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Apple Fest and Beyond! Soylent Green is...
Oct. 2nd, 2006 09:00 amSo this weekend was Apple Fest, which I have heard of, of course, but never gone to, before Saturday. Got up early (well...in weekend terms...) and skipped breakfast (good idea) and met Molly and Sophia to catch the bus down and meet Kate, who by then was in town. Now first of all, traffic was hell, which should give you some idea of how popular this thing is (for those of you beyond the Mississippi unfamiliar with this cultural phenomenon...think Oktoberfest...with apples. Yeah.). Anyway, we finally made it down there, met up with Kate and proceeded to be awed by both the sheer numbers of people and by the many, many stands from which wafted a ubiquitous smell of apples and general deliciousness. There was Thai food too, which was...well. I have a thing for Thai (though the lines ended up being too long, so I never got any).
Not sure where we went first. We kind of wandered toward the Autumn Leaves bookstore where the ATM is since Julie needed cash, and XOMG, I found a Pogo book within. What's Pogo? I'm sure I've mentioned Pogo before, but pretty much, Pogo was a comic series in the...40's-50's? It's amazing. Pogo is the main character and he's either a bearcat or a possum (There's some confusion. Anyway, he's adorable) and the comic pretty much just chronicles his and his friends adventures in the bayous. Complete with very, very Southern dialects that, after reading a Pogo book, will leave you thinking in the dialect for some time. It's all kinds of awesomeness, and anyway, I first discovered Pogo at my grandparents' house (they have three books) and decided Pogo was a must-have. Unfortunately it's hard to find.
I have a newfound love for used book stores.
Anyway, back to the apples. I let it slip that I'd never had a caramel apple before (shock! horrorz!) so we slogged through the crowd to a stand selling cotton candy and lemonade and, of course, caramel apples. Julie and Sophia got Thai and the three of us sat around eating while Molly searched Trader K's for shoes and Kate went off...somewhere. Anyway, dude. Caramel apples. Nothing like them. I was blown away, oh man. Wow.
We kind of wandered after that. Let's see--we went to this one stand looking for cider but they were out of the hot stuff, though they'd just gotten some apple cider donuts which are also tres awesome. Then we went down the commons, past the band that was playing some really awesome music in the center-thing and found some spiced apple cider near a stand selling apple-oriented ice cream. Hot. Spiced. Cider.
They were also next door to the Mennonite stand, which I've heard is all kinds of delicious awesomeness, so how could I pass it up? Got a plate of fudge and a German apple loaf and nearabouts died because, damn can those Mennonites cook, Lawd. The fudge--was like--so--freaking smooth and rich and--dwah. Midway through the apple loaf I had to go back for an apple pie, a little one. By the end of the day I'd eaten pretty much the whole loaf, which was, what, six inches long? That's how good it was.
There was also a guy wandering around in a lemon suit advertising the lemonade stand, wearing a sign that said "Equal Fruit Rights." XD
After much cider and nibbles we eventually parted ways, Sophia heading back home, Kate disappearing with Max and Molly I think heading home as well, while Julie and I went to the mall to buy non-apple stuff. Like chocolate. Because I've had a serious chocolate shortage, we're talking a chocolate famine here, so I splurged and bought--let's see, a thing of Moose Food (Muddy Buddies...Chex covered in PB, chocolate and powdered sugar), a thing of toasted coconut clusters, a box of adorable, tiny turtles filled with choclate and your average bar of chocolate with a coconut custard filling.
Julie bought fudge.
Hit up Borders as well and I bought Danielewski(House of Leaves)'s new book, which is another experimental novel. Pretty much, it's two stories in one--you flip the book over to get the second one, oh man I love this guy. That and some manga that I hadn't realized would be out, including the latest One Piece, Buso Renkin and Bleach. Then to Target to buy actual foodstuffs and disposable bowls.
That night was movie night. The movie? Soylent Green.
( Review Below )
That was Saturday.
Sunday was a "work day" except for me it ended up being a day of finishing chapter seven of the fic because I was sick of it just sitting there, glaring at me and shrieking "finish me, damn it, you've got people waiting!" Fortunately I had very little homework. That night we also watched two Miyazaki movies (Mononoke and Spirited Away) for Julie's essay for her Light class. Heh.
