March 3, 2005

We Didn't Get Food When I Was A Kid!

Let alone "raw Vietnamese mushroom salad". (thank goodness!)

What am I talking about? It's like this. I was reading "Best of the Web" and a bit about the Moveon (please!) guy. Apparently, he was eating lunch at the Berkeley Museum of Art:

.... The magazine likens Boyd to "someone who spends all day in an Internet chat room and assumes the rest of the world is as psyched as he and his online compatriots are about, say, the Lord of the Rings trilogy." But our favorite bit is about Joan Blades, MoveOn's co-founder and Boyd's better half:

"The GOP is painting us as socialist radicals," Blades tells me with seeming disbelief over Thai chicken salad at the Berkeley Art Museum.

Surely a real socialist radical would have ordered the raw Vietnamese mushroom salad instead.

Why do I care? Well, I don't really. At least not about him. But mention of that museum brings back fond childhood memories. See, it was almost directly across the street from the hotel I grew up in, and my brother and I spent a whole lot of time over there as a way to kill time. It was almost new then, a butt ugly building that the city was so proud of and a collection of "art" that always left my brother and I in fits of giggles. Ahhh... the memories.

Posted by Ithildin at March 3, 2005 3:59 PM | PROCURE FINE OLD WORLD ABSINTHE

You grew up in a hotel? There must be a story in there somewhere.

Posted by: Lornkanaga at March 4, 2005 6:03 AM

I think the author meant "Vietnamese raw mushroom salad", don't you? I would take a pass on a "raw Vietnamese mushroom salad". =)

Posted by: Chris Taylor at March 4, 2005 6:52 AM

"The GOP is painting us as socialist radicals..."

Well, gosh, he says that almost as if in Berkeley it's a bad thing to be characterized that way. Um, hello? MoveOn IS a bunch of socialist radicals: you'd think their own people would know that. Oh, and the last thing they do these days is ever actually "move on."

Posted by: Dave J at March 4, 2005 9:27 AM