Good Bleeping Gravy!!! I Can't Believe I Missed That!

When I was living up in Salt Lake, I spent a good portion of my time downtown, delivering packaging goods to various companies who needed them.

Spending so much time in the area, I got to know a few good places to eat that had decent parking for a big truck, and I thought I knew all the great eateries around there. Except for Mexican food joints. Utah does not know Mexican at all. Every place that sells it has such watered down, tasteless salsa, mundane flavors, and generally weak food that I despaired ever finding a good place to eat. Seriously, half the reason I moved back to AZ was just so I could get decent Mexican again.

Then last night, I was watching an episode of Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives. Guy Fieri was showcasing what looked to be the only good Mexican food joint in Utah, I swear. The segment was on a restaurant called the Red Iguana. The food looked out-of-this-world awesome. My mouth watered. I wanted some in the worst way.

This awesome-looking restaurant is in Salt Lake! Freaking Salt Lake! I used to drive past it every day! I never noticed it, not once. And do you know what the insult-to-injury part is? I used to eat at a crappy Mexican food joint called Beto's that sits not a hundred yards away! One block down and on the other side of the street was a place that created heaven, while I sat eating crap food made by bored illegals who didn't care!

AAAARRRRRRGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!

So here's the mission. All you Salt Lake people are to drive down to 736 W North Temple and try it out, for me. Go! Go now! You people know you need some good Mexican food.

Here's their website.

http://www.rediguana.com/home.html

Go get some. You know you wanna.

Gran Torino

The movie is Gran Torino, a quasi-action drama starring the ever-huggable Clint Eastwood.

As much as ol' Clint has made a lot of conservatives angry in recent years (he's kind of a libertarian-Republican, like me), the idea of him in a movie portraying a crusty, irritable, benignly racist old vet who becomes a vigilante in order to protect his neighbors appeals to me greatly. For some reason, I can completely see Grandpa being this king of guy.

Hopefully when I become an old man, I'll be that kind of guy as well.

I think this movie is going to be good. Street gangs, cute little asian chicks, tobacco-chewing Chinese grandmas, and M-1 Garand-toting septuagenarians with the attitude that faith works best, when you put it in a rifle barrel. I can get behind that.

With Hollywood getting progressively more psychotically liberal and sissified, I get more and more disenchanted with those people by the year. Figures that it would be Clint Eastwood to put some gonads back into Hollywood, at least for one movie.

See the trailer here.
http://www.firstshowing.net/2008/10/24/clint-eastwoods-gran-torino-trailer-get-off-my-lawn/

The Great Tally

So I reported a while back the library was going to be charging me 50+ dollars for overdue library books.

Boy, I miss those days.

I can't for the life of me find three of the books that were overdue. No idea where they are. That means I get to pay for them in full. Great. One was an expensive rare Joe Lansdale western-horror, too, and I didn't even get to read it. I hope I find it, it's going to cost me enough.

I just logged in to my library account to see what the damage was, and it almost made me weep.

Grand total-- $121.93

I'm screwed. Oh so screwed.

That is all.