Over the weekends
I never did write about out Memorial Day weekend. I do love those 3-day weekends. Never had those working in newspapers. Never had "normal" weekends working in newspapers. People use to say, What? You have to work on Christmas? My answer would be, The newspaper comes out 365 days of the year.
Anyway, M.D. weekend:
Saturday we went to a chalk chocolate festival with our friends Phil and Lisa. There was lots of sidewalk art. That was pretty cool. There wasn't a whole lot of chocolate. Those PR people made this festival sound much more rockin' than it was. But we had fun walking around, and it was a gorgeous day. They did have some biscotti ice cream sandwiches, which were free. Those were pretty good. Those people kept trying to give us free samples. We ended up at a little wine bar and did some tastings. The tastings were very generous. In Napa and other places they give you like 2 sips. These tastings were about half a glass each--and I had 4! After that we headed to Triple Rock for dinner. Yum! Then back to our place. We had TiVo'd an episode of "The Daily Show" with Mini Kiss and Tiny Kiss feuding. So we had to show Phil and Lisa. Anyway, Mini Kiss and Tiny Kiss are hilarious.
Sunday we met our friend Dan and his girlfriend, Zoe, (who were here from Oregon) for drinks at the Round-up in Lafayette. Afterward we headed to his parents house for a cookout. Excellent dinner. We had fun chatting with Dan's family. And of course hearing all the hilarious stories about Dan. (Sorry Dan.) We loved meeting Zoe, too. Dan's parents are great hosts. It had been years since I had seen them.
Monday Curt and I went to "The Da Vinci Code." That was pretty good. I love Tom Hanks. The only thing that sucked was there were no surprises for me. Since I had read the book I knew everything that was gonna happen.
This past weekend we didn't do a whole lot. Getting ready for our big trip. We take off this coming Saturday. Woo-hoo.
We did watch "Jarhead." Excellent movie. Very sad. But an interesting look at that war. Jake Gyllenhal did an excellent job. We also watched "Capote." That was good. But it was kinda slow. And I never could figure out why Truman lied to Perry about not really have much of the novel done or have a title. Any thoughts?
Anyway, M.D. weekend:
Saturday we went to a chalk chocolate festival with our friends Phil and Lisa. There was lots of sidewalk art. That was pretty cool. There wasn't a whole lot of chocolate. Those PR people made this festival sound much more rockin' than it was. But we had fun walking around, and it was a gorgeous day. They did have some biscotti ice cream sandwiches, which were free. Those were pretty good. Those people kept trying to give us free samples. We ended up at a little wine bar and did some tastings. The tastings were very generous. In Napa and other places they give you like 2 sips. These tastings were about half a glass each--and I had 4! After that we headed to Triple Rock for dinner. Yum! Then back to our place. We had TiVo'd an episode of "The Daily Show" with Mini Kiss and Tiny Kiss feuding. So we had to show Phil and Lisa. Anyway, Mini Kiss and Tiny Kiss are hilarious.
Sunday we met our friend Dan and his girlfriend, Zoe, (who were here from Oregon) for drinks at the Round-up in Lafayette. Afterward we headed to his parents house for a cookout. Excellent dinner. We had fun chatting with Dan's family. And of course hearing all the hilarious stories about Dan. (Sorry Dan.) We loved meeting Zoe, too. Dan's parents are great hosts. It had been years since I had seen them.
Monday Curt and I went to "The Da Vinci Code." That was pretty good. I love Tom Hanks. The only thing that sucked was there were no surprises for me. Since I had read the book I knew everything that was gonna happen.
This past weekend we didn't do a whole lot. Getting ready for our big trip. We take off this coming Saturday. Woo-hoo.
We did watch "Jarhead." Excellent movie. Very sad. But an interesting look at that war. Jake Gyllenhal did an excellent job. We also watched "Capote." That was good. But it was kinda slow. And I never could figure out why Truman lied to Perry about not really have much of the novel done or have a title. Any thoughts?
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I was wondering when you were leaving. Have a wonderful trip! I can't wait to hear all about it.
Biscotti ice cream sandwiches? I NEED more information. Were they, well, just biscotti with ice cream between them? Weren't they difficult to eat? I've been making homemade biscotti and with ice cream they would be amazing!!!
I think Capote like stringing Perry along. He liked the attention and adoration and he thought that Perry would stop liking him, and sharing stories, if he knew the truth.
Yes, Jarheads was really good. The scene with the oil was really disturbing.
Yea, that scence was disturbing--with the oil. I just couldn't believe it.
Ahh, that makes sense about Capote. At times I really had trouble understanding him.
OK, the biscottis were wide and flat. There was chocolate and then a slab of ice cream in the middle. They were just like ice cream sandwiches--except the "bread" part was biscotti. I am not a huge biscotti fan, but these were quite good.
YUM!
Not a huge biscotti fan? I'll have to send you some of my homemade double chocolate (with chocolate chips and toasted almonds) biscotti and convert you. Casey absolutely devours it when I make it and has been begging me to make it but now that it is 112 degrees I dread the thought of turning on the oven. I wonder if I could make them on the grill. Kate said that her mom used to make her b-day cake on the grill. Hmmm??
Lately I've been making homemade pizza on the grill and right now I'm roasting little red and yellow potatoes on the grill (with garlic, olive oil. s/p). They turn out just as good as when made in the oven!
I've always wanted to go to a chalk festival.. no idea why.
And I also want to see Jarhead, but I've really heard little about it.
My take was that if Capote had disclosed his portrayal of Perry TO Perry - it might have altered how Perry perceived himself. Then Capote never would have been able to get at the pure human being that was under the exterior shell.. especially if Perry felt he was being villified.. Look at his reaction to the mere title of the novel.
He didn't want to believe he was a cold-blooded killer, didn't want to talk about the events, didn't want to remember any of it himself.
But I could be wrong.
That's a good take on it, too, Holli. I think you and Erica are right. I guess I just didn't think deeply enough about it. I was just mostly confused why he was lying to Perry. But I also had a hard time with the movie, it was slow and Truman was so hard to understand.
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