A motto I saw: A conversation I’m surprised I haven’t had: A snippet of my own writing that I rather like: A sunset: A cat in my chair: A kick-off to my current vacation: And on it goes! Share This PostDown the rabbit hole….
Pie-in-the-face weirdness below the break…. OK. So it’s been my experience that the most common form of whipped cream in the US, the stuff in the aeresol can, is great for topping your pumpkin pie or for dipping strawberries or for giving to cats as a treat (yes, this is a thing), but lousy for pies in faces. The stuff is very highly aerated so as to come out of the can better, but once it’s dispensed it breaks down very quickly. You really have to use the stuff fast, lest the effect be less of getting hit with a pieDown the rabbit hole….
A former coworker from The Store with whom I’ve kept in touch since she left the company dropped in yesterday to give me a small Easter gift: Yes, it’s a teeny-tiny coconut cream pie. Some of my friends know me so well! Share This PostDown the rabbit hole….
I did try to tell her that shaving cream is the worst possible thing ever ever ever, but they never listen! The pie-in-the-face topic came up a bunch of times last week, which always makes me cheerful…. Share This PostDown the rabbit hole….
It’s been a while since I did this, hasn’t it? I am, once again, going to try to be better about regularly updating this blog. Of course, we’ve heard that before, haven’t we? :: Apparently the person who runs the social media for San Francisco’s mass transit system, BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit), finally decided to take a different approach in his/her responses to negative comment on social media. The result is some breathtakingly blunt honesty, and it really points up, in my mind, the odd American insistence on creating government services that are just good enough to be disappointing,Down the rabbit hole….
I know, the day is almost over, but I didn’t want to let the day go by without a recognition of National Whipped Cream Day! I’ve no idea why a day honoring such a wonderful substance would be January 5, but hey, who cares. I love the stuff (The Wife, sadly, hates it), and for a lot more than just a thick upper layer for pies to be forcefully applied to my face. Whipped cream has long had an honored place in my family as a cat treat, for example. Anyway: Here are five things to know about whipped cream.Down the rabbit hole….
A new Star Wars movie and a new James Bond movie. I’m releasing my second book. Overalls appear to be coming back into fashion. and now this appears in the New York Times. Ah, the thrown pie. Among the sweetest delights in life is the sight of an airborne cream-and-crust concoction finding purchase. It is the great leveler, a puncturing of pretension, and those who find pie throwing beneath their refined comic sensibility deserve nothing more than a lemon meringue treat, smack in the kisser. Setting aside the fact that lemon meringue is, in fact, a terrible choice for facialDown the rabbit hole….
Some stuff from recent days! :: A kinetic sculpture featuring eleven thousand marbles. This kind of thing delights me to ridiculous degrees. :: This blog is most certainly NOT SAFE FOR WORK, but it’s kind of interesting, if you’ve ever wondered what life is like for a working stripper. :: JAWS is 40 years old! What a great movie. I need to watch it again soon…but meantime, here’s a neat interview with the guy who, as a kid, got to be the killer shark’s second victim in the movie. Poor Alex Kintner! :: Speaking of Speilberg blockbusters, I saw thisDown the rabbit hole….
Headline on Mashable.com: Getting hit in the face with a pie will always be funny But then they show this video of a kid playing a game called “Pie Face” with his grandfather. It’s a game of chance where, if you lose, a dollop of whipped cream about two inches in diameter gets plopped onto your nose. That is about as much getting hit in the face with a pie as those post-game baseball celebrations where the “pie” is a towel shmeared with shaving cream. This is a pie. Get it right, America! Thank you. In other news, it’s entirelyDown the rabbit hole….
Presenting, without comment, some recent photographic documentation of my various atrocities…. Share This PostDown the rabbit hole….