The Guru

This movie is "low-budget" and super retarded but it's a lot of fun. Reminds me of the days when it was best to watch such movies totally loaded.

Let me set the expectations here. We are not watching Bergman or Kubrick here nor do we expect coherence or rationality. We are watching an implausible comedy to get entertained.

Bonus to anyone who spots all the New York locations. Too much fun trying to nail the exact corner where it was filmed.

And why does Heather Graham play a porn star in so many movies?

New York Crapping

Recently it was explained to me that the "probable" reason that the NYPL did not have a "drop box" for returning books was that "people would just put crap inside it".

Sad, isn't it?

NYPL

At some point, I just dumped my entire list of "books I wanna read but don't want to buy" into the New York Public Library "bring-it-to-me" scheme.

The local branch is just a few blocks away.

Better yet, you can just keep dumping things into the queue, and they keep bringing them. Alas, the queue can only be 15 long, and you can only have 30 out at a time.

So what? I'm having the time of my life. I think I finished 2.5 books today.

Let's not forget the important part. They bring it to you!!!

Per Se

Per Se reminds the CC of why he doesn't go out to eat in the "white tablecloth" restaurants.

Pitch perfect food but emotionally frigid.

The CC assumes readers have heard of the above restaurant and Thomas Keller. There was a 9-course menu, etc. and it was excellent. However, it was the equivalent of dancing with someone who spends all their time more concerned about their hair not falling out of place than having a good time.

The CC will also note the nosebleed borderline-larcenious prices.

Mr. Keller should note that at those prices errors are not forgiven. A waiter trying to take away a course before the diner has finished not once but four times is clearly not acceptable particularly when the restaurant is 60% empty for "second seating" on a Saturday!

Leaning over to refill water and coffee in front of the diner while he/she is speaking is pretty much a no-no straight out of the Culinary School 101. That it happened repeatedly is simply unforgivable.

The idea isn't that Mr. Keller isn't brilliant (he is, and the CC is competely and utterly in awe!) It's that now that "sous vide" and "shaved salt" has spread far and wide into the repertoire of the average talented culinary student, and that Mr. Keller's discoveries are accessible to the average homecook, he needs to amp up his game, or drop the prices (or both.)

Let's turn to some current pop songs to finish the review.

Is the CC sorry he went?

Non, je ne regrette rien!

Would the CC go again?

Don't take me back to Per Se, no, No, NO!