Tales from Croatia
the secret origin of bobert:
Day 19
A Quiet Day
Not much happened today, except for a lot of TV. The only thing that might qualify as exciting from today was that tonight I went out to dinner, to a Mexican joint. The only strange part was that there were no Mexicans in the restaurant. In fact it was run by Croats. I found this as normal as my family opening a Chinese restaurant, next door to Uncle Chan's Jade Soul Food Palace. The food wasn't that bad, especially considering where I had it. For ambience, in place of mariachi singers and Mexican people in general, the site played Latin music in the background and had Corona posters all across the wall. Accepting the subtle hints and realizing that I had not had a beer since senior week, I ordered a Corona. I wondered how they would handle the optional lime, and was really impressed that it had indeed come with a citrus fruit. That is, I was impressed until I realized that my lime was yellow. There was a lemon in my Corona. Of course it wasn't that bad, with me being used to it with it being a common blunder. But it did remind me of all those times that Wil's rich girlfriend bought us beer.
So 2 days ago I so Payback. It was awesome. In fact I'm pretty sure that its secondary title is "How To Be a Hard-Ass 101." You have no idea how much ass he single-handily kicks.. He's so tough that he makes George Clooney in the first half of From Dusk Till Dawn, look like Ragedy Andy (you know Ragedy Ann's brother, friend, or gay boy toy; it was really never explained). Payback tried to approach the matrix as the coolest movie ever. It didn't succeed or even come close, but it did make a good gosh darn effort. However I can truthfully say that in a fight between Neo and Porter (Mel Gibson in Payback), that Porter would win, even though Neo can fly and bend reality to his will. Yes Porter manages to be that big a bad-ass.
Does anyone think that if I watch enough German TV that I'll be able to learn German, I'm kinda hoping that it'll work. Granted its not immersion, or anything close to it, but it requires so little effort. Plus I would be able to understand such wonders as German phone-sex commercials (albeit I'm pretty sure I'm getting the gist of things), Airwolf, and other dregs of American TV that they import over here. Der Prince von Bel-Air just came on, a good show I admit. But sadly they did not translate the theme song. That would have been too magnificent.
-Bobert
Not much happened today, except for a lot of TV. The only thing that might qualify as exciting from today was that tonight I went out to dinner, to a Mexican joint. The only strange part was that there were no Mexicans in the restaurant. In fact it was run by Croats. I found this as normal as my family opening a Chinese restaurant, next door to Uncle Chan's Jade Soul Food Palace. The food wasn't that bad, especially considering where I had it. For ambience, in place of mariachi singers and Mexican people in general, the site played Latin music in the background and had Corona posters all across the wall. Accepting the subtle hints and realizing that I had not had a beer since senior week, I ordered a Corona. I wondered how they would handle the optional lime, and was really impressed that it had indeed come with a citrus fruit. That is, I was impressed until I realized that my lime was yellow. There was a lemon in my Corona. Of course it wasn't that bad, with me being used to it with it being a common blunder. But it did remind me of all those times that Wil's rich girlfriend bought us beer.
So 2 days ago I so Payback. It was awesome. In fact I'm pretty sure that its secondary title is "How To Be a Hard-Ass 101." You have no idea how much ass he single-handily kicks.. He's so tough that he makes George Clooney in the first half of From Dusk Till Dawn, look like Ragedy Andy (you know Ragedy Ann's brother, friend, or gay boy toy; it was really never explained). Payback tried to approach the matrix as the coolest movie ever. It didn't succeed or even come close, but it did make a good gosh darn effort. However I can truthfully say that in a fight between Neo and Porter (Mel Gibson in Payback), that Porter would win, even though Neo can fly and bend reality to his will. Yes Porter manages to be that big a bad-ass.
Does anyone think that if I watch enough German TV that I'll be able to learn German, I'm kinda hoping that it'll work. Granted its not immersion, or anything close to it, but it requires so little effort. Plus I would be able to understand such wonders as German phone-sex commercials (albeit I'm pretty sure I'm getting the gist of things), Airwolf, and other dregs of American TV that they import over here. Der Prince von Bel-Air just came on, a good show I admit. But sadly they did not translate the theme song. That would have been too magnificent.
-Bobert