Morrissey Pub on Granville ~ ambience and good value

I ate at the Morrissey Pub tonight for the third time. Drawing me there was the availability of Whistler Brewery Chestnut Ale (seasonal!!! and not available in BCL). If you are a fan of Granville Island Winter Ale, this is like it's tougher big brother, it's delicious!  There is about a month left on their keg, so head there soon before they run out!

Anyways, to the food. My first visit there with Bry-man we splurged and pigged out on the Gruyere cheese fondue with cheesy bread. It was phenomenal! Really, truly awesome. So awesome that only it, and the chestnut ale can be recalled about that meal, despite having had mains afterward.

Now tonight I tried out their Hippie chick burger (see their menu and description here). It was AWESOME. Priced at only $11.00 I decided to upgrade to the 1/2 fries & 1/2 salad option. For those of you going to visit on my recommendation, please don't bother with their salad. It's just a small piling of lettuce. There is not a single bit of vegetable on there, and was a serious disappointment, even for a side salad.  The fries were good though I would go with this option.

The big bonus was when the check came. They didn't point it out but my burger was only $6.00... because it was Wednesday?... I think?.... but I was quite pleased by the surprise. Overall, the ambience is very cool and eclectic, and at night it's candle & lantern lit adding a bit of romantic sway. The menu is brief but satisfying and quite delicious.... but don't bother with the side salad. Enjoy :)

Crap...am I really writing about Twitter?!

Here I sit.... I have NO idea what to write about. I think this is what I like about Twitter really. The thought comes to you, and you tweet it.

I also get to follow all of the random famous people that I usually enjoy from a distance. Not in like a creepy stalking kind of way (well, except for Alan Tudyk -- major heart on for that fella) but like we are good friends, sharing thoughts and photos.

Before I met Bry-man, I ignorantly hated Twitter. Mostly because a friend of mine couldn't peel his eyes off his phone when we arrived in Edinburgh, due to his desperate need to 'tweet' about what we were doing or seeing, or JUST did.

So I decided to shun Twitter, like I had IRC, and anything to do with Yahoo.

I shun these things usually out of a basic need to not further complicate my life. I have plenty of 'things' cluttering my mind, and requiring my attention why add another??

But my BF didn't use any other form of social media, so I decided to follow him on Twitter when we first got together, so I could see who I was getting involved with.

Well, that was successful, and so much so that I now follow our mutual favorites: The Bloggess, Nathan Fillion, Alan Tudyk, Patton Oswalt... and then I added my own tastes in : Krafty Kuts, Neil Patrick Harris, Kevin Smith, etc.... what a slippery slope. Thing is, I can't stand those crazy Re-tweeters and those people who tweet about what they are watching and tweet like 20 times in a row (really people, this is what a blog is for!). The WHOLE IDEA is to get your thought across in 140 characters max (why this number I'll never know). Succinct, specific, short. I like it. It's a great exercise in self-editing... "Is everything I'm trying to type REALLY necessary?"...usually no. Hell, sometimes you'll completely give up on the "tweet", because the moment's passed.

Thank you Twitter, for kicking Facebook's ass because you don't allow people to play stupid barn-yard animal games on you, thereby not creating reasons to bother your old schoolmate from 20 years ago to 'play with me'.

Incidentally, follow me on Twitter if you like! @JCurllz. ;)

Size is almost always exaggerated in memory

I re-visited my preferred cheap eats joint on Thursday before my first class in Technical writing. Thinking that this would enhance my 'student' cred. by eating at a cheap food joint. Of course I basically would have eaten there anyways because I'm a cheap mo'fo, and the beer that I paid 6$ for definitely trumped the savings I would have been trying to achieve were I an actual student on a budget.  Or would it?

Though it was about 8 years ago that I was last in school, I seem to recall buying the 1$ pack of Mr. Noodles at Superstore for dinner, because I was on a 'budget', and then going out and buying a 12 pack of beer for the 3rd time that week. As a student, you quickly learn your priorities.

The Fries were bigger.

Well, there I was sitting down to enjoy my Crispy Chicken Ceaser wrap having craved one ALL day, and when the damn thing arrived, I felt like the blushing virgin on her wedding night who has been fantasizing about the endowment of her man, only to spot a teeny weeny peni. (not that there isn't truth to 'its not the size it's how you use it', creativity props) ... (This is why its always good to inspect goods before committing, btw). Anyways, I had previously given such a glowing review of the Warehouse and it's ceasar wrap when reviewing the cheap eats joints, I felt it only fair to note that the $5.95 wrap at 'Moose' WAS in fact the same size-ish as 'The Warehouse'. It's my duty to give credit where credit is due. Or in this case, just about no credit to anyone regarding size. It's just frickin' lettuce, dressing, a bit of parmesan, a few crumbs of bacon, and maybe some cheap chicken parts, they could afford to be a bit more generous.  Sort of like how I was being generous to The Warehouse. ;)