OK, what foods absolutely do not belong in sushi?

One of the local sushi restaurants has a Philly steak and cheese hand roll. Not a Philly roll with salmon and cream cheese. Steak and cheese.

If anyone sees my motivation fleeing for the border, tell it to send me a postcard.

Is the steak cooked? Because I do like beef sashimi, and am now really wanting raw beef and cream cheese with some soury sweet rice.

Or would if I could stomach red meat at the moment.

I was too repulsed by the thought to order one and see. But given the clientelle, I would assume cooked. Possibly with the cheese being of the whiz variety.

My favorite thing at Roy's is the Lakanilau Roll, which is seared kobe beef and crab dynamite. YUM.

Of course, now I'm hungry and want to go get some.

Announcement: Today, I learned that there is a new rule I may have to deal with a lot that revolves around the word "uncertificated"

Analysis: The word "uncertificated" makes my head hurts.

I'm supposed to write cover letters for Daily Show and Colbert Report.

I knew it. Though I was expecting Letterman. Craig Ferguson would be cool, too.

All your veggie talk makes me kind of sad, being of the supertaster ilk (those for whom flavors are whacked). Hubby came in yesterday with a handful of sugar peas he'd just picked off the plant. "Here, have some of these before I scarf them all." I figured, 'OK, they don't get any fresher, and people keep saying sugar peas are really sweet, so let's try it.' I bit into it, and all I tasted was green and bitter. I shrugged and handed the other half back to Hubby, "Sorry, it tastes like everything else."

He bit into another one and handed me the other half. "Try that one."

I did, the exact same taste. "So you're tasting something sweet?"

Him: "They're like candy, but with a subtle, rich taste, too."

I still think it's a damned plot by the rest of the world. You only dig delightedly into veggies because you've been mindwashed. It must be a little like a blind man having colors explained to him.

Judging by my reaction to grapefruit (people consume those? recreationally? Jaysus) I'd filed myself as a supertaster. But I think most vegetables taste like nothing. Until they kick right over and taste like metal.

However, that worked well for me today--lunch was shrimp (yeah, just steamed shrimp) and a small piece of steamed zucchini. Still moving slowly.

Did Weta exist before the LotR movies, or did they come out of the production effort. I just stumbled onto a National Geographic article about them helping with lizard research that's just a little bit odder for their association with big movies, but less odd when you consider the etymology of their name.

Olives are on the supertaster list, ita. I would consider myself on that side (I hate that term; it makes it sound like one is calling oneself a superhero; it should be more like a handicap), but I don't hate olives. Or mushrooms for that matter-- I don't even get what's objectionable about them.

I'm definitely not a supertaster, but I hate grapefruit, too.

Weta Digital came out of the computer work done on The Frighteners, but Weta Workshop came out of Richard Taylor's work on Meet the Feebles and Braindead.

I want to say Weta did Frighteners, but I'm not sure I'm remembering that right.

I'm supposed to write cover letters for Daily Show and Colbert Report

So. Cool. I've been wondering how that works, how they find the new people to have on and suchlike. I hope you aren't worrying too much about expectations because all this potential and possibility is just exciting.

I'll try pretty much anything a sushi chef wants to put together. Sometimes unexpected things just do not work, but sometimes they do. If I could remember which is which thaht would probably be helpful.