this recipe will change your life. you can thank me by making this recipe for me. one holiday season many (two) years ago i was minding my own buisness, probably playing wii or sitting in the hot tub when my mind was blown by bacon. not just any bacon. caramalized bacon. i think it was brunch but it was so good it could have been for dessert.
i am a sweet tooth and it had never occurred to me to mix brown sugar and bacon. silly me.
lucky you i made sure to get the recipe. lucky for us there is only two steps to nirvana.
what you need: brown sugar
bacon
baking sheet
oven
tastebuds
steps to baconirvana:
preheat oven to 200f
cover bacon in brown sugar (either on a separate plate or right onto baking sheet)
cook until you can’t wait any longer
consume until you have arrived at baconirvana
the other day when jones and i were making this we got our hands on some maple syrup. im talking wisconsin-style, grade-a dark amber. (that’s what they called me in college) so i mixed the two not meaty ingredients together this time and made even more awesome.
note: it is incredibly hard to eat more than three pieces of this in one sitting. so for those of you who have trouble controlling yourself around bacon, you’ll go into diabetic shock before you eat enough to make you fat. (winning)
this is a great little recipe i picked up at the birdhouse from foodie-friend lori. (you can check out some of her writing over on npr’s baby project blog
in all fairness, the tahoe house is a place where someone is always cooking and we are always drinking so i’m pretty sure it was lori, it may have been aaron (check out his band caught in motion)
here are some potential names for this new type of caramalization:
good morning! would you rather
meet old matthew lillard, old david arquette, old skeet ulrich or old jamie kennedy in a dark alley?
note: before you freak out about how old they look, keep in mind that they were all in their twenties when scream was made in 1996. fifteen years and unfortunate careers don’t make for a great red carpet showing. don’t worry guys, i still love you, even if your exes don’t.
The Bugle: John and Andy take down Qaddafi’s take-down. If you want to make an assassination funny, look to these guys.
Best of the Left: Two-part episode (#538 & #539) about the Occupy Wall St. movement and how the mainstream media is grossly misrepresenting and underreporting it.
Stuff Mom Never Told You: Cristen and Caroline discuss women in this fall’s TV lineup, mostly focussing on Whitney and The New Girl. They weren’t so impressed by either Whitney (agree) nor TNG (disagree). In my opinion, the glaring omission from their analysis was Up All Night starring Christina Applegate, Maya Rudolph, and Will Arnett. UAN is probably one of the more progressive shows in terms of gender roles in society with Applegate as the workaolic breadwinner and Arnett as the stay-at-home dad but manages to not fall into clichés concerning those two ever-the-more-common archetypes. And Rudolph’s Oprah-Tyra hybrid is enough alone to warrant watching the show.
Made in Brazil: Ru-Mix: You Don’t Want to Dance with Me. This podcast is a couple weeks old, but I finally got to listen to it this past weekend. It’s bangin’. DJ Ru-Bot describes it thus, ‘Yes, that summer faux-mance is over, ever unconsummated, and the only way to cope is to bring that heartbreak right where it belongs: the dancefloor!’ I def felt summer summer nostalgia while listening to it. Winter is around the corner–le sigh.
If you’ve been reading the book so far, you no doubt have come across Ean’s distinctive use of language. Word play, portmanteaus, neologisms, alliteration, etc. are basically protein shakes for Ean’s writing muscles. While most of this language can be understood in context and with a superficial knowledge of pop culture, we thought it would be fun to create a lexicon of Ean’s slang.
Emp (n., v.)
-neologism from the acronym EMP (electro-magnetic pulse)
E.g.:
“And with that thought Huntar emped harder than he had ever emped before. Red light erupted in the space between his hands and The Chalet, shooting him backwards through the air.”
On Thursday, October 6, we held the inaugural storyholics meeting as a soft premiere for the first chapisode, ‘Sconnie.’ The assembled group participated in the storytelling experience by recounting their first “signature” drinks as well as the first time each person said, “I’m never drinking again.” Ean read several selections from the first chapisode, punctuated with readings by Sarah Louise Allen, Becca Lorentzen, and Ben Gosse.
Working on this book invloves long hours, and at times Ean and I both reach a stalemate in our work and need to take a break. With the realization that we need to take a break but don’t want to completely fall out of the working groove, we usually listen to podcasts to relax, learn, and be entertained. Both Ean and I are podcast junkies and since we both realized that I think our consumption of podcasts has gone up even more. With that said, we’re going to publish a weekly post of the top 3-5 podcasts that we’ve listened to through the week and think you should check out too. Check back every Monday for a few tested recommendations. Here’s the first week’s selection:
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Grammar Girl: This one is all about editors. How to treat them, when to turn work in, etc. (Ean has yet to listen to this. Ahem.)
Stuff Mom Never Told You: The wonderful ladies of SMNTY give us a two part podcast about pretty much everything you wanted to know about masturbation.
