The soup's gimmick is that it comes with a goofy little bottle
of Tabasco which you can use to spice up the soup. It's really good
with Tabasco (even though Daniel Rall hates Tabasco, and the Spice Weasel I got for Kevin that we use on our burritos is convincing me of the evils of Tabasco), but I haven't tried it with my generic Louisiana pepper sauce;
will keep informed.
I got sidetracked again. What I meant to do was thank Shweta for
hosting the party, and Zack for providing the venue, and also for providing
the thing that I will talk about that I'm too tired and rambling to
find the link for, and as such I will do it later today after I wake
up from the sleep that will be mine once I run my nightly dental
hygeine/yoga gauntlet.
Sun May 12 2002 00:09:
Back from the party. It was fun. I played Devil Bunny Needs A
Ham with Zack. Other stuff ensued which I need to find URLs so
that I can properly link my description of it (a peculiar hypertextual
disease: linker's block), and I'm too tired to find those URLs. I
will mention that I went to Berkeley Bowl and bowled a couple frames.
No, just kidding. Berkeley Bowl is a supermarket and they sell a line
of very tasty soups under the "Turtle Island" brand. When I say these
are tasty soups I am quite serious. This has nothing to do with
the party, but before I went to the party I stopped to get some
ginger beer (it turns out that everyone who brought any drink at all brought ginger beer; is it
the new hip drink among teetotaling nerds?) and I also bought 6
boxes of the delicious soup. Dystopian Soup Slogan: "So good, it's thoughtcrime!"
There was a bit of singing at the party. Unbenownst to ASCAP, we sang "Happy Birthday" to Nathaniel, and it was so bad that we changed key after almost every line; I think the more people you have singing "Happy Birthday", the worse it is. We also all joined in in singing TMBG's "Kiss Me, Son Of God", probably in homage to discussion earlier of Scott McCloud and his family singing "Birdhouse in Your Soul" at a comic convention and the entirety of the comic convention joining in.
We had pizza from Zachary's (the Berkeley pizza place, not the home of Zack), which was good and which people at work have been bothering me to try. I've tried it! It's good! Stop bothering me! (Note: it's not that bad (the bothering, I mean)).
Sun May 12 2002 10:26:
Party, Part II: Zack, like Seth, has a great library, though his is a lot heavier on the fantasy and science fiction. I borrowed The Star Fraction by Ken McCleod, and Zack wrote his name on the cover page, making it Ex Bibliotheca Zack! Yes, the link to Zack's homepage to facilitate the bad joke was the link I needed to find very early this morning and didn't have the energy for. I could write three long rambling paragraphs but not find an easy-to-find link, because writing and link-finding are two different things, and I only had energy for one.
