Archive for February, 2007

The Wizard Needs Food Badly

Posted February 26, 2007 * Comments(0)
The Wizard Needs Food Badly
Performed by Five Iron Frenzy 

I know that you’re probably mad at me.
I’ve come to expect that.
You know that you’ll never have all of me,
you’ve come to resent that.
You say “tomato”, I say “video games”,
you’re acting so solemn.
You’ll take the precious remote control from me.
Do I sound like Gollum?
(It’s) not that I’m escaping,
you charm me like the flame does moths,
it’s just that you’d prefer me docile,
like a narcoleptic sloth.

The wizard needs food badly,
the Voltron can’t be incomplete.
The things I love, you hate so madly,
I must not go down in defeat.

In the hunter-gatherer societies,
I’d bring home the bacon.
Public thought says men should try and be tame,
stirred but not shaken.
I say “baseball” then you start to cry,
I’m sorry I grieve you.
I think a motorcycle’s a good way to die,
this must bereave you.
I know that you try so hard,
and I’m not saying it’s a sin,
it’s just that they don’t feel my pain,
in Vogue or Cosmopolitan.

And I’m sure you have your reasons,
but listen to me please…
I want the G.I. Joe with the Kung-Fu action grip.
I want Nintendo with the extra-graphics-microchip.
Tackle football with rocks,
and sticks, and knives, and pain…
I want a truck with the four wheel drive train.
You’d rather see me get good at bookkeepping,
I could clean house in the time that I’m not sleeping.
I live to serve you, and I don’t want to be rude,

but you should see that the wizard needs food.

Ezell’s Chicken

Posted February 8, 2007 * Comments(0)

Last night I had the privilege of bringing two people to know Ezell’s Chicken for the first time, Amen!

It was actually my first time to visit the Ezell’s over in the Central District. Even though I went to the UW and was only a couple miles away, I’d only been to the satellite stores. I finally made my way home.

Partly I was prompted by a recent article about Ezell’s and partly by an article about how much Koreans love fried chicken. So I grabbed two Korean friends and took them to find out about what good chicken is all about!

I was partly motivated by selfishness too… even if I said it was for their sake.

Maybe I should start a weekly blog about good food in Seattle? I can think of a few good places to review. Yelp!

How do people do it?

Posted February 6, 2007 * Comments(0)

It seems like the more I understand the value of money, the less of it I have.

I recently committed myself to paying off my debts, in the year 2007 I’d like to pay off my car, my computer and put at least five thousand aside for my school loans on top of my regular payments.

The best made plans of mice and men often go awry.

I came through several months of unemployment and temp jobs and just finished my first month of work at a new job. With this next pay check I should finally be back into financial stability. Just as things are starting to get positive it all comes undone.

One of the church brothers is getting married, and his room mate needs a place to stay. Our place is too small, but we’re the most obvious fit. We have several options. We can tell that brother to get a studio. We can all move into a new place, or we can do some creative reorganizing.

Unfortunately, everyone seems to be leaning towards getting a new apartment except for me. A new apartment means first and last month’s rent, a deposit and probably a more expensive lease in a less desirable neighborhood. It really doesn’t make sense -and I really don’t have the money.

Is it selfish to say that I’d rather stay where I’m at when I really don’t have the means to go anywhere else -even if it leaves a brother stranded?