Bosu body: absolutely awesome class...using all these secondary muscles i never use...bounce bounce bounce....

HP3: everything in this world has turned into one big fat acronym...felt this movie was awesome..stayed true with the book, casting has proved itself stellar once again...much kudos to the kids for growing into their roles and becoming bonifide stars in their own right...landscape details, score and special effects blended perfectly for rowlings 3rd book...

FOOD: new york city has a way of sucking all the money out of you because of its inherent "need to be cool" and "need to be in" aura....by supplying everything the world's best pots have to offer in a five mile radius on a self-perpetuating biological clock...indulgence has become sustenance....

nyc dinner for 2's have re-created suburban diner specials into celebrity chef concoctions and a complimenting bottle of wine to go with it.  what used to be a meatloaf and potatoes date, is now the accepted $30 dollar burger laced with foigras and truffles...what is even more interesting is that as diners shove the "platinum crusted" entree's in their mouths, simultaneously, they critique the food in relation with other high priced meals they wish to eat.

people want to feel guilt (as that is what society has taught them), but after a few initiation sessions by the red zagat book, people can get used to anything.  the final check for 2 excessive of a benjamin is enough to feed a family of 4 for a month in parts of the world, is nothing but another swipe and sign and if u're lucky a good meal.

Most arguments against fine dining as frivolous, excessive and somehow morally wrong rest on one of two propositions, both of them false. The first is utilitarian, the 2nd dining moral.  I'll focus more on the 2nd because it is more prevalent in the diners head during the course of the meal.

it boils down to this: It is all right to enjoy food, but not too much. It is all right to eat out, but not to spend too much money doing it. There are two moral impulses intertwined here, the ancient prohibition against gluttony and the more modern Puritan objection to indulging pleasure for its own sake. Add to this ethical cocktail a twist of American pragmatism, the belief that money not spent usefully is money wasted. And what can be more useless than several hundred dollars applied to a six-course French meal that lasts four hours?

the moral arguemnt could have held no water if this was a once in a while occurrence but it has become the exact opposite...but this once-in-a-while fine dining excursion has slowly turned into an everyday ordeal...indulging on weekday outs have combined with delivery of "specials"...

Writers block: ugh..this took too long for me to write...blegh~

 

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