March 8 Miscellany
by Caroline• Siam Country, my favorite local Thai place, offers these spiciness options for their dishes:
Not Spicy
Mild
Medium
American Spicy
Thai Spicy
Medium turned out to be more than I was prepared for, my bad. But I definitely laughed a lot at “American spicy,” which also sounds imprudent.
• Hearts for Housing happened Friday night and I had a seriously good time, while inadvertently embarrassing a group of lawyers I played with by admitting (when asked!) that I graduated from high school in 2003.
• Thanks to Netflix, I’ve begun an epic quest to watch the entire series of Homicide: Life on the Street, by the same guy who later created The Wire. I believe Homicide to be one of the best TV shows ever made. In fact, here are my top nine in no particular order, excluding single-season shows because those, to me, play out more like movies.
1. The Mary Tyler Moore Show
2. Homicide
3. Six Feet Under
4. M*A*S*H
5. The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle
6. The Twilight Zone
7. Northern Exposure
8. The Simpsons (up to probably season 8)
9. The Bob Newhart Show
• My parents saw Fleetwood Mac at the Allstate Arena this week and said it totally rocked. I wish I could have gone! As a special karmic punishment, the radio played really good Fleetwood Mac pretty much all weekend long. Thanks a lot, universe.
2 responses
Oh man! that thai place you mentioned in your blog is exactly 1.5 blocks away from my friends’ apartment (they live on N. Damen, so it’s a straight line, too). I will have to go there next time I’m nearby.
The only meal i’ve ever had to abandon due to spice was a Thai dish. I ordered it “medium.” A friend of mine ordered Thai Hot, and could only stomach three bites.