Hello, hilo.

Everyone have good weekends?

-- Anonymous, June 04, 2001

Answers

Y'all make me so saaaaad.

Did any of you watch Sex and the City? So good!

Al - how was your non-rotation weekend? Did it throw off the spreadsheet?

-- Anonymous, June 04, 2001

I know you didn't diss the Iron Chef for Sex and the City.

-- Anonymous, June 04, 2001

Was it the Bobby Flay battle last night?

Al - Eric and I watched the 2000th dish episode. I think he finally gets it. But it was so gross when they were slicing open the turtles, I had to change it.

http://www.theonion.com/onion3720/best_friends_secretly.html

Hahahhahahahahahahaa

-- Anonymous, June 04, 2001

Yes, the turtle slicing was painful, but that is what Iron Chef is all ABOUT, mayn. Pain.

The weekend was good. We went to this big ass flea market on Saturday and had a great time. The air was out in my apartment half the weekend, though, and that was not fun at all. The opposite of fun, actually.

The MOC and I are going to recap Iron Chef for HYD. We're going to do it battle style.

-- Anonymous, June 04, 2001

I'm writing an Iron Chef one as well. It's cracking me up, but I don't know how anyone who doesn't like the show will like it.

-- Anonymous, June 04, 2001

Damn, I love that show. So much. I'm actually upset it will be Americanized.

And I'm sorry, but I cannot stand Bobby Flay. He is obnoxious - in a bad way. Not obnoxious in a good way like Kaga's clothes.

-- Anonymous, June 04, 2001

Score-board.

-- Anonymous, June 04, 2001

I loved how, on the 2000th dish show, they listed his top 5 favorite dishes and the worst 3. Kaga so passionate!

-- Anonymous, June 04, 2001

You shut up, Berman.

Kaga, being "the first Japanese Jesus" and all, takes his job as the fictional food-loving billionaire very seriously.

My favorite part of the first Flay/ Morimoto battle was the secret ingredient descending in the disco ball. It was oh so right. You know Kaga probably sleeps in a big disco ball.

I just can't STAND it when the challenger wins - unless it's some really kick ass person. The Iron Chefs look so devastated. I mean, they're always really sportsman-like, but I'm afraid they're thinking "Noooo! I lose robster battle...! Now they kill wife and children! Why, ancestors?! Why I use terriyaki instead of soy sauce? Curse you, Kikoman!"

-- Anonymous, June 04, 2001

Hey, that's the price you pay for being the Iron Chef ... challengers are always doing things like shaving their heads to intimidate you.

-- Anonymous, June 04, 2001

That guy DID intimidate Sakai, too. He is my favorite Iron Chef. I could see in his face he was thinking "How I suppose to beat that clazy guy with only this big pear? Why I have to hold the pear anyway? Morimoto get knives. I get stupid gay pear. Nobody scared of a pear."

-- Anonymous, June 04, 2001

I love how Allison truly understands the hearts of the Iron Chefs.

-- Anonymous, June 04, 2001

The first fish battle he's ever lost. But, as they say, Kandagawa just wanted it more. I mean, he's clazy enough to shave his head ... what else would he have been clazy enough to do had he lost? We might have seen ritual suicide right there in Kitchen Stadium.

-- Anonymous, June 04, 2001

I understand the Iron Chefs on a spiritual level, yes. Because they are crazy, and so am I. Being a crazy in Japan and crazy in Alabama - not so different as you might expect. Both cultures are all about food and tacky clothes.

The show just makes sense to me ("in two ways... hee hee!").

You know, a ritual suicide could not be far off. Some of the Japanese chefs they've had on in the past have come close to it. I've seen some of them CRY after battles.

-- Anonymous, June 04, 2001

Where are AB and T?

-- Anonymous, June 04, 2001

I saw Sex & the City. I thought it was pretty good.

I'm a little tired of seeing them all make the same mistakes over and over. And I'm BEAT DOWN by the way they blame their problems on men in their lives. Even the big fat black women on Jerry Springer know when it's time to "lose that zero and get a hero."

-- Anonymous, June 04, 2001

Allison, you are busting my gut with the Iron Chef.

I'm here, in Atlanta, working and trying not to let Edna overwhelm me. If that's at all possible. I'm about to make an Advil run.

-- Anonymous, June 04, 2001

See, I think SATC is about the most honest show about women on t.v. I loved that they recogzined that women friends can be your soulmates too. I loved that they had Heidi Klum ask Carrie if she looked okay. I love that they see themselves the way real women do.

-- Anonymous, June 04, 2001

Maybe I'm just tired of women seeing themselves that way.

I have sort of a love/hate with the show. I had to stop watching it for a while, because Carrie was too stupid about Big. She's too old to be acting that way about him. He's J.Co. She needs to let him go so HE can grow up.

-- Anonymous, June 04, 2001

Sometimes, I just want to quit everything. Is that so wrong? I want to quit my job, quit my band, leave Dallas. Is it because I'm a quitter? Or is it ok that these things really aren't working well anymore and I just feel it's time to move on?

-- Anonymous, June 04, 2001

I think the latter. I don't think you're a quitter. I think you just see that it's time to move on and you want to do it now.

Yeah, the Carrie/Big thing in season 3 about made me pull my hair out. I liked Aiden, a lot, and she lost a good thing there because of dumb Big.

-- Anonymous, June 04, 2001

It's the second part. That, and the fact that there's no better time in your life for you to move on and start something new and big.

