A look at how I've been diverting myself lately.
Books
READ: The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio, trans. by Mark Musa and Peter Bondanella [it's so naughty, y'all].
COMING UP: Edward Mendelson, Philip Roth, Michael Chabon.
Movies
SAW: Rosemary's Baby [talk about your stressful pregnancies], Last Tango in Paris [my vote for the least sexy sex scene of all time--excluding everything in Antichrist, of course--is the part where Marlon Brando has Maria Schneider cut the nails on two fingers so that she can put them in his ass while he tells her he wants a pig to fuck her and vomit in her face].
LAST WEEK'S MOVIE NIGHT PICKS:
MINE: My Dog Tulip.
KITO'S: The Change-Up.
NEXT WEEK'S THEME: Based on Shakespeare.
Food
ATE: White broccoli and quail egg shashlik, Laganma chili paste with beef, and red bean fried rice balls @ Snack Planet [in Chinatown].
Current Interests
Kito, race, Thanksgiving, right-wing crazies, Lady Gaga, booze, my dog Lucy, poetry, Stephen Sondheim, David Simon, movies, Broadway divas, comedy, the Internet, The Muppets.
Fool's Four
MY FAVORITE THANKSGIVING DISHES:
1. My mom's mashed potatoes.
2. Stuffing.
3. Yams [sans marshmallow fluff, which is gross].
4. Pie, in any flavor.
Flashbacks
THREE YEARS AGO: "Lactose is a younger man's game, my friends."
&
"This is the second time this fall I have ended up in bed with someone on whom I've had a long-lasting but slow-burning crush."
&
"I'm always either starved for Ian Buruma or sick to wretched death of him."
Glitter
ELSEWHERE:
My review of Polarity Ensemble Theatre's Peer Gynt is in this week's Time Out Chicago.
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