In honor of this AMAZING musician and in the anxious anticipation of tonight's 2 part documentary about him....Enjoy the music... LOVE
(He's always been my favorite bug :)
Wednesday
Hamburger Love...Foodie Alert!
So I heard that there is this Hamburger that its price is, some would say, equal to the amount of the amazing taste it produces. I had to look into this.
Sure enough, its true. Well, at least the part about its price. I can only speak on that since I myself have not tasted it.
The Richard Nouveau Burger boasts a whopping $175.00 for its glorified version of a hamburger! Made with "Prime Kobe Beef grilled and topped with Aged Gruyere, Shaved Black Truffles, Foie Gras, Golden Truffle Mayonnaise and finally sprinkled with Edible Gold Flakes".
WHAT THE HELL???
Apparently it was named after the fictional editor-in-cheif of "Pocket Change", an online newsletter that covers expensive and luxury items. I wasn't able to nail down if this is actually true. I'm going on rumor here. But from what I can see is that there IS a blog called "Pocket Change" and it is written by a "Richard Nouveau" but any links to an actual website lead to nowhere.
None the less, the burger....yeah....its real.
It was even featured on a popular Food Network show I saw. I'm just coming into the knowledge of this burger so some of you may have already heard it. I simply cannot believe someone would pay that much for some meat and cheese! But I guess it is all about status and a symbol of "success". If you can afford to drop $175.00 on a burger, well, I guess you've "arrived", so to speak. I find it incredibly amazing that there is actually a breed of people out there who can, what I consider, frivolously spend that kind of cash while the rest of us struggle to put together a dollar from loose change we find between the sofa cushions. I guess when you have that sort of cash, it means nothing to you.
So why not spend it on a burger?
Let's be real. I'm not going to pretend to be all high and mighty and say that, given the opportunity and the funds to blow, I wouldn't order this burger. I most certainly would. I would order this thing purely for research purposes ;) Well, hell, how else am I going to know that it should be worth that much? If you average out the amount of money per bite, I can approximate that its about $18-$20 per bite (8-10 bites). And even more if you eat with bigger bites, although I imagine, given the unique ingredients and flavors they produce, you might want to eat it slowly to appreciate how you've spent an unnecessary amount of money that will only be released later in the form of fecal matter.
But I say "Bravo!" with a side of "Kiss My Ass!" to places like the Wall Street Burger Shoppe in New York, who serves this colossal waste of money, for reminding the majority of us that we may never know what the "rich" know or be granted the opportunity to revel in true luxury tastes. But that's ok, I may not have the cash to spend on a burger like that...but on Wednesdays I can get you TWENTY McDonald's Cheeseburgers for around eight bucks! And for $175? You're looking at almost 450 burgers!
LOL
Keep your Golden Flakes!
(*secretly hating that I can't have this burger, LOL)
Sure enough, its true. Well, at least the part about its price. I can only speak on that since I myself have not tasted it.
Enter the Richard Nouvea Burger!
The Richard Nouveau Burger boasts a whopping $175.00 for its glorified version of a hamburger! Made with "Prime Kobe Beef grilled and topped with Aged Gruyere, Shaved Black Truffles, Foie Gras, Golden Truffle Mayonnaise and finally sprinkled with Edible Gold Flakes".
WHAT THE HELL???
Apparently it was named after the fictional editor-in-cheif of "Pocket Change", an online newsletter that covers expensive and luxury items. I wasn't able to nail down if this is actually true. I'm going on rumor here. But from what I can see is that there IS a blog called "Pocket Change" and it is written by a "Richard Nouveau" but any links to an actual website lead to nowhere.
None the less, the burger....yeah....its real.
