Canadians?

ketchup cake? Really?

Jesus christ, Los Angeles. Any time you want to get off Kobe's cock, I'd appreciate it.

This song makes me happy.

EDIT if anyone can find these or the other recordings from the FD sessions in mp3 format, well...I'd be eternally grateful.



God and this Muddy Waters cover is enough to make me fall the fuck over.

I am here to say that this new bullshit of singing God Bless America after the seventh inning stretch can bite my pale white ass. I am so done with this amateur hour bullshit; the song isn't even that great.

For fuck's sake. We are winning up in this bitch and we all gotta pause for some yahoo to sing a song that has now become so annoying that I want to rip my ears off and throw them the hell across the street every time I have to hear it.

WE ARE STILL NOT BACK TO PLAYING BALL. THIS IS A TRAVESTY. IT HAS BEEN SEVERAL MINUTES, OKAY?

Fuck you, MLB.

Oh and Matt Kemp? Call me, boo. I got what you need.

Yay, another earthquake

But holy crap, Pelosi is a twat of epic proportions.

OH MY GOD, Brian Wilson is officially the biggest pussy in Baseball..

Strike that, he just might be the biggest pussy that ever existed in the history of EVER.

That article reads like something out of The Onion. I refuse to believe that any of this is true because it's just so ridiculous.

Last week, Jennie and one of her friends went hiking up to the Hollywood sign. On a whim, they decided to take a side trip to the cave that was the Bat Cave in the old TV show starring Adam West.

When they arrived, she was shocked to see Adam West there. Seriously, people go to the Bat Cave all the time, but no one expects to see Adam West himself there, holding a 'garage sale'. Cool!

Here's what they were filming and no, she isn't in it.

Dodgers are winning.

I have bread in the oven and dinner on the stove.

The kids are quiet.

Life's pretty good.

Three homeruns.

Hudson hits for the cycle.

Bills doesn't allow a single walk.

WE SMASH THE GIANTS.

Good times.

Why are cats such assholes?

Oh, there's an inflatable bed? Let me attack it!

Oh, there's a roll of paper towels? Let me attack it while you're sleeping!

Oh, there's a roll of toilet paper? Let me grab one end and run around the house 5 times with it, then shred it, too!

Oh, you like your couch? Let me scratch it up because I like it too.

Oh, you have clean laundry? Let me lie on it.

Oh, you have a laptop here? Let me lie all over it until it starts to beep. Oh, it's not supposed to make those beeping sounds?

Oh, you have cookies cooling on the table? Let me jump up there, walk past, and drop hair all over them!

What? Your hair rubberband *isn't* a toy?

What? You don't like it when I claw the window screens? Really?

Oh, you're sitting on the toilet? Let me run in and attack your legs. That's fun, right?

New York

New Orleans!

EVEN THE SMELL OF BACON AND THE PROMISE OF AVOCADO IS NOT HELPING!

The painted lady butterfly migration has begun. Yesterday while in the garden, I saw literally hundreds of them, then hundreds more when I drove to pick up the boys.

So freaking cool.

This year, I'm planting a passionvine for the gulf fritillary butterfly. And for me. WE CANNOT EVER FORGET ABOUT ME.

Wow. This pisses me off. A lot.

HR 875 The food police, criminalizing organic farming and the backyard gardener, and violation of the 10th amendment.

More here.

The best part is the wordage claiming that the FDA and the USDA have FAILED so now we're going to create a new and better agency that will somehow not fail and be better for everyone! Yay!

1 SEC. 2. FINDINGS; PURPOSES.
-Congress finds that-
recent ongoing events demonstrate that the
food safety program at the Food and Drug Adminis
tration is not effective in controlling hazards in food
coming from farms and factories in the United
States and food and food ingredients coming from
foreign countries, and these events have adversely
affected consumer confidence;


And lastly:

Representative Rosa L. DeLauro (D - CT) is the woman who sponsored Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009 HR875:

1. Her husband, Stan Greenberg, has MONSANTO as a client.
2. She received $180k in donations from agribusiness PAC's.

There is someone whose tag on LJTOYS says 'cali' who reads me often.

Anyone know who it is? Cali, you want to reveal yourself? I'm down with new friends and I don't bite. Well, I do but uh...nevermind.

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Do you know that every time my father comes over here, he brings at least 6 pounds of dirt in with him? It's like he has a dirt pile underneath the pedals of his truck or something; it doesn't matter where he was before he came here, it's always there, on the bottom of every pair of shoes, ready to be laid across my home like a trail of dirt crumbs for some imaginary, dirt-crumb eating bird that (imaginarily, omg) lives here inside my house.

