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Also I wanted to address one issue and thats Maui Fever. I think the show is totally bullshit, the kids arent from hawaii, they’re actors! Give me a fucking break, one of them was in Lords of Dogtown. Does this mean the show is bad? not entirely, its bad because its a fake reality show that takes place in Hawaii but doesnt include any local people, am I the only person that sees something unseemly about that? Anyway if you have similar feelings about it you can express them here I choose to just complain because signing the petition would just make some moke who beat me up in school happy. Fuck everyone

released on Jan 30.  i actually haven’t got my copy yet - ironically i received my copy of office 2007 on the 30th, not vista.

anyway, will probably put up a review of office 2007 later - but so far it looks good.  been using mostly outlook at this point, and it’s sllliiiicccck.

here’s an old school clip from macworld boston 2007 - the one where gates speaks through an uplink showered with boos from the crowd.  best line from jobs: ”we have to let go of the notion that in order for apple to win, microsoft has to lose.”

i wonder if MSFT regrets investing in apple, rather than just letting it die a slow death.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxOp5mBY9IY]

SO my in usual attempt to master all things sushi related, I’ve decided to make my own Ankimo. I used a very simple recipe gathered from the internet.

1. Soak liver in salt water for several hours, change water several times.
2. Remove veins and outer membrane
3. Soak for 10 minutes in sake
4. Roll in foil like a burrito and steam for 30 minutes

Here are the pics:

Fortunately I didn’t take pictures of the [gross]cleaning process or the [boring]soaking process.

Half Section of the cooked ankimo log:

Sliced:

and served:

Time to let me inner nerd out.  Enjoy!

Ok. This might seem blasphemous but I’m going to come out and say the woot-off is bullshit. Its one day of all crappy items that didn’t sell on each of their respective days and now they bundle it together and start selling it all over again.

Don’t get me wrong, I think this is a great strategy for the company. I’m just sick of looking at 20 ipod speaker combos waiting for some poor sucker to buy them just so we can move on.

…And there’s the elusive Bag of Crap, let me tell you something, I’ve very doubful anyone gets anything more than crap. There’s always some fool bragging that he got the ultimate suprise gift. I love the economics of the BOC, they sell 1500 items at 5 dollars a piece =7500 All on the rumor that some guy got something good buying a BOC some time ago. Genius

is it me, or is the current woot off sucking pretty hard.  it’s always the same crap, bluetooth headsets, gps systems, mp3 players, digital cameras.  even the f’ing leakfrog made it back.  anyway, the last several woot offs have been really disappointing.  the last one didn’t even have a bag of crap.  and even when they do have the bocs, it’s just ridiculous waiting for some window to refresh cuz woots servers get overloaded.

i’m sick of this shit already.

As someone that appreciates good sushi there is one thing that I think needs addressing, and that is the short comings of Real Japanese restaurants.

What?!?

Yes, not everything is perfect about the way Japanese people run their restaurants. Sorry if this offends.

• Service: I’ve noticed two distinct types of servers that real Japanese restaurants employ. 1. The incompetent little Asian girl or 2. The flaming homer-sexual. In these circumstances I think my preference is for the latter. I can’t tell you how many meals were interrupted by some little girl, either messing up the order, not bringing something or just plain f-ing things up.

• Price: For whatever reason (probably greed) real japanese sushi places are always more expensive. But Sushiattack thats because you pay for authenticity To most people this excuse makes sense, to me it sounds like horseshit. Let me tell you why; kitchens are all manned by the same personnel, well trained Latinos, plain and simple. Don’t misinterpret me, I’m not saying food cooked by Latinos is any less delicious I’m just saying that the backbone of all kitchens are the same. I don’t believe there should necessarily be some kind of J figurehead premium.

• Lettuce: What?!? Yes, I don’t understand why someone would pay to get air-shipped Hamachi from Tokyo, Wild Norwegian salmon, live uni than serve a salad with frickin iceburg lettuce. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not trying to push some organic agenda, I’m just saying its not 1950, there are better options. If McDonald’s can include some interesting lettuces in their $2.99 salad, a Japanese restaurant with the avg bill $50+ can get a little more creative. Help a brother out.

Anyone got any other good ones? Leave your comments!

People frequently say to me, “sushiattack what do you think is the best show on television?” To these people I answer, The Wire. If you aren’t already not familiar with this gem of a show, The Wire takes place on the mean streets of Western Baltimore, MD aka Bodymore, Murdaland. The show features the drug trade and the city police that attempts to eliminate it. The story is a sad tale of minor triumphs and bureaucracy that surrounds many of the actions of Baltimore’s finest. The thesis of the show I believe isn’t really about drug dealing or urban struggle or police work, rather the show is all about power and the way power creates institutions to protect itself.

