I didn’t realize that Lee Ho Fook’s had actually received a Michelin star. Huh.
The important question is: Was it raining?
It was indeed.
How was the beef chow mein?
You know, I didn’t order it. I forget what I actually ordered, but I made the conscious decision to get something else. There was a sign in the window about “Werewolves of London” with a picture of Zevon. I saw that before I saw the name Le Ho Fook.
This was in the late 1990s IIRC, and I suspect they had lost their Michelin star by then. The food was just OK.
In Hamilton, King George III is portrayed as kind of crazy. And I knew that in real life George III did go mad during his reign. But I only just now put those two things together, that the way he was portrayed in Hamilton was an intentional reference to his real life madness. (I’m not entirely sure if his madness coincided with the American Revolution, though. I’d have to look that up. It’s possible that was artistic license.)
Yes, which makes his song 'You’ll Be Back" so brilliant. Clearly deranged.
Okay, you know the “Pizza! Pizza!” guy, the Little Caesar’s mascot? I have a plush version of him*, and when I first acquired him, I named him Rodney. For no particular reason, I thought. But perhaps I was thinking of this Founding Father?
*He has chest hairs drawn on his front. That’s Italian.
King George III’s bout of madness in 1788 touched off the Regency Crisis of 1788 and triggered a power struggle between factions of Parliament under the Tory Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger and the reform-minded Leader of the Opposition Charles James Fox.
So, well after the War. And I must watch that film - Alan Bennett!
Another one re: “You’ll Be Back”: in contrast with the rest of Hamilton, it’s written in a Beatlesque baroque pop style - fittingly for a man who wanted to launch a literal British invasion.
And another one: its genesis was Lin-Manuel Miranda asking Hugh Laurie what George would say to the colonists, and Laurie quipping “You’ll
be back!”
Glen Glenn
Glen Glenn Sound - Wikipedia
Huh, I thought that was going to be a bay named after a valley.
I saw a mention of Benjamin Disraeli today and it reminded me of watching a miniseries about him on Masterpiece Theater back when I was in high school. I looked the miniseries up on Wikipedia and I was surprised to see Disraeli had been played by Ian McShane. I saw McShane when he played in Deadwood and I didn’t recognize him from that earlier role. In my defense, there was a twenty-six year gap between the two performances.
I’m pretty sure the Disraeli role was the first time I noticed McShane. So, I definitely remember him.
Wasn’t it Major Major Major Major?
I’m watching one of my favorite movies, Day of the Dead on Amazon right now and just realized the soldiers are openly growing Marijuana next to the helipad.
IIRC he was named Major Major Major by his father, and naturally rose to the rank of Major later on.
Well, for some values of “naturally”. Basically, he got his rank because the Army bureaucracy couldn’t cope with the concept of that being his name.
Right. It was “inevitable,” but not natural.
I just realized this last night…
I saw Animal House when it first came out, and I’ve been a big fan ever since. For some reason, I was thinking about the characters - Otter, Pinto, Boon (baboon), Flounder, Stork and I realized “Hey - they’re all animals!” I had never put 2+2 together.