Sarah Et Cetera

Some FFAFs have been wee, some not so wee. This one’s friggin’ huge!

• Adults forget three things every day. You’re forgetting something right now! Dang!
• Indulge in politically incorrect food while you still can!
  

  When at last liberals have rid the world of hot dogs, they can move on to apple pie, baseball, the flag, and mom. Chevrolet has already been dealt with by Chairman Zero.

• David Yates attempts to justify his bad decisions. Succeeds admirably, dammit. Upside: sidebar link will take you to pictures of Anna Friel’s boobies!
• Gross cakes. Seriously. Some of them are really, really gross. You will hurk.
• Misleading, causing public anxiety. Turns out BPA won’t actually make your baby (or you) grow a second head or anything.
• 101 simple meals in 10 minutes or less
• A victim of its own success, the Crocs juggernaut didn’t plan for obsolescence. I read that with a bit of schadenfreude. I think they’re horrifically ugly. I wore freaking Birkenstocks for 10 years. I’ve done my assfugly footwear time.
• Nathan Fillion kisses Serenity right on the lips.
• The Tenth Doctor loves Firefly, though it may or may not be why he chose to wear a long brown coat.
• Incredible Watchmen fanvideo set to “Street Spirit” by Radiohead.
• Blog to live or live to blog?
  

  Many people probably believe that blogging is simply a way for people to waste a lot of time while indulging their narcissistic tendencies and/or posting pictures of cats. This view is mostly correct.

  The rest of it is so profound I’m still trying to get over it.

• The 13 types of tweeters. If I– and I say this in the same tone and with the same inflection as Adam Baldwin in the first chase scene in Serenity– YOU SHOOT ME IF I GET LIKE THAT!

  Where’s my grenades?

• A gentleman is very MacGyver-ish:

  Whether he’s fashioning weapons out of office supplies during conference calls, cobbling together quick hydraulic smoking apparatuses on lunch breaks, popping the governor off his rented Mexican moped for reckless speed or fermenting secret hooch in the commode of his spacious jail cell, an ever-clever gentleman can be counted upon to wield brain over brawn in desperate, often dangerous, situations.

• From Honu Girl, Catcerto!
• Whoopie pies are not the new cupcakes. They are the suck. They need to sit down and STFU.
• Also via Honu Girl, Two things: 1. Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters! 2. NEW HITCHHIKER BOOK WTF?!
• Mom! My desert looks like vagina!
• Mt. Everest, photographed, by a person, from a mile above!

• The Pope publishes his third encyclical:

  Caritas in Veritate is a reminder that we cannot understand ourselves as a human community if we do not understand ourselves as something more than the sum or our material parts; if we do not understand our capacity for sin; and if we do not understand the principle of communion rooted in the gratuitousness of God’s grace. Simply put, to this pope’s mind, there is no just or moral system without just and moral people.

• Is Torchwood the BBC’s most pro-American show? Is Captain Jack Harkness the ultimate American character?
  

  John Barrowman plays the omnisexual Harkness with a boyish glee. He displays a love and aptitude for violence. He shoots first and asks questions later. He knows that terrorists, even alien ones, should never be negotiated with or trusted. At times, his brash refusal to display empathy or appease hostile forces leads to personal catastrophes and losses, but at the end of the day, he is right. Evil is defeated.

  Those questions aside, do I need to set aside some space for us to talk about Torchwood: Children of Earth? I finished watching the recordings this week. I know Honu Girl is trying to block out some time to do the same. Anybody else? I was prepared to hate it, but it was a really well-constructed adventure in horror, I think. The ending has me a little adrift, but I’m pretty sure I like the direction they’re going to take. And I’d really like to see Lois Habiba some more, especially if the rumors are true and Dr. Martha Jones won’t be reappearing.

• Ben Stein thinks he knows why President Obama is in such a hurry to pass healthcare legislation. Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
• More on the third Firefly companion book. Behind the scenes stuff maybe, but all very “hush hush.” So, yeah, sorry, not a lot more. Just more wondering what is there left? That’ll be its sub-subtitle. Firefly: Still Flying: Still Wondering.
• Five lies all women tell should be retitled Five Phrases that Alert You that Your Woman is Communicating Differently Than You So You May Want to Pay Attention and Coax Her to Tell You What She Really Thinks, Unless You Don’t Want to Know, in which Case What are You Even Doing with Her?
• The 10 Most Useless Kitchen Gadgets. Most of these are pretty useless. But I actually employ one of them on a regular basis– #5, the garlic peeler. If I’m just using one or two cloves, yeah, I’ll just smash and go. But if I’m using many, like a whole head of garlic for a big thing of guacamole, I put three or four cloves on a little rubber circle, fold it over, and rub. And they’re all peeled at once. The circle is one of those little things that makes it easier to open jars. I use it way more for garlic than I do for jars.
• Does academic conformity harm science, other disciplines?
• LOLRevolution:

  From: george@empire.gov
  Sent: July 4, 1776, 3:22 a.m.
  To: tomjeff@monticello.com; jadams@mass.col; benf@penn.col; livingstonipresume@ny.col; rsherman@conn.col;
  Subject: RE: FW: RE: George

  NO FUDGE THAT I AM THE KING BEN DO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS? IT MEANS THAT WHEN YOU SAY I AM NOT THE KING OF YOU YOUR WRONG. IF YOU DONT LIKE THE WAY I RUN AMERICA THEN GO BACK TO FRANCE YOU FRENCHMONGER

  HIS ROYAL MAJESTY
  KING GEORGE WILLIAM FREDERICK
  OF THE HOUSE OF HANOVER
  SO ORDAINED BY THE WILL OF OUR LORD
  “It’s Good to Be the King” – Mel Brooks

Bacon-Adjacent, Not So Wee

• Fig and Prosciutto pizza topped with Arugula salad
• Prosciutto wraps. This looks to me like a base for something sublime waiting to happen. Suggestions?
• Rubik’s Cube sandwich, which includes no bacon but many other varieties of tasty pig, including straight up lard.
• Canteloupe, Bocconcini and Prosciutto salad
• Vegan BLT salad featuring tempeh strips. You could always just add real bacon!

Bacon, Also Friggin Huge

• Bacon cakes
• Maple chocolate pudding with bacon spoons
• Primal salad with fig, bacon and pecan (Note: I read a bunch of that website and she has many good recipes. I don’t think she means “primal” in the way we were talking primal a couple weeks ago– as in rotten. She means it in more a caveman / few or no processed foods way. So don’t let the primal throw you off a great site.)
• Bacon chipotle sauce. What would you put this on?
• Bacon and egg tarts
• Bacon wrapped potato bites with spicy sour cream dipping sauce
• BLT + Cobb Salad = Yes Please Now
• Butternut squash and bacon mac’n'cheese
• Bacon flavored toothpicks
• The Royal Bacon Society (I am compelled to add, “Not as in Francis!”)
• Bacon, egg, and goat cheese breakfast pizza

See what I mean about the friggin’ huge? Wow!