Sushi-Smooshie
I don't know about you, but if my favorite author ever came up to me in public and tried to offer me uncooked meat of any kind, expecting me to eat it... I would find the largest and heaviest edition of their longest work (in this case, the complete, collected, 75 issue run of Sandman in Hardcover) and smack them in the head with it until they forgot their British accent entirely.
But that's me.
On a completely unrelated topic, there are also people who enjoy eating poo. Just putting that out there to drum up conversation. No hidden agenda or subversive propaganda implied whatsoever.
Interestingly enough, in a comic written by Neil Gaiman for Clive Barker's Hellraiser, poo-eating was mentioned. In his blog, the eating of raw fish meat is explored extensively. Are these topics related?
You decide.
--RRNN
“To be honest, Minneapolis sushi is much of a muchness. There's nothing that's outstanding, like a Nobu, and nothing I've had so far that's been dreadful (apart from Fuji Ya when they first put sushi on their menu, about eight years ago, but they soon got the hang of it). I tend to go to Sakura in St. Paul, because Miyoko and her staff treat me like family, and the food's good.”
– Neil Gaiman 03/08/03
“There's great sushi, there's perfectly good sushi, and then there's rubbery, chewy, evil fishy strips on cold rice-puddingish lumps, that humans should not have to eat.”
-- Neil Gaiman 06/06/05
“I sit here repeating to myself that airport food court sushi is NOT a good thing to eat and is in fact a very bad idea. Sometimes my natural optimism makes me forget this, and pay real money for sad, fishy, rubbery things that make me sad when I sit in the food court and eat them.”
–Neil Gaiman 03/09/02 (Which I already posted 02/10/06, but could not be ignored for this post)
“The rule about never eating sushi in airports because it will taste like wet fish-flavoured rubber strips laid over lumps of cold rice pudding does not apply to Amsterdam airport sushi counter, where the sushi is basic but very decent.”
-- Neil Gaiman 08/17/04
“Jill Thompson and her husband, Brian Azzarello, took me out for wonderful sushi at a restaurant called Katsu (2651 W. Peterson Ave, Chicago 60659) for sushi that was really world class, and I was impressed, and we all ate too much. ("You must eat last piece sushi," said the hostess. "Is lucky." And we looked at her like Mr Creosote in The Meaning of Life, being offered his wafferthin mint. "Maybe one of you need some luck?") Jill and I both talked too much, and Brian mostly listened, and smiled in all the right places.”
– Neil Gaiman 04/12/02
“Let's see... I promised I'd put in a plug for ConCat, an SF convention in Knoxville TN over the Thanksgiving Weekend (Nov 23-25). Caitlin Keirnan will be there, Yvonne Navarro is the G of H, and if you're extra-nice to the con staff they will send you to the Japanese Restaurant whose speed of service, cold soup and warm sushi was immortalised in American Gods.”
-- Neil Gaiman 10/24/ 01
“I'm in Washington DC right now. Nothing much interesting to report, so instead I shall recommend Kaz Sushi Bistro (1915 I St NW) -- really, really good sushi, and an intelligent and interesting menu. Not nightmarishly pricy, but not at all cheap.”
-- Neil Gaiman 10/12/01
“Dinner was with friends at Sushi Sasabune. This used to be my favourite Sushi place in the whole wide world, small and perfect in the middle of nowhere halfway to Santa Monica, and because it wasn't a very big restaurant I didn't ever dare plug it on this blog. This time I got to the restaurant to find it closed and big For Lease signs up on the windows. "They've moved," said a man walking past holding a bunch of flowers, helpfully, "They're now up on Wilshire. The food's nearly as a good but the atmosphere's completely gone."
We went off to find the new location, and discovered it. The food was nearly as good as it used to be (and it was, and still is amazing) but, as the man with the flowers said, the atmosphere isn't the same -- I wished they'd kept the old location and simply started another, rather than expanding so dramatically. Still, the restaurant is now big enough that I'm happy to mention it here. Try the chef's Trust Me menu.”