I didn't realize it was Yom Kippur today. Then I was in German today and we were reading this thing about the Third Reich and the Nazis, and I remember thinking, "It's kind of weird that we're reading about Hitler on Yom Kippur."
Oh well. P-Arg was cancelled today too, so alls I got left is Poetry. Gotta get a shitload read today too.
But anyway. Had an awesome weekend. And Chapter Seven of the fic is up, woot!
Not sure where we went first. We kind of wandered toward the Autumn Leaves bookstore where the ATM is since Julie needed cash, and XOMG, I found a Pogo book within. What's Pogo? I'm sure I've mentioned Pogo before, but pretty much, Pogo was a comic series in the...40's-50's? It's amazing. Pogo is the main character and he's either a bearcat or a possum (There's some confusion. Anyway, he's adorable) and the comic pretty much just chronicles his and his friends adventures in the bayous. Complete with very, very Southern dialects that, after reading a Pogo book, will leave you thinking in the dialect for some time. It's all kinds of awesomeness, and anyway, I first discovered Pogo at my grandparents' house (they have three books) and decided Pogo was a must-have. Unfortunately it's hard to find.
I have a newfound love for used book stores.
Anyway, back to the apples. I let it slip that I'd never had a caramel apple before (shock! horrorz!) so we slogged through the crowd to a stand selling cotton candy and lemonade and, of course, caramel apples. Julie and Sophia got Thai and the three of us sat around eating while Molly searched Trader K's for shoes and Kate went off...somewhere. Anyway, dude. Caramel apples. Nothing like them. I was blown away, oh man. Wow.
We kind of wandered after that. Let's see--we went to this one stand looking for cider but they were out of the hot stuff, though they'd just gotten some apple cider donuts which are also tres awesome. Then we went down the commons, past the band that was playing some really awesome music in the center-thing and found some spiced apple cider near a stand selling apple-oriented ice cream. Hot. Spiced. Cider.
They were also next door to the Mennonite stand, which I've heard is all kinds of delicious awesomeness, so how could I pass it up? Got a plate of fudge and a German apple loaf and nearabouts died because, damn can those Mennonites cook, Lawd. The fudge--was like--so--freaking smooth and rich and--dwah. Midway through the apple loaf I had to go back for an apple pie, a little one. By the end of the day I'd eaten pretty much the whole loaf, which was, what, six inches long? That's how good it was.
There was also a guy wandering around in a lemon suit advertising the lemonade stand, wearing a sign that said "Equal Fruit Rights." XD
After much cider and nibbles we eventually parted ways, Sophia heading back home, Kate disappearing with Max and Molly I think heading home as well, while Julie and I went to the mall to buy non-apple stuff. Like chocolate. Because I've had a serious chocolate shortage, we're talking a chocolate famine here, so I splurged and bought--let's see, a thing of Moose Food (Muddy Buddies...Chex covered in PB, chocolate and powdered sugar), a thing of toasted coconut clusters, a box of adorable, tiny turtles filled with choclate and your average bar of chocolate with a coconut custard filling.
Julie bought fudge.
Hit up Borders as well and I bought Danielewski(House of Leaves)'s new book, which is another experimental novel. Pretty much, it's two stories in one--you flip the book over to get the second one, oh man I love this guy. That and some manga that I hadn't realized would be out, including the latest One Piece, Buso Renkin and Bleach. Then to Target to buy actual foodstuffs and disposable bowls.
That night was movie night. The movie? Soylent Green.
( Review Below )
That was Saturday.
Sunday was a "work day" except for me it ended up being a day of finishing chapter seven of the fic because I was sick of it just sitting there, glaring at me and shrieking "finish me, damn it, you've got people waiting!" Fortunately I had very little homework. That night we also watched two Miyazaki movies (Mononoke and Spirited Away) for Julie's essay for her Light class. Heh.
I didn't realize it was Yom Kippur today. Then I was in German today and we were reading this thing about the Third Reich and the Nazis, and I remember thinking, "It's kind of weird that we're reading about Hitler on Yom Kippur."
Oh well. P-Arg was cancelled today too, so alls I got left is Poetry. Gotta get a shitload read today too.
But anyway. Had an awesome weekend. And Chapter Seven of the fic is up, woot!
