The Reverend Billy was on the BBC World News the other night promoting What Would Jesus Buy, the new Morgan Supersize Spurlock production.

A documentary about Billy's ministry, I believe - happily suitable for Mouthfuls as his church is studiously non-religious.

Like I needed another reason to move to Europe

The good news, Grant, is that she'll come to you ("500 days to tour around the world, visiting all the ones who signed up for...etc").

The bad news is that the terms of service won't let you film it.

Some might consider the link unsuitable for work, by the way. Others might consider it a wonderful opportunity.

Maybe she will reconsider if she reads Savage Love this week...



edited to add the John Hopkins link

link

I think they should close the loophole that lets anyone named Bubba own a gun

Gosh, I was worried about Mouthfuls! Was it out getting vaccinated?

I was at La Pequena Colombiana in JH on Friday night and ordered the day's special fish soup. What I got was a bowl of broth with assorted starch (plantain, yucca, etc.) and a separate plate of cooked fish covered in some kind of cream sauce with a side of white rice.

maybe that belongs in the Kitchen Mistakes thread
and then you had to endure the snakebit Yankees yesterday....

And in the "That is just plain wrong" category, my 12-year-old came home today and said, "Hey Chad* have you ever heard a song that goes duuuuhhhh duuuhhh duh duh duuhh, duhdah duhdah duhdah duh duuhh duuhh duuhh?"

And I said, "Hey, is that Iron Man?"!!

So after dinner I haul out a couple of Ozzy CDs (as we no longer have turntable to play the LPs) and treat him a little of the real thing. My brother and I were big metal heads when we were kids. I still have boxes of vinyl. Then we pop onto Youtube and I introduce my kid to the wonders of Black Sabbath and Ozzy, while trying to explain the importance of Sabbath -- in a historical, pedantic context of course -- and, a little later, when we sampled a couple of clips of Crazy Train, why Randy Rhoads was one of the greatest guitar players of all time. All the while desperately resisting the urge to bang my head and play air guitar.

I'll be 40 in a couple of months. I'm turning my kid on to Black Sabbath and Ozzy Ozbourne. I expect Social Services to show up at any minute.

Chad



*I'm his stepfather. My wife and I figured years ago -- when the kids were much younger -- that it would be easier and less confusing if they just called me Chad rather than dad. This is not like the weird Brady episode where Greg decided to become a hippy and call his parents Mike and Carol.

Chad rhymes with dad. Did you know that?

Joke. Joke. Truth.

Can you hear me now: http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/20/isabody...hone-radiation/

Today I'm off in lovely Secaucus New Jersey at my firm's disaster recovery site. At lunch I went off to the food court and discovered that here the traditional French Dip sandwich is known as the "Freedom Dip." It's rare that this type of stupidity makes it to the Northeast.

It would make more sense to call it an American Dip since it was allegedly invented in LA--at either Cole's or Phillipe's.

I have been looking for somewhere to post:



Livy, circa 50 B.C.

No stereotype like an old stereotype.

Cole's and Phillipe's have been fighting over that fact for years. Wikipedia entry on the subject. I always preferred Phillipe's -- especially the lamb with blue cheese.

I think Cole's is currently closed for a major makeover by Monkeymay's husband.

Oh, then this is a no-brainer, especially if it's another one with 140 types of whiskeys. Next place for lunch. We can start a loud, noisy discussion because we all know it was Phillipe's who invented the French Dip. Can't make up the provenance. Phillipe. French. Bleu.

Burning Chef Stabbed at Spotted Pig

[via Gawker]

Marco Pierre White used to be verrrry hot, but the way he's looking these days I'd bet a lot of booze, flaming or otherwise, may be a large part of his routine.

I'm afraid the nude shot of Marco with the pig in his lap doesn't appear to be online.

