Legends of Bartending
Posted on July 25, 2004 by Ching under Life.
We were watching the Legends of Bartending World Championships last night of The Food Network. Gosh, these guys (and girls) do some pretty amazing things. I thought bartending was bartending. I had no idea there was such a thing as flair bartending. After you advance to the finals (only twelve finalists get to advance), the competition has four events or rounds: speed, accuracy, working flair and entertainment flair.
The reigning king of bartending, Christian Delpech won first place. His brother came in second and his girlfriend came in 11th or 12th. I can’t remember specifically, but the narrator made a big deal out of it considering it was her first competition.
You thought Tom Cruise was hot in Cocktail? Christian makes Tom look like a chump! Here’s a video showing some highlights of what these entertainment flair bartenders can do (it’s a large video file so it may take a while to download, you may want to skip it altogether if you’re on dialup). I don’t know if Christian is still bartending these days. I believe he’s retired. If he’s still bartending, I would sure like to see him perform in person. It’s very impressive stuff.
[update] If you go to the Flair Devils website, it says that he’s still working at Carnaval Court in Harrah’s Las Vegas. I don’t know if that info is outdated but it sure makes me wanna go! [/update]
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Incubus Canceled
Posted on July 24, 2004 by Ching under Life.
I just got word that the Incubus concert for which we been holding tickets for over two months now has been either postponed or canceled. Blah.
No one knows what is going on. I called Dillon’s, where we purchased our tickets, and they don’t know anything either. The guy gave me the phone number to the Select-A-Seat box office at the Kansas Colliseum but they freakin’ closed at 2PM. The tickets are still being sold on the website. What gives?
I guess, I will just try to Google it. Google always has the answers.
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Online Photo Sharing
Posted on July 22, 2004 by Ching under Web.
There’s a great article about the growing popularity of online photo sharing in the July/August 2004 issue of Technology Review. It’s about time someone noticed!
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Flickr
Posted on July 21, 2004 by Ching under Web.
I’ve been messing around online a lot lately. I get off at six o’clock now and I usually have a couple of hours before Brian’s gets home from work at eight so I’ve had a couple of hours to myself to just goof around the internet.
As you can see, I’ve discovered Flickr which truly is the coolest thing since sliced bread. It’s what generates the row of random thumbnail pictures above. Too bad it’s a Canadian product. Just kidding! No offense to all you Canadians out there, eh?
Anyway, have you all tried the newest version of Yahoo! Messenger? It’s loaded with features! I can still remember back in the day when it was still Yahoo! Pager. Now it’s capable of all sorts of things. It’s really neat. Then again, I’m easily amused. So maybe it’s not so neat to normal people. But then you won’t find out if you don’t try it now, will you?
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A Walk on the Moon
Posted on July 18, 2004 by Ching under Movies.
Brian and I just finished watching A Walk on the Moon. Pearl (Diane Lane) cheats on her husband Marty (Liev Schreiber) with Walker Jerome “the blouseman” (Viggo Mortensen). I felt so bad for Marty because he plays such a nice guy. He didn’t deserve to be cuckolded. By the way, you can catch Liev in his new movie, The Manchurian Candidate. It looks very promising.
At any rate, have you ever noticed how Diane Lane is always cheating on her movie husbands and getting away with it? What’s up with that?
I’m so glad that Viggo has since stepped away from the “lover” roles. I realize that he has been a movie actor forever but I didn’t really notice him until A Perfect Murder (Michael Douglas, Gwyneth Paltrow). He’s such a great actor and I feared that he would get pigeon-holed. Thank God for The Lord of the Rings.
To other Viggo fans out there. If you haven’t already seen A Walk on the Moon, I highly recommend it. There’s a tremendously sexy waterfall scene that will get you dreaming of Viggo for weeks.
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