Reasonable Discussions (AV Club): AV Club critics discuss ‘Canon Fodder,’ a new column in GQ where its critic proposes that she doesn’t need to understand classic film in order to critique the ‘new canon’ of classics (i.e. movies released after 1985). I strongly disagree with the GQ columnist, but I see her attitude as a larger zeitgeist of the millennial generation and Americans’ general distaste for and ignorance of history–even pop history. I’ll never accept the anti-intellectualism and active ignorance first propogated by GW Bush and carried on by so many Americans to the present day.
Stuff You Should Know: Zoot suit riot (riot)! Throw back a bottle of beer… Did you know that the Zoot Suit Riots were real? It’s not too often that men’s fashion causes any sort of scandal, but the zoot suits of the WWII period were used as a marker of ethnic solidarity and opposition to the war and rationing, eventually leading to the Zoot Suit Riots in LA in 1943.
Stuff to Blow Your Mind: So, we’ve all heard of people summoning incredible strength in fight or flight situations; that’s really nothing new. But how this reaction is triggered by a certain hormone; the history of the isolation of that hormone and the donation of Washington DC’s cherry trees; and what really happens to your body when you are shocked by electricity definitely inspired some whoa–wait–what? moments.
**Please note: totally a coincidence that I picked so many Discovery Networks podcasts this week (I guess they just brought it).
the other night while watching a show or seven over on hulu, i was delighted to get the option to watch a trailer instead of watching all the commercials. this opportunity always puts me in a good mood, if not for the dislike of commercial interruption than for the sheer inconvenience of a commercial interrupting an already shaky online streaming situation. but what put me in a great mood is the trailer for a movie i’m totally down to see.
this means war looks like it should be called ‘this means threesome.’ a classic love triangle with a lot of action that begs the question, why isn’t polygamy legal? just watch for yourself..
not only does this movie have two gay heart throbs, but it also has reese and chelsea handler. i’ve never seen chelsea in a movie before, i’m not sure if i’m going to like it. but if she somehow worked in chuy into the script, i am sure that i’m going to love it.
i’ve been a fan of mcg for a while, he single-handedly brought back brooding as the cool way to get a girl. and yes he may have been responsible for giving us ed westwick but he also gave us the solid ‘chuck.’ (i will be making a totally gay for: zachary levi post very soon)
yes. i’m going to see this movie opening weeked to show my support for reese’s realiziation that one man just isn’t enough once you’ve been gyllenhaal’d. (just ask peter sarsgaard) long live reesehardypine.
spoiler alert:the movie ends with pine and hardy realizing that they were into one another the whole time so they get rid of their beard, grow out their beards and live happily ever otter.
it’s safe to say that this trailer has me wondering: when the hell is presidents day?
eyes squinting in the sunlight. the taste of tequila shots, cigarettes and regret in your mouth. last night’s outfit clumisly pulled back on so that you are simultaneously overdressed and underdressed for 9am on a sunday. you try to figure out where you are. you try to look like you didn’t just hook-up with a rando who lived closer to the bar than you did. you try to remember the rando’s name.
it really brings out the bloodshot in his eyes, don't you think?
admit it. you’ve been there. okay now admit that you’ve done more than one. it’s okay, this is a safe place, you’re among friends.
if you drink and have premarital sex, it’s a matter of time before you walk of shame. but i would like to suggest a change.
sure, you don’t remember their name. and sure you left your favorite belt/shoe/virginity at their place. that is no reason to be shameful. just be happy that you are hot enough/nice enough/rich enough to get laid. there are virgins the world over that would kill to be in your one shoe that’s left.
i don’t need to tell you any of this, you aren’t really shameful are you? if you were, the entire walk of shame you wouldn’t be texting your bestie out westie about what (and who) just went down (south). we are inherently proud of these moments, it’s just we’re told we should be.
that’s why i suggest we rebrand the walk of shame. let’s call it the walk of game. the walk of fame. or even the stride of pride (my personal favorite). don’t look down as you walk up frat row, hold your head up high and give a high five to the girl with smeared makeup and burn marks on her jacket. she deserves it. she also could use some gatorade.
this post was inspired by this week’s chapisode from the freshman fifteen ‘walk of shame‘ which you can download under the ‘the freshman fifteen‘ tab for free!
for those of you now in the know in wisconsin, there is a new superhero in mil-town and his name is milverine. saving people from boredom, someone has created him a facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/Milverine and now the ap has even done a story on him.
the best line:
‘he’s seen the movie wolverine, he’s not a fan of hugh jackman.’
would you rather have super strength or super speed? hulk vs. the roadrunner. the thing vs. speedy gonzales. the girl from beetleborgs vs. dash from incredibles..
jo on beetleborgs had super strength. yes i watched it and no i’m not ashamed..i was a member of the five channel club back when they used to have channels.
everyone loves dash. everyone has seen the scene. so here it is set to vivaldi..
