Urban Dictionary Trailblazer
On Saturday, I was enjoying a leisurely walk back to my car from a leisurely brunch in SF and having a leisurely conversation on the phone. Little did I know this simple phone conversation would set off a series of events leading to my new status as an Urban Dictionary trailblazer:
Jin: Wait, what did you say?
Me: Skanky.
Jin: Oh, I thought you said shanky.
Me: Oh no, skanky. But you know…shanky could be a cool new word!
Jin: What’s shanky?
Me: It combines shady and skanky together – thus, shanky!
And THEN I realized you could add words on Urban Dictionary. It’s like the clouds parted, the sun shone, the angels came out to sing “Hallelujah”.
So I present to you, my first 2 Urban Dict. entries: shankytown and shanky (entry no. 5). I’m a little sad I wasn’t the first to add ’shanky’ but you guys, this is just the beginning.
C4 Levels of Technicolor in Asian pop
So here’s the thing about Asian pop. I don’t follow it as regularly as Matt or Toro but damn, do I love it and need it every now and then like a recover addict crawling on all knees for that one drag. (I do not include awesome Asian rock bands like Asian Kung-Fu Generation as part of this Asian pop genre).
And this is why: Despite the diversity of music genres I listen to, they tend not to be ridiculous – a little emotive sometimes, a little angsty occasionally. But no genre can fulfill the part of me that derives pure joy from seeing the absolutely ridiuclous better than the Asian pop scene.
Can something like THIS, which looks like a technicolor explosion of C4 levels, exist stateside?
(via ad on Tim Burton, Craziest Mofo of them all
As if I couldn’t get more excited about the prospect of Tim Burton working on this Alice in Wonderland adaptation, check out these just-released stills (Johnny Depp as Mad Hatter, Anne Hathaway as the White Queen and Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen):
They walk such a thin line between creepiness and interesting weirdness, and Burton always seems to create just enough of a thread between the two to pull us in. It’s expected to come out Spring 2010.
Conversations with Suz: Post-Turkey Edition
How you know you’ve known each other for far too long:
Suz: Do you want to see the scrapbook I’m making?
Me: Sure.
Suz: You have to get up and see it
Me: I don’t want to.
Suz: If you don’t move, that’s how you’ll get fat.
Me: *Cackles hysterically*
The evolution of Suz’s experience being a dog owner:
Suz (to dog): What are you eating? Why are you so dumb.
Me: Did you feed her this morning?
Suz: Sort of.
Me: Did you feed her?
Suz: Who cares.
OK Suz, You Win.
Suz has been on me about two things since the dawn of eternity – 1. Why don’t you have more personal stuff on your blog. 2. Why don’t you start a Tumblr account?
Alright, you social media nagger, you. You win.
Don’t get me wrong, I still love WordPress, but it’s not the best for quick, short posts. As a result of the Tumblr layout, I will be using it for more personal musings and will keep my WordPress blog (ToadSpeak) centered on analyses of media/entertainment topics.
Now I just have to choose a Tumblr URL. Still torn between these three:
michelleow.tumblr.com
owithurts.tumblr.com
theworldofow.tumblr.com
T-Swizzle
It’s starting to seem like a Taylor Swift kind of week around these parts, but this is too entertaining and fun to pass up – T-Pain and Taylor Swift remixing “Love Story”:
Top Chef Masters, “The Lost Supper”
As great as it was to see the camraderie between Graham Elliot Bowles and Wylie Dufresne, Suzanne Tracht totally stole the show for me on last night’s Top Chef Masters. And it’s not just because her food looked awesome, delicious, and totally kicked ass.
Let me explain.
This week’s chefs included (clockwise from the furthest left) Wylie Dufresne (wd-50), Graham Elliot Bowles (Graham Elliot Restaurant), Suzanne Tracht (Jar), Elizabeth Falkner (Orson’s and Citizen Cake). 
Falkner looks, as she is, like a total, bad-ass rockstar. Dufresne a little science-crazy, and Bowles a hip goof-off you want to grab beers with. Tracht looks absolutely normal.
The Elimination Challenge of this episode, “The Lost Supper”, centered on a Lost-themed challenge for the Lost writers.
So one of those Bravo polls over commercial breaks asked the audience to vote for which chef they’d choose to be stranded with on an island. Dufresne, whose sailor mouth Bravo bleeped every 5 seconds, won the vote. Tract came in last.
Chefs of this caliber tend to be crazy as shit overall. And Tracht is the most dead-pan, unenergetic, utterly expressionless chef person EVER. She could have been vacationing in Hawaii for all you knew, standing before the Judge’s table. Her response to winning? “I was happy about the result.”
After winning, the chefs toasted each other in the back. Tract broke into a smile while they listened to Falkner that lasted for, oh, about 2 milliseconds. “Exposing. Too. Much. Teeth. Must Retract.”
It became fun just to see HOW dead-pan and expressionless Tract responded to the cameras.And aren’t these types of people always the craziest, most INSANE of them all?
Other thoughts:
- Utterly disappointed the 3 ex-Top Chef contestants chosen to judge the Quickfire were Ilan, Betty, and Michael from Season 2. That season was such an Epic Fail of cooking and humanity.
- Fun note – I saw Elizabeth Falkner earlier this year at Orson’s. We had dessert there, “Sexing the Strawberry” and “Violet, Violet!” The textures were so incredibly different than any dessert I’ve ever had, but man it was delicious.
Jon Schmidt and Steven Sharp Nelson are the Shiz.
Stunning. It builds towards the key change and the song transition so well, giving it its proper due and in turn, rewarding its listeners. (Also, doesn’t the celloist Steven Sharp Nelson remind you of…SOKOL?!)
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