Boo-blog: Multiculturalism

December 13, 2003

Multiculturalism

Friday nights are tough. Mainly due to the conflict between the feeling of "woo hoo, it's Friday, time to paint the town purple!" and "thank god. Friday. sleep in front of DVD nice." Also, The Dude, as a high school teacher, is usually completely down for the count. He's been known to fall asleep at the booth of a noisy bar surrounded by nine friends. But last night was the finest kind of Friday, where everything was just the perfect medium of activity.

First, Girl-E went straight from work to her first attempt at Hot Power Yoga. This is the most insane thing ever created in the hills of India. Actually, the upscale sportsclubs of India. There are like 70 people mat-to-mat in an immaculate room. They heat the room to 100 degrees. ONE HUNDRED DEGREES. And you work your pathetic lily ass off for 90 minutes. NINETY MINUTES. In ONE HUNDRED DEGREES. If one were to harvest the sweat in that room, it would roughly have filled Walden Pond. It was horrifying. And she's absolutely chomping to do it again as soon as humanly possible.

She then met The Dude and they walked to the most excellent of Vietnamese restaurants. Stuffed their famished maws with rice noodles and peanut sauce and Amstel Light. The fresh spring roll is the finest food ever created. In case you were wondering.

Finally, they walked to a movie theater and saw In America. This was perhaps the greatest movie she has seen in years. You know how all the TV ads say "The number one movie of the year," or "the best movie of the year," blah blah? Well, you know what, Mona Lisa Smile is not the best movie of the year, and neither is Honey. The description of In America as a movie about Irish immigrants doesn't work because it is just so much more. And it has Samantha Morton, that completely creepy Agatha thing from Minority Report. She rules.

Posted by The Twins at December 13, 2003 11:50 AM

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Comments

ah, i've done some of the bikram yoga. it's' totally crazy and totally fascinating. i can't decide whether i like it or not?

Posted by: kat at December 13, 2003 12:29 PM

I've decided I like it, mainly for the reason that you leave there thinking, hell yeah, I've done something today.

Posted by: EV at December 13, 2003 12:47 PM