his #11 though, he’s mixing up Maria Bello and Naomi Watts – Eastern Promises vs A History of Violence, but that’s cool.

Ummm . . . Scat humor in the latest trailer for Alvin and the Chipmunks?

“Relax Dave, it’s just a raisin.”

Yeah, yeah- I know, a cheesy, predictable zombie movie. But you know what? Even though you know how a ride at an amusement park ride ends, you still ride it for fun.

28 Weeks Later is predictable and fun. Even if you don’t like fast zombies now and again you need to see a good zombie flick. It’s not as good as it’s predecessor, 28 Days Later, but it’s still fun.

One other note- watching a shaky-cam fast-zombie movie on your iPhone on the bus will make you want to hurl during action scenes.

Bbright Lights Film has a nice lil’ vid on Trajan from Goodiebag.tv.

Like he says, “we still have the floating heads”.

You know what’s good? Brunch at Tangerine, that’s what!

Zucchini latkes + bacon + poached eggs + hollandaise = mmmm

Brunch menu

Set your DVRs to the soon-to-be-rebranded CourtTV for December 25th for Tiger Team.

I know someone involved with the show and his peeps could use your feedback for CourtTV if you like the show.

Cory almost sent me into a wild rage by sending me this link (http://tinyurl.com/23kjr6).

As you’ll notice when it opens on the KCBS site, the url has a misleading title: “http://www.kcbs.com/SF-Considers-a-Tax-on-Caffeine/1348719 “, it’s actually the HFC they’re after. Damn nanny state.

Man, I thought I completely messed up and missed my window for buying a decently priced ticket to SA. But I found one yesterday, so I’ll be going to San Antonio on the 24th and will be there until the 31st.

Tamale time!