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I am going to make Ethiopian food tonight! I got a craving I couldn't shake and BOY am I excited. The man at Kuku1u market talked to me about the VT shootings. He said they were "shots heard around the globe." :(

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:21 (nineteen years ago)

yum, Amanda! I'm impressed; I've never made Ethiopian food. do you make the injera?

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:22 (nineteen years ago)

Nah, that's too much trouble. I can get it for cheap at the store where I get the spices. Really it's just making a couple of stews. I'm doing lentils (mesir/misser wat) and mixed veggies.

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:23 (nineteen years ago)

Now no one is impressed anymore.
I equate that to making one's own tortillas. I mean, yeah -- it sure would be great -- but who does that aside from dedicated campesinos and chefs? When it comes to tortillas, I'm happy with El Milagro. Similarly, I'm happy with injera that someone else made, as long as it's fresh. And it always is.

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:35 (nineteen years ago)

No, I'm still totally impressed. I just didn't know one could get injera.

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:36 (nineteen years ago)

I "GET" INJERA

― jaymc, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:38 (nineteen years ago)

haha

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:40 (nineteen years ago)

I will email you my recipe if you want! The woman at the market told me how to make the lentils and I wrote a rough recipe from her explanation. The only out-of-the-ordinary ingredients you need are berbere spice and injera, both of which are available at the store I go to on Broadway. The rest is totally pedestrian. Garlic. Ginger. Tomatoes. Onion.

There are a lot of recipes online too, but this one comes from a real person who I know, so I like it.

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:41 (nineteen years ago)

I want some meaty Ethiopian food, to eat with my HANDS.

― Jordan, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:42 (nineteen years ago)

Amanda, put it on the blog!

― jaymc, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:44 (nineteen years ago)

i dunno how to on new blog. i am too lazy to put it on old blog. how about i email it to you?

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:45 (nineteen years ago)

I would love for you to email it to me, yeah! thanks!

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:46 (nineteen years ago)

i emailed it to both of you. i am going into kitchen now. later, booblings.

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:46 (nineteen years ago)

Are you going to R. Dashen, 'manda?

― Eazy, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:54 (nineteen years ago)

No, I'm going to my kitchen!

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:56 (nineteen years ago)

I am impressed! Cooking is awesome.

Now I'm going to go have a few beers. Thanks for the commiseration, folks.

― dan m, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:57 (nineteen years ago)

I want some meaty Ethiopian food, to eat with my HANDS.

Right hand only, if you want to do like in the old country.

― Eazy, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:58 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse txted me to say he had a gross and smelly dentist appointment.

-- Jordan, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:01 (1 hour ago)
Jesse's the boy who cried dentist so I totally won't believe it until I see the shining white capped tooth.

-- Jenny, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:03 (1 hour ago)

GOOD GOD DAMN. MY TEMPORARY CROWN JUST FELL OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

― Jesse, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 23:33 (nineteen years ago)

The dentist visit was a multi-sensory experience. While it wasn't too painful after the shot, the vibrations as they ground away about 1/8" of tooth was kind of awful and having 4 hands plus instruments in your mouth is not so great. Of course the sound was no treat. Sight wasn't so terrible. The taste of disinfectants, molding materials, and THE EPOXIES! was astounding. Worst of all was the smell of burning tooth--nauseating!

They gave me a temporary crown and told me to be careful eating on it, so I had some chili--nice and soft. But it still came off. Boo.

― Jesse, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 23:37 (nineteen years ago)

I put my tooth back on, but I need to take it off so that I don't swallow it. I gripped it between my thumb and forefinger, but found that removing a tooth from my head is not a procedure I have the wherewithal to undertake at the moment.

― Jesse, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 23:44 (nineteen years ago)

Every temp crown I've had has fallen off at some point. I had to go back and tell them to glue it more.

― Jeff, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 00:00 (nineteen years ago)

And tell them to use extra glue on the expensive ones.

― Jeff, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 00:00 (nineteen years ago)

Dammit. I pulled it back off. That was deeply unpleasant.

― Jesse, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 00:07 (nineteen years ago)

Like smelling a fart that smells like fruit or beef jerky.

― Jesse, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 00:08 (nineteen years ago)

dan and jesse both need to take more lessons from The Secret. Think HARDER about getting the journal and the crown back. Sheesh. What's wrong with you two?

― sisut, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 02:50 (nineteen years ago)

COMEHERETOME, MISSIN' TOOF.

It worked. It's with me now. I have my fucking fake tooth sitting on my desk. It's kind of funny.

Last night I had a long dream about the Soprano family. Tony and Carmela were reconciling their differences (I haven't watched since 2003, so I don't know what's up) and uniting against an enemy of the family (actually a family member who defected). We staged a hit on the guy and we had a to go to Michael Jordan's restaurant to rendevous with him.

Once the guy realized he was the subject of a hit, he turned into a cat and ran away. We caught him, and Carmela and I pretended we going to kill him, but it seems that in Mafia 2.0 killing is passe, so we stuffed the cat/man into a tennis ball container tube where we decided to leave him for a few days.

― Jesse, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 03:00 (nineteen years ago)

At one point in the dream, Tony, Carmela and I went to a gay bathhouse, and we were required to check our fountain drinks.

― Jesse, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 03:05 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse, under that temp cap you need to brush and sterilize to keep bacteria down. Use mouthwash or a little peroxide. I've even taken the cap out and soaked it in peroxide and brushed it separately. It'll really collect food under there. Just keep it clean, and keep the tooth-post that's hold it on clean as well.

