fine whine

I had this whole rant planned out about what I liked and didn't like. It had something to do with my reading of Richard Roeper's book (of lists) 10 sure signs a movie character is doomed, probably about my disagreements with his opinions. Also, Jessica picked out How to lose a guy in 10 days from the library, it being one movie I wasn't really in line to see.

Either way, I forgot. I did, however, read and enjoy Eric Garcia's Hot and sweaty Rex, both for the gleeful way it upends the detective genre and its Miami pretense without all the usual, well, pretense. It didn't read like the usual south Florida book potboiler, and I think that's a good thing.

Wait, I may have remembered. Since this site is first a memory dump for me and only second a source of entertainment for you, I will jot this down for posterity. I really do not care for Open Pit brand barbecue sauce, particularly the "Thick & Tangy" brown sugar & spice variant. I suspect it's one of the spices that doesn't strike my palate the way it should, but which one? The red pepper? The soy sauce? The corn syrup solids? Sulfiting agents? Tamarind? Mustard flour? oleoresin paprika? Oddly enough, that last one, oleoresin paprika, is the only spice (unless hickory smoke flavoring and caramel color count) that is in a lesser quantity than light brown sugar. Which, I might add, is among the less than 2% ingredients list. Moreover, there are so many brackets inside parentheses and duplicated ingredients (like the unnecessary caramel color) as to indicate some sinister math problem, not a sweet and tangy BBQ sauce. And can they really get away with the plainly named "spice" and "flavoring"? Both are there.

Anyway, as long as I can remember to do so, I'm not buying it again. KC Masterpiece all the way for me.