11/05/03 Whang; Scrabble & Cards w/Brian, Peter, LiCalsi; Cops and Concessions at the Movies:

My newest rack is taken up with all sorts of equipment. The film projector shines the image into the lens, which then sends it into the video camera on the right. The camera sends the image, via firewire, to the computer, where it is captured.

The apartment.

LiCalsi comes over and we play scrabble. Notice the word spelled across near the bottom left corner of the board. "WHAN_" Peter tried to convince me that there was such a word as "Whang." I wasn't having any of it. I challenged him. I lost. Apparently a whang is a "cleaning party." "Let's get together and have a whang." There are also other bizarre definitions. Peter was bullshiting. But, he got lucky. Very lucky.

WHANG!?!?!?! We laughed for a long time when this word actually had multiple definitions.

Smug.

Peter ends the game.

Cleanup.

Brian also arrives for cards night.

Multiple meals ordered from multiple restaurants arrive simultaneously, resulting in a frenzy of activity.

Peter's Ikura.

Peter with Ikura-in-face.

Peter and I went to see The Matrix 3 this evening. While waiting on line, a cop runs up the escalator and shouts at us, "where's the cop!?" This made no sense, as he was a cop, asking where he was. We pointed at him. He kept running up the escalator. More cops followed. Eventually about 50 cops, including a few in full riot gear and two with HUGE guns strapped around their shoulders and readied, run up the escalator, passing us, and paying us little attention. We get a bit freaked, and head for the exit, where I overhear the sergeant telling someone in his entourage what happened. Apparently a few moviegoers were high in the theater and making a problem. When the movie theater employees tried to get them to leave, they resisted. A cop was called in, and one of the reckless individuals punched the cop. The cop, as per his training, called over his radio "Cop Down," which prompted every police officer in radio range, in Times Square (which is a lot) to come running to his aid, thus the question, "where's the cop?" A few cops tried galloping up the down escalator in their rescue of their friend, but ended up tripping, or just expending a lot of energy for not a lot of distance. This above photo was taken during the 5 minutes it took for all the cops to leave. Party over. The movie was great.

This was a first for me. Seat-side service. I was so ticked by this that I bought raisinettes, even though I normally make a point of not purchasing concessions in a movie theater. For this personal first, I made a concession. Yuk, yuk, yuk.