October, 2007

  1. Quote of the day:

    October 26, 2007 by admin

    (courtesy of terrifying security guard at Target who looked like the second coming of the Notorious B.I.G.)

    “Hey! Your hair looks great. And those glasses – man, those glasses are fly! Rock on, sister! Here, have a piece of gum.”

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  2. Regarding food options at UCLA

    October 26, 2007 by admin

    For some inexplicable reason, I have a developed a major obsession with the make-your-own-salad bar in the campus centre. I mean, it’s a pretty good salad bar. Like, way above and beyond the shitty one in the dining hall at Laurier. But I think that my love of this salad bar is a little more intense than it needs to be. I mean, I don’t eat there often – maybe once a week – because I’m not usually on campus during meal times, but everytime I do I get overly excited about it. Like tonight. I was sticking around on campus to go see a play and I was kind of more excited about having dinner at the salad bar than going to see the play. (It was this play, and was amazingly good. Not this play, with tickets going for over a grand, which I will not be going to see.) I need to…I don’t know, get a life or something. I think maybe the draw isn’t so much the wide variety of vegetables (like, hearts of palm? Seriously?) as it is the thai peanut dressing that I pour liberally over everything so that it tastes like the Salad of Peanut Lust.

    In related news, my respect for the shitty campus coffee house has gone up somewhat because this evening they served me my shot of espresso in a miniature plastic wine glass.

    In unrelated, creepy news, my blog has been getting a lot of hits from someone searching for “boys in boxers making out.” Which leads this person to this post. Which is…probably pretty funny, once you get past the creepy part.

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  3. Alexandra is not on fire.

    October 22, 2007 by admin

    In case you were wondering (my grandmother called last night to check). The fires are kind of northwest-ish of where I am.

    But it’s really heartbreaking. Just a few weeks ago, I was in Malibu, just driving along the Pacific Coast Highway to see the view and it was beautiful, and now it’s actually all burning or burned down. And of course, this morning, like they do two or three days a week, UCLA maintenance crews were watering the lawns in front of my building, despite the fact that that we are in a major drought, Malibu is burning down, and the area I’m in would probably actually be a desert with no grass in it if people weren’t here so it basically makes no sense that they even bother growing grass. Good job using those water resources efficiently, Team Humankind.

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  4. Why is our homework not going so well?

    October 21, 2007 by admin

    1. Constantly distracted by thoughts of boys, nipples, and similar.

    2. Cannot resist urge to pick up ukulele to try playing selections from The Immaculate Collection.

    (Possible solutions: remove mind from gutter, put ukulele in closet.)

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  5. This just in,

    October 20, 2007 by admin

    the Hollywood Hellhouse was kind of amazing. And effing Samm Levine from Freaks and Geeks was the celebrity guest star! Sooooooo exciting! I got gunned down by Samm Levine, everyone!

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  6. Life is a mystery.

    October 19, 2007 by admin

    So, I was just watching the music video for Like a Prayer, an important cultural artifact if there ever was one (and please note that this was for serious research purposes, as I have an assignment due next week in which I am to fact-check a wikipedia article, and I’m thinking the article on Like Prayer is really probably the best choice), and something I had forgotten is that it basically makes no sense. I mean, ok, I know why it was kind of controversial when it first came out – and I really, really like the bell hooks piece, and used it extensively when I was writing on Dusty Springfield. But, like, honestly. If it’s anything anymore, that video basically kind of creepy – moving statues! stigmata! overly excited gospel choir appearing out of the ether! – but kind of lacks narrative flow. I mean, I guess there’s a narrative. But not a very good one. And the ending – hey, guess what! It was all a Tom Stoppard play! – is kind of a cop out.

    Having said this, I think that dark haired Madonna circa 1989 might be my favourite Madonna. Although Blonde Ambition/Truth or Dare Madonna circa 1990 is pretty good, too. I wonder if those two Madonnas could be considered one Madonna because they are so close together on the Madonna evolutionary timeline. But the difference in hair colour…I just don’t know.

    Hello, my name is Alexandra and I am a musicologist and drag queen.

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  7. Finally, I might be able to wear that slutty little sleeveless gingham dress.

    October 18, 2007 by admin

    As one of the comments says, this is why the interwebs were invented.

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  8. Important musicological conversation of the day:

    October 18, 2007 by admin

    Sam: Oh, look. The ethnomusicology department is hosting a workshop on Haitian drumming.

    Alexandra: You know…I kind of hate drumming. A lot. I feel like this probably means I’m a horrible person.

    Sam: It does. In fact, if you read Dante, I think he’s got the seventh circle of hell set aside just for people like you. People who hate drumming.

    Alexandra: And let me guess-

    Sam: Yes. It’s a drum circle.

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  9. How are we feeling about boys these days?

    October 17, 2007 by admin

    Um, pretty good, actually.

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  10. Oh, right. Cupcake recipe.

    October 11, 2007 by admin

    Highly Anticipated Rootbeer Float Cupcakes

    The recipe for the cupcakes themselves is essentially a rip-off (or, shall we say, an homage to?) to the cola cupcakes recipe in Hey There, Cupcake!, with a few variations that were largely the result of me forgetting to buy some ingredients and substituting other stuff, but the rootbeer buttercream is all mine, baby.

    For the cupcakes, you will need:

    1/3 of a 355ml bottle of rootbeer. I use Virgil’s, because I am a rootbeer snob and my theory regarding soft drinks and cooking is based on the same theory governing wine and cooking, which is that if it’s not good enough to drink, it’s not good enough to cook with.
    1/2 cup semisweet chocolate chips
    2 cups flour
    2 cups sugar
    1 1/2 tsps baking soda
    1 tsp salt
    2 eggs, beaten
    1 cup milk
    1 cup vegetable oil
    2 tsps vanilla extract

    1. Preheat oven to 350 farenheit.
    2. Pour the rootbeer and chocolate chips in a saucepan and heat on low until the chocolate is just melty.
    3. Sift dry ingredients in to a bowl.
    4. Combine eggs, milk, oil and vanilla in another bowl.
    5. Add the chocolate rootbeer slowly to the wet ingredients, mixing as you go.
    6. Add the dry ingredients to the wet and beat.
    7. Pour into cupcake tins and bake for 15-20 minutes

    For the Rootbeer Buttercream you will need:

    1 stick of butter (like, half a cup)
    Another third of that bottle of rootbeer (you’re supposed to drink the final third)
    four cups of icing sugar
    Some milk, some vanilla, sorry that’s as specific as I can get – I just eyeballed it. Add just enough liquid so that it’s icingy. So, not very much. I like it a little bit runny, so it looks like melty ice cream.

    Mix it all together! Wait until the cupcakes are cool, then ice those sweet, sweet darlings. The icing tastes just like the ice cream that melts over the top of the glass in a rootbeer float! Amazing!

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