Daily Show

There was a really cool line from the interview with Bill Cramer of Mad Money. Jon said "Now we're both sell snake oil, but we sell ours as snake oil while you market it as some medicinal tonic."

Or something like that.

But the idea that a show can honestly say its dishonest while still critiquing others for non-transparently being dishonest is pretty positive. It also shows the new direction of the Show. No longer is it Jon's job to be the man who pokes fun at the administration, because the American people like the new administration, particularly Jon's demographic of young liberals. So the new job is defending the little guy, an odd stance for a pundit who labeled himself an outside observe who puts everything at arms length.

There was this other good point about how the demographic has changed, that the new face of crime is well dressed white people who stole millions of dollars from the american public. It then put up a picture of President Obama and Berny Madoff, asking which one of these do you expect to be president and which one do you suppose would have money problems?

I like new direction, but I kind of miss the Skippy McDumbutt and Vader power hour, the world seemed less precarious then.

Lie To Me and Adspace

Lie to Me is House without the medical gobidly gook.

Dr Lightman is this shows Dr. House, but without fake American accent and cane. Same amount of showboating and productive jackassiness. Theirs the not very funny pretty guy, who this time is braining rather then Australian, the perky burnette now blond is replaced by a latino women so they able to skip the black guy character all together. Theirs the curly haired professional like women, who replaces Cutty, but works for this House so the dinamic is slightly diffrent.
But the plot line is pretty similar; oh, we have a puzzle we need to solve in 40 mintues, with our speicalized skill set! Oh, theres a twist, OH GOD ANOTHER TWIST, oh wait, it was this simple thing all along!!

Its really not a bad show, but the idea of it is for cast to be able to read facial experssion and deduct to solve the projects they've been hired to conuslt on. Which means actors have to act as real as possible, which most times fall's short, since their suppost to be acting one way to lie, then have microexpressions that tell Dr Lightman and the audiance the truth.

Also why is it that Hulu keeps advertising 1. Charities it supports, 2. Cars, and 3. Various Vertiaties of Vodka. I think it subliminal messaging for our minds to create aweful stories where a van full of nuns off to help orphans get drunk and go to Vegas instead.

I Love You Man

I saw an advanced screening of I Love You, Man with my awesome boyfriend. I really was looking forward to it because I saw the original red band trailer and the intro song was from one of my favorite bands Vampire Weekend. But the red band trailer gave far too much away, the movie losing its ability to tell the story because it was already completely shared with the trailer. Then I checked OkGo's website, and they wrote a cute intro about how "I love you, man" is what Tim always tells Damien before entering a car or plane, you know, just incase. But that they also had a cameo as the wedding band at the reception. Apparently most of that hit the edit room floor since they only appeared behind Jason Segal and Paul Rudd during the credits.

They solded their best scene in the trailer, where Jason meets Paul at his open house. The stage is set of a beautiful girl and an average looking guy, where Jason points out to Paul that "That guy really needs to fart" then the long explanation and BFF forever.

It was a good introduction into the new are of Bromances, and quite funny, I just need to remember like with Slumdog Millionaire, don't watch movies with preconditions, because they can't always live up to it, unlike chocolate cake.

Wii (Fit) Rocks

I totally love my birthday gift of the Wii system!! The ability to play 5 sports from the comfort of your living room adds a lot of fun to the otherwise boring 'visiting' with my grandfather. Also it adds to the idea that everyone sucks at most games, such as when I played baseball, Seth was declared a mercy winner in the first inning. Now thats embarrassing, although I did win in WiiFit Hula Hooping because not only did I beat Seth's score but I did it without looking like monkey dancing for a nickel.

The Wii was designed to bring people together, which it does, by making us all suck equally at the majority of their games!!

Coraline

Neil Gaiman is one very creepy and brilliantly talented man. He originally wrote Coraline in 2002, it won numerous awards. Not only was Coraline beautifully captured, a truly amazing stop-motion animation, but it also hits home in the crafting community.

The first scene, gorgeous close ups, the process of sewing the Coraline doll, beautifully archaic tools known to most crafters, construct a Coraline replica. In order to generate more buzz for the film, they actually sent out boxes to 50 blogs including some of the set of the movie!!

