Joy and I will be cooking Martha all month long and blogging about it. Should be fun - at least for our bellies!
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
A Month of Martha
Martha Stewart - you have made Thanksgiving exciting again. No more Stovetop Stuffing, no more boring mashed potatoes. In commemoration of pre-Thanksgiving, tonight we had Cherry Pecan Stuffing and Scalloped Potatoes with grilled chicken and steamed broccoli. So who cares if everything is butter based and I doubled the stuffing calories by adding pecans. It's pre-Thanksgiving. Thanks Martha!
Joy and I will be cooking Martha all month long and blogging about it. Should be fun - at least for our bellies!
Joy and I will be cooking Martha all month long and blogging about it. Should be fun - at least for our bellies!
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Things I'm Obsessed With Today: Project Runway
Lifetime - Television for Battered, Raped, Kidnapped, and Cheated on Women - has actually managed to do something positive for humanity and has put Project Runway FULL EPISODES!!! on their website. First of all, the world needs more chicken with egg outfits. If only Tim Gunn hadn't talked him out of the jodhpurs! I think the website would have short circuited with Ecstasy to see that outfit walk the runway.
Now just imagine the outfit above, with the "chicken thigh" inspired jodhpurs below. A Disasterpiece!
And a Project Runway all star challenge! YAY! Another episode of Sweet P (a biker chick sweater than molasses), Uli (the Eastern European explosion of rainbows), Korto (a designer who actually makes lovely things), Santino (hell on heels), Jeffrey (a douche, but a talented douche), Chris (the narcoleptic costume designer), and Danny V (melts like butter in your mouth). I really think Uli got screwed, but how delightful was it to see Jeffrey not even make the top four (his stuff was douche-ilicious). Also, anytime anyone thinks "jumpsuit" they should be voted off the island. And if that jumpsuit comes in metallic lycra, the island should be surrounded by shark infested waters.
Korto's Collection
Uli's Collection
Now just imagine the outfit above, with the "chicken thigh" inspired jodhpurs below. A Disasterpiece!
And a Project Runway all star challenge! YAY! Another episode of Sweet P (a biker chick sweater than molasses), Uli (the Eastern European explosion of rainbows), Korto (a designer who actually makes lovely things), Santino (hell on heels), Jeffrey (a douche, but a talented douche), Chris (the narcoleptic costume designer), and Danny V (melts like butter in your mouth). I really think Uli got screwed, but how delightful was it to see Jeffrey not even make the top four (his stuff was douche-ilicious). Also, anytime anyone thinks "jumpsuit" they should be voted off the island. And if that jumpsuit comes in metallic lycra, the island should be surrounded by shark infested waters.
Korto's Collection
Uli's Collection
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Why I Love Stephen Colbert
Because he did this:
And he somehow hilariously (and classily) brought up the most sensitive military subjects to a military audience. "It must be nice here in Iraq because I understand some of you keep coming back again and again. You've earned so many frequent flier miles, you've earned a free ticket to Afghanistan."
Because he interviewed enlisted soldiers, not just generals.
And he built his desk out of red, white, and blue sandbags.
And he somehow hilariously (and classily) brought up the most sensitive military subjects to a military audience. "It must be nice here in Iraq because I understand some of you keep coming back again and again. You've earned so many frequent flier miles, you've earned a free ticket to Afghanistan."
| The Colbert Report | Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c | |||
| Formidable Opponent - Don't Ask, Don't Tell | ||||
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Because he interviewed enlisted soldiers, not just generals.
| The Colbert Report | Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c | |||
| Tareq Salha & Robin Balcom | ||||
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And he built his desk out of red, white, and blue sandbags.
Friday, June 12, 2009
Horror
I'm still trying to wrap my brain around the idea that some octogenarian decided that the culmination of his life is to shoot up a holocaust memorial. And who does he shoot? The security gaurd who politely opened the door for him. By all accounts, the bastard is truly a mentally bent bastard. I hope he lives to 105 - rotting in prison. And for punishment, he should be made to watch continuous loops of mixed race weddings, speeches by mixed raced presidents, and Israeli television.
Since visiting Yad Veshem in 1999, Dachau in 2005, and Auschwitz in 2007, I've been puzzled how anyone could possibly deny the Holocaust happened. How does one simply deny the million pieces of documentation by multiple sources. The movies? The photos? The Nazi's own papers? The reports from the inmates, the liberators, the gaurds???
