Rachel did a Movie!

The 48 Hour Film Festival was last weekend and Rachel acted in it!

They got "Foreign Film" so they decided to make it German. I translated some of the spoken lines for them quickly at home before Rachel rushed over to North East to shoot the film. The credits, however, were all them : )

Watch it! It's great!

Do a girl a favor and...

I let some girl downtown use my phone and since then I have gotten the following text messages...

"Whats your name?"

I don't respond.

A little bit later...

"Did that girl look like a hooker?"

"Hello?"

Then I saw that girl in front of Dream Girls downtown and promptly ignored her.

Two nights later more texts from the guy she called...

"Whats good"

Then this morning...

"whats poppin"

I write back something weird, like this is not my ex-girlfriend's phone, stop texting me (don't ask me why).

He replies...

"Stop playin girl im tryna get some of that bomb head"

Bomb head?

A Probably Typical Cooking Lesson by Siddharth Dani

Butter Chicken!
Corinne, Jesse and I asked the Great Cook Siddharth Dani
to teach us how to make this wonderful Indian dish.



It requires Chicken, he says.

You have to take off all the skin and fat. You get grossed out by that because you're already on your way to being a vegetarian so you make Siddharth do it.

Put the chicken in something to mix, he says.

Add Ginger and Garlic paste. Mmm...garlic paste.

Siddharth becomes unsure about next step.



Checks the youtube video on his laptop in the corner.

(What??? This isn't a time tested family recipe???)

Add coriander powder.

Have Siddharth mush it around for you.

Not sure what this was...maybe pepper, I wasn't paying attention.

Did I mention I'm cutting down on meat?

What now, I say. You cook it, he says.

Ooooh.

Add 3/4 of the onions you had Siddharth chop in the liquid that the chicken was in.

Add this stuff...in some amount.

You then get Siddharth so annoyed with your incessant questions and picture taking that you're asked to leave the kitchen.

And voilà! Some light chatting in the other room and you can come back
and get your butter chicken! Amazing and so easy!