MCKEESPORT, PA—Descending into a lurid bacchanal of decadence and excess, sources confirmed that modern-day Caligula Mike Suzik indulged the darkest and most debauched of his hedonistic appetites Thursday morning by ordering an everything bagel...

なんですか、その結束力は！
What a strong unity power!

February 8, 2008

#2 This barely 20's male B list television actor who is the "in" person right now was great in the afternoons, but was a complete ass by midnight because of his 12 hour a day constant coke habit. That's two from this group now.

Ed Westwick

Although cats are remarkably clean, well-groomed animals, I've always been a firm believer in bathing my cats.  In general, longhair cats and outdoor cats require more care than ...

punkrockpinup:

io-from-mars:

Alexander McQueen Pre-Fall 2013

Unf.

elmerseason:

neilsanders

mapsontheweb:

Probability of a white Christmas in the United States 1981-2010

Oh, how we miss Youngwood Court, aka the House of Davids! Especially this time of year, when each David would sport a festive Santa hat. (The famous Hancock Park house was stripped of its Davids in late 2011, before selling in 2012.) We couldn't help but be wistfully reminded of the late, lamented landmark upon seeing the listing for this residence in Eagle Rock--while certainly no substitute for the glorious HoD, the Hill Drive house has been generously endowed with its own distinctive brand of magic. Per the listing, the 1,450-square-foot house was built in 1951 and features three bedrooms, one and three-quarters baths, "a dishwasher and a trash compactor that have been there since the 50s," laminate floors with original hardwood floors underneath, copper plumbing, and "an original fireplace, sewer line and electrical system." The property also contains a separate guest unit with three-quarter bath and an attached two-car garage. Asking price is $699,000.

· 1245 HILL Dr [Redfin]

Over the past two seasons of New Girl, Zooey Deschanel has gone from someone that everyone loves working with to someone that you don't even want to see on set the day you are there. I have limited myself to one blind and reveal about her in that time because I still have a soft spot for her but now Radar says things are getting worse and that she is a tyrant on the set and has started the whole universe revolves around me thing and says that she knows best. When stars get like that, they almost never come back from it. Once you get that first taste of severe kissing butt and get that producer credit and those six figure weekly checks start rolling in and syndication is just one year away and even bigger money you get a huge head. Twenty years from now she will be the same. Her only hope for salvation is a family member like Emily bringing her back down to earth although rumors has it they are not getting along either because Zooey is so out of control. When crew members complain to the tabloids or send me e-mails it is one thing. But, when the cast starts sending you e-mails or "friends" of cast members complaining about someone then it is a big deal.

Still going to watch Elf though.

「ぐわぁー。」
Maru:[Yawn...]

寛ぐまるの目の前をわざわざ通るはな。
Hana passes his relaxed front on purpose.

はな：「ちょっとごめんなさいねー。」
Hana:[Excuse me. I have business over there.]



「ちょっと待ちなさい。」
Maru:[Hey, wait.]


「よくも鼻を蹴ったな！」
Maru:[You kicked my sharp nose.]



はな：「そんな低い鼻蹴りようがないでしょ！」
Hana:[What? Where is your nose?　
Because your face is very flat, I cannot find it.]


小さな小競り合いの始まり。
A small skirmish began.

Good news for cat ladies and everyone who loves cats, which is everyone except for people who pretend to have allergies to adorableness. The City of Los Angeles is considering upping the limit on cats per home from 3 to 5. "Certainly the most likely people to adopt are the folks that already have cats in their homes," [Councilman Paul Koretz] said. "Setting up a system for folks that want to have more than five cats in their homes and do it in a sanitary way, we will save lives of more cats and do it in a way that is harmless to everybody else." A hearing on November 19th before the Personnel & Animal Welfare Committee to discuss the item has been continued to a date to be determined. [cbsLA]

Thor: Treasures of Asgard is now open in Innoventions at Disneyland park! Here you can explore an epic collection of objects brought to Earth straight from Asgard, and then travel across the Bifrost to Asgard itself for an audience with the Mighty Avenger, Thor.

Have a look:

You can visit Thor: Treasures of Asgard now through the holiday season, and catch the epic adventure, “Thor: The Dark World,” in theaters tomorrow!

