There is an official recipe from a website, but I changed it so much that there's really no point in linking to it. Here's my version ( Read more... )

I need to be productive today, but I want a nap or at least some serious couch time. Fire alarms went off at 2 a.m. AGAIN. This time, I made it outside with Blanca and Herald before they stopped sounding. Just barely. The alarms literally stopped the second I set the cat carriers down on the sidewalk at the Municipal Center. I turned and shouted at ( Read more... )

iPod cases made from 45 rmp records

• Still want to see Control.

• Now want to see this weird video exhibit of Smiths fans singing karaoke Smiths songs.

• Chin Up Chin Up on Thursday. Carrie, you in?

For Court, Carrie, Chris and other people who like Aubrey Beardsley and even those who don't...the Aubrey Beardsley-inspired wedding cake. The gang from Ace of Cakes on the Food Network made it, and it was glorious in the episode I watched the other night. Fine, fine The link won't work. Go to www.charmcitycakes.com. Click on "not-so-traditional" ( Read more... )

For those you haven't been keeping up with Sam's blog: Club Clearview is closed.

( I had to save - and share - this holiday entertaining advice from chef Anthony Bourdain because it's funny, it's sensible and dammit I can never find stories on MSN a second time )

List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're not any good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying now. Post these instructions in your livejournal along with your 7 songs. Then tag 7 other people to see what they're listening to.

Seven songs:
• Muse -- "Knights of Cydonia"
  I've ( Read more... )

Tuesday night I took a seat on the train as usual. I removed my book from bag's front pocket, opened it to the marker and began reading (Joe Pernice's story about The Smiths' Meat is Murder -- a gush for another time). I felt something brush against my hair near the nape of my neck. I figure, I'm short, my hair can be a little big, whatev. On the ( Read more... )

I want to adopt a ring-tailed lemur!!! Or, for a third of the price, I could adopt a llama--oh, the irony. If Monique had $100, she'd adopt a llama for me.