I don't get it.
Did they know everything? If so, what's their game?
Or are they just incompetent and didn't thoroughly investigate the candidate? Ever heard of Google?
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Only a few hours until my Shellfish Cookery class tonight.
And I've already called around to prepare for my holiday weekend. This Labor Day weekend I plan on laboring. I'm going to try making a broth:
http://www.ming.com/simplyming/showrecipes2004/recipe02282004.htm
Like the good Asian daughter that I am, I do understand the importance of learning my scales before I start studying a sonata.
Ranch 99 - the Asian supermarket - carries oxtail and pork bones (and I might pick up more mooncakes while I'm there). And I just talked to the friendly folk over at Jim's Fallbrook Market which got excellent ratings for their butcher shop. Plenty of veal bones, he said. |
One would actually have to have a career in order to change it.
But I'm on a sort of low simmer right now with regards to food. My adoration of Ramsay and Bourdain has inspired me to try a new recipe every weekend. Trout rillettes turned out nicely and makes a great lunch snack. Jamie Oliver's laksa soup was VERY tasty, but I wonder how authentic it is? Fish tagine with chermoula uses one of my favorite herbs: cilantro.
I'm planning to try out Ming Tsai's meat broth recipe this weekend. Part of the adventure is finding butchers and ordering up oxtail, veal bones, and pork bones. Carnivorous goodness.
I've also signed on to shellfish cooking class this Friday. The menu includes "Deep Fried Oysters - Octopus Paella (Korean Style) - Moules Marinieres de Provence (Steamed Mussels in a White Wine and Lemon Parsley Sauce) - Bouillabaisse – Bacon-Wrapped Butterfly Shrimp with Homemade Pesto." |
I shrug in its general direction. Fun pilot in Season 1. I love Joe Morton. But beyond that, this show ain't no BUFFY.
It doesn't help that we powered through Season 5 of THE WIRE before coming back to Season 2 of Eureka on DVD and the latter really doesn't compare.
Unless someone tells me that the show gets overwhelmingly better and begins to think beyond the quirky "Monster of the Week" format to pull in a compelling throughline, I'm taking the show off my Netflix. |
Ever since I discovered the swarm of bees making a home of the crevice in the wall between the house and the porch, I have had that sentence rolling around my head.
I'm covered in BEEEES!
Ah, the joys of home-ownership. I have to get rid of the bees because their honeycombs are dripping into my wall and all sorts of bad stuff can happen from that point. |
| » I heart Joss Whedon |
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He makes me cry. Seriously.
The last couple of days I've had various bits of Dr. Horrible songs going through my head. Morning before work, making coffee, finds my brain humming "A MAAAAN'S got ta do what a MAAAAAAN'S got to do." As I was cleaning this afternoon, I had "Bad Horse, Bad Horse" going through my head.
My god, I wish I was a zombie so I could eat Joss's brain.
Jul. 18th, 2008 @ 03:48 pm
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| » How do I feel? |
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Awesome.
Feb. 8th, 2008 @ 04:50 pm
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| » Am I proud of this? |
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Ask me after opening weekend's box office.
Seriously, the film is fun. And you can heap all sorts of blame on me for it. Bring it.
Dec. 21st, 2007 @ 01:42 pm
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| » The Fog of Wedding |
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So I'm engaged, and I found myself at my parents' place in Phoenix for Thanksgiving, my fiance asleep on the air-mattress in the living room. He, my mom, and I had just come back from the mall where we happened on this interesting artisan store which was different from all the other jewelry counters we'd seen that evening. In it, there was this large teddy-bear of a German man who showed us all sorts of wonderful artisan rings. Unfortunately, both the boy and I fell in love with this one:
Weissenstein ring
We hadn't actually walked in with an idea of how much we wanted to spend. We had just been browsing for styles and metals that worked for us. When we saw $2,000, we had a tacit understanding that we needed to sit down and talk about how much we wanted to spend. And 2K was WAY above our threshold.
But I LOVED that ring. I spent all night on my parent's computer searching for rings that might be similar. I became obsessed with artsy type rings. And before I knew it, it was 1:30am and I had just experienced my first Fog of Wedding.
The second happened the other day at work when I got lost in researching eco-friendly wedding invitations. Is it cheesy to do an Evite?
Nov. 30th, 2007 @ 06:28 pm
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| » "What About Dick?" - a new play by Eric Idle |
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Of interest to a few of you:
On Sunday evening, a staged reading in Hollywood of Eric Idle's new play included cast members Billy Connolly, Jim Piddock, Tracey Ullman, Emily Mortimer, Jane Leeves, Tim Curry, and Eddie Izzard.
As you can imagine it was a frightfully dull evening what with all the comic genius on stage and such.
