That Fish's Abdomen

Among other things, I'm thankful that Kevin carved the turkey, and that I was reminded of the Gershwin boys' lyrical genius.

I can't think of more amusing rhymes than these.

PS, Dang you, Copyright Police.

Giving Thanks, Past-Style

I have done a lot of things on Thanksgiving, but one time I did stuff with Colleen.

In what must have been 1999, I went to visit her in her first Grown-Up Apartment, in Philadelphia. We made a massive feast together, and photo-documented it for our friend Timmy, who at the time was in Mali, in the Peace Corps, and had only eaten some sort of corn gruel for six months and had probably only gone to the bathroom once in that time.

Here's Colleen putting the finishing touches on our candied yams:

And here's me, in a shirt I had stolen from Timmy back in college, proudly displaying some sort of delicious looking dessert.
God Bless America, and all our Feasts and Friends. I sure am Thankful for these things.

This Is Why I Am Fat With American Pride

What a fun blog this is! Allegedly it is why people are fat. I believe it is why America is the best place on earth. Where else can you get....

A hot dog in a French Fry Bun.

A bacon-wrapped taco.

A donut with Bacon Sprinkles.

Baconnaise!
A kajillion-stuffed Oreo! Who has the time? The Know-How? The Ingenuity? America!

Mmmm...Krispy Kreme Cheeseburgers.

There's more, but really, that's probably enough. God Bless. Time for my Kashi Go Lean Crunch cereal with rice milk!

CRD & Poo Teens

Oh hai. It's me ALH. I iz guest blogging in your Internals Plural.

CRD is, I hope, wrapping up his adventurous journey to the Canadian Book Fair. I hope he used the $1 I gave him to buy some good reading and didn't waste it on a kazoo or save it to buy a grape soda at Royal Pizza on the walk home. From Canada.

While visiting the country to our north, I hope CRD has had some opportunities to sample the local cuisine. Canada has some really delicious native fair-- from the "Piment Infernal: Sweet Chili Heat" Brand Doritos aforementioned, to Canadian "bacon" which is Canadian for "ham," to Poutine, the National Dish of Canada.

For those of you not familiar, poutine is like gravy fries mixed with the National Dish of Wisconsin: cheese curd. All of the major food groups are represented in this one perfect Canadian food: meat (gravy), dairy (curd), vegetables (fries), warm (served hot).

I asked CRD to bring me back some poutine. I hope he knows what poutine is and doesn't confuse it with that other poo**ng word that means something different.

Laverne & Shirley & Kevin & Christopher

Kevin and I got into a humdinger of an argument recently at Stew Club.

It was over the time-setting of Laverne & Shirley. I put forth that even though it was a spin-off of Happy Days, set in the 1950s, it was set in the present day of the late 70s, when the show aired. Kevin insisted it took place in about the same time period as Happy Days.

Our good friend wikipedia settled the tiff.


Laverne & Shirley was an American television situation comedy that ran on ABC from 1976 to 1983 ... Set in roughly the same time period as Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley started in approximately 1959, and when the series ended, it was 1967.

Eh, you can't win them all.

One thing we can all agree on is that there was also, apparently, an animated Saturday morning cartoon, "Laverne & Shirley Join the Army," which none of us remembered. For some reason - according to the opening credits a cross between a handsome recruiting officer, patriotism, and the fact that the army accepts signatures with no last names, the dames enlisted.

I'm still not sure why their commanding officer was a pig, but there's no explaining everything.



Cheers, buddies!

One Thing Leads to Another

I give thanks that in America, friends can turn this:


Into this:
and then this happens:


Which then became this:


and this:

God Bless, America.

Home Safe!

Well, here I am, back in America East.

I made it back across the continent in one piece, a bit ragged and this morning even a bit sniffly, but one piece indeed. The movie on the flight home was Journey To The Center (Centre if you're foreign) of the Earth, which probably is fun to watch on a screen bigger than 10" diagonally.

To snack on I had a Turkey Sandwich from Peet's Coffee, and to read I had Vanity Fair. I spent most of my time half-dozing and listening to music, dreaming of all the tasty meals I had in California.

Sarah and I had a Fancy Feast in Napa at La Toque. We had selections from the four-course prix fixe with wine tastings, which built in a lovely crescendo of flavor and learning experiences, according to our waiter. Mostly, it built in a crescendo of drunkenness, I found.

We really only took pictures during our first course, so here's me munching on Boston Bluefin Tuna Sashima.

And here's Sarah and her Spinach Soup with Maine Lobster. What Local eating we did! Our carbon footprints sure were tasty.

Know what else was tasty? This Vanilla Ice Cream with Olive Oil we had on Sunday for dessert at The Annual Olive Harvest. I sure stayed away from the olives, but I lapped up their oils.
Good times, California.

Corns-u-copia

Last night sure was an adventure at Vegetable Club. For starters, Amber has pwalking pneumonia, so she had to bail out. For seconds, Kevin went swimming in the ocean before going to the M'funda Kalunga State Park, and was soaking wet for Vegetable Distribution.

I made out like a bandito though, with a bevy of Veggies all to myself. Such things included many varieties of tomatoes, celery, green peppers, cucumbers, "radicchio," cabbage, salad greens, green beans, ladypink eggplant, and plums.

Even when Amber is up and running and we share the Share, and sometimes use part of it for Feast with Kevin and Diana, it's a challenge to eat all this food. I'm going to do my best though, and will start by taking the day off and chowing down on the couch.

It all reminds me of the time that Zach went fishing and had a whale of a time.

Don't bite off more than you can chew, little buddy!