Roast Beef Wrap with Mixed Greens and Blue Cheese
CBMUSED at 11:55 am Category: GeneralTags: blogging, broad shoulders, bulge, cbmused, japan, killer legs, memoirs, men, pecs, pinchable bums, tokyo, washboard abs, wrap, Writing
Mixed Greens and Diced Tomatoes
I’m overwhelmed and touched by everyone who has responded to The Heart of the Matter. You’ve all given me valuable insights and positive ideas that I will pass on to my friend. Thank you.
Blue Cheese and a Dash of Dijon Mustard
How to Write a Misery Memoir is an article that caught my attention. It offers advice on how to spruce up an autobiography. I have one piece of advice to add: start a blog for practice and in no time you can inject the right amount of fantasy or fiction or Dijon mustard into your bio. With so many blogs claiming to offer real stories, yet eyebrows are silently raised in doubt, we can all become wannabe writers.
Spanish Onion
One can get drunk on lack of sleep. One can get high on strong paint fumes. One can become intolerably irritable when a morning person says hello. Either way, it’s sure to end in tears. And blog posts that don’t make sense.
Roast Beef
After my reminiscent post, For the Love of Tokyo, I came across more Japanese oddities that made my heart flutter. These sexy school boys may be the equivalent to a geek’s Maid Café, and admittedly while they look ‘cute’, I prefer my ‘boys’ to look show more bulge: broad shoulders, strong pecs, washboard abs, killer legs and pinchable bums. Know wha’ I mean?
March 7th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
It seems you can now pay companies to do this for you. They will mention your name in different blogs/websites etc.
In fact they will make sure that when you type your name in google you will have hundreds of websites mentioning you and your achievements. It is not cheap (USD 1,000 ?) but it works.
March 7th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
That sexy schoolboy cafe is just a little creepy.
Of course, we have Hooters, so until they name some restaurant “Clankers” or something we really can’t bitch.
Whatever happened to the old days, when you were happy just to get served some glow-in-the-dark chili by a hairy guy in a greasy T-shirt and a sailor hat named Mel–who smoked a cigarette over the chili while he cooked it?
And stirred the chili with a spoon, taste tested/slurped it with the spoon, and then resumed stirring it with the same spoon?
It’s a sad reflection on our time that Mel would probably get shut down by the Department of Agriculture if he tried to do the same thing today.
March 7th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
Let’s keep that Comment count up, by rambling a little farther off-topic:
Restaurants in the US are always named something “possessive” and always have an Irish sounding name: e.g., Houlihan’s, O’Charley’s, Bennigan’s, etc.
But name three good Irish dishes–and I will spot you “corned beef & cabbage.”
It is an island known for its drunken poets and its leprechauns, not its food.
So what gives?
I mean, with the restaurants?
Huh?
I am waiting…
Seriously,
What’s up with that?
March 7th, 2008 at 1:13 pm
Whoa, that’s a lot of $$$ Sidney! Goes to show that money can buy you anything.
Zen: That’s what I thought, a bit creepy and shall we say, has some undertones I won’t mention. But the Maid Cafes are no different. The girls get into character, much like actors, and having attended one, there was nothing creepy about it. I’ll have to check out the boys next time…
With everything sanitised and plastic-wrapped, are we really guaranteed quality and cleanliness? Not when the people serving food wear thin rubber gloves, yet use the same hand for preparing food AND taking your money.
Zen: Go for it! This is a mish-mash post covered in a wrap, so anything goes.
Cultural influences? The US wants to own everything while the UK tells it to you as it is?
Jarod, one of my readers with a historical penchant, might be able to shed some light on if he reads this post.
From my unnamed neck of the woods, we tend to use a play on words for names of some restaurants, like Thai Me Up Thai Me Down.
March 7th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
Did you really use “bulge” as a tag? Allow me to welcome you to your second “google hit.”
March 7th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
GSR Um… er… yes.
Are you proud of me?
