Friday, January 30, 2009

Recjoice!

What is great dipped in chocolate?
made into Cupcakes? Donuts? And even Martinis?

The Ingredient of the Year!!!!




And if you’re in the San Fran area in March you can go to : BACONCAMP!!

(all proceeds go to the American Heart Association* )




Try the Bacon Brownies!!!



*Seriously!

Friday, January 23, 2009

It makes sense...

Lily Bollinger of Bollinger was asked "When do you drink champagne?", and replied:

I only drink champagne when I'm happy, and when I'm sad. Sometimes I drink it when I'm alone. When I have company, I consider it obligatory. I trifle with it if I am not hungry and drink it when I am. Otherwise I never touch it - unless I'm thirsty.



sounds like a good rule of thumb to me! ;)

Friday, January 09, 2009

Terminology 101

Penthouse publisher Larry Flint is asking for a bailout package for the pornography industry as people are too financially strapped to pay for porn …

[ insert appropriate snickering here ]

Just wondering here… would that be a financial ‘stimulus package’? Or a financial ‘package stimulus’?

Thursday, January 01, 2009

you, my friends, are invited...

THE INVITATION

by Oriah Mountain Dreamer, Indian Elder

It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your hearts longing.


It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dreams, for the adventure of being alive.


It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your moon. I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life's betrayals, or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain.


I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it or fade it or fix it. I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own; if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, be realistic, or to remember the limitations of being human.


It doesn't interest me if the story you are telling me is true, I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself. if you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul.


I want to know if you can be faithful and therefore trustworthy. I want to know if you can see beauty, even when it is not pretty every day, and if you can source your life from its presence.


I want to know if you can live with failure, yours or mine, and still stand on the edge of a lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, "Yes!"

It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can get up after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done for the children.


It doesn't interest me who you are, or how you came to be here- I want to know if you will stand in the center of the fire with me and not shrink back.


It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom you have studied I want to know what sustains you from the inside when all else falls away. I want to know if you can be alone with yourself, and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.


May 1994

Wednesday, December 31, 2008

May all yer hang-overs be tolerable.

for Pete's sake, if you drink - take a cab! Stay off your broom!!


*raises a toast to the New Year*


May 2009 be the morning of prosperity that shines on the evening of 2008’s adversity.



New Year's Eve

Play a thin tune
on a paper horn
Old is dying
New is born....


Scatter confetti
over the floor
Sweep an old year
Out the door....


Blow up a wish
in a bright balloon
Whisper dreams
To a midnight moon....


Play a loud tune
on a paper horn
Old is dying
New is born....



by Myra Cohn Livingson....



Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Merry Merry!



and lest someone find that offensive

A Politically Correct
Holiday Greeting

Best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low stress, non-addictive, gender neutral, winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most joyous traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, but with respect for the religious/secular persuasions and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all.

Additionally,

a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling, and medically uncomplicated recognition of the generally accepted calendar year 2009, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose contributions have helped make our society great , (not to imply that our society is necessarily greater than any other society or is that ours is the only "society" in the western hemisphere or any other hemisphere), without regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical ability, religious faith, sexual orientation, choice of computer platform , or other preferences of the wishee


Disclaimer: By accepting this greeting, you are accepting the following terms this greeting is freely transferable with no alteration to the original greeting. This greeting is subject to clarification or withdrawal. This wish is warranted to perform as expected within the usual application of good tidings for a period of one year, or until the issuance of a subsequent holiday greeting, whichever comes first, and warranty is limited to replacement of this wish or issuance of a new wish at the sole discretion of the wisher, however, it implies no promise by the wisher to actually implement any of the wishes for her/himself or others and no responsibility for any unintended emotional stress these greetings may bring to those not caught up in the holiday spirit. It is void where prohibited by law, and is revocable at the sole discretion of the wisher.



Whatever you celebrate, wherever you are - I wish you peace, good health, and good cheer.
Party safely my darlings!

Mistletoe & Chocolate,
Me

Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Disturbing and disgusting.

yet another reason that I have no love or affection for "all that is Asian"
(infact their culture is starting to make me queasy)

this is disturbing ...
seriously... if you click here it will hurt. => Anything is possible with enough cash

Sunday, December 21, 2008

Thursday, December 18, 2008

Food for Thought

"What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the
night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the
little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the
sunset."


- Crowfoot, Native American, Blackfoot.


Perhaps this is a good time of the year to remember this? non?


Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Wednesday, December 03, 2008

even I have my limits...

Anthony Bordain may have described it the best when he said, “its taste can only be described as…indescribable, something you will either love or despise. …Your breath will smell as if you’d been French-kissing your dead grandmother.”

durian and 9 other weird gourmet "delights"

Monday, December 01, 2008

Time to haul out the bean recognition manuals...


Your result for The hey good lookin' whatcha got cookin' test...

