Wednesday, December 27, 2006

Things I Learnt this Christmas

"Merry Christmas" must be a perfectly fine holiday salutation after all if it is used freely and without abandon in Beverly Hills, CA.

If you are going to make mince pies from scratch, at least do them the justice of buying real ice cream (and not Edy's Slow Churned, 1/2 the fat, Caramel Delight) to eat them with.

Green Bean Casserole is much better made with less than a 1/3 of a cup of milk and an extra can of cut green beans.

A Christmas Story is now shown on TBS, not TNT.

ICON man Brian Wade works out at 24 Hour Arclight as well as Gold's (as do I... Sort of... Well I have two memberships now anyway).

When Will Smith squishes, so do I (as least when watching his latest flick, The Pursuit of Happyness, which with it's obvious ending is maybe at best worth the price of a matinee ticket).

The Nordstrom Half Yearly Sale (for Men) should only be considered a sale if you think $159.00 for a pair of jeans or $55.00 for a T-Shirt cheap.
Watching Fraggle Rock without "The Captain," played by Fulton Mackay, and is a little bit disconcerting.

No matter how much you're craving one of their Spanish Lattes and a slice of chocolate cake, do not go to Urth Caffé on Melrose when there's the possibility of rain (kudos however to the staff for getting those umbrellas out so damn quickly).

A "passing shower" in the rest of the country is considered a "torrential downpour" here in LA.

Pit bull puppies and hummus - not the best combination.

And lastly... Joe has confined himself to the kitchen on all future Christmas Eve's since he's going to have to make those great roast chicken enchiladas year in and year out from now on.

2 comments:

TOS said...

Damn I need to get out to LA - roast chicken enchiladas, yum!

Now what is exactly in a mince pie? What is mince even?

Anonymous said...

does hummus give bentley gas? damn!
LOL