07 February 2005

MANIFESTO!

this weekend:

saturday! souper bowl saturday at indianapolis' city market.

the city market, from my understanding, was once a place where a bunch of farmers sold their vegetables. and maybe animals. anyway, right now it's just a place to buy lunch during the week. it's closed on weekends, which i think sort of illustrates how completely boring this city is.

DOWNTOWN! EXCITEMENT! closed on saturday.

Anyway, Souper Bowl Saturday was a soup cook-off competition that Gina and I attended. We attended because:

a) Gina likes soup
b) Gina has never been to the city market (because it's not open on saturday. wait.. maybe it is open on saturday, now that i think about it... for the sake of telling this story, we'll assume it's not open on saturday)
c) We enjoy foods

After purchasing $5 in tickets, which allowed for five seperate samples (big enough for two people to sample, easily), we worked our way around, trying soups from St. Elmo's (the restaurant all the visiting football players take in while in town), LS Ayres Tea Room (Gina said something about them having a somewhat famous Chicken Velvet (blah)), and a couple other places I don't remember, we decided that we liked Brinkley's Cafe's Carrot Cumin Soup best.

This was after I had gotten it on my coat while mocking Gina for spilling soup all over a countertop. Not on purpose, of course.

We spent another $5 on tickets to get the large sample, and ate it. Great.

another note: I had a sample of duck soup, and felt pretty guilty eating it. Probably because we have ducks in the pond behind our house from time to time, and I kind of felt like I was eating my pet.

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Anyway, after that we headed south, and out of town, to the outlet mall.

Not much worth noting except that the outlet mall was a different planet on saturday, especially at the back of the nike store, where families that looked completely normal (included a quite attractive college aged daughter) are overcome with angst toward one another and feel the need to have a full on screaming match.

"I JUST NEED 5 MINUTES TO TRY ON THE SHOES IS THAT OK!?!?"

"I DIDN'T SAY ANYTHING AND SHE DIDN'T SAY ANYTHING DAD!"

"JUST GO OUT TO THE CAR!"

"WE DIDN'T SAY ANYTHING!"

"I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT IF I SPEND $60 ON SHOES THAT THEY FIT IS THAT OK??"

"DAD!"

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Of course the superbowl was sunday and it was probably the most boring way to spend 5 to 6 hours we could have come up with. Except that we watched it with two stand up comedians, and although I'm funnier than both of them (obviously), they proved to be quite entertaining.

here's a LINK to one of their websites. I guess he's been on Bob and Tom, that quite popular syndicated radio show.

Good guy, anyway. He liked my chili.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

since you are familiar with my obnoxious, innappropriate, and ill-timed comments, you should not be surprised by what i type next:

this whole 'no smoking' thing you guys are doing can begin a new and exciting chapter in the big 'ol book of birth control. that chapter is titled; "The Pill, and Why it Rocks."

Happy skinning!

feel free to delete this entire post if you so desire.

Mike said...

there are a bunch of things i could say here, but i'll just say "it ain't gonna happen"

Anonymous said...

i'm damned sorry to hear that, brother.

Mike said...

actually, your post spurned (is that the word i'm looking for?) conversation..

investigation to follow.