Morimoto
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Ya seen the "Iron Chef America" yet? Predictable spinoff of Japanese TV's "Iron Chef" that so captivated me years ago when public access TV was good. Last night's episode of ICA featured Japan's Iron Chef Sakai against ICA's Iron Chef and total fuckson Bobby Flay. The outcome was rigged because Flay won. I say it was rigged because Sakai beat the shit outta him but it's American TV and nobody wants to see Sakai win. 'Cept for me cuz I hate Bobby Flay.
Anyway, last night's battle was Battle Trout, and that got me thinking about ... well ... trout. I remembered a classmate in high school who had a dream: To 'trout' in his own home. I googled 'trout' to see if anyone used the word in the verb sense anymore and it seems to have lost that meaning between now and high school, but 'trouting' used to mean smoking a LOT of crack and passing out and convulsing like a fish out of water ... like a trout, if you will. So yeh! This idiot had a dream: Not simply to own his own home, but to trout within it. Wow! He also told me once that he wanted to get the world's biggest rock of crack and have a master craftsman sculpt it into a bust of David Hasselhoff. NO LIE. I had a vision of him trouting on the floor of his home, the crack-bust of David Hasselhoff looming majestically in the background. Strange the things the memory holds.
The guy and I lost touch, thankfully, as he was expelled from school - I shit you not - ONE WEEK before graduation. Not for possession of crack, as one might suspect, but from ... uh ... repeated unexcused absenced. World-class dumbass.

Tonight - Annie's.

Here's tonight's: Find the Reference!

Annie's is home to us, you know.

bye-ee!

whrr ... clik!