-- Neil Gaiman 02/02/06
“If the Food Channel asked me to do a Sushi special across America, I'd say yes like a shot, but mostly because I know I'd learn stuff. And get to taste good things.”
-- Neil Gaiman 03/26/03
“While it's certainly true that there have been times when people bringing food has been a lifesaver, sometimes for me and sometimes for the people standing in the line waiting to see me, it's also really, honestly, probably not a good idea to bring sushi to signings. Long signings in warm bookshops... Consider me already grateful, but better to bring something that has less risk of giving the author food poisoning. The people at the place I'll be the following day will thank you...”
-- Neil Gaiman 08/18/05
“Incidentally, I see that the interview with me at Food Porn is now up: Thrill! as we eat eggplant sushi and admire the colour. Gasp! as I try to explain who Fanny Craddock and Keith Floyd were. Scream! as you discover that they serve pony sushi in Reykjavik. Easily the most food-and-drink oriented interview I've ever given. (And yes, the 1955 Strathisla really is that good.)”
-- Neil Gaiman 07/23/02
“Well, for the best [sushi] in the poshest sense, it's either Nobu or Nobu Next Door. I thought the food was better at Nobu Next Door (and was not impressed by the way that Nobu gave Miso with clams in it to a diner at our table who had explained, when the waiter had asked if anyone had any allergies, that if she tasted shellfish she would stop breathing. She went off in a taxi to the emergency room, and, while they didn't charge us for the food she'd eaten before being taken away, I felt that, all things considered, they fell somewhat short of perfect service). (This was a meal for the people who won an E-Bay auction and paid several thousand dollars to the CBLDF for dinner with me, on the Last Angel Tour.)
Beyond that, all New Yorkers have their favourite places, and they take me to them when I'm in New York, and I almost always find myself agreeing that that really was lovely. I did a google search which turned up http://www.sushi.infogate.de/rest/na_usa_newyork_newyorkcity.htm When I'm in midtown I tend to go to Kurumazushi on 56th between 5th and 6th for lunch. Not posh at all, but nice food.”
-- Neil Gaiman 03/11/02
“It's easiest just to assume that a Pound is a dollar and a Euro is a dollar and that way I only go "Oh, that's expensive" in a vague sort of way, rather than doing the conversion in my head and going "five bits of conveyor belt sushi cost me WHAT?"
-- Neil Gaiman 11/30/04
“It was around midday, and Gwenda turned up bearing sushi for us all for breakfast. (Really good, by the way. I never thought of Lexington as one of the great Sushi places in the world. Whodathunkit?) “
-- Neil Gaiman 06/23/01
“If you register for the con prior to August the 14th you're eligible to win a dinner with a Guest of Honour on Friday Night. If you don't like Sushi you should probably pick someone who isn't me or Jill Thompson to eat with.”
-- Neil Gaiman 06/26/04
“I signed lots of CD booklets for Warning: Contains Language and Telling Tales), getting a haircut from Wendy at HairPolice (a woman who can make the single word "dude" perform pretty much any function in the English language) and eating at Midori's Floating World Cafe (amazing tea selection, nice sushi, great rice-balls): was aided and abetted in much of this by John M. Ford & Elise.”
-- Neil Gaiman 06/18/04
"I'll have 120mb of yellowtail, please.
Thanks to all of you who felt that I should mention here that you can get USB drives that look like sushi. ...or possibly you can now get sushi that you can also store information on.
I should eat something now, shouldn't I?”
-- Neil Gaiman 10/22/04
“Now in hotel. Was taken out for sushi dinner by Danish publisher, and the salmon was extremely wonderful.”
-- Neil Gaiman 05/11/03
And for the record, should you assume I am implying that if you enjoy the taste of sushi that you will also enjoy the taste of poo? No. It's one of those claims like: "If we allow gay marriages, then surely bestiality and necrophilia will be the next chic wedding trends this spring!" I'm not a closed-minded sushi bigot. I just like exploring how the stupid-half think.
