{"id":333,"date":"2003-12-15T10:20:09","date_gmt":"2003-12-15T10:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.m3ntalcontraband.com\/?p=333"},"modified":"2020-11-11T10:22:53","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T15:22:53","slug":"pre-holiday_weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/?p=333","title":{"rendered":"pre-holiday weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-paragraph\"><b>current selection<\/b> | alex gopher \u2013 <i>the child<\/i><br><b>feelin\u2019<\/b> | <i>half a bagel-y<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"text-paragraph\">mmm\u2026bagel. today\u2019s bagel, c\/o the diner near the bus stop, is quite good. all toasty on the outside, slightly firm on the inside, and a butt-load of cream cheese. rock. this past weekends plans surprising didnt poo on itself, b\/c there were alot of chances for things to go poot. i took the path train to hoboken to meet fish and head up to edgewater to catch <i>the last samurai<\/i>. do you maybe think i used too many \u201cto\u2019s\u201d in that sentence? whatever. i dont particularly like tom cruise, but i cant say i hated the movie. it was quite entertaining\u2026even if it did scream <i>braveheart<\/i>+<i>dances with wolves<\/i> (with a side of <i>gladiator<\/i>), and tom cruise should have died but instead bags himself an asian hottie, and that the ending was painfully obvious half an hour into the movie. ah well\u2026of particular note tho were the gorgeous costumes (the samurai armor especially), ken watanabe, tom cruises japanese (surprisingly), and ken watanabe again. honorable mentions go to the ninjas (they couldve been more badass\u2026refer to <i>red shadow<\/i>), tom cruises grief, and tom cruises self-doubt. i felt your pain, dude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"text-paragraph\">after the movie, fish drove me back down to hoboken and i hopped the next train into manhattan. a few of us were planning on hitting the <i>giant robot<\/i> make-up party (the first one was caught in last weekends snowstorm), so i had basically planned around the movie time and the party following it immediately. betty, dora, and alice got to the party just as i did\u2026very uncanny. it was moderately packed, but was missing a particular element of fun. the music was all over the place too, so we had about 3 rounds, snatched some copies of <i>giant robot<\/i> and cds, and headed out. me, betty, and alice cabbed it to k-town for some sul long tang\u2026which as stated in prior entries, tastes extra-yum on cold nites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"text-paragraph\"><b>&gt; continued\u2026<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"520\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/gr31.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/gr31.jpg 520w, https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/gr31-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/gr31-250x154.jpg 250w, https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/gr31-293x180.jpg 293w, https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/gr31-488x300.jpg 488w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"text-paragraph\"><br><b>and saturday\u2026<\/b><br>i was woken up abruptly saturday morning by a call from dora. i was actually pretty surprised to see that it was almost 1 in the afternoon. ick! i wonder how long i wouldve slept if she hadnt called. dora dropped by b\/c her laptop\u2019s ethernet was pooing on itself, and i was going to take a look at it while she scoured the internet for holiday vacation packages for her family. her laptop would get a connection for all of 30 seconds before dying on itself\u2026so after 2 hours of pathetic twiddling, i gave up. *<i>shrug<\/i>* we met up with mike to have tapas for din at <i>la paella<\/i>, then headed to the upper east side for anna and sally\u2019s holiday party. they had wine and cookies up the wazoo, and i think more cookies sitting in the oven\u2026craziness. there were no airing of grievances or feats of strength, but there were alot of cookies\u2026word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"520\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/festivus1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/festivus1.jpg 520w, https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/festivus1-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/festivus1-250x154.jpg 250w, https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/festivus1-293x180.jpg 293w, https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/festivus1-488x300.jpg 488w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>current selection | alex gopher \u2013 the childfeelin\u2019 | half a bagel-y mmm\u2026bagel. today\u2019s bagel, c\/o the diner near the bus stop, is quite good. all toasty on the outside, slightly firm on the inside, and a butt-load of cream cheese. rock. this past weekends plans surprising didnt poo on itself, b\/c there were alot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8563,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions\/8563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}