Oooh, I made a filter
Max Vasilatos
interface is the weirdest thing I ever saw. I think proceeding from one
message to the next is CTRL-U or something counterintuitive like that. I
can't be bothered to reorganize my brain every time I come over here. But I
think I actually caused it to blank out those evil weevils, at least for a
bit.
Shifty eyes... hoping I'm not jinxing it...
Werewolfy
Boo.
Werewolfy
Arne Adolfsen
> Hey you guys! See, I use Windows Mail in Vista,
But I live on Vista! Oh, I get it.
> and I swear to god the
> interface is the weirdest thing I ever saw. I think proceeding from one
> message to the next is CTRL-U or something counterintuitive like that. I
> can't be bothered to reorganize my brain every time I come over here. But I
> think I actually caused it to blank out those evil weevils, at least for a
> bit.
>
> Shifty eyes... hoping I'm not jinxing it...
Well, I guess it's time for another Indian newspaper
article! (Clap, children! clap!) And yes, all
typos and grammatical errors are original to the
newspaper, not to me.
Dateline: Cerritos, CA
Headline: India Cafe Adds Spice to Cerritos Food
Court
Inset photo: a tawdry looking cafeteria with the
inspiring caption "The well done up contemporary
interiors of the restaurant"
"The huge food court on South Street outside
Cerritos mall, added the flavors of India to its
smorgasbord of global cuisines in October when India
Cafe threw it doors open for business. Located just
adjacent to the Japanese restaurant Kabuki, India
Cafe is riding on the wave of the increasing
popularity of the Indian cuisine in the Southland.
"For owner Alok Goel, who relocated from Northern
California about four years ago to the Southland,
the restaurant is an opportunity to 'fill a gap in
the taste and variety of Indian food and the
ambience which was missing in the local eateries
here.' As he explained, in Northern California the
quality and variety of Indian food available is of a
different level. This is what we aim at bringing to
Indian food lovers here.
"Goel describes India Cafe as a 'fast casual Indian
restaurant focusing on North Indian cuisine.'
"Though Goel does not have experience in the
restaurant industry, he was willing to risk it,
seeing it as an excellent opportunity in a great
location. As he says, 'I don't know how to cook.
All I can make is a cup of Indian Masala tea!'"
The article goes on for lots more. Which I'll type
in here should there be any demand. I have to say
that the Indian food I've eaten in Northern
California has been less than spectacular. But
there is an Indian restaurant in North Berkeley that
the bf and I ate at a few times and enjoyed quite a
lot. What was it called? Something from an E.M.
Forster novel, I think. Ajax, or something.
Arne
Max Vasilatos
news:4B312502...@earthlink.net...
> Max Vasilatos wrote:
>> Hey you guys! See, I use Windows Mail in Vista,
>
> But I live on Vista! Oh, I get it.
Hi Arne my sweetie pie, your posts are making me fat.
Lee Rudolph
Rod Williams
> ... I have to say
> that the Indian food I've eaten in Northern
> California has been less than spectacular. But
> there is an Indian restaurant in North Berkeley that
> the bf and I ate at a few times and enjoyed quite a
> lot. What was it called? Something from an E.M.
> Forster novel, I think. Ajax, or something.
Ajanta, on Solano Avenue. Yummy.
Michael Siemon
<c57ec76b-f9ba-44b5...@m33g2000pri.googlegroups.com>,
Rod Williams <rjw...@gmail.com> wrote:
Agreed. Very good.
Arne Adolfsen
All the old-timers are coming out of hibernation!
Ajanta restaurant in Berkeley, named for the painted
caves outside Bombay which feature in Mr. Forster's
novel called, umm, something about India, is indeed
quite splendid. But something tells me that the bf
and I are maybe a little too sophisticated in our
tastes food-wise when it comes to Indian (and
Chinese and Thai) food. The last time we ate at
Ajanta we asked for the tails to be cut off the
jumbo shrimp. You'd have thought World War 3 was
imminent given the waiter's nervous glances towards
the kitchen. And then when we mentioned that the
channa masala just wasn't as spicy as we had asked
for when we ordered it, oh my holy mother of god!
Arne
Michael Siemon
Arne Adolfsen <adol...@earthlink.net> wrote:
Hey, I didn't say it was perfect... AFAIK, there is
no such thing for Indian food in the Bay Area. Your
Passage may vary.
Max Vasilatos
> All the old-timers are coming out of hibernation!
Well YEAH! And Jess is off wandering around in the forest as usual...