It was even featured on a popular Food Network show I saw. I'm just coming into the knowledge of this burger so some of you may have already heard it. I simply cannot believe someone would pay that much for some meat and cheese! But I guess it is all about status and a symbol of "success". If you can afford to drop $175.00 on a burger, well, I guess you've "arrived", so to speak. I find it incredibly amazing that there is actually a breed of people out there who can, what I consider, frivolously spend that kind of cash while the rest of us struggle to put together a dollar from loose change we find between the sofa cushions. I guess when you have that sort of cash, it means nothing to you.
So why not spend it on a burger?
Let's be real. I'm not going to pretend to be all high and mighty and say that, given the opportunity and the funds to blow, I wouldn't order this burger. I most certainly would. I would order this thing purely for research purposes ;) Well, hell, how else am I going to know that it should be worth that much? If you average out the amount of money per bite, I can approximate that its about $18-$20 per bite (8-10 bites). And even more if you eat with bigger bites, although I imagine, given the unique ingredients and flavors they produce, you might want to eat it slowly to appreciate how you've spent an unnecessary amount of money that will only be released later in the form of fecal matter.
LOL
Keep your Golden Flakes!
(*secretly hating that I can't have this burger, LOL)
Tuesday
I laughed because after a recent "situation" where my mouth got away from me I realized, yeah, I do talk way too much! Silence is Golden? Yeah...I need to work on that lol. Sometimes, even when I think its rightly justified to do so...I need to learn to listen and shut the hell up.
I'll try.
I'll probably fail lol
But I'll try :)
C.S. Lewis...The Man Who KNEW LOVE
On a side note I just wanted to document that I have been RE-reading the classic book by C.S. Lewis, "The Four Loves". I have read most of his works.
While my mind is, with every page, becoming more like mashed potatoes...I am learning OH SO MUCH.
I will share when I am done. (Truthfully, I can write my own book of how his book teaches me!)
Ok...on to the wine :)
While my mind is, with every page, becoming more like mashed potatoes...I am learning OH SO MUCH.
I will share when I am done. (Truthfully, I can write my own book of how his book teaches me!)
Ok...on to the wine :)
Hot and Bothered and Tough Love
I thought that the thing I would try again would not bother me...
Remember the thing?
The "thing" I said I would never do then recanted and decided to do again?
Yeah, that.
Well, I told myself that I would not let it bother me if, in the end, it proved to have the same result as the last time. Well, I guess to some degree it was different...but in the end....its still the same. So now I am left with this feeling of, "Am I ever going to get it right?"
That feeling sucks.
And so now I am bothered...and that makes me hot....Not is THAT way...In the, "Oh Hell!" way. Whatever the case may be I have learned that at the end of the day I should remember something I learned a while back. Trust yourself. It can be argued that my "self" has been wrong occasionally...ok, more than occasionally...but sometimes, I really need to listen to myself. So maybe I was right with my first decision to never do that thing again, so I guess its serves me right for what I got. I don't know...All I know is that I'm just throwing my hands up in surrender and choose to focus on "projects" that will produce results I can count on. At least for a while.
Truth.
On a separate note...I was watching this very ridiculous reality show in which these women go to a "Match Maker" for him to yell at them and tell them how horribly shallow and rude they are and that is why they are still single. Yes, I am talking about "Tough Love". I found this one "exercise" he did with them quite interesting. While these women were on a date he (the Match Maker) broadcast personal photos and the like that he had found on the internet of the women. Photos from their FB pages, etc. He said that in this day and age when you begin to date someone, the first thing they do after meeting you is Google you to check out who you are. So the "lesson learned" in this "exercise" is to teach women to be careful about the person they "virtually" display so that people you are hoping to date don't get the wrong impression of you.
OK...that makes sense
But it got me to thinking about my "virtual persona". What, if anything, can a person gather about me should they happen upon this site? Or any other sites I may have? What, would they deduce about the person who writes this stuff? I wonder. I wonder because looking back on some of my posts...well, there are so many different things going on! Some of my posts are not even about me! But what will they take away from this blog? Or from that picture or that? What can honestly be judged about the person on the screen? And for that matter, am I representing the "Me" I really want others to see or is this a fabrication or shadow of the person I would like to be? I think it really is me...in lots of ways...even though not always completely me...which makes it more "Me" than anything else I do. Hmph!
