Filed under: comedy, movies, the internets
• 12:13 am 0
Beyond LOLCats….
…are the very disturbed folks — by Jim Henson, at a young age, I’m guessing? — behind OmNomNomNom.com.
If you value your laptop, don’t drink coffee while viewing.
the original. (my heart be: meltoring…poor guy)
Filed under: comedy, the internets
February 15, 2008 • 1:29 pm 0
Friday Music Video: Foals
• 9:08 am 4
Happy Belated Valentine’s Day….
To everyone who matters in my life, past…and future.
Filed under: dessert, flickr, romance, the rules of attraction
February 12, 2008 • 9:49 am 3
I’ve been to a marvellous party
Daft Punk is playing at my house. This wheel’s on fire. The piano has been drinking, not me. Tempted by the (clementines) of another. In the dangerous kitchen. I’ve been breaking glass in your room again. Food, glorious food.
Spoon-size Prosciutto, Pepper and Parsley Bites
Ingredients
- a quantity of prosciutto equivalent to your guests – approximately one slice per serving: 250 grams should be more than enough.
- Italian flat-leaf parsley.
- Feta-stuffed hot peppers. These are available at the Atwater Market and some grocery stores carry them under the Sardo brand, in little plastic tubs. One tub should be more than enough.
- Chives
- Optional: Blaze or a similar balsamic reduction glaze.
- Best served on flat-bottomed porcelain Asian soup spoons, available at most kitchen stores, dollar stores etc.
preparation
- Hand-shred or mince the parsley roughly. Slice the stuffed peppers into roughly coin-sized portions. Chop the chives into correspondingly short lengths — or brunoise them if you have the knife skills.
- Take a small bunch of parsley leaves (tablespoon or less) and roll it up in a slice of prosciutto. Place in a spoon. Top with slice of stuffed pepper and pinch of chives. Drizzle with a couple of drops of Blaze if you like.
Mangia!
February 6, 2008 • 1:48 pm 0
Beware of MSN worm!
I’ve gotten faux MSN messages from several friends that invite you to click on a booby-trapped link, typically asking you to look at a photo. Thankfully as I’m on a Mac I’ve been immune to them (they download .exe files typically) but it seems more computers are getting infected.
Filed under: suckage, the internets
February 3, 2008 • 12:13 pm 0
Sunday Dance Videos: Gregory Hines and Steve Martin (really)
From Steve Martin’s big network TV special (remember those?) from November, 1981. Martin’s rather strange movie Pennies From Heaven was in theatres at the time; he spent 8 months learning to tap dance for the role. With a grim “real world” storyline that subverts the very idea of the escapist musical, it confounded audiences and yet won 3 Oscars. It was adapted from his own miniseries by Singing Detective scribe Dennis Potter.
The song is a classic Arthur Freed number from 1932, which made appearances in many of the “Broadway Melody” revue movies, and reprised with other period songs in 1952’s Singin’ In The Rain.
February 1, 2008 • 2:52 pm 1
Super Secret Sneaker Store
In Boston, near the Berklee School of Music, is a nondescript, shabby corner store (a bodega, or dépanneur as we say here); however, if you stand in front of the store’s Snapple machine, it slides to the left, revealing an Aladdin’s cave of rare and high-end sneakers.
Filed under: cool