The show lays out the two seemingly different organizational structures, while continuing to point out the parallels between them. Looking at the drug gang: you have the king (Avon,) his main muscle(Weebay,) his adviser (Stringer Bell,) then the street managers(Deangelo,) the money men and down to the lookout boys. Each person performs a role for the organization while respecting the power structure with the understanding that its the structure that protects all of them.  The game has rules, and the rules must be followed or the king becomes very unhappy with you.

You see a similar pyramid structure in the Baltimore Police department: In this case the Assistant commissioner, The Deputy of operations, the sector commander, the captain, the lieutenant, the detectives, and lastly the beat cops or “Rollers.” Just like the drug gang you see that respect of the structure is for the benefit of everyone. If someone makes a mistake, its to everyone’s benefit to cover it up and move on.

The show looks at the flip side to creating an institutional hierarchy; the person at the top of the pyramid needs to flex its muscles to get any respect.  The people lower down the  pyramind are constantly jocking for position and backstabbing each other to reach the next rung in the ladder.  When those people eventually make it to the top, they pay respect to the game by demanding their underlings play by the same rules.  The game never ends, its the players that change.

To be continued….

so, i got an e-mail today from cnn breaking news about this horse barbaro getting euthanized.  really?  cnn breaking news?  i mean, is it just me, or am i missing something.  it’s still a horse, right?  like a horse, that you make jello and glue out of?  like, the little chunky dark pieces in doggy treats?

I mean, how’d you like to be one of these other stories?  child molester gets 150 years.  that’s important right?  not as important as barbaro - imagine telling these two 12 year old kids that got molested, yeah, justice was done, and that’s important…but not as important as barbaro.

and what else didn’t make it to the front?  brandy could face charges in deadly crash?  moesha charged with vehicular manslaughter?  that’s front page news right?  well, i guess they can only have one horse pic up per day on the front page.

anyway, there’s the other vid i saw today of the tyra banks show.  the only stuff i’ve heard or seen about this show so far was tyra going crazy about vaseline, but this show was actually pretty entertaining.

basically, it was about this girl autum, who’s boyfriend shaun ‘is addicted’ to world of warcraft, and doesn’t pay attention to their baby.  it first starts off with tyra and this psychologist talking to autum about the problem.  they show videos of the baby crying, and shaun just sitting there playing WOW. 

then tyra and the psychologist start rubbing it in pretty deep, asking questions like “how does it feel to be neglected for a game?“  they probably asked variations of that question like 10 times.

so, autum tells us that shaun mostly sleeps on the couch, plays wow for 20 hours a week, and doesn’t really have time for her or the baby.  she says he didn’t pay as much attention to her after the baby because she got all fat.  and then tyra gets all indignant saying how autum is a beautiful woman and how tyra won’t let that be an excuse for her boyfriends.  a couple problems with this argument tho:

1.  not everyone can go on the coke diet like tyra

2.  this girl does look like she gained some weight.  i mean, she doesn’t look bad per se, i mean, she’s not like, a fat pig, but she looks like someone got a picture of a decent looking white girl and stretched it without preserving the ratio, so it just gets stretched horizontally, not proportionately.  so her whole body just seems really wide.

3.  if this girl spent half as much time exercising as she does putting in highlights, she would not be that fat.  now, i don’t know a lot of hair styles or anything, but this girl’s hair was super fancy - even i know that takes a long time.  she looks like she’s addicted to the salon.  and what’s her baby doing then, sitting in a bucket of astringent?  n-please.

anyway, so they bring shaun out.  he gives the SIDS defense, in other words, he’s afraid of sudden infant death syndrome.  the dr. calls BS, and i think that is pretty true.  i mean, clearly this guy really does like WOW.  just admit it.  fat wife and kid are not necessarily as interesting as WOW.

near the end of this segment is tyra taking ‘drastic measures.’  her and the dr. are all like, ‘are you willing to take the steps that need to be taken?’  and tyra gets ALL proud of herself and unveils the solution - a shredder.  and she’s going off about how this shredder will shred cds, dvds, video games, etc…this is clearly her best idea EVER.  i’m surprised she didn’t get on the floor like she did with vaseline.

anyway, so they give autum a disc to shred, and she does, and the audience cheers.  she does another one.  then shaun does one.  i mean, how many wow discs do they have?

and of course the great irony is that WOW is online, so you don’t really need the CDs, and two, even if you did that shit was already on his computer.  and tyra and the dr. and autum are all happy and autum hugs shaun.  sooo funny.

