:: It is not within me to be silent ::

I am a Scorpio. (Also known as "Scorpion") My Horroscope starts like this:
" Scorpios are highly dangerous, even at a distance. They cheat and lie, live for intrigue, and take pleasure in destroying. " (Read more | Find yours)

[:::::Archives Shmarchives:::::]
My dad, in a contemplative moment. I love this picture
[Click them... if you dare!]
My writing.
Cacoa is sweeter than chocolate.
Sexy Rosa!
Mo is back! Yay!
Boz! No explanation needed.
Monique really is My New Best Friend.
Sara is wonderful! She has bad taste in men.
Pretty fly for a white guy, Peter is hilarious. He's a good writer too.
Kim is a great broad, greatly abroad.
Laura loves Aquaman. Don't be jealous. She's also smart, funny and reads comics!
Marci once used a midget as a coffee table. She is my favoritest human alive.
Light Gwen's wick and then run, she's Dynamite!
Curious about weird? Or weird about curious?
Lux is not as shy as you might think.
Sunshine and farts!
Hey, you sass that hoopy Zann? There's a frood who really knows where her towel is!
She is woman!
Kat is smart. Kat is funny. Kat rules my world.
Eurotrash comes from the UK. I want to marry her.
The only time I've ever wished I were a bastard. The Mad Dater!
Welcome to the bitchfest MOFO! Read her, she's funnier and cooler than me.
Vanessa makes me smile. And damn is she funny.
I think her name means none or nothing. Nada O Nil. I barely know her, but I think I love her already..
The Umpire!
The squipper is gone. Long live the squipper!
I think Mayagirl is my political conscience. I don't know if that's good or bad or what.
She is unraveling the enigma, one mystery and riddle at a time.
He's Rebel Leady Boy, Jonnie!
Nietzscheswife's has one of the most interesting brains I've ever encountered.
Pramila lives in another world, eerily like my own.
Error 404 is amazing.
Joe is always funny and nice.
Maeve is one hell of a witch. That's a compliment.
WH and BM are hilarious! WH is also a musician.
Beautiful and sweet, and she likes Vonnegut!
Ain't nothing sweeter than Khandi.
A friend from work who is also a damn good musician in the Aphex Twin sphere.
My favorite artist, Mike Mignola, and his greatest creation, Hellboy.
Seanbaby
Funny news!
Comic
SEX!
Parental Advisory STRONGLY Suggested.
I farking love this site.
Filthy News.
The greatest cheese ever made, Wild Morel Mushroom and Leek Monterey Jack Cheese. You must worship.

Thursday, August 21, 2008 ::

I'm always willing to try something new

I had steak tartare. It is chopped up raw steak mixed with worchestershire sauce and onions, formed into a patty and then topped with a raw quail egg. How was it? Weird as hell, but delicious. It's something I've always wanted to try, so I did. I went to Wolfgang Puck's Grille at the MGM Grand.

It was awesome. That was my appetizer. My dinner was a Roasted Pork Chop & Pork Belly with goat cheese mashed potatoes and apricot mustard with apricot puree.

For dessert, it was a blueberry muffin with homemade blueberry ice cream, blueberry compote and fresh blueberries sprinkled around it. AMAZING.

Oh, and I made 13.00 at the casino! Of course, I lost 60.00.

:: Paul 4:53:00 AM [+] ::
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	I received 86 credits on The Sci Fi Sounds Quiz How much of a Sci-Fi geek are you?
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:: Paul 5:36:00 PM [+] ::
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:: Paul 5:36:00 PM [+] ::
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Ideas

Whilst tubbing (bath not hot) and reading last months Bon Appetit, I came across articles about celebrating your heritage while at the same time, cooking good food. Giving it some thought, I decided to make some home made pierogi.

Thursday or Friday, my days off, I will make some dough and then experiment with pierogi. I'm going to put my spin on some of my favorites:
Potato and onion
Potato and cheese
Mushroom
Potato and mushroom
Cheese
Cheese and onion
Perhaps a fruit one.

My ideas:
Red potatoes and shallots, trying both whipped and smashed potatoes and/or with the shallots either sauteed or fresh.

Red potatoes and a variety of cheeses. I just have to find the right sweet crumbly cheese, but with so many varieties available, (Whole Foods is wonderful) this shouldn't be difficult.

Portabello! And maybe some japanese mushrooms like shitaake
Red potato and portabello

A variety of hard and soft cheeses

Any cheese and either shallots, green onions or vidalia

mango? Who knows, I doubt I'll try the fruit one, only because I'd be more interested in trying the savory ones first.

Now the only other question is the dough. Light dough or heavy dough? Sweet or savory? Salty? Peppery? And where will I fit the garlic and black pepper? Is it too early to add curry? Cinnamon? So many choices!

I am prepared to accept more failures than successes. But it's the getting there that will be fun.

Part of the reason for even attempting is that I need to eat more vegetarian foods. And while I know that this is going to be starch heavy, it's a start.