Sous Chef 75%


Superb result! You must really know your veggies. Either you are already a chef, or perhaps you just love to cook. You seemed to do well with several of the more obscure vegetables. Most of the vegetables used in this test came straight from the garden. They were so much fresher than those that are shipped across the country. For more recipes and pictures feel free to check out my blog "straightfromthefarm.net".


Here's how you did compared to others...


Executive Chef


Sous Chef


Sauté Chef


Vegetable Chef


Fry Cook


Maître D'


Bus Boy


Wendy's Bun Toaster



Please visit my journal if you wish to check your answers.


Take The hey good lookin' whatcha got cookin' test
atHelloQuizzy

Saturday, November 29, 2008

for shame...


One of the weaknesses of our age is our apparent inability to distinguish our need from our greed.
~Author Unknown


and evidence of that greed? HERE

I participate in Buy Nothing Day

Thursday, November 20, 2008

Food for thought

and sage fashion advice.

Never wear anything that panics the cat.
~P. J. O'Rourke

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Thanks for the warning...

Aries Horoscope for week of November 20, 2008

Fifty-five percent of Americans not only believe in guardian angels, but testify that they have been actively aided by the intervention of those divine helpers. Commenting on the results, one religious expert said that "Americans live in an enchanted world." The 55 percent figure may rise even higher in the coming weeks. A majority of Aries all over the planet, regardless of their religious orientation, could have a mystical experience that will spook and delight them. If you're one of the chosen ones, don't get fixated on or distracted by the sheer amazement of the visitation. Make sure you're alert for its eminently practical guidance.

Freewillastrology


Oh pick me!! pick me!!

Monday, November 17, 2008

From the files of the surreal...

Ghetto-Fabulous Ghenghis Kahn

Scroll down, read the cooking instructions... very funny (at least it was before coffee this morning)

Thursday, November 13, 2008

Thursday, November 06, 2008

Bravo! Well said sir!

Read the Original at HellBlazer.net

I’ve had enough. I have had it up to here. I tried to play it the right way, I did. I would rationally and carefully try to explain the issue. I would refuse to sink and play by the terms of the opposition. I was a good guy, for the most part. Now? Mmm. Fuck that.
You want a fight? Fine, let’s lay out some damned ground rules here. Come on! It’ll be fun!
You want to tell me who I can and can’t marry? You want to have say over whom my friends and loved ones can fall in love with and share their lives with?
You sure about that? Let’s take a look.
First a bit of rational thought for you: If marriage is a religious thing and not a state sanctioned and defined object then why do you care? Oh wait, that’s because it isn’t. At all. See, when I can go before a judge and get legally married, not “civil unioned” note but married - with a certificate and everything - it means your precious little deity ain’t in the room.
So if you don’t like it then ban it in your churches. But that is the only place you get to say no to things. See, it’s a secular country. Sorry but it is. “One Nation under God” - not until the 50’s it wasn’t. This place wasn’t founded on that. Oh sure God got some lip service in the Constitution, but so did a separation of church and state. So pick it. In or out, motherfuckers. In or out.
But regardless, you want to push forward with this! You want to demand your so-called right to use your religion as a battering ram into my home. Into my family affairs. Then I call fair play!
You have to play by every other religions rules as well. So we all go Kosher. All of us. Yup. We all also give up medical care. It goes against what Christian Scientists believe in after all, right? It’s only fair and right.
You want to deny rights based on religion then so will I. I will pick whatever religion I feel like at the time, though. Because they each have as much bearing on you as yours does on mine. See, isn’t that equality?
So you get to ban gay marriage and I get to deny you penicillin! Now we’re getting somewhere! I can feel the fairness spreading out and touching each of us in our very hearts!
Look, you want to deny me your Heaven? Go for it! You want to tell me I’m a sinner, a heathen and a bad, bad man? Hallelujah and pass the ammo! But I am going to fight just as hard against your rights.
Come on. Social chicken. Wanna see if I flinch? Bitch, I’ve played chicken with busses going 40 m.p.h. on NY City streets and won. Bring it. Bring your lies, your hate, your unconscionable intolerance and moral sickness and I will wipe my ass with each one and thank you and ask for more.
Because you’ll get worse.
You want a war? Fine! Let’s play it your way! You want to protest and hold signs and tell us how we’re going to hell? Let’s see how you like it when we protest your churches and ceremonies. Let’s find out. I’m game.
Because I’m sick of this. I am sick and truly fucking tired of each and every one of you who can’t see your way to respecting your fellow humans enough to grant them the same rights you do simply because they don’t think your invisible man’s paperback is all that smooth.
Get over your self-importance and do the right thing. Or else. No more chances, no more Mr. Nice Guy, no more understanding. You started this bullshit fight. Don’t be surprised when you get punched in the face.
Are we clear?

We need to believe...

We are the ones for whom we have been waiting.
~Hopi Elders