i mean, there are several takeaways.  first, and this is no surprise, these talk shows are such a joke.  they dress up a doctor and stick a bunch of women in an audience to tyra can save people’s lives.  obvious, right.

second tho, they vilify this guy, but i think it’s autum who needs talking to.  i mean, clearly shaun isn’t doing a great parenting job - but him and autum aren’t married (they’re bf/gf), he really has no obligation to do anything for her.  it’s her fault for having a kid with this guy who doesn’t give two shits about her or the baby. 

i mean, i can think of a lot of reasons for screwing over your wife and kids - alcohol, drugs, gambling, strippers - but world of warcraft?  i mean, please, this guy just really does not care.  it’s not an addiction, he just likes playing video games more than spending time with his wife and kid, and that is that.  this is an example of EXACTLY why god created abortions.

she had the kid because maybe he would be a good dad, and maybe he loved her, and maybe they would get married, etc.  but if she’s relying on that many maybes, then she doesn’t have a right to bitch when it turns out the answer is maybe NOT.

god, these daytime shows are becoming like some sort of feel good responsibility shucking cult where irresponsible women are put up on the sympathy pedestal and worshiped by hoards of fat bitches who have already ruined their lives doing the same thing and want some redemption for their useless existence.

anyway, here are the vids:

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ru5imBot6g]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJ48K3XjnVA]

Btw, here’s another interesting site that was on digg.  it’s the faces of meth addicts, before and after.  Is it me or does this woman look like sideshow bob?  i guess the deal is that, among other things, meth makes to scratch your skin, hence the red splotches, and it gives you acne.  also, it apparently allows you to be much more liberal at the salon.

 and how about this guy.  xtine says peyton mannings head looks like a penis, but meth has made this guy into a walking tool.

While shopping for meat at one of my favorite butchers: Antonelli’s in Cal Mart I had a great idea, why not make Veal Marrow Bones?!? My experience with Marrow Bones is minimal, I’ve dabbed with a few at fine resturants such as Grand Cafe and COCO500. I purchased a few and attempted greatness. I’ve heard that the preparation is fairly simple so I turned to the trusty Internet to get educated. The easiest recipe I found was one published in the San Francisco Chronicle as follows:

Roast Marrow Bones & Parsley Salad

Adapted from “The Whole Beast: Nose to Tail Eating” by Fergus Henderson (HarperCollins, 2004). Diners should spoon the softened marrow over toast, then sprinkle it with coarse salt and top with a few leaves of parsley salad.

INGREDIENTS:

Eight 3-inch center-cut pieces of veal or beef marrow bone

About 2/3 cup very coarsely chopped Italian parsley leaves

1 shallot, shaved or very thinly sliced

1 1/2 teaspoons small capers

1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon extra virgin olive oil

1 1/2 teaspoons lemon juice

Fine sea salt and freshly ground black pepper

Coarse sea salt, preferably fleur de sel, for garnish

Toast, as needed

INSTRUCTIONS:

Soak the marrow bones in cold salted water about 8 hours to purge them of any blood, changing the water a couple of times.

Preheat the oven to 450º. Put the marrow bones, cut side up, in an ovenproof skillet. Roast until the marrow is loose and softened but not melted, 15 to 20 minutes.

While the bones roast, combine the parsley, shallot and capers in a bowl. Whisk together the olive oil, lemon juice, and salt and pepper to taste.

Divide the bones among 4 plates. Toss the parsley salad with just enough dressing to coat the leaves lightly, then divide the salad among the plates. Pass the coarse salt and toast at the table.

…And now for my attempt at greatness.

I slightly modified the recipe to allow me to eat in a shorter amount of time. I soaked my marrow bones in kosher salt and water for two hours. I’m pretty sure I changed the water 3 times. I preheated the oven to 450, and laid out my glorious bones.

After roasting the bones for 20 minutes , I took them out and admired their glory.Notice that big ugly bone on the lower left of the pan? Well the butcher gave me that one when they ran out of the nicer longer bones. So I cooked up that bone and guess what? No marrow anywhere on that sucker! So beware the lure of siren knuckle.

While the bones were cooking I [over]toasted the sourdough bread

and made the parsley salad. I omitted the capers.

