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Today is National French Fry day!

In honour of National French Fry Day I am going to go get some killer fries from Burger Joint at some point. Oh yes I am.

I used to make french fries at home on a fairly regular basis, and not like baking freezer fries in an oven, either; I started with a potato and worked my way forward from there. It took me a long time to learn to make fries from scratch because there is something that not a lot of people want to tell you for some reason, which is this: you have to fry them twice.

I KNOW RIGHT? But you fry once to cook them and once to crisp them. When you see someone at a fast food joint dumping a bag of frozen fries into a fry-basket, they've already been fried once and then frozen.

So this is how I made delicious fries at home.

( Sam's French Fry Recipe )

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So then the skies opened...

Sheridan El Station is ankle-deep in water at the moment. Not ankle-deep puddles so much as "the floor".

It's kind of exciting, I've never seen people so afraid of rain.

And now if you'll excuse me I need to go dry off.

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Before I forget, I posted over at Wordpress today: Eff Yeah Gutenberg. I was going to say I find it hard to believe that there’s more call for Erotic Fiction than for Satire but then I remembered wait...I’m on the internet.

I decided tonight was the perfect night to do what I declared the "Second String Avengers Double Header", consisting of Zodiac featuring Mark Ruffalo and Mission Impossible 4 featuring Jeremy Renner (and Simon Pegg, honourary Avenger. Don't tell me you don't want to see him as Captain Britain).

Just so we're clear: the films are second string, not the Avengers. Though let's face it, Jeremy Renner spent most of The Avengers looking at things from a distance and Mark Ruffalo is the least threatening human being ever to appear in an action movie.

Anyway, I got about fifteen minutes into Zodiac when suddenly SURPRISE ROBERT DOWNEY JUNIOR. I was not aware he was in this film. He plays Robert Downey Junior Playing A Newsman, which is a little like watching That One Time Tony Stark Wanted To Try Journalism. Still, few things are more entertaining than Robert Downey Junior Playing An [Insert Role Here].

It's an enjoyable film for about the first ninety minutes, but the problem with doing a movie about the Zodiac murders is that there is no climax there. Zodiac just disappears. As a series of real murders, they're an unsolved tragedy; as a story, it's an ultimately unsatisfying mystery.

ONWARDS. I can't believe I'm watching a Mission Impossible film.