Comments on: More Evils of Banality http://sevenred.net/2009/02/08/more-evils-of-banality/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed Sat, 28 Jan 2012 04:06:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: She http://sevenred.net/2009/02/08/more-evils-of-banality/comment-page-1/#comment-265 She Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:59:08 +0000 http://sevenred.net/2009/02/08/more-evils-of-banality/#comment-265 Your Pho was just named the #3 Pho by Time Out Chicago due to it's "slightly greasy finish." We should try the #1 ranked Pho 888 around the corner next time. Your Pho was just named the #3 Pho by Time Out Chicago due to it’s “slightly greasy finish.” We should try the #1 ranked Pho 888 around the corner next time.

]]> By: M--- http://sevenred.net/2009/02/08/more-evils-of-banality/comment-page-1/#comment-264 M--- Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:42:36 +0000 http://sevenred.net/2009/02/08/more-evils-of-banality/#comment-264 I've got to agree with Sadaf -- your Ikea/Catholic Church analogy is brilliant. As Steve mentioned earlier, I am a devotee of Ikea, if not a zealot; I believe my proselytizing is one of the reasons I can't get him to go when we're in the same city. Pretty sure he thinks it's a fascist entity and wants nothing to do with it (about which he's not entirely wrong)...but I'm not done trying to convert him! As a show of my devotion, I was in NYC this past weekend to visit a cousin who just moved over there, and we travelled from Queens to Brooklyn on a weekend when the 7 train was being serviced just to go to the shiny temple. It was there that I might have spotted a high priest: it was a young, stocky man with a metal bowl from the a la carte kitchen section on his head. With that said, I have yet to assemble the Boliden reading chair that I bought over a month ago for my new apartment. The fact that you were able to put together a shelving unit with both babygirl and babybelly in tow is simply remarkable. And the Vietnamese food...yum. You've inspired a future lunch outing somewhere down here in downtown DC... I’ve got to agree with Sadaf — your Ikea/Catholic Church analogy is brilliant. As Steve mentioned earlier, I am a devotee of Ikea, if not a zealot; I believe my proselytizing is one of the reasons I can’t get him to go when we’re in the same city. Pretty sure he thinks it’s a fascist entity and wants nothing to do with it (about which he’s not entirely wrong)…but I’m not done trying to convert him!

As a show of my devotion, I was in NYC this past weekend to visit a cousin who just moved over there, and we travelled from Queens to Brooklyn on a weekend when the 7 train was being serviced just to go to the shiny temple. It was there that I might have spotted a high priest: it was a young, stocky man with a metal bowl from the a la carte kitchen section on his head.

With that said, I have yet to assemble the Boliden reading chair that I bought over a month ago for my new apartment. The fact that you were able to put together a shelving unit with both babygirl and babybelly in tow is simply remarkable.

And the Vietnamese food…yum. You’ve inspired a future lunch outing somewhere down here in downtown DC…

]]> By: topspun http://sevenred.net/2009/02/08/more-evils-of-banality/comment-page-1/#comment-261 topspun Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:21:19 +0000 http://sevenred.net/2009/02/08/more-evils-of-banality/#comment-261 Try spending about a grand a month for childcare and you'll be back in Target in no time. Oh, that's just for the one. That'll be doubling at the end of *she's* maternity leave in July. And infants cost more than potty trained kids. Yeesh. Try spending about a grand a month for childcare and you’ll be back in Target in no time. Oh, that’s just for the one. That’ll be doubling at the end of *she’s* maternity leave in July. And infants cost more than potty trained kids. Yeesh.

]]> By: StevenThomas http://sevenred.net/2009/02/08/more-evils-of-banality/comment-page-1/#comment-260 StevenThomas Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:01:19 +0000 http://sevenred.net/2009/02/08/more-evils-of-banality/#comment-260 That Vietnamese food looks damn good. We can't get that here in St. Cloud, MN.... Even the local Vietnamese restaurant doesn't have it!!! (I suppose I could go to the Vietnamese grocery store and try to make it myself... yah, right.) Anyway, now that I have a real job, I refuse to buy DIY kits like they sell at IKEA and Target. It's REAL furniture from now on. But a confession, I've never actually been inside an IKEA (a fact that grrrl-comrade finds almost impossible to comprehend, sinds she is devout IKEAn.) That Vietnamese food looks damn good. We can’t get that here in St. Cloud, MN…. Even the local Vietnamese restaurant doesn’t have it!!! (I suppose I could go to the Vietnamese grocery store and try to make it myself… yah, right.)

