President Obama gave a serious, and seriously hopeful speech to a Joint Session of Congress. He got cheers from both sides of the aisle.
Bobby Jindal's rebuttal speech was apparently written by someone who writes Golden Books as their day job. "Americans can do anything," repeated in a sing-song Miss Nancy voice.
If this guy is the best the Repugs have to offer, Obama's a shoo-in for a 2nd term.
Obama in a knockout.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
The Bacon Explosion
It's bacon. Wrapped in sausage. Wrapped in Bacon. Sliced and served on a hot Pillsbury Grand biscuit, it's frankly, a mouthful of heaven.
Mine looked like this in progress:
After three mouthwatering hours in the oven (a meat thermometer is imperative), with some periodic basting with a good barbecue sauce, it looked like this:
Since pork is essentially picnic food, as far as I'm concerned, I served it with potato salad and a good red wine.
So delicious.
Apropos of nothing, I got into my single-digit jeans today.
Mine looked like this in progress:
After three mouthwatering hours in the oven (a meat thermometer is imperative), with some periodic basting with a good barbecue sauce, it looked like this:
Since pork is essentially picnic food, as far as I'm concerned, I served it with potato salad and a good red wine.
So delicious.
Apropos of nothing, I got into my single-digit jeans today.
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Pork tastes goooood...bacon tastes goooood
The Bacon Explosion experiment is underway!
Right now my apartment smells like heaven.
Photos and report to come in tomorrow's post. I hope they let me use my computer in the cardiac unit.
Monday, February 16, 2009
Fall 2009 Fashion Week
If you're riding the subway this week, you may have noticed an increase in the number of girls who only take up half a seat. Super-slim things with the nervy air of woodland creatures clutching huge shoulder bags. Yep, the models are out in force, because it's Fashion Week. A recessionary Fashion Week, with some notable absences from the tents this season (Betsey Johnson, Vera Wang), but still the shows go on.
This year's Fashion Week went off with a bang, as two models ate it on the Herve Leger runway in Bryant Park. Here's video (the stumble happens about :45 in), and you've got to love this 15-year-old's big, gap-toothed grin as she gets to her feet.
It's not quite as dramatic as the Spring 2009 Prada show from last year (favorite moment: when the model gives up and takes off the shoes in disgust and finishes her walk barefoot), but I have to wonder, do the designers secretly hate these girls?
This year's Fashion Week went off with a bang, as two models ate it on the Herve Leger runway in Bryant Park. Here's video (the stumble happens about :45 in), and you've got to love this 15-year-old's big, gap-toothed grin as she gets to her feet.
It's not quite as dramatic as the Spring 2009 Prada show from last year (favorite moment: when the model gives up and takes off the shoes in disgust and finishes her walk barefoot), but I have to wonder, do the designers secretly hate these girls?