Archive for November, 2009

The Pie Massacres

I’m the only one who eats any pie. One piece at a time. Day after day. It is sad. The Thanksgiving pies are excellent. The Thanksgiving moonshine less so.

Tori Amos: The Ghost of Loretta Lynn

As Mary points out, Tori Amos has turned into the ghost of Loretta Lynn fo sho: She is immune to criticism, Botox or not. We see her and gape. You have to buy her holiday album, as well as the Sugarland holiday album. They are not to be missed.

Friday Night Wine & Hygiene

Location: California Pizza Kitchen, Fashion Valley Mall, San Diego, California. Bartender: Can I help you? Mike: I’d like 2 glasses of Cab Sauv. Bartender: (Slightly bewildered look.) Ok. A few minutes pass. What did you want again? Mike: (slowly and distinctly) 2 glasses of Cab Sauv. Bartender: Oh… we don’t have the mix. We just [...]

Sweetness and 2012

In case you were wondering, there were 9 food related metaphors in today’s WSJ articles concerning Kraft’s hostile takeover bid of Cadbury. I guess it gets boring working there. Also, today I bought advance tickets for 2012. I love disaster movies so much. I don’t care what the haters say about how it is worthless [...]

Hipster

Him: Do you like my new skinny jeans? Me: Not really. You look like Audrey Hepburn.

Strange sights

I got home from painting at the lake. To find this: my laptop emblazoned with an NRA sticker, a toy dog wearing a sequined Halloween mask stuffed inside, and all of this being attacked by a giant spider.