Month: November 2008

  • Deep Fried Stuffing on a Stick

    God bless Paula Deen: Deep-Fried Stuffing on a Stick. To go with your deep-fried turkey, naturally.

  • Halloween pics from Lara

    Lara has posted some more photos from our Halloween party, if you want to see more guests and food.

  • Shared today on Facebook

    is wondering which will impress my Australian co-workers more tomorrow: pumpkie pie, or sweet potater pie?


    is covered in pumpkin pie spice and smells so, so good.


  • Bacon

    According to a wine-tasting robot, people taste like bacon. I probably would’ve guessed that.

  • Shared today on Facebook

    is smellin’ some BACON, baby!


  • Brideshead Revisited

    Oooh! I just discovered that Brideshead Revisited is starting this Sunday at 7:30 on ABC2. There are eleven parts and this is the first episode, so set your TiFauxes to record! (I’ve never seen it before, but I understand it has something to do with gay men and Jeremy Irons, and I’M ALL ABOUT THAT.)

  • How Babies Are Made

    How babies are made… in Germany. HOLY COW. (Probably not safe for work, by the way, even though it’s apparently an actual children’s book.) I still remember just enough German to follow the text. And, um, I just learned a lot of words that I never learned in high school Deutsch.

  • Bad Day.

    From Wikipedia:

    From the moment he wakes up with gum in his hair, things just do not go Alexander’s way. At breakfast, Alexander’s brothers Nick and Anthony reach into their cereal boxes and pull out amazing prizes, while all Alexander ends up with is . . . cereal. His teacher doesn’t like his drawing of an invisible castle, he loses his yo-yo, there is no dessert in his lunch, the dentist tells him he has a cavity, there is kissing on TV, and he has to wear his railroad train pajamas (he hates his railroad train pajamas). No wonder Alexander wants to move to Australia! The book ends with his mother’s assurance that everyone has bad days, even people who live in Australia.

    Even people who live in Australia. Indeed.

  • Interhall

    ESPN has a really nice article about Notre Dame interhall football. I played for my women’s dorm (GO P-DUB!), but it’s not taken quite as seriously as the men’s version. I mean, the players themselves take it seriously, but since the girls only get to play flag football the cost and insurance issues aren’t so great. Also, I don’t remember that we ever cut anybody from the team. It was more of just a fun thing to do, rather than some fulfillment of a childhood dream or anything. (Link courtesy of RT, who played Defense.)

  • Broken Windows

    The “broken windows” theory of crime is correct. That’s neat! I’d heard that rule before but it’s cool that someone actually put it to the test. There’s a burnt trash bin around the corner from our house (no idea whether it was lit deliberately or accidentally by a cigarette butt) and every morning I see it I just mentally recoil. It makes the whole street look so junky. I hope they get rid of it soon.