Tuesday, October 25, 2005

basque food & baseball

tonight was the last tuesday of the month. why is that important? well, really, it's not important. but, on the last tuesday of the month the landmark restaurant serves chicken livers as a part of their basque dinner. okay, i don't care about chicken livers, but i had one anyway tonight. the meal is like an 8 course feast. it's reasonably priced. so, i'm stuffed with bread, chili bean soup, salad, rice pilaf, beef stew, seasoned beef tongue (just a little touch), fried chicken liver, friend chicken, and some ice cream. oh yeah, and many little glasses of wine. we finished dinner fully three hours ago and i'm still feeling stuffed. it was a nice walk home. tim and adam joined heather and i. the meal is served family style so it's fun passing stuff around. we were joined by 2 other people. isaac and melonie. okay, i may have spelled both of those wrong but you get the point. nice conversation, they live in the tower district, cool people. sitting at a family table like this can be a real grab bag but both times we've come to this meal we have done alright. last time it was like a family of 4, but we had around 17 in our group. i'm sure they felt outnumbered.

when we left, the baseball game (game 3 world series) was in the 9th. tied up. this game tied for the longest ws game ever at 14 innings. crazy long, war of attrition. i was hoping houston would win, and maybe make the series a little more interesting. now i want them to get swept and the series to be over with. frankly, i don't care too much about baseball. i like the giants, and follow the season until they're done.

so, i went home, flipped back and forth between the amazing race and the ball game. then just watched the game until it was finished.

on another note, saturday night live is in the crapper this season. not every skit has stunk but plenty have. it seems like each week there isone decent one. nothing great, and even the news hasn't been delivering. i was really surprised that there were two skits, back to back this week that were funny. unfortunately, they were the last 2 of the night. i just kept thinking, why didn't they show these first and put those duds later? btw, i record the show. i'm not going to stay up and watch that suck. and this way, i can fastforward through crappy skits or musical acts (ashlee simpson again?). when i heard that the host was catherine zeta jones and the music was franz ferdinand i said to heather, "what is this, three years ago?" good job lorne, way to keep relevant. freaking franz ferdinand played their hit from the last album. you're telling me that you don't have another song on your current album worth playing. terrible.

enough for now.

okay, one last note. painting is going well. hope to finish up 3 paintings in the next short while.

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Mmm, Basque food. Yet another thing the state of Florida doesn't seem to know about. There's a place in Los Banos I grew up to that hands down beats any of the Basque restaurants I've been to in Fresno. Same family style service, with the strongest red wine on the table you've ever tasted. I'm sorta missing California right now.

Justin said...

The last time I watched Tina Fey was AWOL. I like Horatio Sands and all that, but I want me some Tina Fay! Is this a permanent change?

Unknown said...

I know that place in Los Banos. Don't know the name, either.

The best thing I've seen on SNL in the past was when Jon Heder hosted. The skit with the Univision talk show had me pissing myself. Or maybe I was just blind drunk.

edluv said...

tina fey was on maternity leave. she was back this lsat week.

JPN said...

I agree, get it over with, it's taking away from football!

I see you live in the Tower District, what type of community is that? Sounds interesting...

edluv said...

maybe i'll do a post on the tower district. basically, it's a historic district of fresno, organized around the old tower theater. sorta an artsy district, good night life, lots of restaurants. old homes, strong sense of community.

it's an interesting thing though. the tower was in decline around 15-20 years ago. and, a certain segment of the community moved in, renovated homes, invested in the community, and brought it back to life. it became trendy and safe and now is vibrant. i'd like to say it was the church, but it wasn't.

another interesting note, the tower is the birthplace of california's 3 strikes law. kimber reynolds, daughter of local photographer mike reynolds was killed during a stick up outside of a local restaurant by a repeat offender. that event got mike reynolds started in the process of making 3 strikes, which passed in like 1993.

Anonymous said...

The place in Los Banos is Woolgrowers. It probably wouldn't pass any cleanliness laws, but there don't seem to be many Basque place that would.

Ed, I'd love to see you post on the Tower District. One of those things I miss about Fresno.

Adam said...

Speaking of shot and killed, did you hear about the guy that was shot and later died at the hospital last night in front of Club Fred?

edluv said...

in fact i did adam. and i heard the ghetto bird circling, cop cars racing all about, shouting on a speaker "get back". then i went outside and looked @ the bird circling w/the spotlight on. then i went back inside and went to sleep. oh yeah, that was @ 1 a.m.