March 7th, 2008 at 5:49 pm
I don’t know how to comment on this so I will do so chronologically.
1. Hopefully your friend will be all good and spiffy in no time.
2. I hope one day I can join the ranks of people who do write real stories that make sense, not my miss-mash bunch of one time tales that doesn’t seem to have any continuation.
3. Unless people learn to read between the lines, of both the onion and what’s been written.
4. Well it is culture. Asians have a thing for tall, thin and lanky, particularly when they resemble your average popular manga characters. I like my people a little more realistic. With hair that’s imperfect and a oddities that don’t need a specialist to put on. And yes, nothing says real like pinchable cheeks…on both ends of the spectrum.
March 7th, 2008 at 6:09 pm
Wait…people add fantasy or fiction to their biographies?? You have cruelly shattered my illusions, Miss!
March 8th, 2008 at 2:15 am
I’m always proud of you. The more I think about this post the more I am excited for the different Google hits that you will receive. I don’t know if I understand what goes into “killer legs” though. I assuming muscular, but do they have to be hairless like your preferred chest?
March 8th, 2008 at 9:07 am
I will be at a trade show for the next 9 days. I will bring a cooler for food and drinks. I refuse to buy anything from these vendors. I will smell of the trade show swill for nine solid days, and if I do not do laundry or shower, longer.
March 8th, 2008 at 9:29 am
Kami: what planet was I on when I wrote this…
1. Thanks.
2. I think we all wish that at some point.
3. That is quite an interpretive skill, for those who have it.
4. I guess so. Though the ‘young’ look is a bit too…boyish. But who wants to pinch bones?!
That’s humans for you, Gorilla B. So sorry to shatter illusions, but methinks you have a unique ability to see through us humans!
GSR: Good to make you proud! As for my kind of killer legs on a man, they’re long, (ie on a tall person), slender yet muscular (if that makes sense, not a fan of huge muscular footballer things), and hair is a must. Can’t have him with better legs than mine, now can I?
Josh W: howdy and welcome
You’ve reminded me of a trade show/seminar I attended where the food was beautifully packaged to mask the lack of taste. We ended up drinking. A lot! Enjoy, but don’t bring that smell back as a souvenir!
March 9th, 2008 at 3:34 am
I think a good name for a Thai restaurant would be, “Phuket–Let’s Get Thai!”
And at this point, the people have spoken–I gracefully yield the Hit Counter Nomination to Kamigorshi.
Now let’s all unite and beat those Democrats in November!
March 9th, 2008 at 8:38 am
Zen: Phuket indeed!
March isn’t over yet… plenty more crazy posts to come. But November is a tad too far away.
March 9th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
Whoohooo! 3 ticks. Would have been 4 and a half 15 years ago, but three of those ticks you mention get harder and harder to hang onto with each passing year ( and each passing Corona ), and two of them you are either blessed with or you’re not.
Go easy on those paint fumes too, huh?
March 9th, 2008 at 7:18 pm
GBoy: I take it that refers to the Roast Beef section
Now you’ve got me guessing which 3! Let me try:
broad shoulders, strong pecs/killer legs (can’t decide) and pinchable bums.
Um… yeah… I think I’ve lost a few brain cells of late
March 10th, 2008 at 2:32 am
Hello Clea,
A splendid place you have here.
I look forward to stopping by for a few Lattes, and perhaps something stronger
even now and then…
March 10th, 2008 at 8:14 am
Hello Simon and welcome to BeMused
I promise to have something a bit more piquant than this light dressing of Dijon mustard from time to time. I hope you like Martinis, for a start…
March 11th, 2008 at 6:35 pm
uh uh… no clues!
March 11th, 2008 at 6:46 pm
GBoy: Not fair!
March 12th, 2008 at 6:44 pm
Ha! (this was just an excuse to test my OpenID thingy!! LOL )
March 12th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
GBoy: Ha back! I still have to get mine sorted out though I’d prefer it to link to my site than an openid url.
Don’t be so invisible!