― Laurel, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 03:28 (nineteen years ago)

Use peanut butter to stick it back on. Jiff.

― Jeff, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 03:30 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse, you have an imagination for television. That is a million-dollar storyline right there.

Sex, violence, celebrity cameos (Michael Jordan), and a kitty in a tennis-ball tube. Everyone wants to see at least two of those.

― Eazy, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 04:01 (nineteen years ago)

Here is one of thsoe four:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdQj2ohqCBk

― Eazy, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 04:03 (nineteen years ago)

xpost You took it off and put it back on? It's supposed to be glued in!

The dentist said to go easy on it--No gum, taffy, etc--so that it would not come off in the 3 weeks it takes the lab to make my permanent one. Since it's made of acrylic and therefore flexible,it can come undone easier than a rigid one. But it shouldn't have been THAT easy.

You're right about the food collection, even though I didn't even have a chance to find it out first-hand. But they leave a gap between the crown and the gum because the acrylic apparently will irritate the gum.

Something funny-- during the procedure I felt a sharp pain and raised my left hand to indicate "OUCH." The dentist said, "That wasn't your tooth that was hurting, it was your gum that I was cutting to get it out of the way."

There was some incongruency between their upscale office and location, their apparent pride their reputation as professionals (magazine covers featuring the Doctor/Dr. and his staff on the covers, with headlines like, "Staff of the Year") and the music in the waiting and examining rooms. It was all '90s, including "O.P.P." And the hygenist and the dentist talked about how the dentist prefers his women to be "kind of stupid," but they have to be HOT too, and Britney wasn't hot enough to be as stupid as she is.

― Jesse, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 04:10 (nineteen years ago)

Eric-- I think that even the mafioso-turned-to-cat could work in one of Tony's dreams. Carmela abused the cat a lot before putting him in the tube.

There is a Sugarcubes song called "Dream TV" that could be about me (I'm sure I've told most of you already)--a guy is savoring the remains of a great dream he just had, only to realize it was just the plot of a TV show he watched.

― Jesse, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 04:15 (nineteen years ago)

I'm reading an article about yesterday's gangland killing of the mayor of Nagasaki:

Tetsuya Shiroo, a senior member of Yamaguchi-gumi, Japan's largest organized crime syndicate, was wrestled to the ground by officers after the attack and arrested, police said.

Scary! Imagine someone whispering in your ear "Yaaamaaa-guuuchi-guuuumi."

― Eazy, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 04:47 (nineteen years ago)

My youngest sis has been emailing the rest of my fam about the reactions she's been getting from frenchies over there regarding the Tech shootings, knowing she's american. They keep questioning her about gun laws here, the level of violence in our society, our close-mindedness... As I mentioned, she also lived in that dorm and was an engineering student (was in that building alot where most of the shootings occured).

Maybe I am just naive, but despite my problems with our political leaders, I see this tragedy as the result of one f'ed up person, not a society.

― KitCat, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 13:33 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse, mine never stayed glued-on the whole time, either -- they always lost stickiness before the appointed day. Hence all the cleaning.

― Laurel, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 13:36 (nineteen years ago)

Ok, I'm being depressing.

Tonight is grocery night. Recommend me a great recipe. Recently we've made spinach and roasted red peppers over polenta, artichoke heart & roasted red pepper pizza, Julia's spinach dip, and a fancy salad with pears in it.
Also, we need to decide where to buy said groceries. I'm guessing it will be Grand Mart again.

― KitCat, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

My youngest sis has been emailing the rest of my fam about the reactions she's been getting from frenchies over there regarding the Tech shootings, knowing she's american.

Because we all know that the French are infallible. Hey guys, how's your Armenian population assimilating? Oh it's going terribly because you're overwhelmingly nationalistic to the point of racist and incredibly xenophobic? K, thx for the criticism!

― mattttt, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

My sinuses have exploded.

― n/a, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

Oh no, Nick!

matttt, I wonder if other countries are having similar reactions.

― KitCat, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 13:51 (nineteen years ago)

I think you mean Algerian, homes. But the sentiment remains the same.

― dan m, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 13:53 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I'm sneezing and dripping and congested. I'm trying to convince myself that it's just my allergies flaring up. I think that might be it, since my throat feels fine and it hit me so quickly.

― n/a, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 13:56 (nineteen years ago)

Nick, allergy time has got to be bad this year because I am usually unfazed by seasonal allergies and this spring I am very, very fazed. And snotty. God, the snot. Help me. Please.

― Jenny, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

It's like my brain is liquefying and running out through my nose.

― Jenny, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 14:03 (nineteen years ago)

I think you mean Algerian, homes. But the sentiment remains the same.

Yeh, and remember the case of that dude who didn't cry at his mother's funeral? Fuck you, froggies.

I had a swell of nationialistic defensiveness when a former manager at my work old me about the Irish's view of Americans: "Well, you're so ignorant of world events and so smug. And you're abrasive." The "you" in that sentence was ostensibly plural, she could put it in a lot of better terms.

― Jesse, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

What dude, jesse?

― KitCat, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

Don't question me, you racist.

― Jesse, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

morning guys.

I recommend the new Jarvis Cocker video.

http://music.yahoo.com/ar-304621-videos--Jarvis-Cocker

― kenan, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

I like that I live in a world that also has Jarvis Cocker in it.

― kenan, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

I meant to copy Matt's thing and make a joke about The Stranger but I didn't.

― Jesse, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

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