I think that people are too quick to judge on images...I am guilty of this myself. Photos can "speak" loudly. But what of someone actual WORDS. Here are my actual words and thoughts and feelings. Like an online "diary" almost. Well, maybe not that personal, however, there are lots of very personal elements on this blog! Do I really want complete strangers reading my every thought? I find that this medium allows creative freedom and so my thoughts go bouncing off into the virtual sea of thoughts where someone might read them and say..."Wow". But then again, someone might see this and not even get as far as the first paragraph when they realize HOW MUCH I write! They'll get tired and bored and log off. And what can be said about me there after? Only that I probably talk to much. Its an interesting thought to ponder...what am I "showing" about myself and does it repel or attract?
I can't help but wonder...
Maybe one day someone will tell me...
For now...I think I'll have a glass of wine and call it a night :)
Remember the thing?
The "thing" I said I would never do then recanted and decided to do again?
Yeah, that.
Well, I told myself that I would not let it bother me if, in the end, it proved to have the same result as the last time. Well, I guess to some degree it was different...but in the end....its still the same. So now I am left with this feeling of, "Am I ever going to get it right?"
That feeling sucks.
And so now I am bothered...and that makes me hot....Not is THAT way...In the, "Oh Hell!" way. Whatever the case may be I have learned that at the end of the day I should remember something I learned a while back. Trust yourself. It can be argued that my "self" has been wrong occasionally...ok, more than occasionally...but sometimes, I really need to listen to myself. So maybe I was right with my first decision to never do that thing again, so I guess its serves me right for what I got. I don't know...All I know is that I'm just throwing my hands up in surrender and choose to focus on "projects" that will produce results I can count on. At least for a while.
Truth.
On a separate note...I was watching this very ridiculous reality show in which these women go to a "Match Maker" for him to yell at them and tell them how horribly shallow and rude they are and that is why they are still single. Yes, I am talking about "Tough Love". I found this one "exercise" he did with them quite interesting. While these women were on a date he (the Match Maker) broadcast personal photos and the like that he had found on the internet of the women. Photos from their FB pages, etc. He said that in this day and age when you begin to date someone, the first thing they do after meeting you is Google you to check out who you are. So the "lesson learned" in this "exercise" is to teach women to be careful about the person they "virtually" display so that people you are hoping to date don't get the wrong impression of you.
OK...that makes sense
But it got me to thinking about my "virtual persona". What, if anything, can a person gather about me should they happen upon this site? Or any other sites I may have? What, would they deduce about the person who writes this stuff? I wonder. I wonder because looking back on some of my posts...well, there are so many different things going on! Some of my posts are not even about me! But what will they take away from this blog? Or from that picture or that? What can honestly be judged about the person on the screen? And for that matter, am I representing the "Me" I really want others to see or is this a fabrication or shadow of the person I would like to be? I think it really is me...in lots of ways...even though not always completely me...which makes it more "Me" than anything else I do. Hmph!
I think that people are too quick to judge on images...I am guilty of this myself. Photos can "speak" loudly. But what of someone actual WORDS. Here are my actual words and thoughts and feelings. Like an online "diary" almost. Well, maybe not that personal, however, there are lots of very personal elements on this blog! Do I really want complete strangers reading my every thought? I find that this medium allows creative freedom and so my thoughts go bouncing off into the virtual sea of thoughts where someone might read them and say..."Wow". But then again, someone might see this and not even get as far as the first paragraph when they realize HOW MUCH I write! They'll get tired and bored and log off. And what can be said about me there after? Only that I probably talk to much. Its an interesting thought to ponder...what am I "showing" about myself and does it repel or attract?
I can't help but wonder...
Maybe one day someone will tell me...
For now...I think I'll have a glass of wine and call it a night :)
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