Hola, Sneakers! Welcome back to Sneaky Dragon where we have none of the answers!
This week Ian and Dave are joined by the Third Dragon Nina Matsumoto to talk: doing the dragon; making a Mochrie of it; full of Mullarkey; the sincerest form of Slattery; low priority; spare husband; manipulative shoes; feeling normaler; errant gun lore; optimal robbery times; blister pack; niche costumes; virtual music; omelette-based travel; elevated comics; immersive art with Moon Wolf; they hate movies; sauce gun; organ meat; never having to say your psoriasis; memories of record stores past; pussycats galore; angelic trivia; Nina’s trivia game returns; struck by Moonstruck; eaten alive; award in your ear; Quebequasi trivia game; Japanese horror; Question of the Week – Sneakers respond; a turn of the Scrooge; uncharitable charity; love angrily; personal movies; ungrateful turkey; candy yams; scoping mechanism; poo choices; mess avoidance; our number is up; inappropriate kisses; disenchantment; non-musketeers; Nina goes Dark, and, finally, cornholed!
Question of the Week: What is your favourite egg dish?
Sub-question of the Week: Have you ever travelled on impulse? Where did you go?
Thanks for listening.
Thanks to Matthew Sanborn Smith for the pasta-based cartoon humour:
Laurel mentioned Sebastian Maniscolco’s classic bit “Doorbell” so here you go and you’re welcome:
And Peter Ayres sent along this video clip last week, in case you missed it:
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My favourite egg dish is eggs benedict. When I worked in Halifax, I’d order it at a restaurant where they made it with puff pastry instead of English muffins. Mmm, so flaky!
About your discussion of Cher’s movie roles, this week I happened to read a line of dialogue in a novel that went: “On a scale of one to Silkwood, how badly do you need to shower after that conversation?” I thought, “Gee, that’s a pretty dated reference for a 20-something character to say in a novel that takes place in 2021.” And then they mentioned Moonstruck! Then Mermaids! Then I remembered the book is set in the New York burlesque community so it made perfect sense. The book is yet another modern adaptation of a Jane Austen novel. I wonder if she would have been in support of Pride, or would she have been Prejudiced against its non-binary characters?
That’s a great video of the rumba couple from The Thin Man. Your eye is mostly drawn to the man with his amazing pivoting spins but the woman is doing some really impressive partnering. She makes it look like she’s barely doing any work at all, but it takes a lot of core strength to turn him so smoothly. “Backwards and in high heels“ really applies here.
I’m not sure what would win as a favorite egg dish with me, I feel like I’ve only scratched the surface when it comes to the many ways to prepare them. I grew up eating fried eggs over-easy where you could dip your hash browns in the runny yolk, I still love that to this day. Susan showed me a trick where you add a little water to the pan when frying an egg, right after it starts to fry. Then you cover the pan with a lid for about a minute or two and steam the egg. This keeps the yolk from getting over cooked and you get a runny center every time.
When I’m in Chicago, you can get a pepper & egg sandwich almost anywhere you can order Italian beef sandwiches, any time of the day. It’s simply bell peppers and onions cooked with scrambled eggs and black pepper served on a hero roll. There’s a few variations on the recipe but it’s a simply eggs and peppers cooked and served on a roll. The significance was that you could eat these on Fridays during Lent but it turned into a year round food staple over the years at most beef stands.
Here’s an example of how they’re prepared:
https://youtu.be/xDTgKf-0vls
I still need to explore many of the ways to eat eggs, being a diabetic I can have as many as I want. I may need to venture out and try some new and different variations.
I’ve never travelled anywhere far on a whim or impulsively. The closest I’ve gotten to this was when I was growing up in Mesquite and I would disappear all day on my bike. I’d cycle places I’ve never been…in the country and into other towns, just seeing where this road or that way would take me. I found some great places that way as well as hours of solitude way out in the middle of nowhere on some days. I just had to account for the time it would take me to return home and hopefully not get lost.
Susan has been watching a show called “The Murdoch Mysteries”, a detective in the 1890’s who uses what would have been state-of-the-art techniques to solve murders back then. She said the show takes place in Toronto, Canada, is “The Murdoch Mysteries” a popular show up there? I’m sure you guys know all about it. Ian probably worked across the street from the studio or something…
I’m off the find some eggs now, writing you guys makes me hungry!
Adieu, Sneakers everywhere!
Murdoch Mysteries is pretty popular here. I’ve tried to watch a few episodes but it never really sticks with me. The show’s primary director, Gary Harvey, used to sit behind me in English class. We’re still friends on Facebook.