Don't write me all angry about sushi, either.
I'll just vomit.
(Next week I promise will be a more useful, happier, and less stomach-turning collection of posts.)
But that's me.
On a completely unrelated topic, there are also people who enjoy eating poo. Just putting that out there to drum up conversation. No hidden agenda or subversive propaganda implied whatsoever.
Interestingly enough, in a comic written by Neil Gaiman for Clive Barker's Hellraiser, poo-eating was mentioned. In his blog, the eating of raw fish meat is explored extensively. Are these topics related?
You decide.
--RRNN
“To be honest, Minneapolis sushi is much of a muchness. There's nothing that's outstanding, like a Nobu, and nothing I've had so far that's been dreadful (apart from Fuji Ya when they first put sushi on their menu, about eight years ago, but they soon got the hang of it). I tend to go to Sakura in St. Paul, because Miyoko and her staff treat me like family, and the food's good.”
– Neil Gaiman 03/08/03
“There's great sushi, there's perfectly good sushi, and then there's rubbery, chewy, evil fishy strips on cold rice-puddingish lumps, that humans should not have to eat.”
-- Neil Gaiman 06/06/05
“I sit here repeating to myself that airport food court sushi is NOT a good thing to eat and is in fact a very bad idea. Sometimes my natural optimism makes me forget this, and pay real money for sad, fishy, rubbery things that make me sad when I sit in the food court and eat them.”
–Neil Gaiman 03/09/02 (Which I already posted 02/10/06, but could not be ignored for this post)
“The rule about never eating sushi in airports because it will taste like wet fish-flavoured rubber strips laid over lumps of cold rice pudding does not apply to Amsterdam airport sushi counter, where the sushi is basic but very decent.”
-- Neil Gaiman 08/17/04
“Jill Thompson and her husband, Brian Azzarello, took me out for wonderful sushi at a restaurant called Katsu (2651 W. Peterson Ave, Chicago 60659) for sushi that was really world class, and I was impressed, and we all ate too much. ("You must eat last piece sushi," said the hostess. "Is lucky." And we looked at her like Mr Creosote in The Meaning of Life, being offered his wafferthin mint. "Maybe one of you need some luck?") Jill and I both talked too much, and Brian mostly listened, and smiled in all the right places.”
– Neil Gaiman 04/12/02
“Let's see... I promised I'd put in a plug for ConCat, an SF convention in Knoxville TN over the Thanksgiving Weekend (Nov 23-25). Caitlin Keirnan will be there, Yvonne Navarro is the G of H, and if you're extra-nice to the con staff they will send you to the Japanese Restaurant whose speed of service, cold soup and warm sushi was immortalised in American Gods.”
-- Neil Gaiman 10/24/ 01
“I'm in Washington DC right now. Nothing much interesting to report, so instead I shall recommend Kaz Sushi Bistro (1915 I St NW) -- really, really good sushi, and an intelligent and interesting menu. Not nightmarishly pricy, but not at all cheap.”
-- Neil Gaiman 10/12/01
“Dinner was with friends at Sushi Sasabune. This used to be my favourite Sushi place in the whole wide world, small and perfect in the middle of nowhere halfway to Santa Monica, and because it wasn't a very big restaurant I didn't ever dare plug it on this blog. This time I got to the restaurant to find it closed and big For Lease signs up on the windows. "They've moved," said a man walking past holding a bunch of flowers, helpfully, "They're now up on Wilshire. The food's nearly as a good but the atmosphere's completely gone."
We went off to find the new location, and discovered it. The food was nearly as good as it used to be (and it was, and still is amazing) but, as the man with the flowers said, the atmosphere isn't the same -- I wished they'd kept the old location and simply started another, rather than expanding so dramatically. Still, the restaurant is now big enough that I'm happy to mention it here. Try the chef's Trust Me menu.”
-- Neil Gaiman 02/02/06
“If the Food Channel asked me to do a Sushi special across America, I'd say yes like a shot, but mostly because I know I'd learn stuff. And get to taste good things.”