That's some trick. Maybe he forgot the coffee beans in the sambuca? Hope he doesn't take up sabering.

trying to figure out how the mortgage broker we are likely going to go with can offer us a 7.5% rate on our second mortgage when no one else can get below 8% (with the banks north of 8.5%).

True apr?

they know their firm is about to go out of business and leave you holding your **** while they still get something off it?


People who are clearly computerridden but who have already spent more on iPods than they've ever spent on CDs

Mick Fleetwood signing autographs in the Richmond, CA Costco this afternoon.

Not on albums, on his wine.

i don't like your attitude.

they see how nice you and Mrs. monga are and they give up their cut of the deal to make you happy?

And the dog, don't forget the dog.

So we're waiting for our table to be ready at Blaue Gans, and I look over at a four-top. One of the guys looks soooooo familiar. I finally realize he is my cousin's brother-in-law, whom I have known since we were all children (even before my cousin married this guy's brother). I go over and ask if his name is Barry, and is he Jerry's brother. Yes, and yes. He, however, has no recollection of me, or even of the familial relationships. Eh. Neither he nor I nor his wife can remember when we last saw each other (probably at a funeral, but I don't want to say so). They live up in Westchester, but were at Blaue Gans with friends who live in the West Village.

At least it filled the time waiting for the table.

And on a related note (Blaue Gans menu item): now I know that white asparagus still gives you asparagus pee, only milder.

in london last week. (tayyabs was great. hunan good. could not get a table at st. johns.)

bookstore near my hotel on fleet featured in the front window featured a hardcover called "chancel repair liability -- how to research it." should i have picked it up for wilfrid?

and coming back to queens, a loud, shouting street scene outside our window at 5:40 am involving several men in t-shirts, a chicken and rice push cart being pushed in and out of a garage, and a tall, dark-haired woman wearing a bright yellow orange dress and lots of gold jewelry. i shall miss queens.

What about beans? Was there a tub of beans?

Went to go see a friend who opened a business last year. He's pretty shy and quiet, but he chose to open this business that requires him to be really friendly and outgoing. He is clearly struggling with it. It's wearing him out. He gets this look on his face when customers come in like they are disturbing him at home.

While looking for a rock climbing group I found a Satan worshipers group. Out of curiosity I took a look, the group has one member and has had 10 get togethers so far.

Well, who else do you need really when you're having get togethers with Satan?

I find this very depressing.

And as long as I'm here, is there anyone else who wonders what the HELL Paul McCartney saw in Heather Mills? I watched her in Dancing with the Stars and she didn't do ANYTHING for me. I mean, she just wasn't what I would have imagined a Beatle would have been attracted to. It was like, huh? what was he THINKING???

I watched the last 20 minutes of Miss Universe..

His first was a pretty committed vegan. Ms. Mills, on paper at least, was committed to getting rid of land mines. But I take your point.

far be it from me to speak ill of the dead, but here's a clip that is allegedly that of linda mccartney's microphone isolated during a live performance of "hey jude": enjoy!

As a singer, she was an Eastman, not a McCartney.

Woman 1 to Woman 2: "So you're saying all of your friends are on antidepressants?"
Woman 2: "Yes, I don't know, maybe it's the birth control pills."
Woman 1: "Maybe it's the corn, I read everything has corn in it."
Woman 2 (bewildered): "Like, cornstarch?"
Woman 1 (hesitating): "Maybe... maybe corn syrup? and the body can't digest it?"
Woman 3: "Because it's genetically modified?"

All nodding.

You sir, are hilarious..

2 hours with yet another "friend" who has become a financial planner.

Financial planners are the new real estate agents.

They had shorter sales pitches when they were real estate agents. It was an awful two hours, especially since I told her from the start that we already had someone. But she wants me to listen to it anyway so that I can refer clients to her. It's not like telling people I know to go to a particular dry cleaners or restaurant. She asked me to carry around this sheet of paper with questions and contact info.

Get her back. Refer Amway people to her.

BINGO! I was thinking that it was like an Amway experience.