it was a good weekend. our team took a second straight victory at little bar’s trivia night saturday, with knowledge of such things as ‘movies with the word “black” in the title’, ‘famous people named jane’, miscellaneous theatre and plant-related questions, and a bunch of popular actors’ early, lesser-known roles. it was a glorious triumph.

then last night, i finally finished an outer-space RPG on the xbox i’ve been playing for weeks and weeks. the one you may have seen misinformed news anchors decrying for it’s ‘explicit sexual content’… which was really about 10 seconds of tactfully-angled foreplay less arousing than even the tamest of prime-time romantic scenes. silly reactionary media. the game was actually terrific. more so the farther in i got, getting more addicting and compelling with every chapter. check it out if your nerdy sci-fi itch needs scratching between seasons of battlestar galactica. 5 out of 5 and ready for the sequel whenever they want to crank that out.

we also tried a new combination on the ol’ panini griller — chicken breasts marinated in lawry’s baja sauce with chipotle basil pesto, roasted red peppers and goat cheese. sooooo good. though i’m thinking maybe a meltier, gentler cheese might be a slightly better choice for next time to go with such a powerfully tasty sauce. lots of experimenting to be done with that thing.

the latest episode of the wire, of course, continued to blow me away. only a handfull of episodes in, and i’m already preparing to grieve for the loss of one of the best shows in forever ever.

oh and also there was this movie we saw…