Monthly Archives: January 2010
My Food Network Wish
If I were granted some wishes from a genie in a bottle one would be to have dinner with 6 Food Network chefs. Not because of their cooking style or food of choice, but because they look and appear on TV to be cool. So, here are my top 6 Food Network chefs that I want to have dinner with. (In no particular order.)
Alton Brown: Host of Good Eats and all around smart cookie. I think this man is hilarious and wicked smart. I would expect him to say things like, “You know pomegranates were once used for arthritus medicine because of their molypeptidal antioxidant qualities.” (or something like that) He is cool plain and simple.
Michael Symon: Iron Chef America icon. He wasn’t chosen, he earned his way to Iron Chefdom! I named my dog Symon after this man. Humorous and always polite, I think he and I could talk about “guy” stuff like why Van Halen was better with David Lee Roth and just hot Nigella Lawson really is.
Guy Fieri: Host of Diners, Drive Ins, and Dives, He and I would just eat things while not caring that we had food on our faces. He bleaches his hair…I will let that pass because he KNOWS where some good grub lives and isn’t afraid to eat it. After eating we would cruise in the ’65 and pimp our way on down the road listening to AC/DC or Jimmy Buffet.
Ted Allen: the host of CHOPPED is hands down one of the funn
iest and arguably the smartest man on FN.(NOTE: It’s between Ted and Alton for the Food Geek Crown.) As the host of Chopped he tells punks that don’t include one of the ingredients “Sorry, you don’t get ten thousand dollars and you aren’t the Chopped champion.” He and I would talk about how good a gin and tonic is in the summertime and why Guy Fieri needs to wear long pants in the kitchen.
The Neelys: Hosts of Down Home with the Neelys
I love these people. Being from Memphis, they are in the same geographic mindset I am
in. We could talk about Channel 5 news, why the pyramid was a bad idea, and “the spice fairy.” If you have never seen their show, it is the most sexually charged chemistry between a married couple in a kitchen EVER. She will say things like “Rub that meat big daddy!” and it not be too sexual for TV…but you know what she means. He says things to her like “You know I am gonna whip this merangue up, Momma!” It is kinky bedroom talk in the kitchen. AWESOME!
NOTE: If you watch FN, you may notice that they put star anise in everything now days. Don’t do it. Trust me.
I was corrected by the wife after posting on 2 points:
1) Star anise is “UMAMI” enhancing (I still feel it doesn’t go in EVERYTHING)
2) Nigella Lawson is not a “beauty for the ages” but she is “incredibly sexy.” My wife is so right, esp. about Nigella. <growl>
Monsanto and USDA…Oh, Come on! Not again!
I am not posting the whole article…I need to go puke.
Read it for yourself below.
Scientist finding many negative impacts of Roundup Ready GM crops hidden by USDA
Oh, Glenn…
Beck: ‘African-American is a bogus, PC, made-up term. I mean, that’s not a race.’
By: Ben Armbruster
Today on his radio show, Glenn Beck wanted to discuss the census. “Apparently the census has come out,” he said. Beck’s co-host then chimed in, “Yeah and there’s a little confusion because there’s three boxes you can check if you’re a certain race. … I don’t know what the race is because there’s three different terms for them. Black, African-American, or Negro.” Instead of having any consideration to take issue with the term “Negro,” Beck launched into a tirade against “African-American”:
BECK: African-American is a bogus, PC, made-up term. I mean, that’s not a race. Your ancestry is from Africa and now you live in America. Ok so you were brought over — either your family was brought over through the slave trade or you were born here and your family emigrated here or whatever but that is not a race.
Previously, Beck has said that he doesn’t have “a lot of African-American friends, and I think part of it is because I’m afraid that I would be in an open conversation, and I would say something that somebody would take wrong, and then it would be a nightmare.” And recently on his Fox News program, Beck hosted a group of black conservatives and complained that some of them refer to themselves as “African-American.” “Why not identify yourself as Americans?” he asked, adding, “I don’t identify myself as white, or a white American.”
The Original Posting of this Article is Located HERE
Darwin was a liberal, communist, liar!
Charles Darwin
The title had me at “hello!”
“Revisionaries
How a group of Texas conservatives is rewriting your kids’ textbooks.”
What I read made me want to cry and cuss.
Two quotes from the article, just to wet your appetite, are:
“…but we are a Christian nation founded on Christian principles. The way I evaluate history textbooks is first I see how they cover Christianity and Israel. Then I see how they treat Ronald Reagan—he needs to get credit for saving the world from communism and for the good economy over the last twenty years because he lowered taxes.”
and…
“This critical-thinking stuff is gobbledygook.”
The preceding nuggets of intellectual wisdom were from a man who actually selects textbooks for the state of Texas and a man who represents the “think tank” that influences the people who select the text books for the state of Texas. (I don’t feel an additional comment is needed due to the weight of that sentence.)
Go and read it for yourself.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2010/1001.blake.html
Be sure to comment on this, dear readers. I can’t wait to read how you feel about this one.
Just when you thought you have seen it all..
I give you this:
Yeah $330,000 for a "virtual" space station...Shit.
This guy “Buzz Eric Lightyear” (aka Dumbass) paid $330,000 American dollars for a cyber space station. HELLO EVERYONE OUT THERE…It isn’t real. It is a cyber-property in a game called Planet Calypso that encourages people to exchange real money for things in the game. This guy is going to host “hunts” and tax people who shop and visit the things on his space station in hopes to recoup his $330,000 investment. OMFG!!! Why do those with an extra $330k blow it on CYBER SPACE STATIONS and those like me who actually need it will never see $330k all in one bundle.
Fuck, I need a nap.
Fuck you 2010! Already? YES!
OK, 1st off let me thank this new year and it’s fate/chance/karma driven wheels of randomness for reinforcing my disappointment with the human race as a whole.
1. When we as a people encounter someone that believes in previous lives(not Buddhist past lives …like new age non-researched “I like the sound of that” past lives), said person was always someone more important than the person they are now. It never ceases to amaze me how many Joan of Arcs, Ghandis, Charlemagnes, or Alexander the Greats I have met that were reincarnated into Gap salespeople, convenience store workers, or fast food chefs . Not one person , NOT ONE, has ever said ” I was a peasant farmer in what is present day Turkey, who died at 22 of venereal disease.” Statistically that would be infinitely more probable than Alexander the Great, Mata Hari, or Thomas Jefferson. Do you ever hear that? No. Why you ask? Because no one wants to believe this is it. The lack of present fame or future glory MUST be compensated by a fictional past. SHIT.
2. Musicians are suing local MOM AND POP bars for playing their fucking music??? Oh yeah, You read that right READ MORE Where did the years go when exposure…free exposure was a GOOD thing. Fuck me!
3. What the fuck is going on where a VOLUNTEER, who is hearing impaired, is refused a VOLUNTEER position where the ability to hear is UNNEEDED! A colleague of mine has been turned down by the NY Aquarium because she was hearing impaired. She wanted to dive in the tanks and I assume help maintain the glass or whatever needed to be done. You know to give back, VOLUNTEER, get involved, make a difference…but, NO! She is hearing impaired and can’t dive. I have been SCUBA diving for 20 years and NOT ONCE…NOT ONCE has my hearing underwater helped or hindered me at all. It is a non-issue. So NY Aquarium, Fuck you and your liability bullshit. Unreal. Pres. Obama, I smell volunteer prevention…right here! God Damnit
It is Jan. 1 and I am already mad at people I don’t know. Shit.
sometimes right - sometimes not - always correct 