Buddy of mine got tickets for us to see Daniel Norgren tomorrow night. Should be damn good. Hadn't heard of him before he told me, and so when I went on Youtube to check him out I was shocked and had to call him, asking what the hell was wrong with him. Turns out I got the name wrong, and searched for Daniel Norberg. The difference is staggering. Luckily this dude seems pretty awesome.
Yes, holy hell yes. Especially if I get it at a restaurant or make it at home and the rice is still warm. I don't know man, it's been "in" for quite a while, at least near me. The sushi explosion in the town I went to high school in was in like 1998 or 1999, the grocery stores still sell it and most of the restaurants are still open.
Solid spot with a decent happy hour during the week. Next time your girlfriend is up, if you guys want to do Japanese but not sushi, hit up Moto-I about a block away on Lyndale. Their food is good-to-very-good depending on what you get, the bar is awesome (they only have MN beers on tap), and they have one of the best rooftop patios in the city. It's also the only sake brewpub in the world outside of Japan.
The only thing that makes me look forward to winter in Ottawa is summer in Ottawa. It's hot as balls, traffic is fucking ridiculous*, and I happen to live near a church that thinks it's a good fucking idea to have outdoor service every day and they have horrible amateur singers singing through absurdly loud PA systems. Seriously, they have signs up saying "QUIET - SANCTUARY" and I'm all "QUIET - PRIVATE FUCKING RESIDENCE". *for some reason, residents of Ottawa love to dismiss Toronto with "there's too much traffic". I am at a loss for how people can keep saying this. Driving in Ottawa is awful, and taking public transit is rarely a viable alternative. Tomorrow I leave for France for two weeks. I'm climbing Mont Blanc, doing a bike tour through Burgundy, and going to try to impress American girls in Paris with my French. Awwww yeah.
Moto-I was much better than expected. I got quite plastered there a few months ago. Ever been to El Meson? I really want to head there next.
No kidding. The ironic part is that i live in the suburbs of NY. And we are already down with the PBR thing. All the middle-aged guys on my street drink it out of 16 oz. cans, hipsters be damned.
Middle-aged guys stop drinking it when hipsters drinking it "ironically" drives the price up. Middle aged guys drink shit beer because it's dirt cheap, not because they're trendy assholes.
Here in Charlotte I can buy a silo of PBR for 5.50 at my local bar, silo of Coors is 3.50, fucking hipsters drove the price up because of this "ironic" bullshit. I just want cheap beer.
I, like most of you, am anti-wedding, and I've managed to avoid no less than a dozen by being out of the country. The ONE I get railroaded into attending was an exhibition of "How to Orchestrate a Shit Fuck Sandwich: The Wedding Guide for Morons". Never again, Catholicism, never again. I nearly became a single man because of that wedding, by virtue of a hatchet. This is awesome: <a class="postlink" href="http://www.cracked.com/blog/why-journalism-screwed-and-obsessed-with-dinosaur-sex/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.cracked.com/blog/why-journal ... osaur-sex/</a>
When we got married, our wedding was at 3, reception at 6. The wedding itself was 45 minutes, and I spent most of that rolling my eyes at how long-winded the pastor was. He had promised is no more than 30 minutes, but then he started talking and realized how much he liked the sound of his own voice. The brides maids were laughing at me because I kept rolling my eyes, and they could tell I was giving him the "wrap this up" look, and he wasn't getting it. The reason for the delay was photos in between, and about a 30 minute drive from the wedding to the reception. We planned an hour for photos, then off to the reception hall. We arranged it, however, so that the reception hall and bar were open at 4, so while the official reception didn't start until 6, people still went straight there and started to get their drink on. It didn't "start" until 6 because that's when they were doing the whole "introduce the wedding party" schtick. The last wedding I went to was here, in Indiana, followed by a reception at a Chinese restaurant in Chicago's Chinatown. This wouldn't have been SO bad, except it was February, and it was snowing/sleeting all night, making the roads a fucking hazard. The drive there took an hour and a half (usually a 45 minute drive), and when we got there, there was literally no place to park, and it took us another 20 minutes to find a spot. The drive back took even longer. During the drive back, I saw four cars spin out at various times, and I never got above 30 miles an hour. We spent more time in the car than at the wedding and reception combined. The reception did have a fantastic 18 course meal. Not a typo or exaggeration. 18 course meal. We could only stay through 14 courses (about 2 hours), though. Did I mention the marriage involved a very, VERY well-to-do Chinese couple (both pharmacists), with very well-off parents (doctors)? Holy shit was that an elaborate reception, with real (and awesome) Chinese food.
I know this was brouht up last year with someone from South Carolina I believe. But honestly, how the fuck do you meet people when you move. I just graduated and took a job about an hour away from where I went to school and really just don't understand how to find people that I want to talk to and hang out with. Oh well, I'll just drink alone. Edit: Just to clear it up, I'm not from South Carolina, just remember it was someone there
Because Chinese buffets are the shit, man. <a class="postlink" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=eighteen+course+chinese+meal&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-USfficial&client=firefox-a&channel=fflb" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">https://www.google.com/search?q=eightee ... annel=fflb</a>
Some of yall will get this. I just started playing Xenogears for the first time on an emulator. Its half nostalgia, half new, I like that feeling. The beer don't hurt none too bad neither. Just go places that look cool to you. Strike up a conversation with the bartender or someone near you. They don't know you, so who cares what they think? Just be you, and it will be alright.
You might want to put the beer down once you get to the part that corresponds to Disc 2. That story gets all kinds of fucked up.
Aside from never getting to play Earthbound, never finishing Xenogears was always a big video game/nerdy regret. I think my buddy has his copy still so I may have fire that up sometime.
Earthbound (Mother 2) was great, although it you can play Mother 3, it's even better in my opinion. Xenogears' story was kinda hard to follow on the first playthrough, but Xenosaga? Good lord. Who thought that one up? BLUE DOG YES! PLAY LUNAR! LUNAR IS AWESOME!
Of course the first lady in 6+ months to smile coyly at me had to be sporting a stained NASCAR t-shirt with holes in the bottom sans bra, fraying jean shorts, and a shockingly bright raggedy ann perm I know I need to lower my standards, but I would seriously prefer to not risk copulation with someone where the resulting situation could lead to me living with 7 children in a single-wide trailer selling squirrel skins online for extra income. I mean sure if I hooked up with her I could cook up some killer Deliverance roleplay scenarios in our bedroom that would only be 5 feet from where we cooked up or meth, so that means I could do some kinky Breaking Bad shit too. But the thirty seconds of praying that the condom doesn't break (because I firmly believe that there are no atheists thrusting in and out someone who would not even consider an abortion) would probably not be worth it in the grand scheme of my life. Someone please tell me that deciding to spend 3 years of the prime of your life in a wasteland of any sort of social opportunity romantic or otherwise was the smart thing to do.