Experience Thor: Treasures of Asgard at Disneyland Park by Shawn Slater: Originally posted on the Disney Parks Blog

I apologize for neglecting this blog for so long, but considering the holidays are upon us I thought it best to at least post a few of my favorite recipes for Thanksgiving/Christmas. Boysenberry pie is one such recipe. When I was a child we always seemed to have boysenberries growing in the backyard wherever we lived at the time so boysenberries were omnipresent at our house. If you are considering planting them in your yard, I highly recommend it. They don’t take a ton of maintenance and you should get at least some fruit after about a year. Sadly, boysenberries are in short supply in the autumn/winter so unless you have done a very good job freezing your previous harvests, you may be stuck paying a fortune for fresh berries out of season. I do not recommend using frozen berries you have bought at the super market. Your pie will be very soupy and the fruit may turn to mush. A few years ago I asked my mom for her recipe for boysenberry pie and shockingly she said she had never written one down. She had been pulling from various recipes all these years. I decided I should come up with a recipe that worked every time and actually write it down. If you can’t find boysenberries you can substitute blackberries and I dare anyone to notice. Costco usually has good prices of berries in bulk, and you will need a lot of them. I apologize for the poor photo quality, but I took these photos years ago on a whim.

 

Makes 1-9inch pie | oven temp: 350°F pre-heated; then 450°F

4 – 5 cups Boysenberries, rinsed and drained

2 tbsp. fresh lemon juice

1 cup white sugar

2 tbsp. corn starch

¼ cup flour

1 tsp. cinnamon

1 double pie crust, rolled out (I use the Crisco pie crust recipe and it works great every time. Double the single crust recipe to give you more dough to work with to make rolling out easier)

2 tbsp. butter, for dotting

 

• Rinse, drain and dry the berries well

• In a small bowl combine sugar, corn starch, flour and cinnamon

• In a large bowl, toss lemon juice with berries

• Sprinkle sugar and flour mixture over berries and stir to coat
• Press one of the rolled out pie crusts into a 9 in. pie tin, being careful not to stretch the dough out

• Spoon filling into pie tin lined with pie crust (you should have A LOT of filling. If it seems like you have too much filling then you have done it right. If you only fill the pie with berries up to the edge of the pie tin you will end up with something resembling a berry fritata, and who wants that).
  

• Dot top of filling with butter before placing top crust on. Then tuck the pie crust under and crimp the edges in your favorite style so the minimum amount of filling spills out. Make sure to cut vents in the top of your crust. You can do this before putting it on the pie or after using a butter knife. Your pie should look like this at this point, if not larger:
  
• Bake in a 350°F oven for about an hour, or until filling it bubbling, and turn up temperature to 450°F for the last 10 minutes.

Tip: Line edge of crust with foil to prevent burning. Place oven liner in bottom of oven to catch spillage.

Here is the final product:

Notice how much it shrunk down after baking. As you can see, the crust is a little thin in parts and that was because we tried the “butter” flavored Crisco on this particular pie and it did not go well. I really recommend sticking to a plain vegetable shortening. If you have had a problem with runny or watery pies just bake the pie one day before you plan to serve it. Letting it sit will allow it to thicken. If I make this pie again over the holidays I will take some better photos.

 

 

April 15, 2008

Some of my favorite blind items have come from the accountant and in honor of it being tax day here in the US, I give you the best one he has given me so far for this year. There are plenty more, but this is the best. The very best. It is actually one of the best of all time as far as jaw dropping goes.

This A list actor. 95% of the time film. Single and allegedly never married. This is the first year he used this accountant and when he was reviewing the forms he noticed that he was listed as single on the tax forms. Our actor then proceeded to tell the accountant that the actor has been married for many years. The fact that he has only seen his foreign wife once in the interim did not change the fact that he was married. Our actor apparently does send money sometimes to his wife, but apparently does so in his corporate name. The accountant got the feeling that the wife actually has no idea who she is actually married to. Our actor meanwhile loves the deduction that comes with being married. It apparently is the one thing he really enjoys about being married. He also uses it as an excuse when a woman tries to pressure him into marriage. He explains to prospective future brides that although he would love to get married to them he is unfortunately already married and the process for divorce will take a year or two. In the meantime why not just live together or be girlfriend and boyfriend. Invariably the relationship dies out before the divorce becomes final. The actor never starts the paperwork and has never been challenged by the IRS about being married. They must not read the tabloids.

Keanu Reeves

By Dave Bing, Mayor Of Detroit

redscharlach:

Can you spot the difference between these two global celebrities? Clue: one is an adorably goofy Muppet and close friend of Tom Hiddleston, and the other is the Cookie Monster.

(Gifs are from here and here.)

Separated at birth… :)

October 19, 2010

#2 - This engaged B+/A- list comedic actor failed to mention he had a serious girlfriend while he made promises and slept with this will someday be A list but right now B- list film actress. She is ticked and has threatened to reveal everything to the unsuspecting girlfriend.

