Haines His Way

Go early and order vegetables, not bread.

Have a nice time.

What kind of sandwich should I get, bk? Describe it.

Okay, I'm leaving now.  Now is when I'm leaving.  I'm now on my way to Stanley's restaurant.  If I'm good, I'll have the Chinese Chicken Salad and maybe some clam chowder, which I think they have nightly.  If I'm bad I'll have a half-caesar salad and their yummilicious fettucine with a garlic cream sauce, chicken, broccoli, red onions, and cashews.  I'm going to try my hardest NOT to have that but my mouth is already watering.  Or, I might have some MEAT, since today is MEAT day.  Yes, Virginia, I may meet some meat at Stanley's.

Panni, you do not have the ability to eat a huge sandwich of any kind.  That said, if it were me getting a huge sandwich, I would go to Jerry's and have a turkey sandwich on rye, very light mayo, lettuce and American cheese.  That's the one thing they have never done poorly.  

Panni I'm craving egg salad right now... so if you can find a place that will do it right, get an ES sandwich

For dinner tonight I had leftover tortelini in tomato sauce with Italian sausage.  Halfway through, I realized that I was not as hungry as I thought I was and had re-heated too much.  So, since I hate to eat leftover leftovers, I threw the rest away.  

The end.

Probably I shouldn't reveal this, with so many hungry Los Angeles readers - you'll probably all eat there every night and it will be too crowded to get in.

Gyu-Kaku (more than one location, including Restaurant Row on LaCienega and just west of the Westside Pavillion on Pico) marinates various meats and you cook them yourself in a little barbecue built in to your table.  It's part of a Japanese chain, incredibly successful over there, and, in Japan, it might be considered Korean food.  But it's so distinctly Japanese that, well, let's just say it's a mix of both cultures.

Well, in honor of meat day I had shish-ka-bobs. Just wonderful.

Tonight on WILL & GRACE, for only the third time in its seven year run, Will Truman, the gay lawyer character, kissed another man.

Is that good for Bush, or that good for Kerry?

-- this is not a question!

Oh, wow!  It's meat day!  Meat!  My favorite thing in the entire world!  This thread has made me incredibly hungry.  My favorite meat dishes include (but, believe me, are not limited to): the boneless spare ribs from this little Chinese takeout place in Rockaway, meatloaf, hamburgers (and just about anything else) from Markt in the meatpacking district, and just about anything pork from Costa Del Sol on 50th.  Yummmm.

I've been meaning to post about a very strange party I attended this weekend at Madame X on Houston this weekend.  A sexy bar that resembles a high class bordello, Madame X is not your typical location for a sweet sixteen.  My friend Johanna (the girl who sang "Nothing" and drove both you and Beth Anne crazy this summer by changing keys every five minutes, Noel) certainly knows how to hold a party, albeit a strange one.  Her parents invited the cast of "Rent" the party, and Cary Shields (a former Roger) showed up and played a set.  He also sang "Your Eyes" to the birthday girl, who was wearing the tiniest dress I ever did see.  It was a truly strange event.  I was under the impression that sweet sixteens involved princess gowns and the electric slide, but I was mistaken!

But let's talk more about meat.  Mmm...meeeeat...

Are the Cheney's insane?  Kerry said nothing derogatory about their lesbian daughter.  It's common knowledge or should be.  Edwards mentioned Cheney's daughter in his debate with Cheney and it didn't cause any uproar.  In fact, if I remember rightly Cheney thanked Edwards for the kind words.  

Lynne Cheney looks ridiculous coming out and saying:  "This is bad man" repeatedly.  More of this simplistic and simple-minded demonization of the other side over nothing.  The Cheneys' remarks make them look ashamed and embarrassed about their daughter.  What is the big deal here?  "Oh my god, he mentioned our lesbian daughter.  How dare he!"  Puhleeeze!  you hypocritical shits.

Viewing the Kerry comment in reruns, he not only commented on Mary being a lesbian, but presumed to know what she believes as to the origins of her being gay/lesbian.  To my knowledge, Mary Cheney has never made comment on the subject.

Good Evening!

We moved into the theatre today... What a gorgeous theatre the Hobby Center is!  -Well, at least the hall we're in.  And since it's a Theatre Under the Stars, there's even a star ceiling - complete with a shooting star every five minutes!  The theatre also functions as a touring house, and there are logos of the various shows that have played there painted in the hallways, and each logo panel is signed by the cast of each show.  It was fun checking for friends on the wall.

We started at the top of the show, and got through the fourth Montage - about half-way through the show.  Not bad.  Most of today was spent doing spacing and some "filling in", but there was also a bit of a show-and-tell aspect to today's rehearsal.  As each person came to their "interview section", Baayork would have them stand in front of the cast and deliver their monologue - the stuff that is printed in the script, and they stuff that they've filled in for themselves.  Quite funny, touching and emotional all at once.  Everyone has personalized their characters using bits and pieces of their own life experiences.  -As Baayork has stressed from day one, A Chorus Line is not about dancers, it's about Life.

During the dinner break, a group of us were invited to one of the cast member's house for supper.  What a great house!  And a great dinner too!  Greek salad, chicken casserole and chocolate chip cookies!  YUM!

*The only thing that bothered me was listening to his father talk.  His father is a born and bread Houstonian, a true Texan.  And everytime he opened his mouth, all I could think of was "George Bush" - the cadence, even the pitch of the voice was strangely similar.  

-But the dinner was a nice break from my routine this week.

Oh, and a "Cassie Update" - The staff here at the hotel went ahead and washed and dried her clothes, and they even bought her a new cell phone!  -which was delivered to her new room by 11:00 this morning!

-And everyone went ahead and stored their valuables in their closets this morning after this morning.  In their closets... away from the sprinklers.

I'm back.  I'm afraid I was so hungry that I had the fattening meal - half-caesar and garlic chicken pasta in cream sauce.  I ate every single morsel.  Tomorrow I shall have meat all the livelong day.

You should have had fondue bourguignonne BK!

-- see SWW's post above!

You should have had fondue bourguignonne BK!

-- see SWW's post above!

I'm having better luck with this than I did with locating Beef Wellington in Los Angeles.  There's even a restaurant in Sherman Oaks called La Fondue Bourguinonne!