Tonight was way fun. Headed home, gave Matty a quick walk. Then Max and I went to St. Paul to the Loading Dock theater to see the opening night of a new play, Everywhere Signs Fall. It was directed by Max’s ex-Fringe-boss and friend, Leah Cooper, and written by Leah’s husband Alan Berks. It was great! Dark but very fast and captivating and something we’ll mentally chew on for days. And there was a geek character in it who processed everything by studying it … great portrait of the fallibility of ‘knowing’ as a way to control the randomness of life.
Then we raced back to Minneapolis to catch the 10pm last seating at the sushi bar at Ichiban Japanese restaurant downtown. (Apparently they have one in Winnepeg too, according to their site.) I have been wanting to go to a sushi bar with sushi boats ever since we got back from San Francisco and finally I got my wish. I love sushi boats!! The sushi at Ichiban isn’t stellar but it’s definitely edible and they keep it pretty simple so it’s enjoyable. Most nigiri was pretty mundane, with the exception of what I think was squid or perhaps some sort of shellfish like conch but not as tough (very yummy), with a texture and “cell” structure like an orange’s juice pulps — very crisp and bursty. That, and a pickled herring nigiri with a delicate silver strip of skin still on which was beautiful to look at.
After a good sushi feed we headed over to Pi Bar for some pool and drinks. Texted with Kade who was out as well and he joined us there (rematch on the pool next time, dood 
. Sam Adams has a new cherry wheat beer out that is very fruity and odd at first taste, but it definitely grows on you … it’s just a little too strong though, so occasionally you have Dimetap flashbacks … but I always loved Dimetap anyway. Home around 1am.
Considering we usually poop out at 11pm these days, and rarely hit more than a couple of places (show and dinner) on any given outing, a very good night!
