Cheating on the event[1] lunch to grab my own down the road at Osaka, a tiny little pocket of a place on Michigan Avenue (a block South of the Art Institute) that makes magic out of an incongruous juxtaposition: Sushi & Fresh Fruit Smoothies.
Today's lunch: sake sushi with avocado and tamago maki, accompanied by a peach/mango smoothie.
The fish with sushi thing has a strange way of spilling across boundaries at Osaka: they have a crab and mango roll -- which I tried once and was sorry I had -- and they offer avocado in their smoothie assortment, which I've been assured pairs beautifully with mango.
Maybe next time.
The background music is the only juxtaposition that *doesn't* work at Osaka -- today it seems the Beatles have collided with one of those music boxes where the ballerina spins when you lift the lid.
But I'll put up with quite a bit for a lunch like this.
Posting by cameraphone from the Loop.
[1] A Forrester Forum on social networking -- more to come on that one.
4 comments:
I actually own the Baby Beatles cd that you heard there. JH listened to it every night when he was a baby.
no. not possible. you have a well developed musical vocabulary -- and TASTE.
I won't believe that what I heard today and what you played for your child are the same thing.
impossible.
;)
2 things:
1: avocado and banana with soy milk and a bit of honey is the best smoothie in the world. B totally disagrees but I'm positive I have better taste.
2: I was just discussing with a colleague about how much anime music sounds like that crap elevator music you hear at the Chinese supermarket. Great in a grocery store, really annoying on the piano. I can't tell you how many kids are into this stuff. Teenagers and older too. And not socially (or musically) deprived ones either. It's like the return of the Boston Pops.
*groan*
you guys are gonna make me open up my mind (and ears) to something new, aren't you?
goddammit.
always with the growing and the changing.
;)
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