Jason is my brother from another mother. Personality-wise, he’s a weird amalgam of my older and younger brothers, and awhile back he was declared an Honorary Becan. Anyway, he was kind enough to come to SPX with me to help out. Jason’s sort of in the same place as me, in trying to get healthier at least. He’s eating healthier and running and biking.
The last time we two were in Bethesda, we found this amazingly bizarre pan-Asian all you can eat buffet place, and loaded up on crab rangoons and sweet and sour pork and Chinese donuts, and this time around we kept threatening to go there again, even made concrete plans… and then when the time came, it just didn’t sound good to either of us. I mean, we were tired too, but I think when it came down to it, piles of crab rangoon just didn’t sound appealing anymore. The better you eat, the more you want to eat better, I guess.
ANYWAY. I was actually surprised that Jason could tell, I’ve only lost 15 pounds. And I lost them so slowly and gradually that I can’t really see that much of a difference myself. But I haven’t seen Jason in a bunch of months, so it makes sense, I guess. It’s also very gratifying…. and it might have helped encourage me to persist in trying to eat as healthy as possible, even though we were living out of a hotel in the middle of suburbia.
I’m going to repeat this thing that I put on the weekend’s post:
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REQUEST for INFORMATION! So hey you guys, a handful of people have asked me if/when I’m making this into a book. I have mulled and pondered and I’m really not sure how it should be done, and I thought, but HEY! this is the age of the internet! So I am bringing the question to YOU.
If/when I make a Sauceome book, what would you like to see? Do you want to see everything (even the crappy ones) collected? Do you want to see a selection of just the better ones? Should I wait til I’ve done at least a year’s worth, or should I start thinking about putting a “first volume” together sooner than that?
Alternatively, Niles had some fun suggestions. He thinks I should make a Sauceome Cookbook, that’s just a collection of recipes. (He also suggested doing a Kinko’s spiral bind on it, like the cookbooks you find at church bingo nights ^_^) And he also suggested doing a Sauceome “Eater’s guide to Chicago restaurants”. Any of that sound interesting to you guys?
Er, let me rephrase that. Any of that sound interesting enough to either pre-order or contribute to a Kickstarter or something? ;)
I’d pre-order it! I’d love to see everything (no edits of ‘crappy’ stuff) and if you want to add some recipes, beer reviews (God, I love beer), and Chicago restaurant reviews – that’d be great!
I think a “Sauceome Year One” collection would be righteous, but the cookbook idea is fantastic too. I would either pre-order or contribute. And I totally forgot to get a copy of the Ouija Interviews from you before you left the chateau. I shall be ordering within the week. Sorry about the Ignatz, too – such a bummer.
i think a complete collection of your efforts on “sauceome”, interjected with your favorite local eateries/recipes/whathaveyou would be positively genius, & DEFINITELY worth the investing of dolla dolla billz. y’all.
What if you did sort of a comic/cookbook mashup? Like you could have the day’s entry on one page, and a recipe, restaurant review or beer profile on the facing page? That would be pretty effing rad, if you ask me. Don’t make us choose!
I also like the idea of a year one/volume one saucesome, as well as the cookbook idea. I would totally pre-order or kickstart it.
I’m with Sunny. I would put my hardearned cash down for a collection of comics sprinkled with yummy recipes and suggestions. It would be a welcome addition to my bookshelf.
COOKBOOK! Best idea I’ve heard all week.
I love the idea of a Sauceome strip on the right-hand page, and a recipe on the left hand page, with a spiral binding. Or vice versa.
I’d pre-order a comic/cookbook mashup. But definitely a cookbook component! My unimaginative self is facing a semester of Spaghetti Night every night…
Would totally contribute to Kickstarter and buy it! I’ve actually passed some of your recipe ones on to friends, but I thought how nice it would be to have these around for moral support during the time I’m offline each day.
My vote is for a Saucesome cookbook with a guide to salad making for people who are retarded about salad making like me. Or offer it as a kickstarter bonus and get me to give you more money. :-)
I have bitched ferociously at people for this. “Have you lost weight?” is not a compliment. It’s not. First of all, it’s a question. “You look like you’ve lost weight” is slightly better, but still is only a compliment if that person is actually trying to lose weight, HAS succeeding in losing weight AND the asker is aware of both facts. If any of those things are not true, the compliment fails. Because it is possible (though I know it seems alien) that the person you are trying to compliment DOESN’T WANT to lose weight. There are people who think they are too skinny. It’s true. There are non-anorexic ridiculously skinny people that want to be softer or more intimidating or safer from the caloric dangers from a bout of stomach flu. Thus, the complimenter is foisting their own bias against fat people unto someone without such a bias (and maybe even spreading that very awful bias!). And if the person IS trying to lose weight, but hasn’t, or even worse, the person isn’t even trying to lose weight, or has gained weight, then the complimenter is either retarded, is remembering the person as fatter than they actually are so that their actual fatness seems like less, or both. And also that is a reminder that you’re fat and haven’t lost any weight. But at least you’re generating an illusion that you might have lost weight? No that’s not helpful.
I always tell these people: how about “You look fit.”? or “You look like you’ve been working out.”? Because regardless of whether they’ve been working out or not, every damn person wants to look like they have. That’s the main reason to actually work out anyway, to look like you’ve been working out! So if you’re succeeding at that, without even having to try: bonus. And if you HAVE been working out, and you look like you have been: mission accomplished.
I love those moments. :)
Once a old coworker told me that and I almost didn’t know how to respond. It was epic.