-- Neil Gaiman 03/26/03
“While it's certainly true that there have been times when people bringing food has been a lifesaver, sometimes for me and sometimes for the people standing in the line waiting to see me, it's also really, honestly, probably not a good idea to bring sushi to signings. Long signings in warm bookshops... Consider me already grateful, but better to bring something that has less risk of giving the author food poisoning. The people at the place I'll be the following day will thank you...”
-- Neil Gaiman 08/18/05
“Incidentally, I see that the interview with me at Food Porn is now up: Thrill! as we eat eggplant sushi and admire the colour. Gasp! as I try to explain who Fanny Craddock and Keith Floyd were. Scream! as you discover that they serve pony sushi in Reykjavik. Easily the most food-and-drink oriented interview I've ever given. (And yes, the 1955 Strathisla really is that good.)”
-- Neil Gaiman 07/23/02
“Well, for the best [sushi] in the poshest sense, it's either Nobu or Nobu Next Door. I thought the food was better at Nobu Next Door (and was not impressed by the way that Nobu gave Miso with clams in it to a diner at our table who had explained, when the waiter had asked if anyone had any allergies, that if she tasted shellfish she would stop breathing. She went off in a taxi to the emergency room, and, while they didn't charge us for the food she'd eaten before being taken away, I felt that, all things considered, they fell somewhat short of perfect service). (This was a meal for the people who won an E-Bay auction and paid several thousand dollars to the CBLDF for dinner with me, on the Last Angel Tour.)
Beyond that, all New Yorkers have their favourite places, and they take me to them when I'm in New York, and I almost always find myself agreeing that that really was lovely. I did a google search which turned up http://www.sushi.infogate.de/rest/na_usa_newyork_newyorkcity.htm When I'm in midtown I tend to go to Kurumazushi on 56th between 5th and 6th for lunch. Not posh at all, but nice food.”
-- Neil Gaiman 03/11/02
“It's easiest just to assume that a Pound is a dollar and a Euro is a dollar and that way I only go "Oh, that's expensive" in a vague sort of way, rather than doing the conversion in my head and going "five bits of conveyor belt sushi cost me WHAT?"
-- Neil Gaiman 11/30/04
“It was around midday, and Gwenda turned up bearing sushi for us all for breakfast. (Really good, by the way. I never thought of Lexington as one of the great Sushi places in the world. Whodathunkit?) “
-- Neil Gaiman 06/23/01
“If you register for the con prior to August the 14th you're eligible to win a dinner with a Guest of Honour on Friday Night. If you don't like Sushi you should probably pick someone who isn't me or Jill Thompson to eat with.”
-- Neil Gaiman 06/26/04
“I signed lots of CD booklets for Warning: Contains Language and Telling Tales), getting a haircut from Wendy at HairPolice (a woman who can make the single word "dude" perform pretty much any function in the English language) and eating at Midori's Floating World Cafe (amazing tea selection, nice sushi, great rice-balls): was aided and abetted in much of this by John M. Ford & Elise.”
-- Neil Gaiman 06/18/04
"I'll have 120mb of yellowtail, please.
Thanks to all of you who felt that I should mention here that you can get USB drives that look like sushi. ...or possibly you can now get sushi that you can also store information on.
I should eat something now, shouldn't I?”
-- Neil Gaiman 10/22/04
“Now in hotel. Was taken out for sushi dinner by Danish publisher, and the salmon was extremely wonderful.”
-- Neil Gaiman 05/11/03
And for the record, should you assume I am implying that if you enjoy the taste of sushi that you will also enjoy the taste of poo? No. It's one of those claims like: "If we allow gay marriages, then surely bestiality and necrophilia will be the next chic wedding trends this spring!" I'm not a closed-minded sushi bigot. I just like exploring how the stupid-half think.
Don't write me all angry about sushi, either.
I'll just vomit.
(Next week I promise will be a more useful, happier, and less stomach-turning collection of posts.)
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