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06 February 2006

It's lunchtime! Eveybody Shake A Tail Feather!→[More:]

That's the Mitch Ryder version and it's great. For some reason the scene in Hairspray where Tracy Turnblad and her friend and dancing around the living room to that song gets me choked up. I don't know why. The song however, makes me boogie like a mad fool.

post by: jonmc at: 13:25 | 35 comments

Nice.

Here is the problem with bringing your lunch from home jon... (I know in your case that would be one cold Jalapeno popper, a sandwhich bag of mixed Pixie Stix dust and several salami slices wrapped around a twizzler, but bear with me)... Unless you hit your head, there is no surprise. That shit is annoying. I might have to start making a bunch of lunches on the weekend and doing a grab bag, that or make more money.

Hmmm.

I took a blues break and I broke it.

posted by Divine_Wino 06 February | 13:32

Here we go loop-de-loop.

posted by Divine_Wino 06 February | 13:35

[oblingingly shakes orange tailfeather]

posted by Orange Swan 06 February | 13:38

I just had a donut out of the vending machine. Glazed is an understatement. This sucrose on this bad boy was put on by Garden State Brickface & Stucco, I think.

As a bonus, the gmost *ahem* flamboyant, (and one of the funkiest and funniest) R&B songs ever:

Bobby Marchan - There Is Something On Your Mind (part 2)

on preview: ohh that's nice citrus waterfowl.

posted by jonmc 06 February | 13:39

Well, I heard about the fella you've been dancing with all over the neighborhood...

posted by sisterhavana 06 February | 13:50

why didn't you ask me, baby, didn't you think I could?

posted by jonmc 06 February | 13:51

*shakes groove thang*

I'm enjoying some delightful turkey meatballs in tomato-mushroom sauce over whole wheat angel hair. Also known as "last night's leftovers".

posted by Miko 06 February | 13:52

That's it, I'm going to the diner for an unauthorized hour-and-change. All this talk about food has made me want to peruse a laminated menu full of glossy pictures and low prices.

posted by Hugh Janus 06 February | 14:00

Don't get the "health" plate or "dieters" plate, with individual can of tuna. No one has ever bought one and you might be just the giddy motherfucker to break the seal and unleash the hounds of hell.

Instead get something with diner fries and a coke or pepsi with lots of ice and slice of lemon.

posted by Divine_Wino 06 February | 14:07

If you get a burger put the cole slaw from the little cup on it (ignoring sneaking suspicion that you might be getting a little paper cup of slaw that three or four others turned down already, break the cycle!), along with the tomato. Eschew the onion and lettuce.

This is not advice so much as a wishful diner order in the second person.

posted by Divine_Wino 06 February | 14:09

Wino, I thought the same thing about the liver & onion sanwich at this beloved hometown joint until I saw some dude order one. But he didn't look like a happy guy, more like David Crosby in that post prison picture where his hair and Yosemite Sam whiskers are gone. It was disquieting to see the cook slap the slab of liver down on the grill next to the burgers and bacon and dogs. Damn thing probably came from a stegosaurus.

posted by jonmc 06 February | 14:11

I had a burrito from Anna's Taqueria up the street. I don't often make the trek over there for lunch, but it's worth it.

Now I have rice on my computer keyboard. RICE DAMMIT!

posted by killdevil 06 February | 14:13

Leather and onions.

posted by Divine_Wino 06 February | 14:15

Perhaps man, perhaps. But who the hell orders liver at a hot dog stand. Guy musta had a twisted childhood.

posted by jonmc 06 February | 14:17

That's like when someone orders, say, filet of sole at the diner. I want to literally jump up and scream "What?" at the top of my lungs. Craaaaaaaaa-zy.

posted by Divine_Wino 06 February | 14:24

I had a salad with goat cheese and apple and walnut and raspberry vinagrette and some leftover prosciutto and port salut from the weekend.

