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There was a new guy at Action Movie Night last night. Well, sort of new. According to Tony, he had come once or twice in the past. I asked Tony in the elevator back up to our floor what the guy's name was and not even Tony could remember. He did have a guess, and I can't even remember the guess. I don't suppose it matters—I had no interaction with him whatsoever; nobody introduced him. Probably because most of the people there had already met him before. Not having said anything to him, I won't be counting him on the next Social Review anyway.
Whew! I'm so glad we got
that straightened out.
Well, can I remember who else was there? The new guy was apparently a work friend brought by Jake, so obviously Jake came. Then of course there was Tony, who basically qualifies as the host for this group. There was also Ryan, Chris B, Chris G, Joe, Derek, Shobhit, and myself. I don't
think I'm forgetting anyone, and that makes a total of ten. Ben always comes if he's around, but I believe he's out of town again—as he often is. He works for Alaska Airlines.
Joe only seems to come every once in a while. Aside from Tony, Shobhit and myself, he's the only other one in the group who actually lives in our condo complex. (Derek used to, he moved, but is still coming to the Movie Nights.) Anyway, it was Joe's pick this week, and his choice was both great and midly inconvenient for me:
The Nice Guys, a crime comedy from 2016 that I really like, and which I already had slated to watch with Laney next month as a double feature with
Repo Man. I texted her that this was the Action Movie Night choice this week, and she offered to pair
Repo Man with something else. I was like, "No! I want you to see this movie!" I like it enough that I won't mind watching it again so soon after this.
And that watch with Laney will be the fourth time I've seen it. I really want to log every date I watched it on Letterboxd, and I swear to god I watched it streaming once with Shobhit, which means last night was my third time seeing it. Unfortunately, the movie isn't listed in the Watch History for my accounts on Netflix or Prime Video, and the fuckers over at both Hulu and Max don't offer a full Watch History feed. Goddammit!
You'd think I would have mentioned it in my blog when I watched it with Shobhit previously, but none of my many searches have brought anything up.
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The pre-movie potluck last night was an unusual level of vegetarians' paradise—for us, at least. We brought our own vegetarian dish as always, as it is often the case that our offering is the only vegetarian option. We made macaroni & cheese, which Shobhit wanted to add too many things to, and I feel strongly that mac & cheese is better when simpler. I'd have added only bell pepper and tomato, maybe the extra shredded cheddar cheese. Shobhit chopped an entire onion to add (ugh, pointless!), and we added chopped mushroom as well—a fuzzy white kind I can't remember the name of. I still think it was too much, but, it also still went over well and still, I have to admit, was pretty tasty.
Anyway, there was also a small tub of tater tots someone brought, and
two different people brought vegetarian pizzas, one of those people bringing three small pizzas with two of
those being vegetarian. It was an unusual bounty of vegetarian options, and I actually brought some of the leftover pizza home. Shobhit won't touch it only because at one point some slices of meat pizza were placed in the same box with veggie slices, and he felt they were "touching." They really weren't—barely, but they weren't.
Chris B brought a very unusual pizza that I found almost shockingly tasty. I can't remember what the name of the pizza was but it had fruit on it: small bits of apple, and tiny orange slices, along with multiple kinds of cheeses and, I think, peanuts. It was excellent.
Chris told us he saw it on the menu where he got it (MOD Pizza, I think) and was curious to try it. Evidently they don't make it very often: the staff had to double check that they had all the necessary ingredients. And, they did. And, I'm glad.
Shobhit recently re-joined Weight Watchers. He bought a food scale from Amazon, and was measuring everything we added to the macaroni and cheese. But, when you're trying to control your food intake, being faced with a bounty of options can be a problem. After he had his one portion of the macaroni and cheese, he then had two slices of pizza, and then wanted more to eat. He basically metaphorically threw up his hands as the meal effectively became a lost cost: he already ate way too much; might as well keep doing so! Someone else brought two bags of ghost-pepper flavored potato chips, and he even left the theater in the middle of the movie to grab the leftovers in one of the bag, and bring it back. That crunching in my ear was the one directly irritating part of his eating. Earlier he said, "My weekly points are gone." He had even already lost a couple of pounds, which took his daily point allotment down by two points. I don't know if he's going to log all that other food. He's paying for Weight Watchers, though, so if he doesn't want it to be a waste then he really should.
I guess there's some usefulness to his triggered response to meat-topped pizza "touching" the leftover slices I took home. He won't be eating those now. All mine! That's my dinner tonight.
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[posted 12:35 pm]