Coraline was a creepily beautiful story, captured magnificently, kind of like a preserved swallow-tail butterfly.

Why Foodgawker Looks So Good

They actually critique the photos. If they don't like them, it gets rejected.
The two photos I submitted were sent back with words like 'Blur' and 'Harsh Light'. Also they will publish photos that link to blogs that don't include the recipe!!!!

Wow, the mystery of the magical photographs is uncovered!!!!

Black Bean Burgers

The government of Germany (this is Germany, people, where there is over 100 types of sausage) has asked its citizens to reserve the eating of meat to only on special occasions, due to the fact that 15% of their air pollution is because of agriculture. In Germany!!!!!

So I started new vegetarian recipes.


Black Bean Burgers

2 14 ounce cans of black beans, rinsed and drained, divided
3 Tbsp mayonnaise
1/3 cup plain dry bread crumbs
2 tsp ground cumin
1 tsp dried oregano
1/4 tsp cayenne
1/4 cup chopped cilantro
3 Tbsp vegetable oil

1. Pulse 1 can beans in food processor with mayo, bread crumbs, cumin, oregano and cayenne until a coarse puree forms. Transfer to a bowl and stir in cilantro and remaining can bean. Form mixture into 4 patties.

2. Heat oil in a 12-inch skillet over medium high heat until it shimmers. Cook burgers until outside are crisp and lightly brown, about 5 minutes total.

Texas Needs to Be Annexed

Seriously. Look at what came out of the Waco District!!!!

Lookie!!

Wow, if they get angry about the new facts developing moon, like its a reflector, imagine the riots when someone mentions Darwin's Birthday coming up on February the 12th.

Amazing Cookies!

Instead of doing work, I made chocolate crinkle cookies that absolutely rock my socks!!

I have been told they are the secret love child of the brownie vampire princess (Sofia) and slave werewolf cookie (Lucian). This love story ends tragically though, because her father burns her to prevent the abomination in her tummy. And this metaphor leads doesn't work because the base is a chocolate cake mix and it's good for the stomach...........

Anyway, this leads into a long rant about how much I want to go see UNDERWORLD: Rise of the Lycans!!!



Super Easy Chocolate Crackled Cookies

Ingredients:
1 devil's food cake mix (18 1/4 ounce)
1/2 cup shortening
1 tablespoon water
2 eggs

1 cup powdered sugar for non-rick rolling!

Directions:
1. I was making Squash and Mac so the oven was already at 350!!! But if not preheat oven and lay down parchment paper or SPLAT or professional baking mat.

2. In your local Kitchen Aid, beat together the shortening, water, and eggs. Add the cake mix, and mix until smooth. I usually have to get out a spatula to incorporated.

3. Roll balls into balls about a half golf ball sized ball. Then plop the the balls in a bowl of powder sugar, prop onto . Place cookies 2 inches apart on the prepared cookie sheets.

4. Bake for 10 minutes. Enjoy for about a week!!! (I don't actually know how long they last because they're gone in about 3 days!)

20th Annual Asian Culture Festival

Code 51 will be going to the Asian Cultural Festival, and we will eat amazinly and I shall buy my belly dancing bell belt!!

For those who can't remember Asian Fest!, it is amazing because the sheer amount of vendors, participants, crazy amazing acts and fricken awesome yummies!

The picture is the start of the shirt design I'm working on to commemorate this crazy awesome day.

March 7th and 8th, 10am to 6pm
Admission: 7 dollars

I believe in little elves!

Originally said by Steven Colbert when asked if he believes in money.

This is based on the idea that money is an agreement of value, a unit of trust. This is why the bills in your pocket are signed by the Secretary of Treasury, this is the promise of money.

But what is money really, besides a unit of value and a unit of account, its a belief, an exercise in trust, of those that deal it, those that accept it for payment for goods and services rendered. Its a belief, its a promise that anyone who uses money.

By the logic of belief, that if enough people believe in something, then it makes it true. But it also makes it a religion!!!

So technically, all atheist do follow one religion if they buy or sell!!