pursued!
I had a dream last night that I was on a sinking ship and my teeth were
cracking and falling out.
In other news, Jason Spezza is stalking me.
I'm serious.
Aside from that incident at the mall, mentioned below, I was forced to eat
dinner next to him last night.
Honest.
Chris, Henna, the Pie, and I went for dinner and a movie last night, and we
decided to go to Baton Rouge and then see Domino at the AMC. While we were
waiting in line for the restaurant (an hour's wait -- it was a busy place) and
drinking our beer, who should appear next to us but Mr. Spezza, Brian
McGrattan (who, upon further inspection, is the guy I thought was Mezsaros
yesterday), and Ray Emery.
The rub was that even though they arrived about half an hour after us, they
were seated within ten minutes of arriving. Damned celebrities. Chris
jokingly suggested going over to them and giving them a piece of his mind for
abusing their power, but upon hearing that McGrattan was an enforcer, Emery
used to be a boxer, and even Spezza was pretty quick with his fists (not to
mention Chris is all of 5'10" and weighs like 180, tops), he stood down.
When we were finally seated, we got to sit at the table right next to these
guys, which was kind of neat. Save that the hostess, when putting down the
menus, knocked my full beer out of my hand, which shattered on the table,
spewing everyone at my table (save me) with beer. So then I had to change
seats and face the players. I was afraid people would think I had done that
on purpose so I could stare at them. But I didn't want to sit in beer.
The service at Baton Rouge isn't spectacular. I understand that it was busy,
so things were slow, but the servers weren't the most cheerful, and we had to
ask twice for a replacement beer and a replacement napkin for me.
The food, on the other hand, was worth its price. I got the babyback pork
ribs with mashed potatoes. The meat was so tender that on my first attempt to
pull it off the bone with my fork, it flew towards me and went all down my
front (thank god for that napkin). Two huge incidents of my clumsiness in
front of celebrities and I didn't bat an eyelash. This can't but be a good
thing. Man, those were nice ribs. And the mashed potato was incredible, too,
all mixed with herbs and grated vegetables.
Not cheap, not fast, but oh so good. I recommend the ribs.
Then we went to see Domino. We were early, and in waiting around ran into a
whole bunch of Pie's friends from the Corel Centre.
Domino itself was not what I expected. I don't particularly find Keira
Knightly attractive, as I think her square jaw makes her look a little
mannish, but when she had short hair in this film, it really worked for her.
Not to mention that the cinematography was beautiful, as was the style. Pie
thought it had eau de Tarantino sprayed all over it, but I disagreed. Good
film. Especially when they showed the real Domino at the end. Neat stuff.
Aw man, I'm going to the Boston game tonight and I'll bet you five bucks Jason
Spezza's going to be there. Maybe I should get a restraining order . . . ;)
Posted by Ally at October 15, 2005 02:44 PM