Free for All Friday 45
Somewhat light this week, except when it comes to bacon. But since you can never have too much bacon, it’s all good!
- Via C, The Manfattan Project, for keeping up with the trends and the fashions. Y’all, I need so much help with trends and fashions. I like this website so much!
- File under great headlines of all time: Skank Boots Evokes Rage. The post is hilarious. The comments are hilarious. All around hilarious!
- How Extreme is Bobbi Brown’s Extreme Party Mascara? Evidently, not too extreme at all.
- Weird Al is still Weird after all these years. And aren’t we thankful for it!
- From Honu Girl, here are 8 Cutting Edge Cheese Sculptures. Do you see why I love her?
- She also let me know about Fruit Bats Who Enjoy Oral Sex.
- A short history of Fiestaware colors! My dishes are Fiestaware and I love them with searing passion. Seriously. I love them. My colors started as yellow, periwinkle and cobalt. Then I added sunflower. And it stayed that way for a little while, but now I’ve added in one setting of plum, one of turqouise, and one of shamrock. It’s all so very pretty!
You Know What Looks Awesome on Fiestware? Bacon
- The Best Spinach Salad Ever relies heavily on bacon.
- Bacon lampshade
- Blue cheese bacon dip
- Pumpkin soup with shrimp and bacon
- Bacon, Leek, and Arugula frittata
- Bacon and parmesan lentils: one recipe, three dishes, bacon AND parmesan, please and thank you!
- Brussels sprouts with Bacon:
- Rouladen
- Butternut squash, bacon, and barley broth
- Saltimboca
- Bacon-cheddar waffles, en francais!
- Maple bacon biscuits!
I’m not a huge fan of Fiestaware in general but I love the pitchers. I have a miniature one in plum (probably meant to be a creamer). There used to be a big antiques mall here that had a one, maybe 2, booths dedicated solely to Fiestaware. It was one of the prettier sections.
Over the knee boots should only be worn in public by two segments of the populace. One rarely wears them out of doors, the other mostly works at night in bad parts of town. I do not desire to be mistaken for either one, thank you very much. (Not that anyone’s going to mistake me for a stripper regardless of what I wear.)
Comment by marciepooh on November 6, 2009 at 9:57 am
I don’t think I understand the Manfattan Project. Is it just someone walking around New York taking pictures of normal-sized women? I don’t see how anything on that site would register as ’stylish’ beyond normal, everyday sort of clothes. And some hardly even that. Is it supposed to be tongue-in-cheek? When I heard “Manfattan Project” I assumed it would be pictures of obese New Yorkers, kind of like PeopleOfWalMart.com.
Comment by Apollo on November 6, 2009 at 2:29 pm
The fruit bats enjoying oral sex thing was a trivia question at the geek bar I trivia at this week.
Comment by Poptart on November 6, 2009 at 3:28 pm
For all the Fiestaware I have (like three sets of salt and pepper shakers all), I do not have any of the disk pitchers. I think it’s strange. I don’t feel too bad, though, because what would I do with it? Stare lovingly at it, but that’s about it.
Comment by Sarah, etc. on November 8, 2009 at 9:50 am
The Manfattan Project is for keeping up with the trends and fashions. And most of those women are yeah, average to fat. I’m reading it for exactly what you say: how to look stylish in everyday, normal clothes. I have to work hard at it.
Comment by Sarah, etc. on November 8, 2009 at 9:51 am
Woo!
Comment by Sarah, etc. on November 8, 2009 at 9:52 am
SHUT. UP. How have I known you for however many years I’ve known you and didn’t know about your love for Fiestaware? THIS (AMONG OTHER REASONS) IS WHY OUR FRIENDSHIP WILL NEVER DIE.
I love Fiestaware so much. Yellow is my absolute favorite besides the turquoise and persimmon. Sigh.
There’s a dish store over on 2ndN (or maybe 3rdN?) and they have Fiestaware in the windows. Looks like a good place to find some discontinued colors. DISHES. WE NEED THEM.
Comment by Chez on November 10, 2009 at 3:13 pm