So true

“A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her.”

Helen Rowland quotes (English-American writer, 1876-1950)

 

 

Hurricane Bud

For the first time, a hurricane has come along bearing my name.  Hurricane Bud is just off the coast of Mexico and expected to make land fall as a Cat 2 storm.  I don’t know how to react to this.  As a human I don’t want hurricanes to cause damage, destroy things, or kill people.  But the storm carries my name.  I want things with my name on them to be the best, the biggest, the strongest.  I want people to remember Hurricane Bud.  That is only natural, right.

 

Here is to hoping it makes landfall in an unpopulated area or something.  No wait.  I hope it comes aground as a cat 5 storm and wipes out a terrorist cell and then drops down to severe thunderstorms immediately after.  And while it is brewing it sends some righteous waves to the surfers of Southern California.  I think I could handle it being remembered that way.  “Remember those swells from Hurricane Bud?  They were the biggest waves I have ever surfed!”  But, you know, still takes out a terrorist cell. 

 

Abortion and Child Support

Don’t ask me how I came to this conclusion or what we were talking about, just take it on my word that I had an epiphany in the middle of a conversation with my wife.  In the not to near future, a guy will use the abortion defense to relieve himself of paying child support.  He will argue that it was her body and her choice and nobody asked him what he wanted to do and that he should therefore not have to pay a penny for the woman’s decision. 

 

I mean, it is a natural progression.  This guy’s case will have considerable weight if he can prove that he was not in a continuous relationship with the woman during conception and that he was against the birth during pregnancy.  Abortion laws have established that it is the woman’s body and therefore her choice on what to do.  The man has no right to input.  That guy that got her pregnant during that one night stand is nothing more than a donor.  I am sure that this landmark decision will get all kinds of women’s groups angry when it happens.  It will possibly turn the abortion argument, the child support argument, or both on their heads.  I am actually surprised that I have not heard of it happening to this point.  The guy could legitimately make an argument that he didn’t even care as it was her body and, therefore, her decision. 

 

I am not saying any of this is right or wrong.  I am not making an opinion on abortion or paying child support.  I am simply taking the two seemingly not very related topics and looking at them together and reaching a conclusion. 

 

 

 

 

We went to Wasabi at the Natick Mall this weekend because my wife has been dying for some sushi lately.  We all thought the conveyor belt was an interesting and novel idea and we were at the mall, so why not.  

How it works-Sushi is prepared en masse and placed on a conveyor belt that circles the entire restaurant.  You pick up whatever you want and eat it.  The plates are color coded to the price of the plate.  Prices range from $3-$6 per plate.  The server adds up your plates at the end and brings a bill.

First off, the wait staff was very attentive.  Unfortunately that was the only plus.

The sushi wasn't great.  The salmon and shrimp nigiri I had was okay, but the tuna nigiri was horrible.  Think limp rubbery tuna served at room temperature.  It sucked.  My wife had grabbed a plate from a different location on the conveyor belt and was similarly disappointed.   The plates I got were $3.50 for the salmon and $4 for the shrimp and tuna.  The prices don't sound that bad but that is for two pieces of nigiri.  So, I was at the $12 mark and still very hungry.  Everyone had similarly priced plates of equal number, so it got kind of outrageous quickly.  We all stopped eating even though we were all still hungry.

I had green tea.  Now maybe coming from an Asian household I have unfair expectations on something such as green tea that is meant for the general, majority non-asian public.  But, the tea was just kind of week.  It almost tasted like barley tea.  I know, right.

If you have no idea what good crisp sushi tastes like and just want to go in and give it a try, you may like it.  If you like sushi, you want to give this one a  pass.  I have noticed that fresh sushi is very expensive in Boston, more so than Nashville, which is ironic.  The best place I have been too is the Japanese place in H-Mart.

As I type this my wife is in the kitchen slicing up some tuna she go from the grocery store.  a sneak taste has already resulted in a much better experience

Who is the fairest of them all?

  “Who is the fairest of them all?”  This is the driving question behind the Snow White story.  The queen is the fairest only to be overcome by the blossoming Snow White.  This year there are two Snow White movies coming out. 

  Mirror, Mirror stars a well past her prime and not really ever truly gorgeous Julia Roberts.  Snow White is played by Lilly Collins who looks like she may have been born fairer that Julia Roberts.  I mean that daily mirror ritual should have set off alarms ten years prior.

Snow White and the Huntsman is the other movie that will come out and it stars Charlize Theron as the Queen and from what I have seen from the previews, she is smoking in this movie.  Snow White herself though is played by the incredibly average Kristen Stewart.  Yeah, I mean Charlize is going to need to be pretty old to be passed over in beauty by Kristen Stewart. 

I don’t trust movies to get source material right.  They absolutely suck at it.  But here you have absolutely horrendous casting decisions that compromise the premise of the story.  In one, you have a queen that could rightly only be called the fairest if everyone else in the kingdom was either below average in looks or pox scarred.  In the other you have a Snow White that will never compare to the queen in beauty and will therefore never rightly be a threat.  I mean, Charlize would ask the mirror and when it said Kristen Stewart was the fairest, she would likely send off for a new mirror as hers is obviously defective.