the Brits and the Amish....

tonight i was watching my current favorite TV show, Top Gear, and during one of the commercial breaks this ad for a fake fireplace came on that was just...wrong...on so many levels, besides the fact that i was on the BBC America channel. this normal looking guy was advertising for these fake fireplaces that you can roll into any room, and in the background there were these Amish people making the product....it was so ridiculously strange, and yes, oddly entertaining (as evidenced by both my and my housemate's bewildered laughters). as the commercial went on, it explained that you could only order 2 since they were too popular or something, and you saw this Amish guy on a horse hulling 2 fireplaces in a cart....really, i'm not making this up.

i think Saturday Night Live needs to do a sketch about this.

pulling my hair...

i'm on hold on the phone for the water company's customer service, and the music they have in the background is a REALLY bad digitalized MIDI version of "Fur Elise." if it wasn't for that fact that i've already been on hold for over 15 minutes i would end this nightmare right now....whoever put that music there should be shot...yes, it's that bad. Beethoven would turn over in his grave if he heard this! i think they do this on purpose to prevent people from calling.

(it doesn't help that i'm currently trying to figure out how to play this piece of music on the guitar to accompany one of my clients who plays the piano.)

at the pump....

on my way to NYC i stopped for gas in Jersey: $1.91! by the end of the weekend, it dropped to $1.89. yes, the economy is going down, but so are the gas prices, thankfully.

it's a toy, it's a bug...it's a fruit.

Every time i go home my parents buys some crazy looking stuff for me to eat. this weekend i had this funky looking fruit called rambutan. it's native to Indonesia and Malaysia, and tastes like lychees....however i prefer lychees--easier to eat.

opera and pasta...

i finally had dinner at "Victor Cafe" with some friends tonight. it's an Italian restaurant in south Philly that has singing waiters....opera singing ones. so every 15 minutes or so, one of them or a couple of them will break out in an aria. i was a bit disappointed that the female wait staff were not opera singers....they sang Broadway--mind you, they were good, just not what i expected.

i had the pasta alla caruso (pasta sauteed with chicken liver, onions, wild mushrooms,etc)...i think after watching too many episodes of "Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern" I was craving some liver....but my dish was a bit disappointing, not because i don't like liver, but the sauce was way too sweet, and i think they gave me like livers from 5 chickens on that plate. but, i guess one goes there for the experience and the ambiance....and some for the fact that the latest "Rocky" movie was shot there. me, i just wanted me some good food and good music! (as my housemate can attest, i've been craving food non-stop the last couple of weeks. i think my body wants some extra insulation for winter.)

going to the chapel....

Doug and Amy got married saturday!
we took some formal and some... rather informal pictures at the park...












jump for joy...i think Michael A. (one of the groomsmen) was super excited.