Snakes!!!!!

Fantastic, absolutely fantastic! I went to see this last night at 10pm and I wasn't disappointed at all! The action is hilarious and the lines are fantastic. I would definitely check it out again and actually pay full price! Ahhh what a great movie.

P.S. I should get a tatoo of above picture on my arm, hahahaha.

Home Style Fried Chicken

Difficulty: Easy
Prep time: 15 minutes
Inactive Prep Time: 4 hours
Cook Time 25 minutes
Yield: 4 to 6 servings

2 Cups buttermilk
1/4 cup seasoned salt, divided
3 tablespoons onion powder, divided
3 tablespoons garlic powder, divided
2 1/2 pounds chicken (various parts)
5 to 6 cups peanut or canola oil
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flower

Method:
In a large baking dish (or big freezer ziplock bag), combine buttermilk and half of each of the seasoned salt, onion powder, and garlic powder. Add chicken pieces to marinade and turn to coat (seal bag and shake). Marinate in the refrigerator for at least 4 hours. If using baking dish then flip chicken every hour. If using bag, flip bag over every hour.

Heat the peanut/canola oil to 360 degrees F in a large cast iron skillet (a pinch of flour should sizzle when dropped in the oil, or lots of bubbles should form on chopstick when dipped in the oil).

Season the flour with the remaining seasoned salt, garlic powder, and onion powder. Remove the chicken from the marinade piece by piece and coat in the flour. Then add to hot oil to fry. Fry until internal temperature of the chicken is 160 degrees F. Make sure that your oil does not get too hot, otherwise the colour of the chicken will turn dark before the chicken is actually done. Transfer chicken to paper towels to drain. Taste the chicken to make sure the seasonings are right. Serve.


Notes:
-Try adding a few tablespoons of cayenne pepper/thyme/paprika to the flour mixture to liven things up.
-Make sure the chicken is a dark brown (everywhere) before taking it out of the pan
-Serving it a bit cooled down makes it very yummy
-Great for picnic eats
-Probably good to get a thermometer for the oil and chicken
-Fill the Skillet only about 1/2 way up with oil.
-Canola oil is a great subsitute for the expensive peanut oil

Paris Hilton - Stars are Blind

Is it just a cryptic title or meant to be artistic? Oh well whatever...enjoy.

Firefly Season 2?

I loved Firefly Season 1, but then it was cancelled. The writing by Joss Whedon was absolutely brilliant. Yet it was cancelled. Now there are talks that there might be a season 2 in the works! I hope it pans out! Check it out here.

100 x 100

I absolutely LOVE In-N-Out burger. Everytime I go down to SoCal I have to at least have it once or the trip down there isn't complete. However this guy (and his friends) took their love for In-N-Out to a whole other level. Click here to see what I mean!

Guitar Hero

I went over to Christians on Saturday for his birthday bash and it was a ton of fun. And while I was there they introduced me to a game I only heard of before through my brothers gaming magazine, Electronic Gaming Monthly. The game is in similar fashion to Dance Dance Revolution, Karaoke Revolution or the older Bust A Groove games but much more fun (my p.p.o.v.) as you use a guitar to "strum" out to some super great rock tunes! You don't need to be a good singer with great pitch or make yourself look like a twit jumping up a down, you just stand there with a guitar and "strum" away. I had so much fun with the game that night at Chris' that I impulsively went out and grabbed myself a copy (comes with guitar) and played for about 6 hours yesterday! The game is so damn addicting and sounds great on the home theatre. I definitely recommend that you try it, it's great for a group of friends (if you can find a second guitar).

Back to the game now!

My Vancouver Trip

I finally finished my little summary on my trip. It was a lot of fun and Vancouver is a beautiful city with lots of culture. Click here for my adventures in Vancouver aka the home of the Vancouver Casucks...Canucks, hehe.

DC Comics Superhero Stamps

I never asked for these but I guess my Mom remembered that I loved my comics so she sent me over a set of these. Way cool!

Thanks Mommy! hehe.

I'm her Daddy...

I haven't posted a video in a while so enjoy this one!

Back from Van City

Tired. I'm so tired right now. We ended up leaving Vancouver at 2PM MT and arrived back in Calgary at about 12:30AM Tuesday. The trip as a whole was awesome. Vancouver is an amazing place. I loved their downtown life in the day and night, I loved Stanley Park and the Night Festival in Richmond was amazing! I'm so tired right now though as I went to see the lawyer about the Condo Contract this morning at 8AM and really didn't get into bed until 4AM, so I will be writing about my trip to Vancouver on a later post. But now that I am back in Calgary all I want to do is head back to Vancouver!!!!

Vancouver for the long weekend

I left for Vancouver Friday afternoon with Tuyet and my little brother and we arrived in Richmond just before midnight. The drive wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. We took it easy and barely sped as we really could not speed as the roads were heavy with traffic for the first half of the trip (and my rental SUV couldn't really "speed" b/c it is a Hyundai Tucson...Hyundai...uggg). The roads were super windy (curvy) and at times and I was wishing that I had taken the accord (I ended up renting a SUV from Enterprise to avoid putting km's on my beloved car).

Anyways our Saturday is over now and we did half the things we wanted to do... shop, shop and more shopping! We will finish the other half of our "to do" things tomorrow (Sunday) and I will definitely recap everything when I come back (I can just gauge your excitement for the recap of my trip, heh). Tomorrow's agenda? More shopping and Stanley Park to watch the sun set into the ocean. Hopefully the weather holds up and I get some great pics!

Time for some shut eye now!

P.S. The atmosphere in downtown Vancouver is amazing, I wish Calgary's downtown was similar.

On an impulse?

The gf says that I bought this on impulse but I beg to differ. I have been wanting this lens for my camera for quite some time but never have gotten around to getting it. And since I was downtown already today I decided to stop by The Camera Store and have a look at it. When I saw the lens I wanted it and I bought it...so I guess that it was an impulse. But as my defense I have checked out prices on ebay and Vistek and it was a lot cheaper at The Camera Store!

Oh here is the lens, its a Canon WC-DC58N Wide Converter and it is for my Canon G6. It makes my camera look huge! Anyways I will post up pictures that I take with the lens so you can see the difference.

Oh Mel...

First you say that your movie "The Passion of the Christ" was not anti-semitic, but when you get pulled over and arrested for DUI you yell out anti-semitic statements. Me thinks that can't be good at all, heh.

Check out the incident and Mel news here