[rolls eyes]
Robert S. Coren
>Ajanta restaurant in Berkeley, named for the painted
>caves outside Bombay which feature in Mr. Forster's
>novel called, umm, something about India, is indeed
>quite splendid.
No doubt, but why would a restaurant named after the Marabar caves be
named Ajanta? (Or did Forster fictionalize the name?)
--
---Robert Coren (co...@panix.com)------------------------------------
"Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get." -- R. A. Heinlein
Joe Fineman
> Hi Arne my sweetie pie, your posts are making me fat.
What would Freud say to that?
--
--- Joe Fineman jo...@verizon.net
||: This sentense contains three errrors. :||
Arne Adolfsen
[re: Ajanta Indian restaurant in Berkeley, about
which I had a few and really, really, really minor
reservations]
> Hey, I didn't say it was perfect... AFAIK, there is
> no such thing for Indian food in the Bay Area. Your
> Passage may vary.
Oh, just go to San Jose and environs. There are
dozens and dozens of Indian restaurants there, many
of them quite good to excellent. I would rate
Ajanta in the really, really good to excellent
range.
So the bf and I decided on Thai food for lunch
today. The restaurant we went to, Renu Nakorn, is
all the fucking way out in Norwalk which is almost
two hours by train for me each way and an additional
twenty minutes by car from the train station to the
restaurant on top of that. But great -- no,
spectacular -- food is worth the trouble as far as
I'm concerned. They specialize in Issan food, the
cooking of northern Thailand right on the Burmese
border. You've got to like spicy food to eat this
stuff, believe me. We started with chicken satay, a
safe choice, but theirs is the best I've ever
eaten. I suppose I'd appreciate a peanut sauce that
wasn't quite so smooth in texture -- I like it a bit
chunkier -- but it was great anyway. Then on to
shrimp pad thai with giant shrimp. It was sickly
sweet as pad thai always is, but it was superb. And
then the Tom Yum Issan hotpot. Oh my heavens. A
spicy hot and sour and tart lime juice soup with
huge chunks of catfish, Scotch bonnet chiles, okra,
cherry tomatoes, green bell pepper slices and who
knows what else. Lemongrass. I could write a
sonnet if not a book about it.
The only Thai restaurant in the LA area that
compares to Renu Nakorn in my opinion is hours
closer to me: Jitlada. (Some website just named
them the best restaurant in LA for 2009 in a top-ten
list.) They specialize in southern Thai cuisine and
if you think Issan food is spicy you have no idea
what spicy means. The bf and I once ordered their
spicy seafood pad thai. It was so spicy I swear I
bled from my ears and eyeballs. Believe me, my
tolerance for hot peppers and chiles is really,
really high, but this was just about too much for
me. I ate it anyway, wiping blood from my eyes, but
oh my God. It was painful, but then isn't one of
the ideas about consuming capsaicin products the
pleasurable pain they inflict? And that was a
pleasurable pain.
When I got home I drank a bottle of Hawaiian Punch
(no joke!) and watched the YouTubers thing for a
while and was just blown away by videos of the tango
dancer Gabriel Misse. I had no idea that aggressive
masculinity could be so, umm, hot. Well, maybe I
did. But his ferocity is, well, ferocious. And
masculine. And hot as hell.
Arne
Arne Adolfsen
> In article <4B31CB01...@earthlink.net>,
> Arne Adolfsen <adol...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> >All the old-timers are coming out of hibernation!
> >Ajanta restaurant in Berkeley, named for the painted
> >caves outside Bombay which feature in Mr. Forster's
> >novel called, umm, something about India, is indeed
> >quite splendid.
> No doubt, but why would a restaurant named after the Marabar caves be
> named Ajanta? (Or did Forster fictionalize the name?)
The Google is your friend. Yes, Forster's Marabar
caves in "A Passage to India" was a fictionalized
name for the Ajanta caves outside Bombay, famed for
their ancient Buddhist wall paintings and near rapes
by natives of English maidens (in Forster's heated
imagination, anyway).
"Only connect." Or was that Conrad's line instead?
Oh, my mind is a jumble.
Arne
Lee Rudolph
>The Google is your friend. Yes, Forster's Marabar
>caves in "A Passage to India" was a fictionalized
>name for the Ajanta caves outside Bombay, famed for
>their ancient Buddhist wall paintings and near rapes
>by natives of English maidens (in Forster's heated
>imagination, anyway).
>
>"Only connect." Or was that Conrad's line instead?
I believe it's a Facebook trademark.
Conrad's line is "Mistah Usenet, he dead."
Lee Rudolph
Frank McQuarry
> "Max Vasilatos" <vasi...@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hi Arne my sweetie pie, your posts are making me fat.
