aggienaut | Latkas, Burning Cars & Commanders

   So I had a wild Friday night.. the List was having a show see, and eatrice had invited me to this big party and... well I ended up eating chinese food with my parents. That is all. The end.

   It was this place by the Laguna Hills Mall see, over by the Trader Joes there.. "East Coast Chinese" or something.. purportedly the premier source of east coast chinese food in california. ::shurg:: I dunno but it was hella good.

   Saturday I went out with the parentals and we got us a christmas tree. I love christmas tree shopping.
   Then we had latkas.. you know, potatoe pancakes. They were hella good. Mum also made applesauce for them, from scratch.

   Then I went down to diedrichs. And down at the corner 200 yards away across the street from Viejo Liquer a van caught fire, IN THE GAS STATION. We were all rooting for the whole thing to explode but no, it turns out a van can burn to cinders at the pump without any collateral damage at all.
   I mean this van was a shell by the time it was out. Crazy stuff.

   Then Shillelagh and I scampered off to see Master & Commander at the Irvine Spectrum (while her boyfriend played pool with some other girl?). Alas the movie was not starting until 40 minutes after we got there, but Elf was just then starting, so we watched the elf previews before heading to the correct screen, whereupon we got 20 minutes of pre-show commercialism followed by MORE previews, totally 40 minutes of mind-numbing previews before our movie started.
   As to the movie itself, I liked it a lot. I like such things. It treated the subject of wooden fighting ships so much recently covered by pirate movies in a much more thorough way.