Well, my good friend and fellow Crack member, Andy Sensat, has a birthday today. I'm not sure Andy will ever see this post, since he's out in New Mexico this week with Rami, but I wanted to send him some positive birthday vibes, anyway. Andy is an "idea man", for lack of a better term, and over the years I've had him pitch a great many ideas to me. His concepts have ranged from airstream trailers that sell stackable treats and also double as operation centers for search and rescue missions to genetically engineered kangaroos with fangs for security work in areas of particularly rugged terrain to multi-level, vertically constructed RV parks with casinos at the top. Andy is also the only one of my friends (that I know of) whose image appears on a commemorative female undergarment.
Anyway, happy birthday to Andy! Hope it's a good one.
What else? Last night I had dinner with Ryan and Jamie and Nicole at Habana on South Congress. The food was really good, and it was fun to catch up. We had tried to go to Homeslice Pizza, farther up South Congress, and although that place has some pretty decent pizza, it had an hour wait. The pizza is good, but we were really hungry, the place was packed with so many hipsters that they were spilling out the door, and the food ain't that special, so we opted for Cuban, which was much less crowded, and probably equally good.
After dinner I went home and just bummed around. I watched Fringe, which was on my DVR from the other night (it's a show about an FBI agent, teamed up with a former government scientist and his son, who are investigating a series of sort of nasty, unauthorized "fringe science" experiments on unsuspecting members of the general public). I know that I was pretty critical of Fringe in its earlier episodes, but I have to admit that it's grown on me a bit since it started. The show has lost some of its clunkiness as the show has progressed and the writers have felt less need to include so much exposition in the dialogue, and the show has become more interesting as the three major characters have become more fully developed (in particular, John Noble has managed to create an interesting character out of the show's "mad scientist", Dr. Walter Bishop). Anyway, the show's still pretty formulaic and not really very scary (the early marketing was clearly meant to appeal to an X-Files type audience, but Fringe rarely manages to strike the same creepy chords that X-Files so often hit), but it manages to provide some interesting twists and turns. I've probably elevated it into the "sort of interesting" category, but not into "gotta see".
And that's about it. Hope everyone's been staying warm (it's been cold in Austin, especially at night).
Peace.
Anyway, happy birthday to Andy! Hope it's a good one.
What else? Last night I had dinner with Ryan and Jamie and Nicole at Habana on South Congress. The food was really good, and it was fun to catch up. We had tried to go to Homeslice Pizza, farther up South Congress, and although that place has some pretty decent pizza, it had an hour wait. The pizza is good, but we were really hungry, the place was packed with so many hipsters that they were spilling out the door, and the food ain't that special, so we opted for Cuban, which was much less crowded, and probably equally good.
After dinner I went home and just bummed around. I watched Fringe, which was on my DVR from the other night (it's a show about an FBI agent, teamed up with a former government scientist and his son, who are investigating a series of sort of nasty, unauthorized "fringe science" experiments on unsuspecting members of the general public). I know that I was pretty critical of Fringe in its earlier episodes, but I have to admit that it's grown on me a bit since it started. The show has lost some of its clunkiness as the show has progressed and the writers have felt less need to include so much exposition in the dialogue, and the show has become more interesting as the three major characters have become more fully developed (in particular, John Noble has managed to create an interesting character out of the show's "mad scientist", Dr. Walter Bishop). Anyway, the show's still pretty formulaic and not really very scary (the early marketing was clearly meant to appeal to an X-Files type audience, but Fringe rarely manages to strike the same creepy chords that X-Files so often hit), but it manages to provide some interesting twists and turns. I've probably elevated it into the "sort of interesting" category, but not into "gotta see".
And that's about it. Hope everyone's been staying warm (it's been cold in Austin, especially at night).
Peace.
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