Thanksgiving Open Thread

On behalf of Rufus, Eric, John FN, Wankette, Rich, Mike Kriskey, Outlaw, Charles Kane, and yours truly we wish you all a blessed Thanksgiving and we humbly thank you all for making us a regular part of your reading day.

Remembering the green skeleton

Photo by Martin Walls via stock.xchng

From James Lileks’ The Bleat today:

When I was a kid “taking down the Halloween decorations” meant removing the jointed cardboard Ben Franklin skeleton from the window; now it’s like striking the set of an Andrew Lloyd Webber play.”

We had one of those skeletons when I was a kid too. [...]

Friday Open Thread

h/t Photoshop and Rich

Flavored gelatin + vegetables = yuck

Photo by Seemann via morgueFile.com

I was making some flavored gelatin desert this morning (store brand, hence I will not use the more obvious name) and I noticed something on the directions (I’m a thorough directons reader) that creeped me out.

It had directions for adding fruit OR VEGTABLES to the gelatin. Someone thinks adding, say, green beans, to blackberry gelatin [...]

Cows: First spurring global warming through their emissions, now this

I will pass on this new soft drink sensation.

Or are they really talking about rebranding Old Milwaukee? That I’ve drunk.

Looking for the hope …

Another way of looking at what the president said in his address to Congress.

By Wordle

Rufus: Did You Miss All the Negative Reporting on Geithner?!

Continuing in my crabby old man vein, man that took a long time to get to the music. Talk about tedious. That cartoon was awful.
“Can you imagine if George Bush appointed a tax cheat whose father had funded a charitable foundation his mother, Barbara, worked on?”
Well I can’t imagine anyone caring.
What exactly do see in [...]

The day (50 years ago), the muuuuuuuusic, died

Fifty years ago today, it is said the music died. But not really. Heck the music rolls on.
I remember back when I was a kid, the late 50s didn’t really seem so far away. Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper went down in that famous small plane crash in 1959. That was before [...]

Toast Post: Ready, aim, toast!

“… Mixing medieval weaponry and slices of golden brown wheat.”

With the right aim, this could really improve the efficiency of my morning. No more moving toast to the table.

“Hey, catch this kids!”

Noooooo Ooooooo Blagooooo!

Blago says he considered Oprah for Obama’s Senate seat.

Mr. Ellis, add that to the list of offenses. That actually might be worse than trying to sell it.

Photo by Alan Light via Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 license

O is for Ox

By the Lunar calendar, it’s now the year of the Ox.

Obama is an Ox baby.

But then again, so is George Clooney.

What about BlagOOOOOOOOOOOOO?

Seems like he should be huh?

Photo by Kenn W. Kiser via morgueFile

Straight from DVD: Tropic Thunder

What was once considered influential ultimately turns into a parody of itself. No Hollywood genre has suffered more of this than the war movie.

Politics aside, modern war movies generally follow typical themes. “War is hell, you’re there for the guy next to you, why are we here in the first place?” A lot of that [...]

Rich! Take that back about Chester A. Arthur!

Rich you nailed the ultimate significance of the Obama election when you wrote: “2008 was a victory of one set of ideas over another set of ideas, and the nation – as a whole – was mature enough to accept it.” But you must live in some kind of racial Utopia to not understand the [...]

Toast post: a.k.a. poached post

After seeing the photos with this post, I wants poached eggs on toast. Now!

This post now actually includes a link to said article, thanks to Kath.

Toast Post: Toast can help if you can choke it down

There’s no sure way to get over a hangover says no less an authority than Nichole Vargas, a junior at UNLV.

“Cure?  I don’t think there’s a cure for hangovers.”

But there’s something that can ease the pain. Toast.

“It’s good to raise a toast with a glass of champagne with a few close friends, but toast may [...]

Toast post: The meaning of a ‘peace’ of toast?

Don’t get me wrong. Toast is significant. But some people can read a little too much into it sometimes.

Peanut butter on toast. It’s food.

Eat it.

Toast post: The ultimate toast fan?

Christopher Hirst really likes toast, based on this article he wrote. If only we all could have someone in our corner as steadfast in presenting our glories as Christopher is in presenting the upside of toast. I don’t even know what a lot of the food he is talking about is like, but it sounds [...]

A post because I can. Ha!

Kane here, abusing my posting privileges to make a post out of something that could have just been a more  complete comment to the Col. Sanders Christmas post. Too bad. Rank, no matter how unearned, does have its privileges. I’ve got a password and I’m using it. And I can’t believe I’m going to post [...]

Toast Post: Merry Christmas

May you be warm and cozy — as a color enhanced piece of toast on a creepy winking Santa paper plate!

Great r ‘n’ r? I’m Down with that

Rufus had the right artist but the way wrong song. Above is the Fab Four at their best. This guitar solo blows away the one on Boys, which is a bunch of time wasting tricks strung together while Georege trying to get inspiration. Then time ran out.

Here’s a cool live version:

Having a heart to heart with Rover

If this is so, why can’t my neighbors just have a long talk with their dogs about what a jerk that Kane guy is and stay out of his yard already!

Too many days of Christmas music, Rudy

One of Rufus’ favorite things about this time of year is the music. A lot of Rufus’ favorite music is Christmas themed and you simply cannot listen to it in July. Also, a lot of the music is simple enough that even Rufus  can play it on piano. Rufus has an extensive collection of Christmas [...]