This is what it looked like when I put everything together. The bowls contain coarse kosher salt and parsley salad. Here’s a poorly taken close-up

The meal was great! My only criticism is that sitting down and eating six bones really fills you up. These bones are like 80% fat so the salad’s acid really helps in cutting the richness of the marrow. This dish is so simple to make, I could see someone serving it at a cocktail party with champagne or a dry white wine. I would definately make this one again.

not only did they not cave into the saint’s pressure, they actually put up 23 points in the second half while holding brees and co to the aforementioned bush 88 yard TD.

how did they pull this off?  well, defense as usual.  holding the saints to 14 points total is not bad at all.  but more importantly, they didn’t put the whole game in grossman’s hands - they had a good balanced attack with bears RBs getting a combined 183 yards and 3 TDs.  grossman was only 11-26 for 144 yards - but no interceptions.  he actually did a decent job of throwing the ball away when under pressure.  

kind of reminds me of the raven’s super bowl run - dilfer was Ok, not an all start, but not horrible.  he just kept the team in the game, and the defense did the rest.  remember super bowl XXXV?  dilfer had only 152 yards passing, 12 completions and 1 TD, but NO interceptions.  Jamal lewis added on another Td, but more importantly special teams and defense added another 14 points.  the 2001 ravens seem a lot to me like the 2007 bears.

in other news, the pats blew a huge 18 point lead, and couldn’t run out the clock against the colts.  the biggest series was one where NE got tagged for a 5 yard penalty (12 men on the field, seems like a pretty dumb penalty to me), and then couldn’t get the 15 yards for a 1st down which would have made it much harder for indy.  but in that series, they didn’t run it at all!  they passed for a combined 11 yards, then had an incompletion on 3rd and 4.  to their credit, it was looking good until the incompletion on 3rd and 4, since on 1st and 2nd down NE caught the ball and stayed inbounds…but still, why not run on the colts?  the colts?

actually, NE’s rushing in general wasn’t great.  dillion has only 48 yards, and maroney was non existent with 8 carries for 13 yards.  meanwhile the colts had a combined 125 yards w/ addai and rhodes.  ridiculous.

to give manning credit tho, he did follow thru with the game winning touchdown drive from his own 20.  the peyton of old would have just choked in that situation.

so its the colts and bears.  i call bears because i hate the colts, and poor defense never wins.  and the whole bears and ravens parallel.

i mean, look at it, you have the colts, who have passing oriented offense w/ manning, and the giants, who had collins.  collins threw four INTs against the ravens - and i bet manning will do the same.  plus, the colts won’t get 125 yards on the ground with addai and rhodes, and won’t come close to the 350 yards manning put up on sunday.

another note, there are rumors that the raiders are going to go after michael vick.  the idea is they trade porter (who is disgruntled), moss (who is burnt out and belligerent) plus a #1 for vick.  how f’ing sick would that be?!   i would totally shell out for season tics if they picked up vick. 

What’s funny is the raiders tried out vick jr by picking up aaron brooks.  then, after his complete and utter failure, al davis realized he actually had to spend some money to get anywhere.  it’s like buying a porsche boxter thinking that you’ll be able to pick up girls like a magnet, but only finding out that you’ll need a 911 carrera to get anything but transvestites.

I mean, sure, vick has his problems.  the whole water bottle/weed thing wasn’t his best moment.  but give him a good coach, and strengthen the offensive line (and they’ll have money for it with porter and moss gone), and vick can actually do something.

i don’t know a lot about football, but i’ve played enough madden to know this will work.  i mean, if i can win the madden bowl on ‘rookie’ with brooks, imagine how far i’ll get with vick?  all-madden madden bowl champion?  shiiieet.

one of the things i love about myspace is the slut portal.  you all know the slut portal…you’ll be looking innocently at a friend’s myspace page, then BOOM! in the friends section you see the one photo that doesn’t fit - she’s the slut portal.  usually a black dress showing lots of boob. 

everyone has at least one friend who’s a slut portal.  slut portals are characterized in part by the whoreism described in ‘myspace becomes the scapegoat,’ specifically:

• pics of them making out with other girls
• gratuitous cleavage shots
• pics of simulated fellatio
• comments by a bunch of dudes with their shirts off saying ‘call me honey’

but additionally, slut portals provide portal functionality, meaning they’re a portal to many, many other sluts.  click on one of these girls and you’ll spend hours perusing her friends, who share the same common traits and often have slut duel comment sessions where they go back and forth with pics and one liners.

anyway, just a short tribute to slut portals.  many a day has been lost on myspace because of them.

oh man, 88 yard pass to bush for a TD.  and this was all bush - he turned a relatively short pass into a TD.  that guy is super fast.  the bears are in trouble.

grossman is still looking bad too.  he has a case of the overthrows today - he’s just not hitting his guys, and when he does they drop it.  so far, grossman has only 4 completions out of 17 attempts.  that’s not going to work against the saints.

the saints continue to move the ball well, and the bear’s defense seems to be a bit tired.  they are getting beat with a few short screens, but luckily brees hasn’t aired it out big time yet.

