Thinking

I think it’s great that the NFL is supporting Breast Cancer Awareness month by accenting their hats, gloves, and various other gear with pink.  But…..[insert homoerotic joke here].

“BE STRONG AND DO THE WORK.”

I dislike organized religion and all the horror it has produced in the world, but sometimes their marquees have a point.

Me and My Baby…

I read this in the Washington Post today:

“Eighty-seven percent of counties and 31 percent of metropolitan areas have no abortion services.”

Oh, and that’s in the United States.  Of America.  The wealthiest country in the WORLD.  And obviously the most shortsighted.

How to be a Top Chef Judge…

Recently I have found myself watching a little show called Top Chef – I have to try to go on living like Bravo is still as amazing now the Project Runway is on loser Lifetime.  I’m DEALING.  After having viewed several day-long marathon (be nice, I’m unemployed) I’ve come to some general conclusions about how to be a Top Judge and how not to be a Top Judge.

Top Judge Attributes:

- Be the author of a cookbook in which you include recipes that you’ve actually created and cooked.

- Eat with your fork upside down and/or dip the tip of your knife into your dish so as to sample it.

- Use phrases like, “clean afternotes,” “complex texture,” “delicate sauce,” or “classically French/Italian/insert cooking style”.

- Own a seemingly “trendy” restuarant in New York, Chicago, or LA – preferable all three.

- Have a gourmet salad dressing/spice line sold in grocery stores across the country.

- Be mildly to obviously overweight.

NOT Top Judge Attributes:

- Be the author of a book that is sort of like a cookbook but has no recipes and is instead full of pictures of  all the food you’ve tasted that you thought was “really yummy.”

- Use phrases like, “really yummy” “pretty” or “mega-tasty”.

- Dress in Gucci, Prada, or other high end labels with matching high end heels and then proceed to spend significant amounts of time in a KITCHEN.

- Require booze be infused into every dish or you will vote the chef out.

- Be more likely to release a jewelry collection of miniature forks and spoons incrusted with Swarovski crystals than an actual flatware line.

One True Thing.

Rachel Maddow is back.

Amen.

Thank you Baby Jesus.

HALLELUJAH!

Thinking…

If modern technology has advanced to a place that allows me as a consumer to enjoy pluots and apriums and an array of delicious, interesting hybrid fruits then please explain to me why someone can’t grow fruit without seeds?

Thinking…

That thick yellow band in the sky today?  Yeah, that’s smog.  And I almost slammed my cute little Corolla into the back of an F-150 extended cab starring at it.  Coincidentally, that particular F-150 was single-handedly responsible for putting it up there in the sky.

Impressive.