Saturday, September 11, 2004
Meant to do Lodestar work today, but instead cut my hair and did a lot of housecleaning. Two kinds of leftover pizza for lunch by myself. Napped. Tony A invited us over to his place for dinner. We met Bobby, who seems very sweet. With Bobby assisting, Tony prepared a large 4-course Chinese dinner: potstickers, mu shu pork, 5-spice pork, stir-fried vegetables, steamed rice, and 2 side dishes: pickled cucumber; tofu with 1000-year-old egg. We were only 4 people, but he cooked enough for 8 or 10! It was all very delicious, and I'm very impressed with Tony's knowledge of cooking. I told him he should have his own cooking show. Patrick and I brought over Thomas Kemper Black Cherry and Vanilla Cream sodas. Patrick learned how to roll out and fold potsticker wrappers. Tony accidentally stuck himself with a cactus fruit, causing some mild drama while pulling out all the tiny, nearly invisible needles from his hand. We talked about food, cooking, photography, writing, Lodestar, art, how stupid Details magazine can be sometimes (Gay or Asian?, Gay or Trucker?). Tony got a luxurious new chair in December. You recline in it and press a button to get a back and calf massage. It's orgasmic! Tony had recently started using Firefox, so I showed him all the tricks and keyboard shortcuts I've learned. The Firefox extensions website wouldn't work for us—we'd click to install the Adblock extension and it would appear to download but no installer window would appear. That site has never been reliable for me, so I figured it was a problem with the site. Couldn't sleep after we got home, so I stayed up and did UCSF work. Went to bed very late in the morning.