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I live in the boonies, so there's not much in the way of awesome restaurants to hit up in my neck of the woods.   I had to learn to cook the things I couldn't find.   Some of these are found and some are invented.

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Things to Love
  • Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy
    Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy
    by Barbara Ehrenreich
  • The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power
    The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power
    by Jeff Sharlet
  • The Way the Wind Blows
    The Way the Wind Blows
    by A Hawk and a Hacksaw
  • Them Crooked Vultures
    Them Crooked Vultures
    by Them Crooked Vultures
  • Before the Frost...Until the Freeze
    Before the Frost...Until the Freeze
    by Black Crowes
  • Alone at My Wedding
    Alone at My Wedding
    by Kocani Orkestar
Bedtime Stories
  • Hug
    Hug
    by Jez Alborough
  • The Runaway Bunny
    The Runaway Bunny
    by Margaret Wise Brown
  • Curious George and the Rocket
    Curious George and the Rocket
    Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
  • Owl Babies
    Owl Babies
    by Martin Waddell
Saturday
23Jan2010

Flapjack

My husband has found a new cartoon.  Luckily, we're of a generation where that's acceptable, and he won't be goaded by hairy dockworkers for such a thing.  So far as I am aware, the only acceptable cartoonage available to dudes of my father's generation was Loony Tunes.

So anyway, this is what has caught his attention:

This show is, uh...

Well, like, it's a lot like Ren & Stimpy.

We watched one last night where giant hair monsters that cut hair were defeated by feral cats, which promptly spat the monstery remains up as hairballs.

Classy.

I don't know the backstory, so it's all a terrific mystery.  I'm all, "Why is the little blonde even hanging out with that scary old blue guy?  Was he purchased in some sort of sex trade deal?" 

And, apparently, everyone has scurvy.

And, at some point, they all get addicted so some sort of love drug that floats off the body of the little boy.

It's all kind of confusing. 

On the other hand, it's a whole hell of a lot better than Bleach.

Saturday
23Jan2010

Things I Don't Get

Just for the record:

  1. Who exactly thinks Jay Leno is funny?  I know that generically, the answer is "Old People," but really, if you're that old, shouldn't you be sleeping?
  2. Why, 20 years after they've divorced, my parents still have drama going on?
  3. Those "arty" pictures where there's some hipster douchebag with a book or an album cover in front of their face.  What the hell is that? Why, yes, Hipster, you are, in fact, the sum total of your media interests.  Thanks for eliminating the illusion that you're a person.
  4. If Simon Cowell just made a gazillion dollars off of Susan Boyle, why hasn't American Idol upped that age limit to 60?
  5. Why is American Idol still on the air at all?
  6. Why is my previously be-spooned child suddenly refusing the aid of all utensils?  Did I accidentally inflict some sort of spoon trauma on him?
  7. Who the hell is Heidi Montag?  Why am I supposed to care that she is addicted to plastic surgery?

Indeed.

Friday
22Jan2010

On the Farm

Monday
18Jan2010

MLK

Saturday
09Jan2010

Boy in the Park