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August 30, 2010

I Knew This Day Would Come

Last night at the fine Italian restaurant La Nonna (warning, flash page wth stupid camera-shutter noise) two humorous things ocurred. One, Zoe can actually read now and said "Oh my God restaurants are so expensive!!!" with genuine horror. Which, yeah, pretty much. Which is why we don't eat there all the time, but my kids have no doubt eaten in expensive restaurants approximately 500 times as often as I had at their age, and are generally rather blase about things like that. This restaurant used to have wild boar ragu with penne, which the girls loved and would split. They removed it, and there was nothing perfect for a while, but they have now insituted a one free pizza per child policy (of a reasonable, thin, 8-inch in diameter pizza) and have oxtail ragu with pappardelle, making for the perfect combination, since Violet and I can split pasta and John can eat Violet's pizza. House-made pappardelle, they are super-tender and good. Secondly, somehow it came up that I didn't know what Kirby Krackle was. Zoe turned to me with perfect seriousness and said, "have you read Kirby's 'The Demon'"? I was dying but, what could I say but yes? And it turned out Kirby Krackle is perfectly obvious and I would have figured it out myself eventually, but to have a 9-year-old be like, Mom, you know, in the spash page of the Demon Etrigan?, where...etc. A child of mine! I told John he is raising cute girls that will break the hearts of nerds of whatever gender, but he seems OK with that. I guess the only way it could have been worse would have been if it were Devil Dinosaur.

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onymous

Zoe turned to me with perfect seriousness and said, "have you read Kirby's 'The Demon'"?

Zoe is awesome. I first stumbled upon an issue of that by accident when I was like 14 and didn't know what to make of it; it took a while before I properly grew to love the Kirby.

Posted by: onymous | August 31, 2010 at 12:55 AM

Belle Waring

Yeah, but part of the reason you didn't is that the Demon is kind of...well, I've realized it's not appropriate to call things "retarded" in a negative way, so let's just say it's a special needs comic. Oh shit, that was worse, right? OK, if the intellectual content and overall coherence of The Demon got in a fight with Ke$ha's "Tik-Tok" video, the Demon would win, but there would be, like, some tense moments.

Posted by: Belle Waring | August 31, 2010 at 10:44 AM

Richard J

What a startlingly impractical website. Five layers down to find out where they are?

Maybe I've just been stunned into submission by living in London for a decade, but the prices (bar alcoholic drinks) when I was in Singapore earlier this year didn't seem unreasonable, outliers like Raffles' brunch aside.

Posted by: Richard J | September 01, 2010 at 08:06 PM

lemmy caution

My kids have converted me to liking Ke$ha's "Tik-Tok". It is a good pop song. The use of autotune on that song is pretty clever too. It isn't just used to make her sound like a better singer like boatloads of faceless disney pop does. Ke$ha's voice remains flat and bratty with the autotune as separately identifiable shimmer.

Apparently, her favorite album is "nashville skyline":

http://www.mercurynews.com/music/ci_15451867?source=rss

Posted by: lemmy caution | September 03, 2010 at 06:54 AM

ben

Kirby Krackle is a candy bar that, when you eat it, enables you to inhale threatening creatures? Or it inhales you, maybe.

Posted by: ben | September 11, 2010 at 03:14 AM

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