-- Anonymous, June 04, 2001

I forget where I originally heard it, but someone once said that maybe it's quitting just to stay in the same place where things aren't working out instead of taking a chance and moving on.

In other words, A-Lo, you're not a quitter for wanting to leave your job and Dallas.

-- Anonymous, June 04, 2001

See, I love you guys.

I'm writing about the flea market Chris and I went to this weekend. Loved your Iron Chef analysis, M.

-- Anonymous, June 04, 2001

Thanks. I know I swiped the Martha Stewart thing from someone, though.

-- Anonymous, June 04, 2001

Probably me. It is my great dream to see MS go up against the very high-strung Iron Chef Kobe. I believe that would be a battle ROYALE. He would construct a pasta dish in the shape of the Leaning Tower in the time it took her to caramelize one shallot.

-- Anonymous, June 04, 2001

http://www.threewayaction.com/ubb/Forum41/HTML/000139.html

the 3wa Iron Chef chat is just sad. They need your insights oh Iron CHEF ones.

-- Anonymous, June 04, 2001

Allison, I humbly apologize for the plagiarization.

-- Anonymous, June 04, 2001

Oh, I am not saying you plagiarized me, I'm just saying I want to see Martha on Iron Chef, too. AND Emeril. I would LOVE that. Emeril might actually have a chance - not to like, WIN, or anything, but to at least make a showing in the battle.

I'd like to see him and Sakai in a crawfish battle.

-- Anonymous, June 04, 2001

Y'all, I think there are "famous" journallers, but only in a very narrow sense. Pamie and stee could be the most popular and well-read journallers in the world, and 99.99% of the population with Internet access would still have no idea who they were, to say nothing of the billions of Chinese. It sort of has all the costs of fame, as far as the scrutiny and whatnot, without a lot of the rewards.

I mean, it's not up there with being a big name in the ferret community, that's for sure.

I'm sorry, I just had to Mike his props for the ferret tie-in.

-- Anonymous, June 04, 2001

Just because Meg is gone doesn't mean she should be forgotten, after all.

-- Anonymous, June 04, 2001

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Farm/2243/index.htm

See, this couple is so cute and normal looking. Why Disney? WHY?

-- Anonymous, June 04, 2001

Aw. Pretty red-headed girl. I even like her sweet dress.

You know, we didn't even look at this! http://www.disneyweddings.com

-- Anonymous, June 04, 2001

From the site:   It’s a tale as timeless as love itself. Told by the heart, woven from dreams, and sealed by a promise. It’s a story made new each time it is retold in magical settings throughout the Walt Disney World Resort and Disneyland Resort. And this time the story we’re telling is yours.

Your story in the same package as the million brides who've gone before you. Dumb.

I'm sorry, but there's got to be something on Chris' ex out there.

-- Anonymous, June 04, 2001

http://disney.go.com/vacations/disneyweddings/weddings/weddi ngmonth.html

People! Getting married at Disney is one thing. If you do, at LEAST get f'in married by the castle. This couple? EPCOT. The bride said it was the perfect location because she could "see Spaceship Earth!"

Gah.

-- Anonymous, June 04, 2001

So sad. I agree, though, that something about the name-stealer is out there. I mean, if she's tacky enough to get married at Disney, she's tacky enough to put up a website with all the gory details.

Did y'all know that Mrs. Seests is 6'1"?

-- Anonymous, June 04, 2001

Yes I remember reading that. The Seests will produce a race of giant people. It's all that Minnesota stock.

-- Anonymous, June 04, 2001

Giant, wholesome people. PRAISES!!!

-- Anonymous, June 04, 2001

Yes, it makes me like Mrs. Seest even more that she's so tall. Bless her heart. That's why she was so happy her crazy dress was long enough.

The evil name-stealing ex is not to be found. I would pay a meeellion dollars to see a picture of her awful beach wedding, though.

The MOC is whipping me right now, anyway. We are so much alike, it makes it impossible for me to get mad at him, because I'm the same way. I want him to go to Atlanta and Birmingham at the end of this month, because I have to go anyway, and he's hemming and hawing and clearly doesn't really want to do it because it's such a hassle for him to ask for time off, or whatever.

If Eric called him tomorrow and said "Huff, I found a hundred dollars on the street, let's go to Lake Charles on Tuesday," he'd do it in a minute.

So, whatever. I'm not even going to mention it anymore. And I'm certainly not going to whine and try to make him do it, but how are we ever going to move if we don't actually GO to Atlanta at some point?

-- Anonymous, June 04, 2001

Leigha updated... and I quote

"They will let anyone into the place. Seriously. Before, you had to pass a background check and some other weird checks, but it made for a nice, quiet complex. Now we have all sorts of white trash moving in, and it's just not the same. "

-- Anonymous, June 04, 2001

HAHAHAHAHAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

-- Anonymous, June 04, 2001

And with that cheap shot, I'm out ... hasta manana.

-- Anonymous, June 04, 2001

I love it when Leigha bashes trailer people when she and her 21 year old boyfriend were just considering purchasing one. Lord.

-- Anonymous, June 04, 2001

From Meg's ferret guestbook:

Just wanted to let you know that someone was here. This is still an intersting site. While I can't imagine devoting a whole website to ferrets, it is more believeable than some of the rat sites I have seen

Hahahahahaha

-- Anonymous, June 04, 2001

Have you all run away? I updated.

-- Anonymous, June 04, 2001

I'm out.

Maybe I'll update tonight, even though I have jack to talk about.

-- Anonymous, June 04, 2001