I wonder if my mom hadn't switched teams (or went back to her old team? I don't know), if she would have divorced him anyway just because of all the dirt? I couldn't do this for more than like...a day before I would start shrieking. Take off your shoes, it's not hard. Or I don't know, MAYBE WIPE THEM OFF ON THE DOOR MAT PROVIDED FOR JUST SUCH A PURPOSE?!

And the thing is, he knows he does it! Motherfucker tracks dirt into my clean house and then says, "Oh haha, look at you, rushing to clean up all the dirt I tracked in!" The fuck? How about you don't do it anymore, Whitey? How would that be?

Geoff says, "Uh, no. That won't happen."

Holy shit. My father is Pigpen!

SOMEONE NEEDS TO CAP THIS BILLY MAYS ASSHOLE, RIGHT IN HIS BIG LOUD MOUTH.

Dear Scott Boras:

PLEASE STOP BEING SUCH A DOUCHE.

Sincerely,

A fan who finds you loathesome



Dear Frank McCourt:

PLEASE STOP BEING SUCH A DOUCHE.

Sincerely,

A fan who remembers the days when we were owned by family that wasn't douche-y.

P.S. Your teeth are gross

So...Glenn Danzig is in production for a new version of Rock of Love on VH1.

HAHAHA, that's freaking awesome. And all of the girls will have to be like 4'8.

Today I'm making pork roast of love. My house will smell like porky goodness which really indicates that Jesus lives here in my house.

Tommorrow, I'll make pupusas with the leftovers.

Apparently there is a MONSTER! STORM! coming. As always, I'm dubious.

Gosh, I went to the grocery store yesterday and spent about $50 on meat. Chicken breasts, pork roasts and chuck roasts...all on sale and now I have a freezer full of meaty goodness.

God, am I really posting about meat sales? WHAT.

Am I the only jackass who edits comments when I mistakenly misspell a word? I see it there, just flopping around like a dying fish and I am compelled to fix it. Compelled, I tell you!

Jake: "Zack, are you an idiot?"

Zack: "I KNOW I AM BUT WHAT ARE..."

Me and Jake: "BWUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA"

Zack: WAIT, WHAT?!?! I DID IT WRONG! HOLD ON!"

The house down the street is already in escrow.

This is interesting. All of a sudden, the houses around here for sale are getting a ton of traffic, after sitting, ignored, for months. Are lenders finally lending again? What gives?

I am somewhat hopeful that this means things are going to turn around. Housing's affordable again, people are buying...how can this be a bad thing?

Yay, earthquake!

Okay, so seeing Jeff Kent - whose reputation as a surly curmudgeon precedes him - stand at the podium and cry like a baby is KILLING ME.

Thanks for everything, Red. You played the game with integrity and you'll always be a Dodger, I don't care what SF (or anyone else) says.

I tend to post this stuff in batches. I could never be a daily food blogger - I lack the discipline and patience to do this every day.

This is one of my favorite quick meals EVER. In the time it takes to cook the pasta, it's done. It requires less than 10 minutes and literally no culinary skill to make. You can't beat that with a stick.

Papperdalle with anchovy, garlic and radicchio.



Quick instructions:

Slice up some garlic - as much as you want. For ~4 oz pasta (all measurements given from here forward are for ~4oz pasta, please don't make me say it twice) I use about 4-5 cloves of garlic. Saute the garlic in a good bit of EVOO. Toss in some anchovies - I use the little 2oz tins from Trader Joes (packed in olive oil) and yes, I use the entire tin. I don't use the oil they're packed in, though - don't really have a reason why, I just don't. Stir those and some red chile flakes (to taste) into the garlic/evoo mixture. The anchovies will dissolve and also splatter a lot, so beware.

In the meantime: boil some water, toss in some salt and cook your pasta.

Slice or shred some radicchio - I use a half head for this recipe. Once the garlic gets soft and slightly brown (please do not burn the garlic because that is offensive to me and jesus) and the anchovies have dissolved, toss in the radicchio. You can add a spoonful of the pasta water to loosen things up - I prefer to do this as it cuts down on the amount of oil in the dish.

Once the pasta is al dente (please do not overcook the pasta because that, too, is offensive to me and jesus), grab some tongs or a spider-thingy, lift it out of the water and plop it into the anchovy mixture. I don't bother draining it because, again, the extra water helps bring the sauce together.

Now you need acid. Preferably lemon. This, too, is to taste. I like a lot - usually 1/2 to 1 whole lemon. I like to toss a bit of thyme in there, too, but I like thyme in pretty much everything. It's not required.

Serve with freshly grated parm and freshly ground black pepper. Fresh parm is ALWAYS key - IF YOU USE THE GREEN CAN, I WILL FIND YOU AND PROBABLY HURT YOU.

Seriously delicious. If you like fish but aren't sure about anchovies...I strongly encourage you to try this.