This pizza dough is food, not a food product.

“Grimsaburger,” you say, “I’d like to make pizza dough from scratch, but I fear I’m incapable of the effort and time such a thing requires. I’m just going to order a partially-hydrogenated, high fructose, monosodium glutamate pizza from the nearest branch of the mega-lo-pizza delivery company.” Well, fear no more and put down [...]

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It’s only a little torture

I’ve really tried to keep all the news about the “compromise” bill on what to do with detained terrorist suspects at arms length, mainly because I was trying to preserve that last little bit of optimism hanging around in my mind. Now that I’m crawling out of the pit, however, I’m getting back to [...]

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Did you know there’s no German word for squirrel?

Not much to report. Still in a funk. Still not getting enough work done. The house is still pretty tidy, though, so that’s something. I raked some leaves into piles in the backyard yesterday so I’d have an excuse to pull up the zucchini plant. It did not do so well [...]

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Football, yard sales, and a clean house

I’d go on and on about ND and Michigan State, but I think it’s all been said a few dozen times already. I will offer a suggestion, however, to the talking heads. One good play does not a solid offense make. Resist the temptation to say something about how good Samardzija is when [...]

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Caution: exploitation of livestock follows

Because my sister is a lot grosser than people give her credit for, she sent me (along with my Mary Kay cocoa creme lip gloss, no less) an up-to-the-shoulder plastic glove with a note that said, “Because you never know when you might need it.”Somehow I don’t think I’ll be doing much of this [...]

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I knew it!

So it takes me a while to get around to these things. I watched a little bit of the debacle that is Survivor last Thursday and noticed that one of the guys on the white team (I prefer to call them the honky team, with a nod to that Chevy Chase-Richard Pryor skit) looked [...]

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Now, just being requires a certain physique

I give you HP digital cameras, now with slimming effects. Because, you know, you should be ashamed to be the proprietor of hips and shoulders more than a foot wide.

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Puppies, not football.

Rather than acknowledge ND’s unspeakable defeat this weekend, or the depth of the rut I’m finding myself stuck in, I give you puppies! Glorious puppies!

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New favorite word

per‧si‧flage  /ˈpɜrsəˌflɑʒ, ˈpɛər-/ Pronunciation Key – Show Spelled Pronunciation[pur-suh-flahzh, pair-] Pronunciation Key – Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun

1.
light, bantering talk or writing.

2.
a frivolous or flippant style of treating a subject.

[Origin: 1750–60; persifler to banter, equiv. to per- per- + siffler to whistle, hiss sifilāre, for L sībilāre; see sibilant, -age]

—Synonyms 1. [...]

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Ann Richards

I admit, I didn’t know a lot about Ann Richards except that every time I heard her on TV or the radio (last on NPR’s Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me talking about the quality of current Texas politicians’ hairstyles), I found her immensely sharp and entertaining. I did know that she opened a lot [...]

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