"Supersize Me" fame) has a new movie coming out and they're having a
free screening Wednesday, you want to go?" Since Wednesday is not a
spin-class night and the movie was reasonably early, I was totally in.
So, we met up at 6:45 in the East Village to watch and review "Where
in the World is Osama Bin Laden?" - an obvious pun on the
inspirational computer game that I spent countless hours playing as a
child (is that why I've been obsessed with geography and travel all
these years?). Anyway, the movie is about him going around the Muslim
countries in Africa, Middle East, and Central Asia asking people about
how to find Osama and about how people feel about the US foreign
policy and the American people, and about Muslim extremism in general.
I really enjoyed seeing normal, day-to-day people talking about these
issues from this human perspective and it was refreshing not just see
carnage and drama that people watch everyday on Fox News or CNN. Why
is our media so messed up and makes us fear traveling to places like
this? Anyway, look for it in the next few month at a theater near you
- or wait for it to appear on DVD, as Paul suggested at our focus
group session following the show (after which we got to shake hands
with Morgan himself!).
Having missed dinner, we walked down the street to S'Mac, an ingenious
take out/restaurant/cafe that serves only one item.....Mac and Cheese!
They have numerous mac & cheese styles with a variety of cheeses and
additional ingredients like bacon, mushrooms, peppers, etc. I want for
the Parisienne (with brie cheese, plums, and rosemary - yum) while
Paul dug into a Cajun and Cathy went for the basic four-cheese.
To cap the night off, while we were dining on our heart-attacks, Cathy
noticed one of the cooks sprinkle some powder on a little mirror and
snort it up. Ahhh, that's what's in the secret sauce!
J. Riley, isn't New York the greatest for story-telling?
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