Bread pudding, take two
Fans of my last bread pudding recipe, please note: this is a much different animal. That bread pudding’s charm derives from its surface-crunch and delicate souffle-textured center. This one, on the other hand, lives somewhere on the spectrum between flan and cheesecake. Serve it at a party, and I’ll bet no one guesses it’s bread pudding.
Bring on the Guardcocks
My beta and gamma readers know what I’m talking about, but for the rest of you, that title requires an explanation.
Here’s a frog back at ya, Sheila
ONE: cool photo.
TWO: cool post.
THREE: she dedicated it to ME, damn it, ME!
To repay Sheila in some small measure, here’s a photo I pilfered from the American Museum of Natural History. Meet the Blue Poison Dart Frog.
I don’t have a Blue PDF FAQ, but if I did, it would go like this.
Q: Are they real?
A: Yes, they’re real.
Q: They’re not real.
A: Yes, they’re real.
Q: OMG, it just moved, it’s real.
A: Please don’t call him an ‘it.’
Q: What do they eat?
A: Disobedient children who get their fingerprints all over the aquarium glass. Next question.
Q: Oh Mommy Mommy I want one!
A: Fine. I’ll put you in touch with some reliable breeders. But first you’ll have to learn to raise fruitflies.
Q: Are they really poisonous?
A: I dunno. Touch one and find out.
Q: Oh, come on. They’re not really poisonous.
A: (Boring but true answer) They’re only poisonous in the wild. We think it has something to do with their diet. These frogs were captive-bred, so no, they’re not poisonous.
Q: I thought they were porcelain.
A: Shows how little you know, doesn’t it?
Q: That little one keeps climbing on that big one.
A: (singing) The circle of life . . . circle of life . . .
Q: So, they’re all harmless in captivity?
A: No, not all of them are harmless. Phyllobates terribilis, the Golden Poison Dart Frog, remains extremely dangerous even in captivity.
Q: How many are in there?
A: Six. I mean five. The golden one escaped this morning. Um . . . careful where you sit.
Any more questions?
D.
Pacific Northwest heat wave
Hot.
Hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot sticky-crotch hot!
HOT!
Short-tempered, shvitz-bath, chafing-thighs hot!
Cold cold cold cold cold cold
NOT!
Hot damn, it’s hot!
Must be at least 78F out there.
D.
President Al Gore
Al Gore delivers great standup (or sit down, actually) on SNL. Who knew the guy had a sense of humor?
Crooks and Liars has the vid and the transcript.
D.
OMFG Karl Rove indicted ?!
Truthout’s Jason Leopold reports that Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald “instructed one of the attorneys to tell Rove that he has 24 hours to get his affairs in order, high level sources with direct knowledge of the meeting said Saturday morning.”
Boys and grills
About a month ago, I foolishly offered to give recipes on demand (but only for that day!) I’ve satisfied most requests, but not all of them. This one is for Leslie, who asked me for simple grill recipes.
By the way: this guy knows how to grill.
Recipes below the cut.
Happy Fitzmahannakwanzaakah to You
Hat tip to Dusty.
From Truthout:
Within the last week, Karl Rove told President Bush and Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten, as well as a few other high level administration officials, that he will be indicted in the CIA leak case and will immediately resign his White House job when the special counsel publicly announces the charges against him, according to sources.
My question: what will this do to Bush’s approval ratings? Can’t be good.
Let’s do da Dubya limbo. Say it with me: How low can you go?
D.
Cross-posted at Kos. Go gimme some love!
Excuse me. Could you take a look at this?
I seem to have something on my forehead.
It’s the damnedest thing. Maybe what we need is a bit of strong light and a magnifying glass . . .
Come for the manties, stay for the dry discourse
I mean, stay for the insightful analysis of the current rhetorical flamewar over illegal immigration. Yeah. That’s what I meant to say.
I’m guest-blogging over at Blue Gal’s place today. She found me some mighty fine undies to wear, yessirree. Come see.
I was going to link at “come see,” but that would waste a Google-tweaking opportunity. How about this: come see hot men’s underwear. That’s better.
D.