OK, random thought, but--they have all this blue and green confetti, and I just wonder...what do they do with all the Broncos confetti they didn't use? I mean, I know they print T-shirts and hats and stuff for both, but confetti isn't as donate-able...

(ETA: Apparently I was not the only one to think that! [link] The NYTimes did too! Sadly, they didn't answer the question)

Surely you can still sell blue and orange confetti to...I don't know, whoever buys confetti? Probably not everyone is particular about color, and it would be easy enough to add in more to make it a less specific palette, I assume.

Ha, the Silverado ads cheanged the [raw kale, etc.]"... be damned" line to "...all fine, just not today"

Oh, fooey. I made this dish from the Runner's World cookbook, with lentils and cauliflower and eggplant, with garlic and ginger and garam masala, and it's just... blah. This is why I never cook with lentils, because it always comes out blah. Brown mush with no flavor, even after three big tablespoons of garam masala.

Sigh.

Yay home team? With the sports ball? Which I didn't watch, because we finally went and saw the Hobbit. But Pete is actually a football fan, and we got home in time to see the last 10 or so seconds.

Our neighborhood is full of people setting off fireworks. I'm wary, because this is when the Death Eaters reveal themselves, right?

I assume this means that Seattle was somehow involved in the Sports Ball Spectacular Spectacular thing today?

I assume this means that Seattle was somehow involved in the Sports Ball Spectacular Spectacular thing today?

It's kind of hilarious watching Pete catch up on things via Twitter and try to explain football things to me. The dawning realization on his face that I'm not even registering what he says as English is priceless.

I do not wave my ignorance of football with geek pride or anything, it's just that I have some sort of block understanding anything sports-related. All the Quidditch sections in the HP books? Skimmed them.

My cousins in Belfast were actually watching the game live today and all invested in it. I think they are better Americans than I am.

Have folks seen the clueless British guy explaining American football?

[link]

Football is a game based on “taking other people’s land by force."

ETA: oops. I was thinking of a different clueless British guy video.

This is why I never cook with lentils, because it always comes out blah.

I feel like lentils need a fair amount of salt, but you could try adding acid?

Now watching New Girl, and I love that Prince has decided to make this his funny phase.