:: Paul 12:20:00 AM [+] ::
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Books and more

1. Hardcover or paperback, and why?
Say what you will about breaking the spine, I love hardcover books. And keep in mind, I love comic books, but somehow, paperbacks seem too flimsy. I'd always rather have a hardcover than a paperback.

2. If I were to own a book shop I would call it…
Library pub is taken so... Books and Booze? Drink and Be Literary? The Poetry Bar? I dunno, something including my love of alcohol and the written word.

3. My favorite quote from a book (mention the title) is…

Kilgore trout came upon a message written in the bathroom. He searched vainly for a pencil, for he had a response. The message was this: What is the meaning of life? If he had a pencil, Kilgore would have written this:
To be the eyes and ears and conscience of the Creator of the Universe, you fool.
-Killgore Trout
- Breakfast of Champions, by the genius Kurt Vonnegut, may he rest in peace.

Another good one is this, but it's not from a novel:
"Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone. "

Another good one:
"Tiger got to hunt,

Bird got to fly;

Man got to sit and wonder, 'Why, why, why?'

Tiger got to sleep,

Bird got to land;

Man got to tell himself he understand."

-Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle

Also:
Mr. Vonnegut is up in heaven now.

"Do you know what a Humanist is? I am honorary president of the American Humanist Association, having succeeded the late, great science fiction writer Isaac Asimov in that functionless capacity. We Humanists try to behave well without any expectation of rewards or punishments in an afterlife. We serve as best we can the only abstraction with which we have any real familiarity, which is our community.

We had a memorial services for Isaac a few years back, and at one point I said, ''Isaac is up in Heaven now.'' It was the funniest thing I could have said to a group of Humanists. I rolled them in the aisles. It was several minutes before order could be restored. And if I should ever die, God forbid, I hope you will say, ''Kurt is up in Heaven now.'' That’s my favorite joke. "

4. The author (alive or deceased) I would love to have lunch with would be…

Kurt Vonnegut, who struck me as a very clear headed man. But it's a tie with Grant Morrison and Garth Ennis. Both would be a blast, I'm sure.

5. If I was going to a deserted island and could only bring one book, except from the SAS survival guide, it would be…

The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The actual guide, not the book of the same name.

6. I would love someone to invent a bookish gadget that…

Contained every book ever written, and every time you accessed a book, an amount was paid to the author of that book.

7. The smell of an old book reminds me of…

Heaven. Home. My father. My youth, spent in used bookstores, reading my parent's old books on top of garages, hidden in closets, on the playground as other children ran around me, in the library after school with my best friend Kenny. My mother. My life.

8. If I could be the lead character in a book (mention the title), it would be…
Superman: Action Comics. Who doesn't want to be Superman?

9. The most overestimated book of all times is…
The Bible, The Qu'ran, the Torah, any religious book that promotes hate over love, war over peace, violence over forgiveness.

10. I hate it when a book…
author dies with the book unfinished. When a book doesn't say what I think it should have said. When a book is over and I still want more. When a book's lies become truth in the eyes of the uninformed. When a book has lies so convincing that people want to believe it's true and commit horrible acts because of it. When a book disappoints me.

:: Paul 5:00:00 AM [+] ::
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What has three balls and comes from outer space?

E. T. The Extra Testicle.

I warn ye, read no further if you'd like to think of me as genetically perfect in every way. And while I'm very close, apparently even the best of us has an appendix. It also could be considered disgusting and maybe dirty, though I don't think anything about my body is dirty or disgusting in any way.







THIS IS A SPACE I WILL USE TO SEPARATE THE AWFUL TRUTH FROM THE WORLD. I AM NOT AN ALIEN. I SWEAR. THOUGH IF I WERE, I'D BE A PRETTY HOT ALIEN. SERIOUSLY.







So I was taking a bath and I started doing my testicular self-check. For those of you who don't know, it's a thing men are supposed to do, where they roll them around and pinch a little bit, looking for lumps.

I found a lump. It terrified me. I was depressed.

I made an immediate appointment with a urologist. Did I mention that I fart when I'm really nervous? That has nothing to do with it, except to note that the waiting room had it's own ambiance, a miasma if you will. Eau de Paulet.

Long story short, the Doc slapped around my boys and declared that I have an appendix testicle. What is that, you ask, shocked?

The appendix testicle is a small structure located at the upper third of the testicle. Some patients are born with remnants of tissue on the testicle called an appendix testis. The appendix testis is present in 92% of all testes and is usually located at the superior testicular pole in the groove between the testicle and the epididymis.

It's like a third ball, in other words. So when I say I've got balls, I'm not kidding. It took lots of balls for me to write this. Testicular fortitude? I've got extra.

The fact that I don't have testicular cancer is relieving enough, but to know now that there is a reason that I've never been able to find pants that fit perfectly, is incredible.

:: Paul 7:03:00 PM [+] ::
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