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Anthony Bourdain's "Kitchen Confidential". Fairly amusing read for the most part. Totally believable too, as I see a fair amount of the underhanded backstage dealings in the foodservice world. Amp that up to NYC in the 80's and I don't think any exaggeration was necessary. The parts about mob owners and particularly inept owners rang a lot of bells for me.

I'm still catching the same error. Clicked on "My settings", then the "Profile" tab. Got the same error code as ASR.

Noted, but I can't promise not to forget that if there's a hot girl drowning. Of course if she's a college student I call them all children anyway.

Doesn't everyone carry a decent knife on the subway? Pansies.

Hah, first good beer I've ever seen in that kind of packaging. Bet it cost a few pennies though.

Nevermind, definitely a rat. About 4 inches long and pretty hefty. I really shouldn't have to defend the kill. Definitely wasn't going to risk trying to trap it when I had it cornered.

Old school 'casers will remember that before I was the penis pumper, my custom title was "he ain't fraid no rat", due to an old HF post about a rat in my house (that I never found). Two houses and a number of years later, I still ain't fraid no rat (actually a mouse). Was sitting in my comfy chair watching TV. Heard a thump and a squeak in the fireplace, looked over and there was a mouse laying there stunned. Long chase ensued, ended up trapping it in a corner behind some boots and then got it with a makeshift spear (broom + old kitchen knife + tape). Got it in the spine, clean kill. Poor little bastard probably just felt a little warmth coming up the chimney and dove in.

I'll put money on G's theory. I also love all three of those shows and can't really see that they have declined in overall quality, the most that you can say is that they've each become stale... Not much left to do without a serious reorganization (The Office will attempt this next year, but I predict it will fail.) I will also mourn the inevitable loss of all three which I believe will come sooner than later.

I actually know a cake decorator who gets frequent requests for NSFW cakes. Of course that pales in comparison to the one the a bunch of surgeons got for a work related sendoff. Anatomically correct gut surgery, reconstructed from actual surgery photos. I bet they fought over who got the gall bladder.

Finally killing the nog. Perhaps it's time to put together next year's?

Just found Biggie's post... his original image had a clickthrough to a giant picture of the cake in question, and yes it looks much better. I seriously thought that you'd done a google image search and picked that tiny picture with the text on it. Figured you at least could have found a cake with some titties or something.

Yeah, what Dusty said I guess. And I never once claimed to be anything but an asshole.

That is literally the worst picture of cake one could hope to find on the internet. I applaud your low standards.

Yay! Fresh Cake! I love Cake.

Needs more bacon.

I did the same last night. Buy 1 get 1 free chuck roasts, 3 lbs each. Simmered mine for about 6 hours, turned out quite nice. First time I've made a real Texas beanless chili. Looked up several recipes and took the elements that I liked best and adjusted to what I had on hand. Roasted up a dozen fresh Tien Tsin peppers and ground them up. Love the flavor they give when roasted. Adjusted the heat to exactly where I wanted it with Sriracha sauce. Of course tons of dry spices too, and 4 huge yellow onions. Got 3 quarts in the freezer and another 2 in the fridge. I really should make bread more often. I've got my mom's old Kitchenaid mixer with a dough hook so that part is easy to do. When I was a kid she got one of those basic bread machines which only lasted a while before she went for the hands on method, including a grain mill. We pretty much always had fresh bread in the house.

Opened a couple bottles of the French beer last night. Nothing at all special about them, other than the noteworthiness of something so bland being in such an attractive package. Bottle conditioned too, with the biggest yeast trub I've ever seen. After that went with a couple people to Poor Paul's Pourhouse, the most whimsical dive in Tallahassee. Won big twice on the "wheel of fortune" after paying for our first pitcher of Yuengling. Ended up with all three of us reasonably well lubricated for something like $15 (tip included). Oh and there was free pizza. I love college bars.

Happy birthday old man.

It was a sammich.

Heh, CJ and others will be amused to note that I actually understood all of what he said up there, with the speaker tech nonsense. Read the Loudspeaker Design Cookbook as a teenager and did a lot of the calculations with a Parts Express catalog in front of me. This was back when I was reasonably smart, though.

X3 on shoulder pain from vicodin. After my hernia surgery I was on those for a few days, and between the constipation and the random pains that a call to the doctor were confirmed (or highly suggested) as side effects, I decided that ibuprofen would work just fine.

Well, it is a bit of an unusual fireplace, in that it goes through the middle of the house and has openings into two rooms (with a brick wall down the middle). The fact that it's in a very old house would suggest that it was probably built for function over form.

Running the hell out of my heater for yet another night. I really should invest in an inspection and cleaning on the fireplace in this house so I can use it. Landlord said it's been a good 10 years since any tenant has had in interest in it, so it would be up to me to check the working order before starting a fire in the house. If this winter keeps handing me well below freezing nights, I think whatever investment that represents would be a far better option than spinning the meter from dusk to dawn.

That episode was properly everything. Every frame was awesome, and they kept the lying down to a minimum. Sure, they played up the danger of landing in Iraq but not being cautious would look foolish to those who don't understand the regions. Can't wait for my friend Rob (the Marine) to get back from his UK holiday so I can find out what he thought. Heh, look at me calling his vacation a "holiday".

Yeah the one time I was on the BRP as a kid it seemed pretty useless as an actual road. With all the problems Top Gear has previously had in obtaining US filming permits I'm sure they don't want to be seen racing around too much. They should forthwith reserve America for cheap car challenges, and save the serious driving tests for countries who care less. I'm still waiting for a cannonball run across somewhere that's fairly empty, wonder how Australia would feel about that? Better yet run in 4 teams... UK, US, Australian, and German Top Gear crews.