YES!

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So Your Cat Wants A Massage?

New Blog Design

Since we're looking to change the interface of the blog, I thought we could preview a new geocities style blog of It's Fucking Distracting

Don't throw your gold away!

I don't know the story behind this. My brother sent it to my dad who forwarded it to me. That is all I know.

Snacks, Bitches!

Here's an appetizer I've been toying with recently.

Blue Cheese, Bacon, and Pear Crostini

1 baguette
butter
4 oz. cream cheese
4 oz. blue cheese
3 pears
6 slices of bacon
1 sprig of rosemary
black pepper
salt
sugar

Cut the baguette on the bias into 1/4" slices. Brush with melted butter and toast in the oven until golden brown and crunchy.

Dice the pears and reserve half for later. Put the other half in a pan with butter and a little sugar and caramelize over med-low heat. When the pears are almost done (syrupy, brown, and almost falling apart), throw the rosemary in for the last few minutes (don't strip the leaves off, just throw the whole stick in the pan). Remove the rosemary and season with salt and pepper. Move pears into a mixing bowl.

Clean the pan and then fry the bacon until crispy. Pat with a paper towel. Chop the bacon into small pieces and mix with the caramelized and fresh pears.

In separate bowl, mix cream cheese and blue cheese together.

Spread cheese mix on the crostini. Top with pear/bacon mix.

Eat.

30 Rocks

I really just like the Jack Donaghy muppet:

annnnnnnnd

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Refudiate is now a word, thanks Sarah Palin!

The OED has made Sarah Palin's "refudiate" the word of the year. I don't know, I usually like British humor but this seems a little too dry even for my taste.

Here's a link to the NPR story

I think we should all make up words and propose them to the OED.

I propose "bigiot"

bigiot - noun, a person who is simultaneously bigoted and an idiot (e.g. "That Sarah Palin is a major bigiot")

bigiotry - noun, an action which displays one's idiocy and bigotry in one sublime action (e.g. Sarah Palin calling on "Peaceful Muslims" to "refudiate" the "Ground Zero Mosque" is an action of such breathtaking bigiotry that it leaves me almost speechless)

bigioted - adjective, the property of being simultaneously shockingly bigoted and impressively stupid

For Tom, Deepak, and anyone else still reading this blog

Apparently when you unroll scotch tape in a vacuum it creates x-rays. Think of that as the holiday season approaches.

Here's a video from Nature

Things you might not have known about Pat Roach

So I was watching the movie Willow this weekend and I noticed that our very own Pat Roach was listed in the opening credits. I'm not kidding, Pat is a famous actor. And you thought he was just a karaoke dj.

Facts about Pat Roach


This is Pat "fucking" Roach

Pat you bastard, you've been living a double life this whole time.

shake your tailfeather

This fucking bird dances better than me:

whipped cream pourin' like waterfalls

"take off your thinking caps, cause its about to get stupid in here" - brian posehn (who i saw last night)


i recommend watching this one from 0:48 to 1:30 just to get an idea of what its about and how weird the middle girl's overdubbed voice is



Now watch this one...




And now just the best/creepiest part...over and over...as the internet tends to do.

ugh...my first post in months and this is what i come up with? worse than pat.

Recipes and Food

Here's an idea to jazz up some of the content on the olde blogge. We can share some of the awesome food we have created, and post the recipes and stuff.

I'll start with a pretty boss pumpkin soup I made this past week. Sean and I had roasted some pumpkins for our attempt at a pumpkin ale. Sadly, they were carving pumpkins rather than pie pumpkins, and turned out to be slightly on the bland side. The pumpkin ale has turned out respectably, if perhaps not incredibly. The soup however was an awesome success.

Here's the directions on All Recipes, courtesy of some lady named Lea Ogawa.

Ingredients

* 6 cups chicken stock
* 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
* 4 cups pumpkin puree
* 1 teaspoon chopped fresh parsley
* 1 cup chopped onion
* 1/2 teaspoon chopped fresh thyme
* 1 clove garlic, minced
* 1/2 cup heavy whipping cream
* 5 whole black peppercorns

Directions

1. Heat stock, salt, pumpkin, onion, thyme, garlic, and peppercorns. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to low, and simmer for 30 minutes uncovered.
2. Puree the soup in small batches (1 cup at a time) using a food processor or blender.
3. Return to pan, and bring to a boil again. Reduce heat to low, and simmer for another 30 minutes, uncovered. Stir in heavy cream. Pour into soup bowls and garnish with fresh parsley.

My Alterations

I added a bit more onions, garlic, and peppercorns. Since I didn't blend the mix, I crushed the peppercorns under a knife blade, put everything but the cream and parsley together in the pot and had it simmer for one hour total, without the blender nonsense.

This recipe rocks face.

What is Awesome?

Good news everyone!

I will be a contestant on Jeopardy! and am going to film at least one episode November 30-December 1. I'll let you all know when the air date is and all that fun stuff (except for the results, since I think if I really spill the beans I could potentially lose any prize money I earn). Either way, I thought I'd share the fun.

I am supposed to keep this info off of stuff like Facebook, Twitter, chat rooms, so if you guys could similarly have some discretion, it would be much appreciated.

Hey Pat

Here's what I think of your post.



Next time get some titles, content, and colon-cleansing fiber in there.

Dual Purpose Blogging

These are brilliant....

Let's Learn About the Word On

Sesame Street will never stop educating our youth.

Late Delivery

Recently I started volunteering (résumé padding) at OSU's SEL with their serials and electronic records department. Last Thursday I saw one of the weirdest notes on the item record of Serbian Literary Review.



Explaining the late delivery was "INT. NOTE please allow time for civil war, fby 10/92."

I'm ashamed to say I laughed at this.

Funny Onion

Study: Americans Get Majority Of Exercise While Drunk