Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Serendipitous

This rather hazy phone-cam shot is of Frrrozen Hot Chocolate from Serendipity 3 in Georgetown. If you've never had it, imagine rich, icy chocolate milk. The cafe's namesake is a landmark eatery in NYC, not far from the perhaps even more famous restaurant Le Cirque. For a while, after the release of a cheesy, formulaic movie of the same name, Serendipity became a fashionable hangout, making frequent appearances in magazines trying to convince you that you're no different from celebrities. You both eat hot dogs! Ah, but Serendipity's hot dogs run around $14. The Georgetown location has been rumored for years, before I even moved to DC, and it finally opened on Memorial Day weekend. The food is delicious, though overpriced. And the interior really is gorgeous--I'm contemplating getting lighted signs for my walls. And, though it's not someplace I'll go to often, it's a nice place to spend a great afternoon gossiping with friends and contemplating why John Cusack's movies always suck.

5 comments:

  1. Your comment sent me to Wikipedia to look up John Cusack's movies. You are 98 percent right. But, he was in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, a good movie from a great book, and Being John Malkovich, a very creative movie. The rest look pretty dreadful.

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  2. You're right, Jack! Those are the only two I like too. I'm not sure if Being John Malkovich quite makes up for Must Love Dogs, but it is a really great movie, right up there with Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, one of only 2 good Jim Carey movies.

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  3. I didn't check up Jim Carrey's movie list, but I thought the Truman Show was pretty good and definitely different. I don't know if I ever saw Eternal Sunshine . . . And lots of people like him as Grinch. I might be a little warmer about Carrey than you are.

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  4. Besides Eternal Sunshine, The Truman Show was the other Carrey movie I enjoyed! We seem to have eerily similar taste in films, Jack!

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  5. Do you have at least two copies of To Kill a Mockingbird, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, What About Bob? and Groundhog Day, Citizen Kane and Forrest Gump?

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