i say the bears have to call in Griese.  that’s the only way they will win - i mean, it will be a huge change of pace and make everyone pick up their play.

are going down.  although they are leading 16-7 at halftime, they were given opportunities galore and failed to capitalize.  two drives were stopped in the red zone, one because of a horrible rex grossman over throw, and another which fizzled at the two.

the bears have recovered 2 fumbles, both of which only led to field goals.  I mean, despite their poor offensive play, the saints are really sticking in there.  pretty impressive considering that the bears are the league’s second highest scoring offense.

so far, the bright spot for the bears has been their defense, which, except for a late 2nd quarter TD, was nearly perfect.  they managed to keep brees off his game, while stopping the bush/mcalister combo. 

on the other side, the bear’s offense has been horrible, with the exception of thomas jones, who has about 80 yards on 11 carries.  it seems that the bears always have someone who steps up when the other guys are struggling.

anyway, call the saints victory now - even tho they’re down.  i think the bears let them stay in the game waaaay too long, plus, brees is looking better, and once he gets a few more points on the board grossman will be forced to throw…then the bears will really be in trouble.

Today myspace was hit with a bunch of lawsuits for facilitating child predatory activities - article.  I don’t know if that’s the exact legal term, but basically a few young girls met up with guys they met on myspace, and got assaulted in numerous ways.

now, there is clearly fault that lies with the predators, many of which have prior records and seem like otherwise unsavory individuals.  despicable guys to be sure.  there is no excusing these guys for their activities, and that is that.

with that said however, how does myspace come into the picture?  is it really myspace’s fault that these kids did not have enough sense to meet up with these guys in the first place? 

I mean, to me this seems like blaming the lollipop, in the case of strangers with candy.  sure, the lollipop plays a role, but i mean, shouldn’t the kid have some sense not to get into the van in the first place?

it’s just a disturbing trend that parents are suing online communities, rather than parenting their kids in the first place.  if anything, the parents should be held liable, just like those parents who leave their five year old’s at home while they go to vegas. 

i just can’t imagine letting your kids go unsupervised to meet up with some guy they met on the internet - then making myspace the scapegoat.    true, you can’t monitor your kids all the time, but that’s why you have basic rules like ‘don’t talk to strangers.’  i mean, shouldn’t we at least update these for the internet age. like:

1.  don’t whore yourself out on myspace

2.  if you do whore yourself out on myspace, don’t meet up with the hundreds of guys who are going to contact you.

so simple.

i mean, it’s easy to look at these young girls and say that they were taken advantage of and they have been victimized - and to a large extent that is very true.  but at the same time, it takes a certain girl to meet up with a stranger they meet online - and i’m guessing these girls have the myspace profiles with pics of them making out with other girls, gratuitous cleavage shots, pics of simulated fellatio, and comments by a bunch of dudes with their shirts off saying ‘call me honey’ - i mean, clearly we’re not dealing with the teddy bear background ‘my interests are: loving jesus’ bunch here.

fine, lets assume that kids are naive - then parents should play a role in monitoring their kid’s activities, making sure they understand when they’re whoring themselves out (and lets be clear here:  girls know how to get attention.  girls, even young ones, know what they’re doing when they wear miniskirts up to their ass and cleavage showing tops.  the deal with parents pretending that their daughters are so innocent is ridiculously naive, particularly when their idols are showing up at clubs with no underwear in see-thru dresses.  i mean, wake up), why they should not do it, and why they should not meet up with any guys who try to hook up with them, after seeing their slutty pics.

so f’ing easy.

i mean, these parents are acting like they’ve taken every step in life to ensure that their kids got the best possible opportunity, then bam, myspace comes and their daughters are doped up getting turned out in a hotel that charges by the hour.  like, ‘oh yeah, my julie is a straight A student, never gets in trouble, but don’t let her near a computer otherwise you’ll find her on hollywood blvd in a hot pink mini with sores on her lips.’

come on.

parents:  if your 14 year olds are putting up inappropriate pics online and meeting up with guys online to get f’ed, that’s because they’re whores.  and they’re not whores because the evil myspace fairy flew threw their bedroom window one night and tapped them on the head with the magic whore wand (i know because i’ve looked for these whore wands - nowhere to be found) - they’re whores because you raised them as whores. 

and don’t give me the ‘but i work two jobs and i don’t have time to monitor everything my kids do’ bs.  that is why god created abortions.  and if you do have these kids, then realize that no matter what excuse you give, no matter how little time you have, no matter how many jobs you work, neglecting your kids will result in a case of teenage whorism.  so step up, stop blaming the movies, or violence on tv or video games or the Internet, and do your fucking job.