February 28, 2003 . VOLUME 96 . NUMBER 4 . BACK TO HEADLINES . ARCHIVES


Food, Sturgis and snow are nice

By JOSHUA NISSENBOIM
Contributing Writer




You missed me. I know it. It's a lie. You never cared. And I didn't either so it is fair. This time I…

This time I went with Rob, Helen and Tanya to Bryant Lake Bowl. It is on Lake and Bryant. It is where Kung Fu Hamlet in which some Mac students/grads are performing. I didn't know that at the time. I have been in a very corresponded conversation with Taavo where we really deeply remember very funny things that have happened in our past. I miss Taavo. He is in the show and you should go see it. I didn't, I told you I didn't, it was because I just didn't know.

Well I got the steak and it came with good mashed potatoes and good raw spinach. Tanya got a tuna sandwich which had a good tuna steak. Helen got two good beers. Rob got a good bean burrito and a root beer. Yep. This paragraph makes it a restaurant review. Good food.

We wanted to go bowling. We put our names on the list. We never actually went because Rob said that at the U we can go bowling for free after a certain hour, so we pretended like we were going to do that instead.

Rob told me about his experiences in jail and at Sturgis where he sold parking permits to the bikers and asked one of them what a "2 percenter" was. The guy told him never to ask anyone that. Then he asked someone without a "2 percenter" sticker and they said it meant that 2 percent of all bikers are drug dealers, rapists and murders and that's what that means. So I told Rob he should make "98 percenter" bumper stickers and slap 'em on tough looking people's bikes.

He told me about his friend who plays the guitar all day because he has an obsessed compulsion with it. This guy also doesn't speak to other people and has a brother who beats him up still. They are well in their twenties.

He also told me about this race he got in on the way to my apartment in the first place. Rob made it sound like a movie.

Helen and Tanya wanted to go home, so we took them to Tanya's. Rob and I then met his girlfriend, Kat, and went to my apartment. Kat really wanted coffee so we went somewhere I'd never been in my life—Cosmic Charlie's. It was a Saturday night. It was fucking insane. It felt like the St. Thomas athletics teams decided that they were artists and that they would create a post rave non-drink scene where they all have sketch books and real serious faces. There were at least one hundred people there. We sat in front of the betting machine and paid attention to everyone and talked about them. I got a full cup of whipped cream for a nickel. That was great.

Then we all went home. I went with Helen to go snowboarding the next Sunday where Rob works. We did real great. I can push a snow board down a mountain. Rob is an instructor so it was all free. It was in a nice place about thirty miles north of Hudson.



Josh is the one and only food critic. No more questions.
Email: jnissenboim@macalester.edu.



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