7 Illuminating Things from the Weekend (and part of the week)

1. Marinate that $20 steak in orange soda for one hour before you grill it. You won’t be disappointed.

2. Look up Orange Crush on Google images; you will happen upon pictures of things that are definitely not soda or an R.E.M. album. Thank you, Google, for my continuing education.

3. The perfect date is sometimes made up of a just a picnic blanket and some fruit. And many cookies.

4. The bathrooms at Gas Works close after dark. This may be common knowledge, but sometimes, it is very bad news.

5. You can tie a yellow bandanna on “Juno” and call her a “dream architect,” but she’s still going to come across as boxy, boyish little Juno. Now get her out of Inception so I can see more of Tom Hardy (I’m with Lindy on this one). Also, I think, Leo’s nose is getting smaller.

6. It may be more sensible to leave my car doors unlocked from now on. At least then I don’t have to pay hundreds of dollars to get a lock fixed, just so some idiot can browse through my CD's.

7. I was wrong in last week’s Illuminating Things. I can be that happy. Because there is a “Double Rainbow” remix: