Bunky and I had read about the recent opening of CoCo’s Cupcake Cafe right in Shadyside and were both really eager to buy a bunch of their tasty goods. We went on Easter, but they were sold out of pretty much every flavor, and after waiting about 30 minutes, we trudged home in defeat.
This weekend Bunky’s family visited us, and her mom picked up a half dozen cupcakes for everybody to share. They looked beautiful, and I was really eager to try them. I got a chocolate cupcake with ivory colored frosting. I took a big bite and expected to experience sweet fluffy nirvana in my mouth.
It never materialized. Instead I got kinda dry, odd tasting cupcake. I felt like I had just been victimized. I was hurt, confused, upset. Somehow, instead of getting the best cupcake that I had ever tasted, I ended up with something that even Bunky’s baking could trump. After asking everyone’s opinion, we agreed that the cupcakes were pretty much the worst cupcakes we’d ever tasted.
How could this have happened?! The website says the cupcakes use fine ingredients and are made from scratch. The only theory I have, is that the bakers are using strange ingredients to keep the cupcakes relatively healthy. The time we went on Easter, all they had was Vegan Vanilla left over, which makes me wonder if they weren’t using real eggs or something in our batch of cupcakes. I wish I knew what went wrong, because I really need this sense of closure in my life.
Arrrrgh, WTF this totally doesn’t look like Lelouch. SO MAD. Gonna put someone over his shoulder and do the blended dotted coloring, probably.
I think my version isn’t skinny enough? Or maybe not androgynous enough? Curse you CLAMP!!!
Well, it’s been about two weeks since I left the world of Azeroth, and I’m gradually getting used to life without WoW. At the moment, most evenings are rather boring but that is gradually changing.
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Wonderful news about my man-crush:
Lionsgate has boarded martial-arts actioner “The Forbidden Kingdom,” which pairs Jackie Chan and Jet Li for the first time on the bigscreen.
Interesting news, considering all the hoopla behind Fearless being Jet Li’s final martial arts movie. I heard Jet Li is signed on to be the antagonist in the next Mummy movie, but I could see how the Mummy role might not be heavily based on martial arts. Forbidden Kingdom seems to be a little less justifiable, though…
When promoting the U.S. bow of Li’s most recent movie, “Fearless,” Rogue Pictures touted it as his last martial-arts epic. “Forbidden” is being described as more of an action-adventure with fight sequences.
Kinda like how this isn’t a blog, but rather a personal web page with almost-daily web log posts.
Pittsburgh is weird and has a thing for zombies (due to some old horror movies being filmed here, I think). Check out this flyer…
Celebrate Zombie Jesus Day in South Side
O__o…
Finally got rid of the old TV and all the furniture that was taking up space in the bedroom and closet. I managed to sell both the TV and the TV stand separately on Craigslist, and posted up the console table in the free section of Craigslist.
The most interesting part of the sales process was this one Chinese couple that came to pick up the TV stand and then tried to haggle with me over the price. They strategized in Mandarin right in front of me (thinking I could not understand them), so I played dumb and just let them talk. This gave me a distinct advantage in the negotiating process (Mandarin in italics):
Husband: Well? Want to just take it?
Wife: It’s a little expensive
Husband: We’ve looked around and haven’t found any as good as this one.
Wife: Is the price negotiable?
Kabitzin: No.
Naturally they kept trying, but I continued to stand firm since I already knew they were resigned to buying the TV stand anyway. After a few more pathetic attempts to haggle, the couple paid full price for the item and took the TV stand off my hands.
Of course I had to withstand the steep Craigslist learning curve as well. At first I made the mistake of reserving items for people who called in about the stuff on sale. In particular, there was this one group of firemen that wanted the TV to play video games in the station. They were supposed to come by in their firetruck and pick it up. Everyone acted like they were going to pick up their goods on Saturday, but I waited around for hours and nobody showed up at the condo. Instead of getting strung along for several days (undoubtedly they inquired about several items and just took the best deal, leaving the others for backup), I just sent emails to all the interested buyers and informed them that I was going to sell to whoever came to pick up the items first. Once this happened, all 3 items were sold and taken away within 40 minutes.
Now I know that to survive on Craigslist, you have to be cold and heartless. I also know not to live in the district where those firemen are from (Bunky tracked them down), because they are unreliable and would probably be slow to respond to emergencies (too busy playing video games).
General | Kabitzin 4/16/2007 | 
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