VEGANS!

Tonight I ate an amazing little place called Ethos Vegan Kitchen in Orlando, FL. I feel it is necessary now for an apology: To all the vegans out there, I'm sorry. I'm sorry for calling you crazy for all these years. You just came on a bit strong, that's all. From now on I promise I've got your back. We're bros now. Mind you I'm not vegan yet. I'm still to big a fan of my daily pus infused byproduct of a cow's udder. But I have to say, Ethos is an outstanding restaraunt. I had a pecan encrusted roasted eggplant that was superb (Sautéed pecan encrusted eggplant finished with red wine sauce and served with mashed potatoes and gravy and today's vegitable, oh and a small peice of heaven). Their bathrooms were clean too (I always find this an important factor in deciding whether or not I like a place). Vegans I am just going to say this: If you can all cook like this, I don't care how crazy you are. But if you could just tell me one thing. What's with vegan dog food? Was that really necessary? Eh, it's all good, keep up the good work all the same, you zaney veggie killers, you. P.S. The term vegan has always and still does make me think of Vega from Street fighter (and probably always will).

My Review of VEGANS (all of them)

7/10 cute animals who shall stay alive, though perhaps not remain cute

My Review of Ethos Vegan Kitchen

9/10 Angry Eggplants (would have been 10 civil eggplants but I ate one, remember?)

Maximus the Teleporting Horse Dog

I was driving home from work tonight and remembered that my school was showing Disney's Tangled tonight on a big screen outside. So I figure the only thing better than spending my Saturday night home alone would be to spend it at school watching a Disney movie (alone). I was thinking about maybe posting a review of the movie up here (this was my second time seeing it and felt I can judge it properly now), but then I figured, "meh there's plenty of reviews of the movie already, I'm just gonna review that horse!" I mean seriously that thing was awesome! Was it a horse? Was it a dog? Was it a swordsman? I don't even know. The movie itself is good. In fact much better than I anticipated. I'm not saying it's one of my favorites like I've heard a lot of lately (I have my beef with certain aspects and could rant on them for hours but I will avoid such rant as there are a lot of people I know who really... REALLY liked this movie and I know I will feel their wrath later (did I spell wrath right? (wow parentheses within parentheses... This blog just got incepted!))). Did I mention I went and saw this alone? In a sea of couples and groups of friends? I'm not trying to gain sympathy or anything. There was a few other people there like me, just chillin' out max and relaxin' all cool (by themselves). I pulled my chair up to one such fellow. I was all "Hey man! You here alone? Me too! Let's be friends!" No response. Not even a glance. (Making friends is tough) My response (in my head): Fine man, be that way. I just figured this way we didn't BOTH have to look like losers. I'll just give you the stink eye the entire time you watch the movie. (which I did, thank you very much) For real though Maximus the dog horse thing was great. Very cartoony and funny but still a bad@$$. I especially like the part where we find out he can teleport. *spoiler* near the end of the movie Max busts Flynn out of prison and Flynn's all "Max, let's see how fast you can go"... Five minutes later, totally makes it to Rapunzel's tower. The tower that took the entire film before (about a day and a half in movie time) to get away from and reach the city. Original movie dialogue: "Max, let's see how fast you can go..." *bamf* " Oh **** you can teleport? that's freakin' awesome!" Then again maybe it's the tower that was teleporting. Or maybe it's some sort of trans-dimensional subspace nexus that causes it to be five minutes away from everything. For instance: Evil mother chick agrees to make the 3 days journey to fetch Rapunzel shells for her birthday. She's gone for some time and Rapunzel and Flynn make their agreement to run off together, they go and spend all sorts of time outside. Crazy mother chick sees Maximus being all cool dog horse like and is all "the guards? oh snap I need to go check on Rapunzel!" 30 seconds later (5 minutes movie time) she's already back at the tower... (or maybe she was just taking her sweet old time and doing whatever crazy evil chicks do). Dialogue from the original ending to the movie: INT. CASTLE THRONE ROOM KING and QUEEN standing around all mopey about their daughter being kidnapped (some 18 years ago). A GUARD runs in.

GUARD

King! We found your daughter!

KING

No way! That’s awesome! Where was she?

GUARD

You know that tower that’s like

five minutes away from us?

KING

Yeah! You mean...

GUARD

Yup! She’s been there the whole time!

KING

Really? No way! This whole time I

never bothered to check there. Well

I just feel like a horse’s --

For real though it is a very good movie. Don't take this as me making fun of it or anything. I mean I am, but isn't that the best part? When we like something enough that we CAN make fun of it and still end up liking it?

My Rating of Maximus:

8/10 teleporting characters

My Rating of Dude Who Ignored Me:

1/1 Forever Alone

Good Omens

Being that it's past midnight and I am not the least bit tired (thanks to a certain early evening nap I decided to up and make a new blog). Now I've made blogs before and like so many blogs in the blogosphere left by the wayside I left those projects due to lack of interest and all around forgetting they existed (which, by the way ladies, are similar problematic results I have envisioned for myself concerning my children someday). This blog should hopefully last a bit longer because It has the luxury of not having a particular theme. This may also be the reason I end up losing interest and forgetting it exists. We'll see. Let's start this off with

my review of Good Omens by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett:

I just finished reading this book tonight. It's a humorous take on the end of the world with reference to Christian doctrine. The book reads much like a Douglas Adams novel (the brilliance behind The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), of which I know Gaiman is a fan. It's kind of been my stress reliever betwixt books for school and other projects I'm working on so I've really been reading small bits on and off for about two months now. It feels good having another fantastic work of Neil Gaiman under my belt. A belt that, thanks to a birthday weekend and 3 different (very tasty) cakes, barely fits anymore and for this reason had me on a two mile run immediately after the completion of Good Omens.

While running I saw three raccoons, one of which seemed to be running just slightly behind me. At first I felt it was a sign of my natural bond with nature but then I remembered raccoons are known to have the whole rabies thing going for them so I picked up pace as to not risk little Meko catching up with me. It turns out (s)he was a nice addition to my run as the little Englishman who lives in my phone and gives me updates on my run at one point told me I was going a whopping 8.5 mph.

Mind you none of this running business has anything to do with the novel. But you didn't really want me to tell you about it. Trust me, you should just read it on your own (or at least Wikipedia's summery). Still I feel compelled to share a few of my favorite lines:

"They'd been brought up to it and weren't, when you got right down to it, particularly evil. Human beings mostly aren't. They just get carried away by new ideas, like dressing up in jackboots and shooting people, or dressing up in white sheets and lynching people, or dressing up in ti-dye jeans and playing guitars at people. Offer people a new creed with a costume and their hearts and minds will follow."

"They'd come up with some stomach-churning idea that no demon could have thought of in a thousand years, some dark and mindless unpleasantness that only fully functioning human brain could conceive, then shout "The Devil Made Me Do It" and get the sympathy of the court when the whole point was the Devil hardly ever made anyone do anything. He didn't have to."

"The real grace and the real heart-stopping evil, was right inside the human mind."

"She felt she looked haunted and gaunt and romantic, and she would have, if she lost another thirty pounds. She was convinced that she was anorexic, because every time she looked in the mirror she did indeed see a fat person."

"He couldn't see why people made such a fuss about people eating their silly old fruit anyway, but life would be a lot less fun if they didn't. And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it."

My Rating of Good Omens:

7 Angels and One of the Fallen/ 10 Heavenly Beings My Rating of Tonight's Run:

5.5 Rabid Animals