>
> What would Freud say to that?
Sometimes a post is just a post?
JTEM
Joe Fineman <jo...@verizon.net> wrote:
> "Max Vasilatos" <vasila...@gmail.com> writes:
> > Hi Arne my sweetie pie, your posts are making me fat.
>
> What would Freud say to that?
Oh, please, Freud saw Arne in *Everything*!
Robert S. Coren
Arne Adolfsen <adol...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>"Robert S. Coren" wrote:
>
>> In article <4B31CB01...@earthlink.net>,
>> Arne Adolfsen <adol...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>> >All the old-timers are coming out of hibernation!
>> >Ajanta restaurant in Berkeley, named for the painted
>> >caves outside Bombay which feature in Mr. Forster's
>> >novel called, umm, something about India, is indeed
>> >quite splendid.
>
>> No doubt, but why would a restaurant named after the Marabar caves be
>> named Ajanta? (Or did Forster fictionalize the name?)
>
>The Google is your friend. Yes, Forster's Marabar
>caves in "A Passage to India" was a fictionalized
>name for the Ajanta caves outside Bombay, famed for
>their ancient Buddhist wall paintings and near rapes
>by natives of English maidens (in Forster's heated
>imagination, anyway).
Thank you. Yes, Google is my friend, but the Parker Principle (Now, I
suppose, the Burlingham-Parker Principle) also applies.
>"Only connect." Or was that Conrad's line instead?
>Oh, my mind is a jumble.
It's Forster's, but from _Howards End_.
--
---Robert Coren (co...@panix.com)------------------------------------
"Then roll in confectioner's sugar." -- Last instruction in the
_Settlement Cookbook_'s recipe for Rum Balls
Joe Fineman
With the power to fatten?
--
--- Joe Fineman jo...@verizon.net
||: Which is worse -- not knowing what you did wrong, or not :||
||: knowing what you did right? :||
Lee Rudolph
>Frank McQuarry <fmcq...@earthlink.net> writes:
>
>> Joe Fineman wrote:
>>> "Max Vasilatos" <vasi...@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> Hi Arne my sweetie pie, your posts are making me fat.
>>>
>>> What would Freud say to that?
>>
>> Sometimes a post is just a post?
>
>With the power to fatten?
You must remember most
A post is just a post,
A pie is just a pie,
The fundamental things apply
As Freud flies by.
Lee Rudolph
Ellen Evans
Arne Adolfsen <adol...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>"Robert S. Coren" wrote:
>
>> In article <4B31CB01...@earthlink.net>,
>> Arne Adolfsen <adol...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>> >All the old-timers are coming out of hibernation!
>> >Ajanta restaurant in Berkeley, named for the painted
>> >caves outside Bombay which feature in Mr. Forster's
>> >novel called, umm, something about India, is indeed
>> >quite splendid.
>
>> No doubt, but why would a restaurant named after the Marabar caves be
>> named Ajanta? (Or did Forster fictionalize the name?)
>
>The Google is your friend. Yes, Forster's Marabar
>caves in "A Passage to India" was a fictionalized
>name for the Ajanta caves outside Bombay, famed for
>their ancient Buddhist wall paintings and near rapes
>by natives of English maidens (in Forster's heated
>imagination, anyway).
Or perhaps in the maiden's heated imagination. Which is kind of the
point.
>"Only connect." Or was that Conrad's line instead?
Nope.
--
--
Ellen Evans If my life wasn't funny, it would
je...@panix.com just be true, and that's unacceptable.
Carrie Fisher
Arne Adolfsen
>
> In article <4B331627...@earthlink.net>,
> Arne Adolfsen <adol...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> >The Google is your friend. Yes, Forster's Marabar
> >caves in "A Passage to India" was a fictionalized
> >name for the Ajanta caves outside Bombay, famed for
> >their ancient Buddhist wall paintings and near rapes
> >by natives of English maidens (in Forster's heated
> >imagination, anyway).
> Or perhaps in the maiden's heated imagination. Which is kind of the
> point.
You know, I never thought of it that way. Do you
think the narrator of "The Good Soldier" might be
deceitful or something, too? I thought there was
something fishy going on there in that story but I
didn't want to blame it on FMF.
> >"Only connect." Or was that Conrad's line instead?
> Nope.
My deleted jocular sentence that my mind is muddled
might have clued you in to the fact that I know
"Only connect" comes from Jacqueline Suzann's
sublime "The Love Machine". (Ever see the movie of
that? Alexis Smith in steamy-hot girl-on-girl
action? Wowsers!)