Anyway, now that I have a real job, I refuse to buy DIY kits like they sell at IKEA and Target. It’s REAL furniture from now on.

But a confession, I’ve never actually been inside an IKEA (a fact that grrrl-comrade finds almost impossible to comprehend, sinds she is devout IKEAn.)

]]> By: topspun http://sevenred.net/2009/02/08/more-evils-of-banality/comment-page-1/#comment-259 topspun Mon, 09 Feb 2009 21:15:32 +0000 http://sevenred.net/2009/02/08/more-evils-of-banality/#comment-259 I should be more honest about the way babygirl "ate" the Vietnamese food. This is how it really happened. We placed some grilled beef, rice noodles, and a spring roll on her plate. She picked at the noodles for a while, likely because they looked like spaghetti, her favorite food. We cajoled her into trying the beef, which she chewed for three or four seconds before spitting it out. *she* then took half of babygirl's spring roll and ate it: damned if it should go to waste. We finally convinced (that is, bribed) babygirl to try the second half of the spring roll, largely by promising a cookie for dessert. That is when the bargaining started: two bites? eight bites! three bites? seven! etc. But once she started eating the half a spring roll, she seemed to like it. So, I may have overstated her willingness to eat something other than spaghetti and pizza. It was a concession wrested from her with great difficulty and at significant cost to our cookie stash. I should be more honest about the way babygirl “ate” the Vietnamese food. This is how it really happened. We placed some grilled beef, rice noodles, and a spring roll on her plate. She picked at the noodles for a while, likely because they looked like spaghetti, her favorite food. We cajoled her into trying the beef, which she chewed for three or four seconds before spitting it out. *she* then took half of babygirl’s spring roll and ate it: damned if it should go to waste. We finally convinced (that is, bribed) babygirl to try the second half of the spring roll, largely by promising a cookie for dessert. That is when the bargaining started: two bites? eight bites! three bites? seven! etc. But once she started eating the half a spring roll, she seemed to like it. So, I may have overstated her willingness to eat something other than spaghetti and pizza. It was a concession wrested from her with great difficulty and at significant cost to our cookie stash.

]]> By: Sadaf http://sevenred.net/2009/02/08/more-evils-of-banality/comment-page-1/#comment-258 Sadaf Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:36:32 +0000 http://sevenred.net/2009/02/08/more-evils-of-banality/#comment-258 First, I was seriously impressed with your Ikea/Catholic Church analogy. And then I read that babygirl happily eats Vietnamese food. At which point, I keeled over in awe. Amazing. I might start printing pictures of other kids eating real food, to illustrate my kitchen and inspire my dino-nugget and spaghetti eating monsters. See, it is possible to try new things and survive! Look how happy she is!! My only suggestion with Ikea is to buy things in sets...bookshelves, for example. Inevitably, you will screw up the first one - usually after spending an hour or so putting it together, with that damn little monkey wrench they throw in. But now you're ready to do the second shelf/bookend so much quicker as you've learned from your mistake. First, I was seriously impressed with your Ikea/Catholic Church analogy. And then I read that babygirl happily eats Vietnamese food. At which point, I keeled over in awe. Amazing. I might start printing pictures of other kids eating real food, to illustrate my kitchen and inspire my dino-nugget and spaghetti eating monsters. See, it is possible to try new things and survive! Look how happy she is!!

My only suggestion with Ikea is to buy things in sets…bookshelves, for example. Inevitably, you will screw up the first one – usually after spending an hour or so putting it together, with that damn little monkey wrench they throw in. But now you’re ready to do the second shelf/bookend so much quicker as you’ve learned from your mistake.

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