Guh.
I feel like garbage today, and it’s all Glen’s fault. Glen is one of our downstairs tenants (Mel’s brother Al is the other) and he called for a cab this morning but forgot (for the second time) to tell them he was at the back/downstairs door.
And when I say “this morning” I mean at about 5:45, which for me is smack dab in the middle of my sleep cycle. The doorbell rang and I had to go check on it. Once I’m up, I’m up and I need to take some time to unwind before I can sleep again. It took me almost two hours before I could nod off. Even though I slept in a bit to make up for it, it feels like I haven’t really slept at all.
Guh.
A few friends have been talking about pizza lately so it was on my mind and while daydreaming I wondered why there were new types of pizza but I’d never heard of curry pizza. Of course, Google knows all and I got a few ideas but decided to make my own today and it was excellent!
Here’s the recipe. I didn’t measure exact amounts but hey, it’s pizza, you can eyeball it. Vegetarians can just replace the chicken with tofu or some other demon-spawned meat replacement.
2 Garlic Naan
Garlic Hummus
1/2 Medium Onion
2 Skinless Chicken Breasts
1/2 can Curry Sauce (we had Madras in the cupboard so I used that)
Mozarella
Pre-cook the chicken breasts — I have a “contact grill” that’s perfect for this. Pre-heat your oven to 425 degrees.
Spread hummus on the naan, dice the 1/2 Onion and sprinkle over the hummus. Dice the chicken breasts and place over all that, then cover with a moderate amount of curry sauce.
Now grate the mozarella cheese and cover the pizza. Put your curry chicken pizzas into the oven and cook until the cheese starts to bubble (I didn’t time it, sorry, so keep an eye out).
Mel found it tasty but thought it was a bit too spicey for her. I believe the curry sauce in a can may need to be “cut” with something else, possibly yogurt, but I thought it was great.
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You scored as Scientific Atheist, These guys rule. I’m not one of them myself, although I play one online. They know the rules of debate, the Laws of Thermodynamics, and can explain evolution in fifty words or less. More concerned with how things ARE than how they should be, these are the people who will bring us into the future.
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Militant Atheist
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Agnostic
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I joined MySpace a while ago simply so I could see some friends’ profiles there. But I never felt the site was useful other than that, and the autoplaying embedded music on everyone’s profile pages and atrocious layout kept me from visiting it much.
So when I got a Facebook invite I ignored it — it was more of the same, right? But on forums I kept seeing people talk about how Facebook was pretty cool and saw a few times “it’s like MySpace but doesn’t suck”.
It’s true. You can’t make your profile look like garbage, there are no embedded music players, you register with your real name and the user interaction and groups are really well done.
So here’s my Facebook profile.
So what’s it good for? Well, you can create user groups for discussion and organization, and I did: Road Hockey Vancouver. If you’re interested in getting some regular road hockey games in the Vancouver/Burnaby area going on, join Facebook and join that group. I’m itching to play without having to drive for an hour.
Apparently you can “hack” Guitar Hero 2 on your PS2 and use fan-made tools to put in your own songs with their own play settings, and a Thickets fan has done this for “A Marine Biologist” from the upcoming Darkest of the Hillside Thickets new album “The Shadow Out Of Tim”.
Here’s a video showing it off. Way cool:
I came out of the movie pretty dissappointed. But after a few days of digesting, I like it even less.
It’s too long, full of too much silly unimportant stuff, too much “telling” rather than “showing”, and once the big action sequences finally arrive I’d stopped caring.
Unlike other reviewers, I didn’t hate Mary-Jane in the previous movies, but hoo-boy did I hate her in this one. They should have cut just about every scene she was in, saved me half an hour (and two songs!) and tightened up the movie enough so it might have been enjoyable.
I give it a 5/10, and that’s generous. There’s a good movie in there somewhere, but it’s surrounded by silliness, a double-chinned Peter Parker, bad songs and a load of extra garbage.
I got in the car yesterday to do some errands, turned on the radio and there was Joe Rogan on CFOX! He’s one of my favorite comics, and every once in a while I’ll check out the Joe Rogan Website to see if he’s coming near here. This must have been a recent booking because I had no idea he was in town. I phoned Mel and she made online reservations for the late show at Yuk Yuk’s, and our evening was set.
The show was incredible. We got there fairly early, and even though people were already back to the fourth row we saw a few seats right up front and centre. I asked the guy beside them if they were taken and they weren’t, so we had the best seats in the house!
First up was Yoshi, a Japanese comic and friend of Joe’s. He didn’t seem all that confident but that made his incredibly dirty routine seem even funnier. Next up was Ari Shaffer who was really funny. Already I had a permanent grin on my face, even when the jokes weren’t being told.
Joe Rogan just blew the doors off. My face hurt I laughed so much, and mostly at new material I’d never heard before. I was grabbing my sides, covering my face and laughing out loud more than I have in years.
Afterwards Joe came out to mingle, sign autographs and post for photos. I got my “From The Belly Of The Beast” DVD signed, and he posed for this:
He’s got another two shows tonight. If I wasn’t having my housewarming, I’d go again!
Dave had the initial idea, but I’ve expanded on it. If you’ve seen any kind of commercials lately you must be aware that Spider-Man 3 starts Friday. Here’s the plan, which will mean we can go see it without many others who should go to a special hell – they tend to go to the evening shows.
On Saturday, May 5th, a big group of us — everyone’s welcome — goes to see Spider-man 3 at Silvercity Metropolis at the 3:30 matinee. We can meet at the theatre, or you can gather up at our place earlier and walk over together. I’m thinking we should go fairly early to get tickets and then maybe grab something to eat before it starts. Let’s say we leave here at 2?
After the movie, we all head over to our place — we’re only two blocks away — for our housewarming. Bring your own beverages, we’ll have munchies and fire up the Karoke Revolution Party and Guitar Hero 2. If the weather’s good we might even throw some stuff on the bbq.
Of course, this offer is only open to people I *know*, so random blog readers can stay off my property, wishing they could have so much fun.
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