did i already retract my criticism from last year about the l-word only being soft-core porn? i wanted last season this year when they reran it before the new season started. there are some ridiculous sex scenes, but they actually do have substantive characters and interesting issues. so, if you are some die-hard l-word fan and were mortally offended, sorry.
anyway. i have it running in the background as i "work from home." (this is actually not so distracting, since i watched it last night at hamburger mary's with mimi and some other friends. you know, this whole kit/ivan storyline? it's troubling. and it's not just troubling because you have some straight woman falling in love with a drag king. i don't have a problem with that. but: 1) ivan is not hot. if you were a straight girl, and you were falling for some chick who dresses like a guy, even if the basis of that relationship were that he treated you so well, don't you imagine that he'd also have to be hot, so that you would forget you were falling for a girl? i don't know. ivan is not hot enough for me to believe that he is pushing sexual boundaries for someone (clearly, hot as a woman, but not hot as "ivan." and, uh, "ivan a. cock"? please). crying game this is not. 2) ivan is now all mad that kit saw him when he was, well, a her, since kit walked in and saw her getting out of the shower, fastening her boob binding thingy, and while at it, also so much as fondled the strap-on that had been lying on the counter. okay. FIRST, ivan has already appeared to kit as a female. remember last season when ivan showed up as a chick and they were hanging out and then ivan only went back to being a dude when kit was like, sorry, i'm straight? and SECOND, THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU GIVE SOMEONE YOUR KEY AND SAY, HEY, COME AROUND ANY TIME YOU EVER WANT! oh no! i can't believe she came in using THE KEY I GAVE HER!!!
oh, and on a different note? i hate tanya. i know everyone is suppose to hate tanya, and she's been that "let's all hate her she's so annoying" character since she first came on, but i can hardly watch her on screen without retching. ew.
early this morning there was a fire nearby (around 9th and san pedro), which apparently sent plumes of smoke into the air and was the reason for much of the murkiness around downtown this morning. just now a guy was in the kitchen looking at the burnt building through binoculars. he offered them up to me so i could take a look. i did not ever figure out which place was on fire, but DAMN i am all dizzy and nauseous now. :(
i made more popcorn in the work microwave today. like last time, i used the popcorn sensor. however, this time i was popping a new, smaller bag (orville redenbacher now sells popcorn in bags that are only 1 serving size). when the microwave stopped, i felt sure that the time had not been enough to fully pop the little bag of popcorn. so i started it up again.
my office has smelled like burnt popcorn for the last 4 hours. i'm somewhere between feeling sick and getting a high off of it.
i made mango slices last night. i was worried that they would get too dry, or be too thin, because i didn't want to make them as crunchy as the apple and pear chips, but i had to leave them in for at least 8 hours because i don't have time to dry these things while i am awake.
they came out paper thin. apparently i have to slice them much thicker to make them like the yummy mango slices you can buy at chinese grocery stores.
i bought liquid smoke last night. tonight i'm making turkey jerky! or maybe not. mimi and i are going to go see chicago tonight at the pantages, so i might not have time. but i made the marinade last night. my fingers were all smoky. it smelled good, but i have my reservations. it just seems weird to pretend something is all smoked when it's not.
anyway. yay! thus far i've dehydrated 4 batches of apples, 1 of pears, 1 pineapple, 3 mangos, and a few pounds of beef. and i've only had the damn thing a week. :)
we watched queer eye for the straight girl again last night. this only reinforced my earlier issues with it, which i may or may not have posted about, i don't remember and am too lazy to go back and check.
anyway, it sucked. the "gal pal" boys are just not as witty as the fab five, and they try way too hard to make a shitload of gay jokes. we get it. you're gay. if you want to make a joke incorporating this information, fine. but saying you're gay alone will not make you funny. you're on tv. you should know this. (and yes, i understand that many of us do this at some point. i did this when i was coming out. but that was my excuse. i was coming out. these boys don't appear to be coming out. as evidenced by robbie running down the street screaming that he is gay through an orange cone being used as a megaphone.)
also, the girl sucked. she had no big problem. she had no upcoming, momentous event. she had no self-esteem issue. she was studying for the bar and moving into a new house with her new husband, she wanted new and expensive shit. at the end of the show, she looked no different than she did when she began (as demonstrated by the fact that her husband and family only noticed her house when they walked in), she didn't seem particularly grateful, she didn't seem to have learned anything, and she got a lot of new furniture.
since the show is apparently hurting enough for people to make over that they will even take greedy, annoying people with nothing to prepare for, i have decided to try to get my co-worker on the show. she is more put together and fashionable than the other women being made over, but a lot nicer and would not be as irritating to watch.
blah.
my sister just sent this to me:
YESTERDAY WAS GROUNDHOG DAY AND THE STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS. AS AIR AMERICA RADIO POINTED OUT, IT WAS AN IRONIC JUXTAPOSITION:
"One involves a meaningless ritual in which we look to a creature of little intelligence for prognostication and the other involves a groundhog."
i got my food dehydrator. i made two batches of apples over the weekend. they are not as dry as i would like -- i want them to be crunchy, but i think that you can't make them crunchy like store-bought apple chips because those have oil and stuff. at any rate, they taste much more apple-y than store-bought, and i have become obsessed with them.
last night i made beef jerky, and then overnight i did a pineapple. the pineapple fit into a sandwich bag when it was done (in rings). they were both good, but i am not a jerky connoisseur, so i am getting input. needs to be spicier and dryer next time. my co-worker said that it is almost as good as store-bought jerky. he tried to downplay and diplomatically say that he is used to the artificial seasonings and all that, and that he just wasn't used to this more "real" flavor.
haha.
i bought some mangos over the weekend that have been ripening. maybe i will do those tonight.
i need to buy more trays. it makes me stingy to know that 8 hours of drying yields, like, 10 pineapple rings.
anyway. i'm all tired and in a food coma from a birthday lunch at yang chow's today and want to go home. then i can also put some mango in my dehydrator. yay!
i received this from a co-worker today:
Beer can save your life. That's the moral of an odd story from Slovakia. While driving his Audi in the Slovak Tatra mountains last week, Richard Kral was buried in an avalanche in the Slovak Tatra mountains. Luckily for Kral, he had 60 half-litre bottles of beer in his car because he was headed on vacation. Over four days, Kral tirelessly pounded brews and urinated out his window to melt the snow until he was able to escape. This really puts all those silly "tastes great/less filling" arguments into perspective.
a couple weeks ago i ordered a nesco american harvest gardenmaster food dehydrator. the tray liners i ordered with it have already come, but not the dehydrator itself.
i want it to come, dammit. grrr.
i am all anxious to suck the moisture out of a big batch of apples, and then maybe some beef, and pineapple, and stuff like that.
no banana chips. i hate them. though maybe they would be okay thinner.
maybe i should go get some coffee.