So the bf and ex-bf lunch/afternoon whatever is all
set. Now it's what to do with the ex on the day
before New Year's Eve (he's desperate to spend as
much time away as possible from his parents in their
retirement village in Orange County). He said he
wants to see "Aviator", which I understand is a big
blockbuster movie starring Leonardo di Caprio and
Angelina Jolie in a sort of "One Million Years B.C."
meets "Star Wars" meets "Coming Home" but in a 3-D
mish-mash that all sorts of eminent critics have
raved about (Pauline Kael: "There's been nothing
better in the movies since Georges Melies lay down
his camera for the last time"). Question: Why
hasn't anyone remade the greatest film ever:
"TRON"?
Me, I want to see Meryl Streep in "It's Too Damn
Difficult!", but the ex thinks that's a film only
for women of a certain age. I'm of a certain age, I
guess, but I agree that I'm not a woman of that or
any other age. But what about "White Rabbits", he
asked. From his description -- Fascist cannibal
German children doing mean things to people -- I
dunno; can't I just watch the recent CNN-footage of
that at home wearing my Snuggies with a bowl of my
own freshly-popped popcorn and real melted butter in
my lap instead? And I say to forget it about George
Clooney's remake of "Up" -- I've already seen him
(or someone very much like him) tie balloons to his
house and float all over the place. Who wants to
see that twice?
In any case, before whatever film we see, I'll be
sure to drag him to downtown LA's premier man-date
lunch spot -- Wurstkueche -- where we can order from
about 40 Belgian, German and American
beers/ales/whatevers on tap; 25 or so Belgian,
German, American and English beers in bottles; a
small variety of wines; and a whole lot of imported
English and Canadian and Australian and French and
etc. soft drinks in bottles. Those to wash down
grilled sausages like alligator-rabbit and
duck-bacon in addition to the usual types of
Germanic and/or Slavic sausages you can find
everywhere, but these are <drumroll> gourmet. And
their frites really are to die for. Look the place
up on the Internets if you don't believe me
(wurstkucherestaurant.com). I've been there half a
dozen times and I can vouch for them, even though I
don't really like beer or sausages very much in the
first place and I'm not a paid spokesmodel for
them. But I should be.
Happy New Year!
Arne
Ken Rudolph
> Question: Why
> hasn't anyone remade the greatest film ever:
> "TRON"?
They are: TRON LEGACY ( http://us.imdb.com/title/tt1104001/ ) Be
careful what you ask for.
>
> Me, I want to see Meryl Streep in "It's Too Damn
> Difficult!", but the ex thinks that's a film only
> for women of a certain age. I'm of a certain age, I
> guess, but I agree that I'm not a woman of that or
> any other age.
I'm not of the female persuasion; but I am definitely of a certain
age, so I actually liked IT'S COMPLICATED, good script and Alec
Baldwin is a scream. So sew me.
But what about "White Rabbits", he
> asked. From his description -- Fascist cannibal
> German children doing mean things to people -- I
> dunno;
Michael Haneke being customarily enigmatic. But beautifully so and
never boring. Somehow I missed the cannibalism...must have been the
black & white photography. I also missed the proto-fascist parable.
I'm so darn literal. Guess I have to go see it again.
> And I say to forget it about George
> Clooney's remake of "Up" -- I've already seen him
> (or someone very much like him) tie balloons to his
> house and float all over the place. Who wants to
> see that twice?
UP IN THE AIR...darn good script well executed. Sorry, can't even
bash George Clooney. And Anna Kendrick and Vera Farmiga are worth
the price of admission all by themselves.
As for the diCaprio-less AVATAR, by all means miss its sensory
pleasures. You can help send Cameron to the poorhouse by boycotting
this film. That'll teach him.
Why not just go see NINE AND A HALF? Then you can complain about
all its many flaws, the terrible score and the mediocre singing
(except for Fergie).
--Ken Rudolph
Arne Adolfsen
> Why not just go see NINE AND A HALF? Then you can complain about
> all its many flaws, the terrible score and the mediocre singing
> (except for Fergie).
Fergie? The galumphing Duchess of York? She can
sing? I had no idea. I thought she was too busy
peddling frozen low-calorie dinners and producing
mediocre movies about Queen Victoria, who, as we all
know, is the most scintillating of biographical
subjects, to do a musical film.
