Thanks to the Smart Bitches, I have spent about an hour this morning watching various versions of the haka, mostly the All Blacks (rugby team) [link] but I found a few good non-rugby ones: [link]

Need to stop cavorting around the house slapping my thighs and sticking my tongue out now.

So awesome. It's like West Side Story, only more believable.

Also, I have determined that the reason my bedroom has not been very cool is that the air conditioner isn't working very well. I realize this should have been more obvious sooner. Anyway, it's a window unit I bought cheap 9 years ago. I should just get a new one, right? Ugh!

Timelies all!

Gonna try to sell a bunch of books to the local used bookstore, then pick up a hold at the library. Tonight we go see Rush at the Nissan Pavilion.

Books and rock'n'roll. Good day.

Do you change and/or clean your filters, Jesse?

I don't think I can get it out, the way my windows are set. But maybe it's worth pulling the unit out of the window and doing that. Cheaper than a new one, anyway!

It was here we were talking about lobster, right? I just had a hilarious conversation with my grandmother about (a) how she and my parents divided up a Legal Seafood lobster and chowder meal for two among the three of them (she takes the bodies) and (b) how she likes her lobster roll -- in the real New England hot dog bun, not too much mayo, no other crap. Apparently Jasper White had celery AND cucumber AND lettuce AND too much mayo in his, and she was NOT impressed.

I'm sitting in an audition. Some of these parents skeer me, y'all.

Haka is the awesome! I love the youtube of the All Blacks vs. Tonga, because Tongans do something Haka like. [link]

And I think UH's football team (undefeated until bowl time) did a Haka at the beginning of each game.

Oh yeah, NZ v Tonga was the one that made me think West Side Story: "We will FUCK YOU UP... with DANCE!"

It was here we were talking about lobster, right? I just had a hilarious conversation with my grandmother about (a) how she and my parents divided up a Legal Seafood lobster and chowder meal for two among the three of them (she takes the bodies) and (b) how she likes her lobster roll -- in the real New England hot dog bun, not too much mayo, no other crap. Apparently Jasper White had celery AND cucumber AND lettuce AND too much mayo in his, and she was NOT impressed.

I freely admit that growing up on the New England coast has made me a lobster snob. My favorite little lobster dive is this place on a back street, down an alley, and across the railroad tracks in New London. They have the cold lobster roll most people know, but they also have a hot lobster roll, which is my favorite thing ever. Choice lobster meat with drawn butter drizzled across it in a hot dog bun. Hell yeah.

We went there the first night we were in CT last week, which turned out to be a good thing since the trip got cut short. I would have been bummed to have missed out on my yearly lobster fix.

(I refuse to pay $40 for a lobster, flown across the country or not, so there's no way I eat it in LA.)