Our weekend began less than one second after Suzanne walked got home from the sweatshop Friday. We had dinner reservations in SLC at TIN ANGEL, which is located in a corner of the main entry to the Eccles Theater. The restaurant is truly a splendid place to sit and people-watch. We had groovy views of the street and the main lobby. My Day of the Dead Bow Tie o’ the Day couldn’t stop talking about how people can be weird when they go out on a Friday night. And Bow Tie didn’t mean us. People-watching is never dull.
Suzanne and I each ended up ordering— and enjoying— the same dish: spicy saffron salmon. When we were ready for dessert, I clamored for the bread pudding. Suzanne went with the chocolate torte, which was the slenderest slice of any dessert we had ever seen. Candy Corn Bow Tie On A Shelf o’ the Day had to wriggle out of my Saddle Purse to take a gander at the barely-there confection. Suzanne reported that the teeny tiny torte was yummy and worth it.
After dinner we headed into the theater for a taping of NPR’s WAIT, WAIT…DON’T TELL ME!— a hilarious radio show about the news of the week. It is normally taped in Chicago, so we’ve been patiently waiting for the show to haul its cast out to SLC for a performance, as it has done a handful of times. Finally! Bobcat Goldthwait was one of the show’s rotating panelists whose job it is to skewer the ridiculousness of current events. Bill Curtis, journalist extraordinaire, is the show’s announcer. Oh, my golly! The quizzes and limericks about news stories were spot-on and comical. However, one Utah guy in the audience did get his knickers in a snit about some zucchini jokes the performers made. That, too, was funny.
DO NOT POKE FUN AT ZUCCHINIS WHILE IN UTAH, PEOPLE!
