KFC and the Birthday Meme.

[lillbet]

Note to self- changing the status of the entry and deleting it. Not the same thing.

Comedian Patton Oswalt, who appeared in Dollhouse Ep. 6, finally tasted the KFC Famous Bowl he rips on in his act.

Best quote: “I’m sure I’m in serious need of some moral spankitude, but guess who’s not qualified to be my rabbi?"

Birthday meme. Apparently Oct. 12 is just the day to DO THINGS. Also, lotsa death and destruction. Edited down for cool stuff only:

• 1279 – Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk founder of Nichiren Buddhism, inscribes the Dai-Gohonzon
• 1492 – Christopher Columbus's expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean, specifically in The Bahamas. The explorer believes he has reached South Asia
• 1582 – Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
• 1692 – The Salem Witch Trials were ended by a letter from Massachusetts Governor William Phips.
• 1773 – America's first insane asylum opens for 'Persons of Insane and Disordered Minds' in Virginia
• 1792 – First celebration of Columbus Day in the USA held in New York
• 1793 – The cornerstone of Old East, the oldest state university building in the United States, is laid on the campus of the University of North Carolina
• 1810 – First Oktoberfest: The Bavarian royalty invites the citizens of Munich to join the celebration of the marriage of Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria to Princess Therese von Sachsen-Hildburghausen.
• 1823 – Charles Macintosh, of Scotland, sells the first raincoat.
• 1892 – The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited in unison by students in US public schools.
• 1901 – President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the "Executive Mansion" to the White House.
• 1928 – An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston
• 1942 – World War II: Japanese ships retreat after their defeat in the Battle of Cape Esperance with the Japanese commander, Aritomo Gotō dying from wounds suffered in the battle and two Japanese destroyers sunk by Allied air attack.
• 1945 – World War II: Desmond Doss is the first conscientious objector to receive the U.S. Medal of Honor.
• 1953 – "The Caine Mutiny Court Martial" opens at Plymouth Theatre, New York
• 1960 – Cold War: Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe on a desk at United Nations General Assembly meeting to protest a Philippine assertion of Soviet Union colonialist policy being conducted in Eastern Europe
• 1964 – The Soviet Union launches the Voskhod 1 into Earth orbit as the first spacecraft with a multi-person crew and the first flight without space suits
• 1970 – Vietnam War: US President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will withdraw 40,000 more troops before Christmas
• 1979 – The lowest recorded non-tornadic atmospheric pressure, 87.0 kPa (870 mbar or 25.69 inHg), occurred in the Western Pacific during Typhoon Tip.
• 1984 – Brighton hotel bombing: Margaret Thatcher survives an IRA bomb, which shredded her bathroom barely two minutes after she had left it.
• 1986 – Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh visit the People's Republic of China
• 1999 – The Day of Six Billion: The proclaimed 6 billionth living human in the world is born.
• 2005 – The second Chinese human spaceflight Shenzhou 6 launched carrying Fèi Jùnlóng and Niè Hǎishèng for five days in orbit.

Comments

[roh-wyn.livejournal.com]

See? The thing with Patton Oswalt is...his eloquence is actually going to make more people run out and try the darn thing. ;)

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

If it helps, my brother and I are gonna do one better: we're gonna make our own out of fresh, gourmet ingredients like Cornish game hen. See how an upscale version would taste.

[lillbet.livejournal.com]

I WANT AN INVITE TO THAT PARTY!

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Next time he's in DC (and assuming I am too), that's SO what we'll do, rest assured!

[lillbet.livejournal.com]

Excellent! I will bring homebrewed rootbeer and creme fraiche ice cream for upscale root beer floats. Or maybe whoopie pies made with Ghiradelli cocoa and a filling made with some kind of hoity-toity Irish butter. ♥

[lillbet.livejournal.com]

Oh definitely! I want the one with the biscuit. I plan to eat it and then run my car into a tree because if anything that will explain the whole thing. "Well, clearly it was the Famous Bowl that made her do it!"

I think his mistake was letting it congeal. He should have eaten it right away, because obviously those sorts of things are much better when fresh from under the heat lamps..

[roh-wyn.livejournal.com]

Heh heh.

I'm actually surprised by the congealed cheese, because it's my experience that processed cheese has nothing in it that can actually congeal. It's basically cardboard, with a few dairy enzymes and some food coloring.

(And yes, I said "my experience". I'm a food adventurer, don'tchaknow?)

[lillbet.livejournal.com]

It's basically cardboard, with a few dairy enzymes and some food coloring.

Mmmmm. Wet, stringy cardboard, ftw! You are an adventurer!

What are your thoughts on sushi, by the by?

[roh-wyn.livejournal.com]

Um, that it's very limiting when you're a vegetarian?

I did eat at the Zen Box (http://www.zen-box.com/) today though. I had tempura. ;)

[lillbet.livejournal.com]

Um, that it's very limiting when you're a vegetarian?

Oh thank G*d. You have a flaw after all. ;)

I love vegetable tempura, especially pumpkin. So, SO good. Much tastier than fries and you don't really need to dip them in anything.

That site is great, but the green is atrocious. Not very "Zen" to be clawing your eyes out!

[roh-wyn.livejournal.com]

LMAO. I have no idea why their online menu is that shade of green...because the restaurant itself has no green anywhere. Not even plants. (Because it's Minneapolis, and we don't do fake greenery, yo!)

I'm a fan of tempura, but also, I love Japanese-style noodles. One of our favorite local places is the Tanpopo Noodle Shop (http://tanpoporestaurant.com/). Comfort food, with soba noodles and agedashi tofu. :)

[lillbet.livejournal.com]

I like the look of Tanpopo. Color me shocked- who knew MN had such cool places to eat? ;)

[roh-wyn.livejournal.com]

We're the epitome of cool out here. Sometimes quite literally! ;)

(Jokes aside, Minneapolis is actually known for being cool...)

ETA: I guess Tanpopo doesn't technically count, since it's in St. Paul, but we'll take it anyway!

[lillbet.livejournal.com]

I have a rather stunted view, you see. Having had classmates from MN in college and listening to "A Prairie Home Companion" really did NOT prepare me for the coolness.

[roh-wyn.livejournal.com]

Ha ha ha! But Prairie Home Companion is cool, in its own quirky (and very Minnesota) way, IMO.

Plus, you know, Prince is from here. And this dude named F Scott Fitzgerald. He wrote a book about cool people, dontchaknow? ;)

[lillbet.livejournal.com]

You know, I've actually heard of this Fitzgerald guy! Guess where he's buried. GUESS! (http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?GRid=344&page=gr)

(Or just, you know, cheat and click. It's not like I'll ever know, right?)

[roh-wyn.livejournal.com]

Ok, I totally cheated and clicked! And I'm that honest, because I'm from Minnesota, where our coolness is completely unsullied by irony. :D

I had no idea there was so much graveyard chic in Baltimore. Poe AND Fitzgerald? Goodness...second only to Westminster Abbey's Poets' Corner!

[lillbet.livejournal.com]

IKR? Which is mildly hysterical considering that REM told its listeners not to go back to Rockville, and Baltimore is the subject of most of John Waters' work. Not to mention a tacky morass of nastiness. And pie. Good pie.

When I was on the crew team in college I rowed with another girl my height (abt. 5'4") and two gals from Minnesota who we called "The Minnesota Twins"- short with short brown hair and always running together. Monica was sweet enough, but Cindy was honest. Blunt like an hammer honest. And I ♥ her for it. :)

I credit them for my love of Sauconys and my "don't mess with me" walk. *lol*