I haven’t made a lot of noise about my mother’s death in January, and I don’t intend that to change. Everyone has their own method of dealing with loss, and I feel that making a big emotional scene is about the least respectful thing I could do in most cases.

I’m also not going to devote any more space in my blog to the hardships of five months ( Read more... )

I’ve already told you about Corrugated Fun, so now it’s time to honor the B-Bar.

High school in the Eighties wasn’t like nowadays. Mom gave you five bucks for your school lunch and you bought whatever you wanted. And your options weren’t exactly crudites and chia seeds.

Me, I’m a self-made man; every day, I’d spend all my lunch money on two or ( Read more... )

I’ve been talking about this project for maybe a year, and I finally got to it. I made a batch of ice cream where I replaced the normal amount of sugar with an equal amount of Pixy Stix candy.

Just think about the genius of that: Pixy Stix are pretty ( Read more... )

Saturday I attended my second Wise Speech workshop at CIMC with Narayan Liebenson Grady. It was interesting because it was one of the few times when people are encouraged to talk to one another, and I found it refreshing, meeting new people or renewing existing friendships.

One nugget I’d like to share is the following quote, which comes from Maha ( Read more... )

In episode two of “Don’t You Wish You Were Ornoth”:

I just realized that I have a job where ice cream can be expensed to the client.

Just got back from the Scooper Bowl, a seven dollar all-you-can-eat ice cream fundraiser for charity.

I was there approximately an hour and a quarter, and ingested no less than 20 cups of ice cream, an average of one cup every three minutes and forty-five seconds.

Those break down into four HP Hood Comeback Caramel, three each of Häagen-Dazs ( Read more... )

If you could only choose 1 cd to ever listen to again, what would it be? Well, I'm torn between two. First, there's the Toasters' 1998 "Live in London" disc. It really captures the essence of their ( Read more... )