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If you're looking for the band, click to go to Screamapillar Rocks and now-- on with the show! Tuesday, February 10, 2004 on the radio as i type: Maroon 5 - This Love ---- oh yeah baby.  food in the melting pot i cant be excluded from this generalization, but i think it's weird that americans feel the need to change everything to suit their needs, or make it better. case in point: sushi. a friend of mine just got back from a one and a half year stay. one day i was talking to him about my lunch at a sushi place and i couldn't help but wonder if they had the same things on the menu. this place i went i deemed non-authentic when glancng at the sushi menu i found: rainbow rolls, cream cheese rolls, spider rolls, and something strange called a "sexy" roll. sexy sushi, try saying that 10 times fast. anyways, my friend confirmed my suspictions, and as yummy as the rolls looked and probably taste, it's just not authentic (am i right here?). but that's not the end of it, by far. spaghetti here doesn't taste the same as it does in italy, does it? have you ever seen the commercials that say something like "sauce modified to american tastes" or "based on american tastes". i'm pretty sure i have. i'd include pizza, but i think there's debate as to whether it's an american invention or not. i'd elaborate more, because i'm sure there's more examples, but i'm still at work. either way, i dont know what to make of it all. for sure there's an argument for keeping the integrity of traditional foods, but, this IS america, and the modern notion of america is based in the idea of the melting pot (personally i think america is more like a salad, but whatever). i guess if america is supposed to a melting pot (salad) it's okay. especially if sexy rolls taste good. musings on life i kinda like this wordspy word of the day: flash mob flash mob (FLASH mawb) n. A large group of people who gather in a usually predetermined location, perform some brief action, and then quickly disperse. —v., —adj. —flash mobber n. —flash mobbing pp. Example Citation: The Internet has spawned a gaggle of new verbs — Googling, surfing and flaming are words most of us are used to hearing in everyday conversation. Now you can add "flash mobbing" to that list. In recent weeks, New Yorkers have been using forwarded e-mails to coordinate "flash mobs," or not-so-random crowds that appear and dissipate within a matter of minutes. Is it performance art? The cutting edge of a new social movement? Or just an easy way to flummox carpet salesmen? To protect the planned serendipity of each event, participants aren't told exactly what the mob is supposed to do until just before the event happens. For the most recent New York happening on July 2, participants passed around an e-mail telling them to assemble at the food court in Grand Central Station, where organizers (identifiable by the copies of the New York Review of Books they were holding) then gave mobbers printed instructions regarding what to do next. The result: Shortly after 7 p.m., about 200 people suddenly assembled on the mezzanine level of the Grand Hyatt Hotel next to Grand Central Station, applauded loudly for 15 seconds, then left. —Maureen Ryan, "All in a flash: Meet, mob and move on," Chicago Tribune, July 11, 2003 posted by tha muce -|- 2/10/2004 11:09:00 AM -|- reassuring comments?!?! ---> so far!
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