Seth Rogen/Emma Stone

cyanine:

I wanted a really scary pumpkin this year

Look, we all have a lot of different opinions, but one thing we can all agree on is that the guy speeding in the breakdown lane to get past traffic is an asshole who deserves to be put in a stockade for his stubborn refusal to acknowledge that he is a member of human society and can't just act any way he damn pleases at the expense of other members of human society. Who is this antisocial dick who thinks he's so much better than everyone else? Oh, it's nineties Soloflex model/Mariel Hemingway boyfriend Bobby Williams (among others, probably), as revealed in the New York Times Magazine's profile of Hemingway this weekend. On a recent trip up to Ojai to buy "sunflower sprouts, pumpkin seeds and raw sprouted almonds" and "visit a healer who used dowsing rods to make his diagnoses," Williams

darted back and forth between lanes, exploiting any visible space between cars to wedge in. When this failed to move us ahead with satisfactory swiftness, he swerved to the right shoulder and drove 80 miles an hour on it the rest of the way, jerking the car sharply back into the lane whenever the shoulder ended ... In the mirror, I could see the words "Just Breathe" written on his T-shirt. I tried to remember this as he revved to 115 miles an hour.

At first glance, Williams maybe isn't exactly the variety of asshole you'd expect--he doesn't work, but still thinks there aren't enough hours in the day to "take care of [him]self" and he believes that "70 percent of the absorption [of ... something?] is through the bottom of your feet"--but then he also eats raw eggs, tells his girlfriend not to "talk like a girl" when he does something distressing, and rants a big game about kicking Ernest Hemingway's ass. And there is nothing more pathetically macho than that.
· The Importance of Not Being Ernest [NYTM]

A wave of Americanism has been sweeping through Paris over the past few years, from le street food (which, finally, is actually being served on the street) to a desire to remake Paris in the image of New York. Or more to the point, Brooklyn.

I don’t quite know where this came from, but I do wish it would stop. Granted, in the US, we have our share of “French-style” kitchen gadgets (most of which I’ve never seen in France) and croissan’wiches (which I am now seeing in France), but hopefully we still have enough international goodwill so the French will overlook some of our infractions. Yet a new trend has been sweeping through France and I’m not sure it’s building much goodwill in the other direction, in spite of how benign they might think it to be.

(Speaking of good-will, I should probably let you know that even though I am too bien élevé, or well-raised as they say in France, and don’t have a potty-mouth, there are some pictures that use a 4-letter word in this post. So if that might be offensive to you…and I have to admit, they make me wince as well – although I don’t have a choice because they’re all around me – you might want to not scroll down or click after the jump, and skip this post.)

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Today, I’m pleased to share with you the very first look at the Mighty Avenger, Thor, who will be appearing as part of Thor: Treasures of Asgard at Disneyland park.

Thor: Treasures of Asgard, coming soon to Innoventions in Tomorrowland, will present an epic collection of objects brought to Earth straight from Thor’s home world of Asgard. You’ll also be able to travel across the Bifrost, a cosmic bridge transporting you to Asgard for an audience with Thor himself!

Look for Thor: Treasures of Asgard to open November 1 at Disneyland park, and see “Thor: The Dark World” when the big screen epic adventure hits theaters November 8.

First Look: Thor Appearing in Thor: Treasures of Asgard at Disneyland Park by Shawn Slater: Originally posted on the Disney Parks Blog

まるさんのしっぽはいつも垂れている。

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Exxon is suing FXX for "trademark infringement, dilution, unfair competition, unjust enrichment, and refusal of registration" for its use of a double-X logo. The full claim can be read here.

Jawohl! “Limited Time Magic” is bringing special limited-time offerings to Bayside Brews at Disney California Adventure park to celebrate Oktoberfest! From October 14-31, guests can enjoy the following treats in addition to the regular menu:

• Bratwurst sausage in a Boursin-garlic brioche with hickory-smoked bacon sauerkraut and potato chips or apple slices
• Bavarian pretzel with choice of mustard
• Gingerbread Bundt cake
• Karl Strauss Oktoberfest Beer
• Hofbrau Munchen Beer

Sounds wunderbar, doesn’t it?

‘Limited Time Magic’ Brings Oktoberfest Celebration to Disney California Adventure Park by Erin Glover: Originally posted on the Disney Parks Blog

はなさんは甘え上手。
まるの毛づくろいを少しやって、
「こういう風にやって」と言わんばかりに、
まるの顔の前に頭を差し出す。