I hope you all enjoyed my cooking segment I posted yesterday.
So today I'm going to try and catch you up on what has been going on. I had a busy weekend--dinner with my running buddies Friday night and then The Color Purple on Sunday. The Color Purple was an Alice Walker book and then a movie starring Whoope Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey. Now it is a musical produced by Oprah Winfrey. And I have friend who saw it in New York and loved it, but I got to say, the touring production I saw was just okay. I think part of the problem was the lesser known Destiny Child member, Michelle WIlliams, who played Shug. She was not good. She wasn't horrible, but she wasn't good. The story was still fairly compelling--I was crying at the end. The other thing about The Color Purple was the woman sitting next to me. She sat down and immediately started talking to me. I didn't know this woman. But that didn't matter, she just went on and on. It wasn't completely annoying but I tend not to want to talk to strangers. Fortunately, I didn't have to do much talking because this woman talked so much, I just had to nod.
Oh, also, I have a question: Does anyone else feel guilty about not ordering fish at a seafood restaurant? I went to this restaurant on Friday night with my running buddies. The restaurant is called Catch, obviously a restaurant that specializes in seafood. Well I ordered chicken because it looked so good on the menu. I like fish but I rarely order it. I think it is because rarely does it have a side I want. I often order a dish based on what it comes with, and usually that is some rich hearty starch, mashed potatoes or risotto.
Then last night I went to see Chanticleer in Palo Alto. For those of you who don't know Chanticleer is this acapella men's group. They are fantastic! And they were really wonderful last night. Their sound just melts over you like butter, literally like butter. But last night they sang this song that was an old hymn--Oh it was a Christmas concert-- called Beautiful Start of Bethlehem. It is some southern Gospel hymn and really lovely. However, they sang it in this mocking thick southern accent. I was so offended. I mean people were snickering during the song. It was so offensive. They didn't parody the African American spiritual so why is it ok to parody the white southern hymn? It just completely colored the concert for me.
So that is it. I still have not taken my Christmas picture for my Christmas card yet. But I'm doing it tonight. And then I'm doing my Christmas shopping on-line tonight as well. It has to be done. I'm running out of time. I'm thinking the Christmas card might actually be sent during the actual Christmas--you know Christmas day through Epiphany. I could say it was intentional because I refuse to get sucked in my our cultures premature celebration but it is really just because I can't get my act together.
Alright, until tomorrow.
Peace out!
4 comments:
In addition to offending you, I'm guessing the bad southern accent imitation made the music worse as well. When I was in France, I sang in an amateur university choir, and they did an African-American spiritual Christmas carol. You haven't laughed until you've heard old-fashioned African-American slang sung with a thick French accent. Hilarious!!! But they would have sounded so much better if they stopped trying to pretend they were African-American and just stuck with standardized English.
P.S. I can't wait to see your Christmas/Epiphany card this year!
mmm, I am so with you on the side dishes. Although, here's a funny dining story. I went out to dinner with my parents over thanksgiving dinner. Craig had taken the boys to his parents house, so we went to a really nice restaurant. And the vegetable on their specials was brussel sprouts. And my mom threw a fit about how she couldn;t order what she wanted because it would have brussel sprouts. I was like, no one is going to make you eat it. In the end, the waitress offered to substitute squash, but good lord...
OK, I have to say that it is just not right to order chicken at a seafood restaurant. My kids do it and I get embarrassed. And it's always OK to ask for a different side. I won't say I've never ordered chicken at a seafood restaurant -- I have and it was some of the best chicken ever -- but it just doesn't seem right to me. . . . Unless, of course, the seafood restaurant is located in the middle of the US nowhere near water, in which case it's probably BETTER to order chicken!
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