Felicia Day

Found this screenshot comparison from the new Soul Caliber game from this cool article in The Escapist. Wow. Remember what I said about women needing to help out with video games? That looks so amazingly uncomfortable. She could never play mini-golf.

So I got back from Alabama Sunday, after taking a 6 am flight.  Talk about stupid.  Why did I think it was a good idea to have to get up at 4 am to go to the airport?  And then we sat at the gate for an hour while they CHANGED A TIRE.  With 200 people on board!  Can you imagine?  Why didn’t they do it BEFORE they loaded the plane?  I mean, when I take my car to the shop to be serviced, I don’t stay sitting in it reading my book as they jack  it up to work on it!

Bah.  Anyway, it’s been a mad scramble ever since I got back because we’re shooting new Guild episodes this weekend, yay!  We had been holding off because of finances and a few companies being interested in helping us produce, but we finally got enough money in our Guild donation box to make the bare minimum for our budget, and we decided to go ahead and shoot!  Thanks so much to anyone who donated, you really made it possible for us to “keep the funny going”

So now, I need to finish rewriting and get the script to everyone, get people to help work on the crew and be extras, and I need to find a few fake ficuses.   Not necessarily in that order.  It’s going to be hectic getting everything together, but it’s fun to be shooting again, these episodes are going to be really fun!

There will be no updates again until Sunday, I’m going to Birmingham, AL for my grandfather’s 80th birthday. He’s been fighting advanced stomach cancer for the past year, and he is doing fantastically well. I can’t wait to celebrate this milestone year with him! And eat a lot of southern cooking. Mmm.

Whenever I go visit the South, I always gravitate towards cafeterias. I will literally eat at a different one each day. It doesn’t seem like this format of eating is that popular in the West, dunno about the NE, but in the South cafeteria-style eating is part of the culture. I love going down the row with my tray, the pressure as the hair-netted workers stare at you, waiting for your meat choice. You gotta choose quick, people are pressing in behind you. It’s high stakes eating. Then, somehow when I get to the serve-yourself dessert area, my plate fills up on it’s own Can’t wait to have baked custard…yummy. If I were to open a restaurant, I think it would be some chic interpretation of cafeteria for the LA crowd. But then again, it’s no fun unless there’s fried chicken. Dunno how that would go over for the anorexics

BTW, I watched that new show Cavemen last night. Shudder. I really wanted this show to be clever and witty, a comment on living as a minority in society, interesting spin on Cave-culture…oh boy. This blog entry on the show at TV Squad made me laugh, but was oh, so true. How can TV go so wrong? I’m pretty burnt out on all these new pilots. The only ones I really want to give a second watch are Big Bang and Bionic Woman, and maybe Reaper. The rest I’ve pretty much forgotten until I get an audition for them and have to Google the show to remember what it’s about.

On another note, I’ve been websurfing and playing wii for all this week. And it feels good I always like to use small trips like this to make lists and stuff, so when I get off the plane back home I’m really excited to get back to work. Also, for some reason, I enjoy cleaning my house a lot right before I leave, so that when I get home again it’s WAY clean than the way I live all the rest of the year. Anyone else have this weird compulsion?

While I was contemplating a list for my life (see below post) I decided that I was hungry for something crazy indulgent.   AKA, the best F#$* pizza in the world:  Pizzeria Mozza

I didn’t have my camera with me, so I’m linking this picture from some stranger dude’s flickr account, but OH BOY, is this pizza the best stuff I’ve ever had!

We ordered two pizzas.  Neither was this pizza pictured above, but the crisp crust goodness you see displayed is exactly what we chomped on.  You can’t imagine biting into one of those air bubbles, surrounded by crisp, salty crust.  You crunch, and then reach the chewy soft innards.  Perfect combination of all taste sensations.  And that’s just the crust.

Tonight we got one meat lovers: pepperoni, house-made sausage and guancile (bacon from the jowel of the pig?  Gross sounding but it’s DElicious), and then I ordered the MOST FABULOUS one:  Squash Blossom with fresh burrata cheese scooped on right before serving.  You guys, this pizza was unspeakably good.  I ate until I almost vomited.  That good.   I usually get the one with hot red chilies, no cheese, and white anchovies (I hear the groans now but, whatever.  Fresh anchovies are amazing)  but I have no regrets about getting something different.  The experience was worth the risk.   Oh, boy was it ever.

They have this butterscotch pudding with SEA SALT on top that’s the best dessert I can imagine, but after I stuffed all 4 slices of squash blossom in my mouth I wasn’t feeling the room for more.  As I type…I’m regretting not getting one to-go.  If you’re in LA and have one place to go, make it Mozza.

So, in light of that lecture I watched earlier today, trying to think of life as a lesson, I think that, if the meal I just ate shortened my life by 1 hour….it was totally worth it.