July 2001 Archives

In the supermarket this evening as I was checking out my sushi and cheese and crackers, there were two students in line in front of me.

I took a look at their shopping basket. I was surprised to find non-standard-student ingredients. You'd expect spaghetti, or pizza, which they'd overcook or burn. Instead I found a bottle of balsamico vinegar, olive oil, red leaf lettuce, loads of bags of mozzarella, a couple of trays of prosciutto, several portions of herb leaves (basil, mint?) and a box of fresh peaches.

Wow, I thought, we HAVE progressed. Students who know how to cook? Who are willing to spend the extra penny to have a decent meal?

I went over the ingredients again and it dawned on me. They were going to make Jamie Oliver's "Mozzarella and mixed leaf salad with mint, peach and prosciutto".

I don't know whether I was shocked recognising the recipe, or because I wouldn't expect these lads to even watch the show.

Pukka!

'I want to see them sweat', I said, talking on the mobile, queuing up for U2 in Cologne yesterday.

We had been texting each other:

'U R 2 OLD 2 B QN 4 U2, TRYIN 2 GET INTO D HEART?'

I was. Queued up from 10 AM till 6 PM to get that front row spot. The area around U2's stage is secluded, heartshaped, and only the first 340 people get in.

I'm bored, so I ring. He says: 'I've never understood why people want to see a band up close, I always stay in the back, even when I was young.'

This is bluddy brill: Venusberg.org blogs Office Game of the day and mayhem ensues: find two films with a common word and combine them employing that common word, then attempt to articulate the plot of the new creation.

It's too hot to think but I'd like to contribute 'A Woman under the Volcano' in which Gena Rowlands shags Anthony Andrews and loses the plot in Mexico, and 'Snow white and the seven samurai', a girl chokes on a poisoned manga when 7 japanese warriors chase her around the village.