Coincidentlaly, I just had leftover pizza for dinner before signing in here. I am beyond shocked that Dominos is now making pizzas that are actually good—in the past I'd only eaten them because they tended to be cheap and therefore provided for free by someone at work.

Oh, yeah, +1 to me for the risotto. Awesome. I think next time I'll make it with fish, asparagus, and lime juice.

You inspired me and I made shrimp and snow pea risotto. Nom.

Dana, what's your tagline from? It makes me laugh every time I read it.

It's apparently from a Terry Goodkind book, and deadly serious. The evil chicken is one of fandom_wank's favorite things.

It's dreary and rainy here, but we can't really complain as we need all the rain we can get: [link]

We're getting snow here now.

I think I'm going to bake corn muffins.

Those two statements may be related. Or maybe not.

As of now we have no more carpet in the house.

Beth, congrats on no carpet and Matt's job!!

I am on day 4 of a very bad cold/sore throat which sucks because I was supposed to check out a new cool spot in Oaktown with Consuela tonight. Instead, I haven't left the house since Friday night. Steve has been over a few times, to watch The Visitor on the Roku (loving the Roku, btw!) and bring me cough medicine. It's so much easier now that's he's 10 minutes away instead of 35+.

But, aside from missing hangout time with Consuela, being sick has been a largely enjoyable excuse to read and watch dvds, activities I rarely fit in my schedule. Sometimes it's nice to have an excuse to be immensely non-productive.

A man who owned a sports and fishing store in Old Town Alexandria wanted to expand. He bought a building, hired architects, came up with plans, and at each step, checked with the historical building commission, who kept saying everything looked good. It came time for final approval, and the historical building commission told him that he couldn't do it. They told him to submit new plans, but he said that he didn't have any more money for the architects. So, in retaliation, he rented the building to a sex shop. [link]

Sometimes it's nice to have an excuse to be immensely non-productive.

Indeed. I've been very unproductive this weekend, which is hard to justify. Whereas if I were sick, I wouldn't feel guilty about it.

This is going to be an xpost (Natter and BS) because I honestly have no idea where this show belongs. I'd probably say it "transcends genre" if that phrase didn't make me grind my teeth - there's one blink-and-you'll-miss it brush with magical realism, but the bulk of the show is politics and family drama. On the other hand, it takes place in the fictional Kingdom of Gilboa, soooo....yeah. The show it most reminds me of is Rome.

Kings premieres on NBC in two weeks, and the promos have been at best confusing and at worst off-putting. But the show itself is AWESOME. I wish it were on cable where it would survive, because I have a feeling nobody will watch it due to NBC's total fucking up of the marketing effort and it will get canceled just as its getting interesting.

The worldbuilding in this show is astonishingly strong. The writing is solid, the characters well-drawn, and the acting is good across the board. And there's really nothing else like it on TV right now.

So far I've only seen the pilot - I have the next 2 eps as well, and if the show goes completely off the rails I'll take back everything I just posted. But I really hope it doesn't, because I want to know where this story goes.