Toy Breeds at Westminster

Oh my. We are watching the Toy Breed part of the Dog Show. So far, I love the Pomeranian and I think Maddie woulda kicked that orange minpin's bum bum. Good Lord, they are cute, those toys.

Least fav: toy poodle.

2nd fav: King Charles Spaniel

Oh, and the Silky Terrier likes Gummi Bears! Cute!

And look, that man has two left feet. Just kidding.

Meh, Pom came in 4th. Others weren't memorable for me so who cares who came in whatever else.

THE END

Look What I Did

It's a permanent fixture at the bottom of the blog, too. You can do it, too. Go to:

http://obamiconme.pastemagazine.com/

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I'm trying to clean up the blog a little and make it a little more organized.

The thing is, I write about everything on here. It's become a bit like a journal for me and it's hard for me to find things sometimes.

So, I'm trying to separate it into 8 general characters. I'm also trying to make it easier for you, dear reader, to find these things, too. Why? I don't know. In case you're like: "Hmm, I wonder what MySpace of Facebook Survey Bridge has fille dout already." or "What's that story I remember reading on Bridge's blog about some current event thingy?" And you can go to the category listings on the left here, click on them and look through.

The labels, pasted far down below, are way more specific, in case you have a very specific thing in mind. The catergories are at the top of the labels and the subcategories are separated in to Dewey Decimal subcategoriess at the top of "Labels" section. Why? Because I started categorizing everything into DDS from the beginning but it got to be too many. Hence the makeover.

Once I'm done, I'll make a post with the categories and descriptions and they will also be on the left. You can still look through postings chronologically by scrolling through the "Blog Archive", also on the left hand side, and separated out by weeks.

Puttanesca Sauce - a story

Okie dokie, here we go. Friday night I went to the North End with two swarthy Italian men, my bf & his dad. Ha ha! I ordered the Spaghetti with Puttanesca Sauce. This prompted a story from John's dad about the origins of puttanseca.

Puttan in Italian is the word for prostitute. The story I heard on Friday was that there was a brothel in Italy that would serve the prostitutes for free because their presence at the place was good for business. In return for boosting the amount of restaurant customers, the prostitutes received a free meal. In order to keep costs down, though, the recipe contained all cheap ingredients: olives, anchovy paste, capers. Still filling, but no meat.

I went to old unreliable Wikipedia's pasta puttanesca entry and they have a whole bunch of variations on the story or the origins of puttanesca sauce. Including the fact that the salty, pungent ingredients were reminscent of the scent of Ladies of the Night, ifyanowhattameen, which is sorta icky.

We're going to make some next time we cook, because no matter its origins, it's tasty. I'll post the final recipe when I've made it, but I'm thinkging:

1/2 c. grape tomatoes, halved
1 can of crushed tomatores
1-2 tbs anchovy paste or minced filets
1 lbs various pitted olives from the olive bar - green, kalamata, black, etc
1 tbs evoo
1 small onion, chopped
1 tbs capers
1/2 tsp crushed red pepper flakes
Fresh Italian parsley
Basil

And now I have my grocery list!

RIP - The expression "That's how I roll"

02/07/09, 11:17 PM

Boston, MA - In a late night weather report, the Channel 7 meterologist, a middle-aged white man who we believe to be Pete Bouchard - though this has not been confirmed, effectively killed the "slang" expression, "That's how I roll" by using it in his weather forecast on the 7 News Weather segment this past Saturday night.

"That's how I roll" was born in the late 90s and featured prominently in the world of hip hop. It trickled down into white suburban teenage language, then further along until it died tonight when the geeky weatherman used it to talk about the 41 degree balmy weather we will experience this weekend.

"That's how I roll" was cousin to "Let's roll", which saw it's demise after being overplayed for its valiant use during the attacks of September 11, 2001.

In other news, "Change we can believe in" is just about to die and clinging for dear life, and "LOL", sadly, commited suicide, because it far too dorky.