I sound like a wanker.

posted by gaspode 06 February | 14:27

My buddy Carmine once ordered Veal Parmigiana at the Seville Diner out in Douglaston. He complained that it wasn't good, but what do you expect when you ask a Greek to cook Italian.

posted by jonmc 06 February | 14:27

We went out for lunch today. Woohoo! A nice walk in the snow, then Mussels Saganaki, grilled fish, green salad and fried zucchini with tzatziki ... and lots of wine. Yum.

posted by taz 06 February | 14:39

Taz wins lunch for sure.

posted by Divine_Wino 06 February | 14:41

what, no love for Spackle Donut?

posted by jonmc 06 February | 14:43

If you went for a walk in the snow and had Mussels
Whateverthefuck and grilled fish, green salad, fried zuchini with tzatziki, lots of wine and then you bought a donut that was trying too hard I might give you the win, but currently... No, sorry.

posted by Divine_Wino 06 February | 14:47

Mussels Whateverthefuck

That's a German dish. Taz ate Greek.

posted by jonmc 06 February | 14:50

Is it called Greek food in Greece?

Let's go out for some us food man!

posted by Divine_Wino 06 February | 14:57

Velveeta & Mayo on white toast and a side of tater tots? with a Hi-C orange chaser?

(yum)

posted by jonmc 06 February | 15:06

Open sliced steak sandwich, medium, fries, and a coke.

I ate the lettuce, tomato, and slaw separately, used a little salt and ketchup (I shake pepper into my fry ketchup) on my fries, and read a book on the rise and demise of Long-Term Capital Management.

Court Square Diner has exactly the right mix in their soda fountain; the coke was perfect.

I returned to the office and nobody had noticed my absence. The perfect crime!

posted by Hugh Janus 06 February | 15:35

Ketchup? A1 sauce, brother! The condiment of kings!

posted by jonmc 06 February | 15:37

Not on fries it ain't. Funny you mention A-1, though.

When the waiter brought my meal he placed a bottle of A-1 on the table, which I fully intended to use.

When I finished my sandwich, I looked at the bottle without regret, thinking that I sometimes forget things that turn out just fine anyway.

Am I supposed to draw some kinda message from that?

posted by Hugh Janus 06 February | 15:42

I met up with Lipstick Thespian after his 2ND INTERVIEW here at my company and we got into the car and went for INDIAN BUFFET!

I have this theory about how Indian food makes you high, but I never realized until today that it also MAKES YOU SHOUT!

posted by matildaben 06 February | 15:46

I dunno.

Also, I'm usually a fan of products mutating into new and bizzare subsets (witness my enthuisiams for the churros Bugles). But when it comes to A1, I am an old school purist. Keep yer Bold & Spicy, Hot & Nasty, Oozing & Cabuncular; just give me original recipe.

posted by jonmc 06 February | 15:50

I like A-1. I also like Worcestershire sauce.

Indian food, too. I think the high is proof that aromatherapy has some basis in reality.

posted by Hugh Janus 06 February | 15:59

I like it, too, but only the original.

posted by jonmc 06 February | 16:09

I love A-1 on my burgers. Beats ketchup by a mile!

Although today I had Popeye's chicken for lunch.

posted by sisterhavana 06 February | 16:14

I am not above eating A-1 straight from the bottle via one finger. It's that good.

posted by Miko 06 February | 16:16

In a comedy sketch once, titled "Make Jenn Eat Things," I ate a spoonfull of regular cherry jello dry mix, a lemon wedge including rind, and a shot of A-1.

You know, in the hopes it would be funny.

I would have been ok if I hadn't practiced the night before, thereby knowing what I was getting into.

It was the A-1 shot that did me in.

posted by rainbaby 06 February | 16:25

Here's a simple A1 based recipe, described in the NYTimes as "old school Hollywood."

Dust your steak with ground fennel and pepper,
cook in a pan.

Slather with A1 mixed with dried lavender flowers.

posted by StickyCarpet 07 February | 11:27

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