Comic for Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

Posted: 7:25 am, Tuesday, March 25th

I have no real reason for posting this, but I know there are a few fervent Back to the Future fans in the room. I actually have not seen the original Back to the Future, start to finish, since the eighties. I've seen Part Three like eight million times, for some reason, but I think I've seen the first one maybe three times, and I've seen the second one exactly once. (I'd say once too many, but to this day, I would kill a third of the people I know for one of Marty's hoverboards.)(Who makes the cut?! Who lives? Who dies? Find out next time!) Anyway, this article makes me interested in seeing Back to the Future again, as it sounds like quite the documentary of its time.

To this day, I cannot believe that the highest grossing Star Trek film in the U.S. was the one with the freaking whales. I also can't believe The Motion Picture grossed higher than Khan. Also, there is the fact I'm bringing this up at all. Can't believe that, either.

I celebrated the end of Lent by downloading Zelda: A Link to the Past for the Wii the other day, and now I feel like it's 1992 all over again. Being fourteen at the time, and not in command of my own consumerism, I never owned a Super Nintendo. Turns out it was a good call, but I don't think my parents foresaw a day when I could buy these games for eight bucks - which is still eight bucks more than I *have* to pay for them, since I could always just nab the ROMs if I didn't want to play them on the big-screen. Anyway, enjoying the sixteen-year old game, even if I'm not so sure about the logic of some of its puzzles.

This is one of my all-time favorite This American Life segments - so much that I built a strip around it last year - with John Hodgeman, the PC from the Apple ads, starring from about minute 8 to minute 20 or so. Highly, highly recommended for a good hearty laugh today. Oh, geez, and there's a Sarah Vowell segment, too. Great episode all around. Depressing final segment, though, now that I got that far..

Speaking of a good laugh, I wish my Goddamn laptop was still actually mobile, because I'd liveblog the Sox game this morning. Not that I'd actually have anything funny to say, but I'm sure something funny would come out of my exhausted keyboard-pounding. A six oh-five start... Good times.

I made two killer dishes late last week, both of which were of course taken off the internet, because I may be a decent cook, but am no chef myself and am content to just mimic what more adventurous kitcheneers achieve. This pasta, cauliflower, walnut and feta dish from Smitten Kitchen blew me away. And this smoked salmon pasta has already been rated as one of 2.0's favorite dishes-that-I-make. Both are highly recommended.

Alright, to bed with me, so that I may rise early and watch baseball.

bullfrog

Secretary -- Tuesday, March 25 2008, 07:25 am

Thanks for solving for just one night of "what are we having for dinner TOMORROW?" I'm thrilled to have a reason to break away from broccoli - although I am mildly afraid of pasta with cauliflower - but I'll give it a shot!

The cauliflower was actually super good. And I'm not a cauliflower fan, either. (I'm sure this is no surprise to anyone from ND, when my one food group was meatncheese.)

Whew, 6-5 in 10. I can't deal with a whole season of that.

Cauliflower >>> Broccoli, in my humble opinion.
It's really all about the walnuts in that dish. Speaking of which, the Carmel, walnut & upside down banana cake sounds even better.

My HTML skills fail me again.

Linky: http://smittenkitchen.com/2008/03/caramel-walnut-upside-down-banana-cake/

Holy crap! I checked that movie gross website of yours and found something even more senseless. Of the Star Wars franchise movies, Phantom Menace grossed the most money worldwide and Empire Strikes back came in last! Are you kidding me?? What the hell??? I am really, truly disturbed by this.

http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/series/StarWars.php

I can't explain Empire coming in last, but Phantom Menace makes some sense to me. The first movie after, what, fifteen years of increasing fandom, the re-releases, the internet making it really easy for sci-fi fans to get together and bitch and hype themselves up, and, most importantly, no one knew how fucking terrible it was going to be. More than that, a lot of people wouldn't let themselves register how terrible it was at first and saw it multiple times in the theater (I was one, although the second time was in the $2 theater at ND).

Still no explanation for Empire coming in sixth, though.

No one wants to see the Dark Side of the Force win?

My co-worker just sent me this http://youtube.com/watch?v=McCpBsH9cOQ&feature=related

If you're still deciding on the Springsteen stuff (yeah, I've been a slacker lately on reading this timely). I would skip both Wild, Innocent. It's pre born to run and it shows. Get Rosalita as a single, it's pretty much the only thing worth listening to on the cd.

Darkness is ok. It's similar to born to run, but i don't think it's as interesting.

I'm also not a hardcore Bruce fan, so take it with a grain of salt. I do love me some Rosalita though.

I'd have to say "The River" is my favorite Boss album of that era. 2 cd set has some great tunes on it. If it's available, I highly recommend the live album called "Hammersmith Odeon London" (or something like that). Great versions of "Lost in the Flood" and "It's Hard to be a Saint in the City".

I love cauliflower-- thanks for the recipe tip. It is also wonderful with curry, in case anyone is interested.

Well remember a couple of things. The gross's dont appear to be ajusted for inflation which would certainly change the answers. It also doesnt appear to take on DVD or VHS sales, just box office. I imagine this would change things significantly.

Best springsteen album is: "Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J."