Toast post: She can butter your buns, but not jam your toast

Aiko can butter toast, which is pretty nifty. Never saw C-3P0 or R2D2 do that.

But I’m waiting for the model that can handle jam on toast. Then I buy.

Toast Post: When is enough toast enough?

How much toast is too much toast?

“My family called me the Toast Monster because I’d start the day with up to NINE slices of toast with lashings of butter, plus two cups of coffee with milk and sugar”

At that rate, I hope she was buying the store brand stuff.

Photo by Jane M. [...]

Toast post: An upside to having the Decemeber crud

Not feeling well last few days.

Eating only dry toast for all meals.

Thank goodness for that.

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Toast Post: Helping you get through the holiday social season

Toast. It’s not just a breakfast food. It’s a Christmas Party Survival essential:

TUCK INTO TOAST: Eating something fatty will give you a feeling of fullness, which means you’re less likely to scoff calorie-rich finger foods. It will also take the booze longer to hit your bloodstream.Amanda says: ‘If you’re in a rush, there’s [...]

Toast post: Toast for Thanksgiving? Holy frijoles!

Lank Dresser thinks Thanksgiving is too focused on gluttony. He has a solution:

Next year I’m having Thanksgiving dinner at my house, and you’re invited. We’re having dry toast and black coffee.

But the real reason to check out this Web site is this feature.

Aye carumba!

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Toast post: One of the day’s essential actions

Don’t know what to do with yourself?

“Fumble in the dark.

“Brew a pot of tea.

“Spoon yogurt into a bowl.

“Dry a wet body.

“Close a half-open window.

and of course

“Make a piece of buttered toast.”

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Toast post: Burned toast — good for marriage, bad for health

Learning to take burnt toast with grace can save your marriage, this post asserts.

Just remember it also may kill you, trzpur pointed out.

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Toast post: There’s gonna be a toaster museum

Apparently, a collection of “bread browning devices” is a lot more lucrative than a collection of blog posts about bread browned in such a device. Based on the Threedonia cash flow statement anyway.

I wonder if they have a 2003 Magic Chef in there?

Toast post: Since Rufus brought up jazz

This reveiwer pitches the following as a good point about a Stan Getz CD:

No alternate takes, no unreleased tracks, no special-edition book, no piece of toast with a burned spot that looks like Charlie Byrd.

But he’s wrong. Jazz icon toast sizzles and certainly would increase the value of any compilation CD. Remember — everything goes [...]

Halloween update: Is a different shaped Sweet-tart any sweeter?

Yes we are still working through the Halloween candy at the Kane house. Not that there’s a lot left, but it is still hanging in there in a bowl on the kitchen island counter. The chocolate is mostly gone now, except for the mysterious chocolate Skittles. No one seems to want to risk [...]

Toast post: Obama saved Wisconsin’s butter for nation’s toast

I missed the speech or statement where Sarah Palin said she didn’t like Wisconsin and dairy products, including butter for your toast. But apparently this guy heard something to make him think she might unleash nukes on America’s Dairyland.

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Toast post: How long do you keep your toast around?

Is this guy legit? I don’t know.

But I do know that a year’s shelf life for toast seems really long.

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Toast post: Taking toast and cats for a spin

For all of you hard science freaks out there: Explain this eh?

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Toast post: A flight down toast memory lane

Remember this? Remember how you could change the darkness of the toast? That was only fair. You have to be able to adjust the toast.

Toast post: Do mushrooms and toast go together?

I love mushrooms. You know I love toast.

Hmmmmm. Would I love mushroom toast?

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Toast post: Brown bread ain’t toast for blogger

No way is Hazul some kind of health food, whole grain freak.

2) Toast. I like my toast not too well done, but not too raw either. With brown bread, you simply cannot tell. I also like to smother my toast in butter, it brings out the nice salty taste….or it does with white bread. As [...]

Did someone call “The bishop?”

“We was too late.”

Toast post: It’s 10 a.m. How about some tea lady toast?

I’m not exactly sure what a “tea-lady” is. But she can make toast — and work — and that sounds excellent:

I confess to having a tea-lady at my place of work. Not only does she produce a marvellous cuppa, she also makes delicious buttered toast for a workforce who are naturally famished a mere two [...]

Toast post: No toast for you, poochy!

Buttered toast makes for a happy Charles Foster Kane. But it also makes for a fat Bo.

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Toast post: Bidder has toast for brains

It went for $205. Good Lord, it went for $205.

Maddow mocking MSM? Sure enough

“Did the pool have a Danish?”

Speaking of TV news folks breaking out of an ideological mode, look at this chunk of the Rachel Maddow Show from wednesday night. I recommend fast forwarding to about the 2 minute mark and watching until about the 4 minute mark. If you do, you’ll hear [...]

Toast post: Maybe Obama is toast after all

Bids anyone?

Act now!

Toast post: What’s so nerdy about toast (and cheese) for one?

This story implies that eating toast with cheese every day is a sure sign of being some kind of lonely loser.

Oh yeah? Well I happpen to think it sounds really good. I personally can’t think of two better things to eat than good ol’ toast and good ol’ cheese. And I’m not a loser, right?

Right [...]