I actually saw the original Broadway production of
"Nine" way back in the Gold Rush era, and you want
me to watch the all-not-singer, all-not-dancer
Painloppers "Look at my Fat Ass!" Cruz trash the
memory of the truly sublime Anita Morris in that
role? And what were they thinking when they cast
Judi Dench, a brilliant actress without any doubt,
in the role so memorably performed by former Folies
Bergere star Liliane Montevecchi? Does Judi Dench
strike any of you as a retired reed-thin,
six-foot-tall showgirl commanding the stage in a big
musical number naked except for a g-string and spike
heels and a few strategically placed ostrich
feathers and diamond bracelets?
Ken, you really should read Anthony Lane's review of
the movie "Nine" in The New Yorker. It's really
mean and pretty funny, although I disagree with him
about the quality of the musical as it was
originally presented -- he's honest enough to say
that he never saw it nor wanted to, and he states
that "8 1/2" is just about the best movie ever
made. I've never hidden the fact that I think
Fellini was, at best, tiresome and for no real
reason. My favorite director from that era is, of
course, Antonioni, whose films can be exhausting but
always *for* all sorts of reasons.
I think we're going to see "White Rabbits" about the
Fascist cannibal German kids who do mean things, so
I'll have to take pills that make me change size and
shape and see hookah-smoking caterpillers first, I
guess.
Arne
Arne Adolfsen
> I actually saw the original Broadway production of
> "Nine" way back in the Gold Rush era, and you want
> me to watch the all-not-singer, all-not-dancer
> Painloppers "Look at my Fat Ass!" Cruz trash the
> memory of the truly sublime Anita Morris in that
> role?
I just watched an amateur video recording of "A Call
to the Vatican" on the YouTubers thing with Anita
Morris (with assists from Raul Julia and Karen
Akers) which seems to have been a pre-Broadway
rehearsal since the stage setting there really isn't
what it was on Broadway when I saw it. The sound and
video are really pretty awful, but you can get a
sense of what a magnetic dancer/acrobat/singer Anita
Morris was. And then I watched the chiffon-swaddled
Pennypushers "I've Got a Hot Ass! Just Look!" Cruz
slide down ropes and "sing" and "dance" the same
number on another YouTubers thing and I just wanted
to cry. We've gone from Glenn Gould's final
recording of the Goldberg Variations to Lady Gaga in
under thirty years. And so of course then there's
this Cruz travesty. I should die now.
> And what were they thinking when they cast
> Judi Dench, a brilliant actress without any doubt,
> in the role so memorably performed by former Folies
> Bergere star Liliane Montevecchi? Does Judi Dench
> strike any of you as a retired reed-thin,
> six-foot-tall showgirl commanding the stage in a big
> musical number naked except for a g-string and spike
> heels and a few strategically placed ostrich
> feathers and diamond bracelets?
In another YouTubers thing both Liliane Montevecchi
and Anita Morris are being interviewed on some NYC
morning show about both of them being nominated for
Tony Awards that year which were to be announced in
a couple of weeks from then (which means it was
probably recorded a couple of months after I was
there to see them on stage) and they show a bit of
Liliane Montevecchi doing her big number in "Nine".
I'd forgotten that she was playing around with a
huge black ostrich-feather boa during it, but
still...does that strike you as a likely character
for Judi Dench to perform? I mean, come on. How
about Henry Kissinger as Blanche DuBois? And GHW
Bush as Stanley? Set it to music and Rob Marshall
will sign on in a heart-beat.
Arne
JTEM
Ken Rudolph <ke...@nospamkenru.net> wrote:
> Arne Adolfsen wrote:
> > Question: Why
> > hasn't anyone remade the greatest film ever:
> > "TRON"?
>
> They are: TRON LEGACY (http://us.imdb.com/title/tt1104001/)
> Be careful what you ask for.
I hate to say it,but if I was given something like
$30 million of other peoples money, and a chance to
be a Hollywood producer, I'd re-make "Arthur."
Not that the original wasn't absolutely fabulous,
but, let's face it, the male & female leads were
too old for the parts (especially Moore), and
Gielgud's character was entirely over stated.
I'd also play up the Santa Claus angle -- turn it from
"Watch as we try to make this a Christmas movie" into
a genuine metaphor...
I mean, what's to spend money on? You're doing a
lot of shooting street-side, sure, but other than
that, what's to spend money on?
Shit, the shopping scene & restaurant scenes are
going to pay for themselves (can you say "Product
Placement"?), you might even manage that with the
cars these days... and you could probably fenagle
a little something with the dating...
That leaves the church scene. Everything else is an
interior scene that could be done on any sound
stage, or even some old home that hosts banquets,
receptions and proms.
Stay away from big name talent (the movie is your
high-priced talent) and even $30 million is over
kill.