I’ve been trying to add a post with an image in it, to fraccers this evening. Every time I do, the new post piggybacks on top of the last post.
I think Wordpress.org might be having a tantrum.
Or it could be the wine I had at dinner.
At any rate, I’ll figure it out.
Don’t laugh.
Or do…
I happened to be browsing the internet in a food-related way, and came upon the revelation that not only does Baltimore seem to have bald guys… their bald guys seem to be pretty talented where it comes to creating delicious food.
Take Rodney Henry of Dangerously Delicious Pies for example.
According to the National Examiner, in early June, the Food Network was in Baltimore filming Road Tasted with the Neelys, and happened to choose to feature Henry and his Dangerously Delicious Pies. The show was filmed at the Light Street location, and aired today.
This prompted me to check out his site, and his pies, which (incidentally are available shipped to you for $30 plus the cost of the pie) if descriptions are enough to go on… are, well… dangerously delicious.
But why, when I can’t sniff nor scratch the pies, am I writing about him?
I don’t know. Maybe it’s because the idea that some gruff looking bald guy is in the kitchen baking up something as tasty as his Chocolate Chess Pie?
Maybe it’s because Duff Goldman, Mr. Ace of Cakes himself, is also a gruff looking bald guy… whipping up cakes that would best anything Martha Stewart could come up with.
I rather enjoy it when someone breaks a stereotype, and it seems both of these burly fellows have done just that!
I might even have to pay the $30.00 and order me up a pie.
Chocolate Chess, here I come.
Or maybe I should skip chocolate for once and try the Rhubarb… or the Sweet Potato?
What am I, nuts?
Chocolate Chess it is!
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“Barenaked Ladies singer Ed Robertson and three others walked away from a plane crash Sunday afternoon in southeastern Ontario.
Robertson’s Cessna 206 float plane crashed into a wooded area near Baptiste Lake, north of Bancroft, early Sunday afternoon while trying to land, said Const. Tracey McDonald of the Bancroft OPP.
Robertson received his pilot’s licence in 2005 and hosts a TV show called Ed’s Up, documenting his travels by plane.
The plane stalled, but Robertson managed to set it straight down into the trees with its nose resting on the ground, Peel said. They escaped without a scratch through the windows, he said.”
Read the rest of the story here.
It’s obvious I have a special fondness for Barenaked Ladies, so I’m relieved no one was hurt… and quite impressed at his accomplishment. I can’t say I’d be as calm and collected if my plane stalled.
Reading the comments following the CBC story, one particlarly astute reader suggested they were pleased he had, despite the plane crashing, chosen this method of “flying” and I can’t help but laugh a hearty har har at the reference to Ed’s fellow band member Steven Page’s arrest and potential conviction on drug charges.
Page was arrested in upstate New York and charged with possession of a controlled substance on July 11.
The moral of this story then?
When attempting to fly, always choose the mechnical as opposed to the chemical. You might crash both ways, but landing in the trees is probably better than landing in prison!
Though Mr. Fracas arranged for a laptop I could use while on holidays last week, I don’t actually have one of my own. I don’t particularly enjoy using one, but I do see how it could be useful and solve some problems in the fraccy world.
Here are the top five reasons I think I need a laptop:
5. I’ve had this lifelong dream to be naughty, only not the ‘good naughty’ way, the ‘bad naughty’ way. I’ve wanted to seek out individuals who aren’t smart enough to set their systems so that I can’t… and steal wireless from them so I can cavort about the internet wreaking havoc on unsuspecting souls who won’t be able to track me down. Yeah… I had this dream even before Al Gore invented the internet [1]. What can I say… I’m a psychic.
4. All the cool people have laptops and I’ve spent my life following trends at any expense endeavoring to be as cool as (and just like) Paris Hilton. She has a laptop.
3. I’d been fretting about what to do about the fracas blog when I went on holidays. I was going to get some guest bloggers like bluepaintred did, but they looked in her drawers and all kinds of unspeakable things happened. If that isn’t enough, dear friend and fraccy sis 70steen went on holidays and while gone, her blog was also broken into. Some strange little British man was in there going through all her drawers too! You can see why I’m far too paranoid to ask anyone to blogsit for me now. A laptop would help me frac while away. Some think fraccing in hotel rooms is a lot of fun.
2. Nevermind that whole “does my butt look fat in this” question… my fingers are getting fat! I’m sure they need the excercise they’d get from scratching that stupid little pad instead of mousing.
1. I want to blog naked. You see, I’m such a copycat and such a trend whore that I don’t do anything unless everyone else is doing it. I’ve heard about all these people who blog without pants, blog without clothes… and so on. I always thought they were funning… you know, not really serious… but it seems that they might be!
Way back in 2000, Salon.com suggested folks could vote while naked. More recently, Canadian Business Online touted being able to work naked (thanks to the internet). There are the Naked Bloggers over on Blogspot, a Webring for people who post to their blogs while naked, and well… I could name you some people fracas knows who profess to be naked when they post, but then that would be telling. It seems everyone jokes about people blogging while they’re naked. Heck… even Scoble got naked for the cause.
Well… sort of.
(And please don’t blame me for the photo you just saw. Hey… no one forced you to click on that!)
I decided I want to know what that whole blogging without pants thing is like too, but the fraccy computer is in the family room. While Mr. Fracas might think my new idea is pretty fraccing fractastic, I doubt my 21 or 12 year old sons or my 18 year old daughter would be terribly impressed.
That means I need a laptop.
And to get busy and bring in the Pesos…
…so I can get a laptop.
[1] – Source
In the Late Edition interview, Blitzer asked Gore to explain what set him apart from Bill Bradley, his opponent for the Dem nomination. Somewhat clumsily, Gore offered a list of career accomplishments. One part of his answer drew more attention than any remark by any candidate in the entire 2000 campaign.
“During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet,” Gore said. “I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country’s economic growth, environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.”
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