OT: Two Recipes

I’m finally catching up on my food blog, after that weeklong service outage.  Still need to post the recipe and photos for Sally Lunn, but I do have a couple of entries posted, complete with pictures.  One is for hot pepper jelly; the other is for crisp toffee bars.  The hot pepper jelly is really [...]

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Tomoview for Visitation Rights

A tipster sent me a link to this Tomoview of Dagstine’s Visitation Rights in comments on a previous entry.  For whatever reason, it got stuck in spam, but I freed it.
As Tomoviews always are, this is hilarious.  It’s always fun to rip Daggy for what he wrote, as opposed to what he might have meant.
Some [...]

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Comcast Must Die

Yes, there really is, or was, a blog of that name, run by Bob Garfield of Advertising Age.  Technically, there was comcastmustdie.blogspot.com and comcastmustdie.com.  The original still exists in archive, but it has moved to customer-circus.com.
There was a severe thunderstorm last Friday night, and our cable/internet service died immediately after a particularly loud thunderclap and [...]

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Must Be a Slow Week in Brooklyn Too

Lorenzo has three different threads he started on SL.  The birthday wishes to Lovecraft got one reply.  I never understood why someone would wish a dead guy “happy birthday,” but, whatever.
His thread from yesterday about video games being linked to depression has none.  Cause, and effect, Larry.  Maybe, just maybe, depressed people, especially those from [...]

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ETT’s on the Ball

ETT has two new entries in response to Pacione’s latest rant, here, and here.
You’ll have to forgive Nicky for his outbursts he’s had a rough August. As you know the beginning of August is his birthday, and he’s so unloved he had to treat himself to a White Sox game in Chicago.
Using public transportation to [...]

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