The Holocaust History Project explained the problem succinctly: "The denier gambit is a variant on the falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus (false in one thing, false in all things) formulation which claims that if any one fact about the Holocaust can be proven to be wrong, then all the reported facts are wrong and there was no Holocaust." The US Holocaust Memorial website also has some great links.
The deniers seem to fixate on one tiny, technical detail and use it as proof that the whole thing never happened. A denial website called the Institute for Historical Review (which purports to take an unbiased, historical look at the "facts") had a piece that said the figure of 6 million Jews killed was a gross exageration. It may have only been 4.6 million! As if that makes the difference between genocide and a couple of guys slipping on banana peels.
Another detail - there was a swimming pool at Auschwitz-Birkenau! So Auschwitz-Birkenau was really a luxury spa??? In reality, a couple of the long-term, non-Jewish, Polish prisoners put a board over the water tank in Birkenau and used it for swimming. These guys had kind of a wierd history. Birkenau was the work camp; Auschwitz the extermination camp. Some of the Polish political prisoners had been there for so long (since 1938, and before the purpose of the camp was changed into a Jewish extermination center) that they were put in charge of Jewish work gangs. They were called "kapos" and they were a sadistic bunch of bastards.
They also try to deny the Jews were systemically killed by claiming that most died of "natural causes" in the camps like disease and starvation, instead of in the gas chambers. Yet, how can anyone claim the conditions of the concentration camps were "natural." It's like saying that the Bataan Death March really wasn't an atrocity, because most of the American soldiers died of dehydration, exhaustion, disease and from "tripping" into bayonets and "falling" under trucks.
It's mind boggling the number of ways the Nazis came up with to torture, use, and murder all of these people. And even if deniers want to convince themselves that the Jews were never systematically killed, how can they also deny that the Nazis tried to wipe out the Poles, the Slavs, the Gypsys, the Soviets, the homosexuals, the handicapped, etc., etc.? Soviet prisoners of war were treated no better than dirt, and in violation of all the "rules of war" (not to mention the Geneva Convention), they were murdered as well.
I guess I can only finish this post by saying, we will remember. We will honor the dead and we will honor the survivors. Never again.
Memorial for the Jewish dead at Terezin - a "nicer" ghetto for Czech's Jews. Those who survived here at the beginning of the war were later sent to Auschwitz for "liquadation" toward the end of the war.
A memorial erected by the Soviets at Terezin for the countless number of Soviet POW's the Nazi's murdered here.
Auschwitz. It's scale is immense.
The "effecient" gas chambers and ovens at Auschwitz. The train tracks end here and after "selection," the too young, too old, too infirm were murdered. The Nazi's blew up the facilities before liberation to hide what they were doing.
Auschwitz is all conscreated ground because the soil is literally infused with bone dust and bone fragments of the victims. This memorial stands by the gas chambers.
Pawiak Prison in Warsaw. The Gestapo interrogated over 100,000 Poles here during the war, killing 37,000, and sending 60,000 to the concentration camps. All that's left is the foundation because more than 85% of Warsaw was leveled in the war - a large part of it after Nazi retaliation for the Warsaw uprising.
A monument to the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, which ultimately failed. This was after the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, where the remaining Jews in Warsaw were killed or sent to the camps. The Nazi's expelled the remaining civilian population and firebombed what remained of the city.
Before the war, there were almost 3.5 million Jews in Poland; after between 180,000 -240,000 were left. Over 3 million non-Jewish Poles died as well. How can one deny it?
Since visiting Yad Veshem in 1999, Dachau in 2005, and Auschwitz in 2007, I've been puzzled how anyone could possibly deny the Holocaust happened. How does one simply deny the million pieces of documentation by multiple sources. The movies? The photos? The Nazi's own papers? The reports from the inmates, the liberators, the gaurds???
The Holocaust History Project explained the problem succinctly: "The denier gambit is a variant on the falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus (false in one thing, false in all things) formulation which claims that if any one fact about the Holocaust can be proven to be wrong, then all the reported facts are wrong and there was no Holocaust." The US Holocaust Memorial website also has some great links.
The deniers seem to fixate on one tiny, technical detail and use it as proof that the whole thing never happened. A denial website called the Institute for Historical Review (which purports to take an unbiased, historical look at the "facts") had a piece that said the figure of 6 million Jews killed was a gross exageration. It may have only been 4.6 million! As if that makes the difference between genocide and a couple of guys slipping on banana peels.
