You know how when something tastes amazing people will say "there's a party in my mouth?"  Right now, my friends, it's not just a party, it's a fucking orgy.  Here are the participants; the methods of cooking the vegetable and the fish were inspired by America's Test Kitchen, but the assemblage is my own.

Pan-seared salmon filet.  (Fancy way of ( Read more... )

I watched this movie on Reel 13 last night. (Even after all that happened with the Roadshow, my love for 13 will never fade.)

My friends, I have to tell you, that shit was INTENSE. I don't care if Gregory Peck thought that he was too young to play Ahab; he was fucking spellbinding. The movie was a little long but I really loved it. In general I ( Read more... )

...Seriously. That's a question they ask on the website ( Read more... )

I am getting really fucking sick of hearing about but particularly seeing Michael Phelps and his ugly Goddamned face all over all the time. DUDE IS UNATTRACTIVE; he may be a great Olympian but I am resenting this implication that all women are supposed to bitch-fight each other for a chance to get at him. You can keep him ( Read more... )

I GOT THE JOB. 

I called my mom this morning and she told me to check my email because she got one that said she didn't get tickets for the Antiques Roadshow.  I checked mine and I didn't get tickets, either.  Now feeling really dejected (it has been an ugly couple of months and I was really looking forward to this) I called Dan and woke him up and told him to ( Read more... )

I'm not someone who is normally plagued by allergies: sometimes, if the pollen count is really high, I'll get a sinus headache (hahaha, I have a headache every day anyway, so it's not like it makes much of a difference) or a slightly runny nose.  However, the past two days I have not been able to see at all and I've been rubbing my eyes so much ( Read more... )

But I think I might have broken something important.

Well, maybe I didn't break it, but it feels like it.  I don't know what's going on with something which is one of the only aspects of my life that gives me any sort of happiness.

So about a month ago I started haunting the Antiques Roadshow website on PBS.  I had this gut feeling or intuition or whatever - and I'm rarely wrong about this stuff, in all honesty - that they'd be coming around here this new season.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/faq.html#tickets_03

THEY'RE COMING TO HARTFORD ON AUGUST 23rd.

Now I just have to ( Read more... )

Today I gave Crumpet away to his new home.

I had him from 6 September 2003 until 15 December 2007.

Feeling better is going to take a long time.