Sunday, February 20, 2005
On Thursday I took my friend Kelly out for dinner and a movie for her birthday, almost 2 weeks after the fact. Which is okay, because it was 3 weeks after my birthday when she took me out last month. The movie she picked was A Very Long Engagement, which I didn't really know anything about before seeing, I hadn't even seen Amelie or any of that stuff. It was really visually impressive, especially for a non-American film, I really wonder what kind of budget they made it on. Well done gore, too, probably as real-looking as anything in Saving Private Ryan, but not nearly as hard to look at because of the lightness of the overall tone throughout. Also, the phrase "doggie fart, gladdens my heart" is now burned into my brain.

For dinner we went to the Helmand, which I'd been meaning to check out forever, friends are always reccomending it to me. Afghan food is good! I need to go there again, or at least have Indian more often. As far as I'm concerned, that whole region has its shit together, culinary-wise.

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that purple punch

Saturday, November 20, 2004

As a music fan, I've never really had a collector mentality, I don't really care if a record's rare if it doesn't have any value to me personally. Apparently I have that kind of mentality with soft drinks, though. Anytime there's a new soda out in a limited edition or being test marketed, I'm all ready to try that shit. I was hip to Sierra Mist pretty early on when it was being test marketed on my campus before anyone really knew about it, and it has long since been my lemon-lime soda of choice.

And lately I'm all about Mountain Dew's new "Pitch Black" black grape flavor, which has been on my campus for a minute and I'm starting to see else where. A couple weeks ago, I was in a Royal Farms that was selling 2 liters of it for cheap, so I grabbed a couple and have been nursing those. According to this article, the "limited edition" was only through Halloween, although it'll probably be back in stores permanently in a few months. I never really gotten into MD Live Wire, and I liked Code Red for a while but I've been off it for the past couple months. I like this Pitch Black stuff, though. The taste doesn't resemble any other grape soda, let alone any actual natural grape flavor. The weirdest thing I've noticed about it since I got the 2 liters is that when you pour it in a glass with ice, the froth is purple with weird little splotches of blue. And PoopReport.com (a site which I'm both horrified and delighted by the existence of) recently conducted an informal experiment to see if drinking Pitch Black in large amounts turns your poo green.

Of course, there's another 'limited edition' soda out there right now, Pepsi Holiday Spice. I really don't understand what the idea with that is, and the packaging and advertising is extremely vague about what kind of "spice" is in it. It pretty much tastes like regular Pepsi, with maybe a touch of Dr. Pepper in it, and the color of it has a red tint to it.

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