Another detail - there was a swimming pool at Auschwitz-Birkenau! So Auschwitz-Birkenau was really a luxury spa??? In reality, a couple of the long-term, non-Jewish, Polish prisoners put a board over the water tank in Birkenau and used it for swimming. These guys had kind of a wierd history. Birkenau was the work camp; Auschwitz the extermination camp. Some of the Polish political prisoners had been there for so long (since 1938, and before the purpose of the camp was changed into a Jewish extermination center) that they were put in charge of Jewish work gangs. They were called "kapos" and they were a sadistic bunch of bastards.
They also try to deny the Jews were systemically killed by claiming that most died of "natural causes" in the camps like disease and starvation, instead of in the gas chambers. Yet, how can anyone claim the conditions of the concentration camps were "natural." It's like saying that the Bataan Death March really wasn't an atrocity, because most of the American soldiers died of dehydration, exhaustion, disease and from "tripping" into bayonets and "falling" under trucks.
It's mind boggling the number of ways the Nazis came up with to torture, use, and murder all of these people. And even if deniers want to convince themselves that the Jews were never systematically killed, how can they also deny that the Nazis tried to wipe out the Poles, the Slavs, the Gypsys, the Soviets, the homosexuals, the handicapped, etc., etc.? Soviet prisoners of war were treated no better than dirt, and in violation of all the "rules of war" (not to mention the Geneva Convention), they were murdered as well.
I guess I can only finish this post by saying, we will remember. We will honor the dead and we will honor the survivors. Never again.
Memorial for the Jewish dead at Terezin - a "nicer" ghetto for Czech's Jews. Those who survived here at the beginning of the war were later sent to Auschwitz for "liquadation" toward the end of the war.
A memorial erected by the Soviets at Terezin for the countless number of Soviet POW's the Nazi's murdered here.
Auschwitz. It's scale is immense.
The "effecient" gas chambers and ovens at Auschwitz. The train tracks end here and after "selection," the too young, too old, too infirm were murdered. The Nazi's blew up the facilities before liberation to hide what they were doing.
Auschwitz is all conscreated ground because the soil is literally infused with bone dust and bone fragments of the victims. This memorial stands by the gas chambers.
Pawiak Prison in Warsaw. The Gestapo interrogated over 100,000 Poles here during the war, killing 37,000, and sending 60,000 to the concentration camps. All that's left is the foundation because more than 85% of Warsaw was leveled in the war - a large part of it after Nazi retaliation for the Warsaw uprising.
A monument to the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, which ultimately failed. This was after the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, where the remaining Jews in Warsaw were killed or sent to the camps. The Nazi's expelled the remaining civilian population and firebombed what remained of the city.
Before the war, there were almost 3.5 million Jews in Poland; after between 180,000 -240,000 were left. Over 3 million non-Jewish Poles died as well. How can one deny it?
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Next Family Cruise???
Favorite website of the day: Goths in hot weather.
And documentary I MUST netflix queue: Goth Cruise.
And documentary I MUST netflix queue: Goth Cruise.
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Rain Delay
Went to the Nats vs. Reds tonight with Mechelle and Brent. Brent scored us some amazing seats on the first base line!
Rain delayed in the bottom of the 9th inning! I could feel the Nats were ready to finally win a game. They were only 2 runs behind, but had outplayed the Reds through the whole game. And then came the rain. We still don't know who won.
At least it waited until after the President's raced (Teddy lost as usual) and Thomas Jefferson led us in Take Me Out to the Ballgame.
Rain delayed in the bottom of the 9th inning! I could feel the Nats were ready to finally win a game. They were only 2 runs behind, but had outplayed the Reds through the whole game. And then came the rain. We still don't know who won.
At least it waited until after the President's raced (Teddy lost as usual) and Thomas Jefferson led us in Take Me Out to the Ballgame.
Moon Over My ED
The full moon was on June 7 and even though there is no statistical correlation between the moon and craziness (as you can read on the Skeptic's Dictionary), my ER begs to differ. I swear there is something to this old chestnut, because crazy seems to come out of the woodwork. I'm not talking about people with clinical psychological illnesses. I'm talking about regular people who should know how to behave better!
Speaking of which, if your nurse is running (literally RUNNING!) toward a scene that looks like this:
Now is not the time to stop your nurse and ask for a cup of water.
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