'Potential'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Goodness, Brenda.
One pie done (the maple pecan cracked a bit across the top, but otherwise looks good).
I over-filled the pumpkin pie shell with the filling, so it spilled. Lucky for me the hot bottom of the oven was there to catch it. Yay. Maybe that'll prompt me to clean the oven.
Probably not.
And now we're under an advisory to boil water. Ha. Ha ha.
Dana, I think you crossed into an alternate universe and are on Earth-Plague. Or Earth-Shithole. Or Earth-Seriously-BACK-OFF-NOW.
Damn. I am so sorry that so much shittiness is being heaped upon you.
I want to go shopping, but no idea what for and really I don't think I need anything.
I think that somewhere around the time Nixon was elected we became the universe where Mr. Spock will have a goatee. Clean-shaken Spock will occur in the alternate timeline we are not fortunate enough to live in.
West Hollywood has a decent strip of Cyrillic signage. I was just reading bout them in the West Hollywood papers.
Dana, I'm sorry you're going through all that.
LAistas, I just read this happens today:
"Just in time for the upcoming holidays, Epicure Imports opens its doors to the public for its quarterly warehouse sale. Get everything from Valrhona chocolates to truffle oils, vinegars, dried pastas, olives, French and Spanish cheeses, charcuterie and wine at wholesale prices. Go hungry: Sampling is encouraged. 6900 Beck Ave., North Hollywood; 818-985-9800"
Hmm, I could walk there. Of course it is bucketing rain, so not RIGHT NOW.
Yelp likes Robert's Russian Cuisine in Hollywood, and Traktir in West Hollywood.
Comments also like Red Square in the Valley and Cafe Troyka.
Predator teams up with the Ninja Turtles in deranged Russian children's books
In a series of beautifully ugly (and tenuously legal) Russian kids' books, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles meet "Space Hunter," a crab-faced alien with dreadlocks. They fight at first, but the creatures later reconcile and enjoy poorly drawn pizza together.
Here are some illustrations from the Turtles' team-up with the Predator, plus some sundry pictures I found noteworthy (Russian Batman). You can check out tons more ridiculous/awesome Russian TMNT art here. There's some pretty metal artwork of the Turtles battling Greek gods, waving handguns around, and generally looking like sentient globs of creamed spinach.
The guy on this PBS grilling show just said, with a straight face, that the three rules of great grilling are: "Keep it hot; keep it clean; and keep it lubricated."