Nov. 12th, 2007 @ 01:04 pm
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| » TeeVee: what makes it good? |
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Bionic Woman had all the components of a Show Grace Would Like, but I found myself bored and folding laundry. And by the end of the show, I was confused as to what the hell was going on. I am told my confusion is not necessarily the result of my distraction but possibly because the show was badly written.
And how surprised I was that, instead, I ended up riveted to Charlie Crews in the following hour of Life. This was a show which held little interest with me when I read the description.
So what makes a good show?
I've been asking myself this for a while. G and I stopped watching his Xena disks because Season 5 got unbearably bad. I'd stopped watching the show in its run a little before that either because I saw how it was progressing or because I'd moved to Texas. I'm making my way through Brisco County, Jr. and enjoying it, but also knowing that (of the Fox shows that premiered that year) X-Files was the break-out hit. The critics and execs all thought Brisco was going to be successful and that X-Files was going to die on the vine. How wrong they were.
And though I'm enjoying Brisco, it feels dated. I also went through some Remington Steele last year when the DVDs were released. And, though Pierce Brosnan retains a special place in my heart, Steele feels dated, too.
So I ask myself what makes shows like Buffy, X-Files, MASH, All in the Family still watchable? And why can't I seem to pay attention when I happen to catch an episode of Knight Rider or A-Team?
Sep. 27th, 2007 @ 11:11 am
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| » Here we go again... |
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Cover letter submission:
"During my plethora of experience in the entertainment industry,..."
Am I wrong to be snarky? Can you have a "during" with regards to a "plethora"?
Sep. 4th, 2007 @ 03:32 pm
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| » Quitting |
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So, we hired a 23-year-old girl who looked great on paper. She was very good at tasks you give her, but not so good at putting together the whole picture. My boss was trying to be nice, but after 4 weeks, the boss's "trying to be nice" became "not talking to the girl." I knew I was going to have to fire her.
But last week she beat me to the punch and just left. No word, nothing. All the post-its on the desk still arranged haphazardly and out-of-date. I had come back from a meeting and she was gone. I'd thought, maybe, out to lunch. But then after an hour had gone by, I got suspicious and called her. "I left, and I'm not coming back," was all she said. I was too flabbergasted to really chase up a real answer.
I knew why she left anyway. It wasn't the job for her. She's afraid of the boss. She's too young. Et cetera.
I am SOOOOO envious. Right now, at this moment, I'm having fantasies of just leaving. I won't have to be responsible for anything I've started and I won't have to be responsible for seeing anything finished. What a fantasy.
Aug. 29th, 2007 @ 09:04 am
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| » I am such a sap |
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I know I put on a lot of tomboy, but I am such a softie. Sometimes I surprise myself how much a sap I am. I just watched "A Man and a Woman" last night and fell in love with it.
I bet this guy is a sap, too... if you can decipher what he's saying:
I alternate between watching that clip of the surfer making sound effects and replaying the scene where Jean-Louis leaves the rally banquet and drives all the way back to Paris from Monte Carlo because Anne sent him a telegram that says, "I love you."
Aug. 28th, 2007 @ 06:02 pm
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| » Checking the surf report |
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Since I don't really understand site feeds and such, here's the surf report for today.
Jul. 15th, 2007 @ 07:45 pm
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| » What is wrong with this world? |
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1) I spent part of the weekend and most of Monday dealing with trying to get a clip of our movie to Larry King Live.
2) There seem to be several wars going on and US media is talking about Paris Hilton.
3) I have received numerous cover letters with people referring to their work experience assisting "Executive Producer's and Producer's" over the years. Misplaced apostrophes are quickly becoming my Number One pet peeve.
4) I don't know what this sentence means: "I have had the distinct privilege and opportunity to serve in a similar manner that you are looking for to the Governor of California, Academy Award nominated actresses Virginia Madsen and Debbie Reynolds, along with former heads of state and billionaires."
Jun. 27th, 2007 @ 01:45 pm
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| » It's just surfing. |
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Today's thoughts here.
Jun. 24th, 2007 @ 04:20 pm
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| » Jeff Zucker @ NBC Universal |
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I just wrote a letter to Jeff Zucker admonishing him for NBC's purported offer of $1m for an interview with Paris Hilton. It looks like all the news orgs are backing away from this interview because of the hullabaloo, but writing the letter makes me feel better anyway.
Jun. 22nd, 2007 @ 01:00 pm
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| » Zombies - they are among us |
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Yay, Baddolly!
Saw Fido on Sunday. Thought it was a hoot (it was somewhat thought-provoking as well). Was reminded again how much I like Billy Connolly.
Jun. 19th, 2007 @ 11:09 am
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