Shabu Shabu

So, this week I didn't really plan much.  I tried going to an NBA playoff game, but that obviously didn't work out.  I work about a mile from Staples Center and the game had already started when I got off work.  This was game 5 of the Western Conference Finals- Lakers V Nuggets.   I figured I could get there right around half time, and at half time I might be able to get in for 50 bucks or so. 

That was not the case.  Tickets were still going for $250, $200 and crazy things like that.  For one half of basketball. The cheapest I found was in the upper bowl for $100.  I didn't make it in.

My new thing for last week ended up being not too exciting.  It was

 trying a food I'd never had from Japan called Shabu Shabu.  The restaurant boils a pot of water on your table and gives you a tray of vegetables, noodles and your choice of meet.  We got beef.  It's really thinly sliced.  You take your sticks and put the meet in the boiling water for like 4 seconds and its cooked.  All you do is change the col

or from red to brown and that's it.  It's good food.  And probably healthy because the Japanese live to like 140.  

I didn't take this picture, but this is what it looks like.

I Killed Pedro

New Thing #2.

For week 2 of 52, I killed Pedro.  Then I ate him.  

I picked Pedro out of a group of about 15 of his closest peers.  I drove him back to my place and introduced him to my roommates.  They liked him, but agreed that he should be killed.  I put him back in his bag and stuck him in the fridge for a couple of hours.   Pedro is a lobster, or was a lobster.  Now he's dead.

Around 5:30, I figured I was getting a little hungry and it was time for Pedro to die.  I boiled a large pot of water and pulled him out of his bag.  I read online that if you rub his belly, it hypnotizes the lobster in order to make it easier to throw him into the pot.  That didn't seem to be the case with Pedro.  I rubbed his belly, and then when I tried to put him in his pot, he freaked out.  He wiggled all over and for some reason it caught me by surprise.  It shouldn't have.  I had a live animal in my hand.  Live animals move.  Live animals especially move when they get hurt.  Boiling water hurts.   Nonetheless, it freaked me out and I didn't get him in the pot on the first try.  

I did on the second try.  He was still alive for a couple of minutes.  

I felt pretty bad for Pedro, but I not bad enough to save him.  Had I saved him at this point, he'd probably would have been a vegetable for the rest of his life anyway.  If not that, his brain would be really slow and he'd no longer be able to do sudokus.  What's the point of life without a sudoku?  Remember 2004 and the presudoku era?  It sucked.  So, I figured it best to put him out of his misery.  I left him in the pot to boil a slow, painful, tasty death.

Pedro tasted good.

Board Game Movies

It  has been brought to my attention that they are making movies from the following board games:

Clue (again, that's fine)

Monopoly

Ouija Board

Candy Land

So, I've decided to take it upon myself and write the script for Hungry Hungry Hippos.

Fade In

Ext. Red Place

Four Hippos are sitting around staring at each other.  They wonder why they are not in a river in Africa. 

YELLOW HIPPO

I'm Hungry, Hungry.

GREEN HIPPO

Well, isn't that just the 

darnedest thing.  I was thinking

the same thing.

BLUE HIPPO

As for me, I Could do some

munching on a tasty treat.

PURPLE HIPPO

I Purple.

Some balls fly in from nowhere.  

GREEN HIPPO

Fantabulous, some balls!

They all munch on some balls.

Munch. Munch. Munch.

BLUE HIPPO

I love munching on these balls.

GREEN HIPPO

My balls are a bit spicy.  How

are your balls?

BLUE HIPPO

A bit salty, but at least

they are not blue.

YELLOW HIPPO

My balls are firm.  

PURPLE HIPPO

I purple.

They finish eating balls. 

GREEN HIPPO

You still hungry, hungry?

YELLOW HIPPO

No.

FADE TO BLACK.

That should save Hollywood some time.  Except to see this in a theater near you summer of 2010.