{"id":951,"date":"2008-07-23T12:19:20","date_gmt":"2008-07-23T12:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=951"},"modified":"2025-04-03T18:38:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T23:38:34","slug":"a_la_super_eggp-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/07\/a_la_super_eggp-9.html","title":{"rendered":"\u00c0 la Super Eggplant, currently, I am&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><u>Eating:<\/u>  Like there&#8217;s no tomorrow.  Seriously, people.  On Friday, I must have been afraid there&#8217;d be a run on meat overnight because not only did I have a 900-calorie Chicken Poblano Fresco sandwich for lunch, but then I had BOTH a Brat AND a 2-lb. Hamburger at dinner.  Along with 4? 5? Kirs.  And as I&#8217;m sure you can imagine, I ate even grosser than that at Pitchfork all weekend.  What is wrong with me?<\/p>\n<p><u>Making:<\/u> Technically nothing, last two days have been complete fucking hell on wheels at the secondary browsing location.  But Jenn did rewrite the sleevecaps for me on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/projects\/GirlReaction\/maddox\">the pattern I&#8217;m stuck on <\/a>(ravelry link) so soon I will be working on that.  Soon.  Supposedly.<\/p>\n<p><u>Reading:<\/u> Still reading Dad&#8217;s and my challenge book for the month, <strong>&#8220;The New Granta Book of the American Short Story&#8221; edited by Richard Ford<\/strong>, when I&#8217;m at home.  And reading <strong>&#8220;Finding Battlestar Galactica: the Ultimate Unauthorized Fan&#8217;s Guide&#8221; ed. by Lynette Porter, David Lavery &#038; Hillary Robson <\/strong>on the El.<\/p>\n<p><u>Watching:<\/u> <strong>The Cleaner <\/strong>, a show that apparently I am the only person on earth to like.  Have you read the reviews?  Because they&#8217;re BAD.  But I like it!  Also <strong>The Closer<\/strong>, which I am enjoying but not as much; <strong>Saving Grace<\/strong>, which I am NOT enjoying at all; <strong>Burn Notice<\/strong>, which I am enjoying primarily when Tricia Helfer is on screen (she is sooo different than her BStarG character, and yet has some of the same powerful characteristics. It&#8217;s kinda awesome); and <strong>Generation Kill<\/strong>, which I am LOVING but am *ahem* only 15 minutes into the first episode.  Slacker!  And I&#8217;ve already watched <strong>Dr. Horrible&#8217;s Sing-Along Blog <\/strong>three times (all 3 eps) with many more repeat viewings to follow, I&#8217;m sure.  As for the Big Screen, I loved both <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/07\/big_screen_want.html\">Wanted <\/a><\/strong>and <strong>The Dark Knight <\/strong>and frankly I&#8217;d like to see them both a second time over the weekend.  We shall see.<\/p>\n<p><u>Listening:<\/u> to <strong>Nana Grizol &#8220;Love It Love It&#8221;<\/strong> which I bought after reading about them (a bunch of times)  <a href=\"http:\/\/threeimaginarygirls.com\/imaginary-blog\">on this blog<\/a>.  It is a LOT of fun.  And the <strong>Sea Wolf <\/strong>song <strong>&#8220;Neutral Ground&#8221;<\/strong> over and over after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/07\/complete_brain.html\">this morning&#8217;s El contretemps<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eating: Like there&#8217;s no tomorrow. Seriously, people. On Friday, I must have been afraid there&#8217;d be a run on meat overnight because not only did I have a 900-calorie Chicken Poblano Fresco sandwich for lunch, but then I had BOTH &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/07\/a_la_super_eggp-9.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,31,8,4,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-currently","category-flicks","category-tunes","category-tvtvtv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=951"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1608,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions\/1608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}