Iced Tea and Sarcasm

Happy Valentine's Day!

2012-02-14T12:00:00.000-08:00

Watch out for Cupid today

2012-02-14T10:00:00.000-08:00

Whales are cool

2012-02-13T23:43:00.001-08:00

And they're probably holy, too.

A Beluga whale has become a sensation at an aquarium after learning how to blow halo-shaped bubbles. The extraordinary sight was captured on camera by photographer Hiroya Minakuchi at the Shimane aquarium in Japan. He said: "This beluga started making bubble rings when she was seven. And a couple of years ago she developed her technique. Now she blows the water from her mouth to make a current, which is not visible for us underwater. She then blows air from her blow hole into the current and that makes a ring shape."

Holy Pumpkin Pancake!

2012-02-12T19:25:00.001-08:00

Taken at Straw

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Seems like a valid question

2012-02-12T12:47:00.001-08:00

Farewell Whitney

2012-02-11T17:29:00.001-08:00

Rest in peace.

Arnold Palmer: Just add vodka

2012-02-11T12:37:00.001-08:00

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Big Head, Tiny Body

2012-02-10T11:30:00.000-08:00

Colonel Sanders looks like a lollipop now.

The high cost of loving wine

2012-02-08T21:06:00.001-08:00

Taken at Koh Samui and the Monkey

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Top Pot Doughnuts, take note

2012-02-06T23:56:00.001-08:00

This Monday calls for a dry Riesling

2012-02-06T20:06:00.001-08:00

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La Trifecta Mexicana

2012-02-04T21:57:00.001-08:00

Taken at Grubwithus @ Tres Agaves

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Wisdom from Julio Cortázar

2012-02-04T17:36:00.001-08:00

I spend my weekends removing babies' eyeballs

2012-02-03T18:49:00.001-08:00

via boingboing.net

What self-indulgent thing do you do?

And, yes, this appears to be a REAL thing. Monstrous. . . and amazing. Watch out, soccer moms and ladies who pram, I'm on the hunt for your baby's eyes.

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One of my proudest moments was learning to use a corkscrew

2012-02-01T20:55:00.001-08:00

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Newspaper editors have a sense of humor

2012-01-28T12:46:00.001-08:00

I can't believe this was unintentional. Rock on, seniors.

How to eat a Pop-Tart

2012-01-27T13:20:00.000-08:00

I used to love Pop-Tarts. Unfrosted strawberry ones were my favorite. Yes, I'm a Plain Jane Pastry kind of guy. I don't, therefore, remember eating as depicted in the great drawing. (See more here.) I just broke mine into pieces and sometimes had it with milk. Yummo.

So, I'm curious. How do you eat YOUR Pop-Tarts?

More hot bookshelves

2012-01-27T11:00:00.000-08:00

I need more space so I can try out these cool bookshelf ideas. If I buy anymore books, I'm going to have to resort to cinder blocks and boards.

Rick Santorum Is Not Healthy For Society

2012-01-25T18:08:00.001-08:00

via huffingtonpost.com

It's frankly impossible for me to adequately express my utter disdain for Mr. Santorum. He is a person who will tear down and destroy others in order to further his own repressive, backward agenda. He has chosen to aim his hatred at a historically-oppressed minority in order to gather a coalition of the hateful, ignorant, and needlessly frightened. This, Mr. Santorum, is not the best America can offer. Neither you nor the ideology your spout represents the American Dream. Instead, your words reek of the nostalgia of the bigot: "Oh, those were good times when the "right" people were in charge. . ."

Time has marched on, Mr. Santorum. Our trajectory is toward progress, toward expanding and extending human rights. You're on the losing end of this fight, and I pity you and those like you. It's just a shame that you cannot choose to be on the right side of History. But, if you did, whom would you hate next?

“Everybody in America should have the same rights, and I would agree with that. Everyone in America should have rights that are endowed to them by the Creator, those are unalienable rights. And your son, just like everyone else here, has those unalienable rights.
There are certain things that government does that gives people privileges in order to promote activity that are healthy for society and are best for society. And those things we promote would give people advantages or benefits, government benefits because we think that is healthy activity. Mothers and fathers coming together, forming healthy marriages, having children and raising those children. Every American child has the right, and the government should support the right to have and know their mother and father and be raised by their mother and father.” -- Rick Santorum, 2012 (not 1912)

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Facts that Evolutionists CAN'T answer

2012-01-25T11:30:00.000-08:00

Silly evolutionists.

I'm clearly a better person than you, but I'll never compost.

2012-01-25T01:12:00.001-08:00

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I almost forgot dessert: Nutella

2012-01-23T22:31:00.001-08:00

Toasted bread + Nutella = the perfect end to my quasi-vegetarian meal. Tomorrow, beef cooked in beef fat and bacon ice cream. Watch out heart muscle!

Tonight's dinner is brought to you by the letter B

2012-01-23T22:03:00.001-08:00

No, it's not a B, it's a J. But any good dinner begins with a good glass (or three) of wine. Tonight's guest star to the "Dinner with a B" is a 2008 Russian River Valley Pinot Noir from J Vineyards. I've had it a few times and it's good drinkin'.

Back to dinner. As I was walking home tonight, I thought, "No meat tonight." I knew I had some Brussels sprouts at home and decided to try to remake a dish from Zero Zero. So, to the market I went. Little did I know the alphabet would be so restricted tonight.

I bought Bartlett pears. I got bacon (well, pancetta, but it's basically the same thing). I grabbed a loaf of bread and paired it with some Brie. When added to the Brussels sprouts, I had unwittingly created a menu with five Bs: Brussels, Bartlett, bacon, bread, and Brie.

By George, I think I've discovered a new way of cooking. The ABCs of Supper will probably be my next blog. (Is there Z food?) I hope you had a nice meal yourself tonight. If you like what you see, check out the recipe here. I can recommend it (especially with a few drops of truffle oil--yum!)

Happy Weekend!

2012-01-20T18:00:00.000-08:00

Drink responsibly.

Let's huddle! Or "Dude, stop touching my butt"

2012-01-16T10:38:00.001-08:00

I would imagine that the locker room was filled with awkward silences after the game.