Mar 09 2012
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-crisp 6 slices of quality bacon, cool and crumble -crumble 1/2 a cup of cambozola -pan fry (in butter) 1 cup of baby bella mushrooms (or chanterelles ) -prepare 1 pkg of fiber gourmet rotini pasta -grate 1 cup of gruyere de comte -1/2 cup of whole cream -saute 1 large bunch of dino [...]
Tags: baby bellas, bacon, cambozola, chanterelles, comte cheese, fiber gourmet, gruyere de comte, high fiber, lacinato kale, pasta salad, white cheese sauce
Mar 03 2012
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holy fuck, this is a purdy flik. it’s kinda like watching the matrix, where you have to squint your eyes or just flat out pretend that fucking talent-suck keanu reeves has most certainly NOT been cast as the quasi-savior-esque “neo” just to somehow, some way, enjoy it… ahem. scorsese rocks, despite fucking nicolas cage. filmsmithing. [...]
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now that prince has lost every sweaty drop of his cool, you know that had rick james survived, well, being rick james, he’d still be an xxxtra funky titan of funk. extra props for the rickenbacker bass. 31 years later this album still iz the shit. believe this: he’s rick james, be-yotch!
Jan 31 2012
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really, it seems like a “guy thing” but deliciousness iz universal, yo. step up and feel the heat. aaaaaahahhhhhhahahahahh!!!!!!!
Jan 14 2012
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hmmm. maybe it’s just because i hate fucking opportunistic, parasitic, piece of shit, lowlife scum and, well, therefore love vigilante comeuppance (cause and effect/affect), or maybe it’s because this is THE definitive michael caine flick; a great script, great cast and all michael fucking caine. who fucking cares? trust your ol’ buddy shim: you will [...]
Jan 12 2012
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maybe it’s just me but after tasting this vonder-beer, i can only say: shave your head and pack your bags for belgium. these felonious monks have basically solved pi in beer form. good for what ale’s you-get thee to a monastery, bitchez.
Tags: 42, 9% hell yes, abbey, buddha beer, chimay beer, delicious, drink and be happy, eat, i heart belgian monks, i love belgium, if thelonious monk was a beer, let's monk this, shave your head, sweet, sweet beer, sweet sweet beer, thelonious monk
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most of the time cooking for the hella-rich and then teaching snotty white kids will turn your old world rustic soul to a crack n’ hookers mush but, not this time. this wonderful book is basically a heartfelt fuck you to tex-mex and reminds us all that brazil, argentina and of course, cuba (just to [...]
Tags: argentina, brazil, cuba, fuck you tex-mex, grilled meat, latin grilling, lourdes castro, patagonian, put the heat to the meat, put the heats to the meats, real women smoke meat, yucatecan
Jul 16 2011
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make sure you’ve got your depends on securely or at least put down a sheet of plastic because this fucking comic tsunami will make you laugh so hard you’ll probably pee yourself. i give you, doug stanhope, (probably) the funniest man alive: not on netflix yet so here. netflix or here. here. [...]
Jun 12 2011
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you know, you probably won’t catch me raving about too many animated titles around the highly sought diet-of-insects forensic/tasting lab-campus/complex, but this, sir/madam, is, the fucking shhhhhhhheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeiiiiiiittt: sam kieth‘s very cool animated version of the maxx. it’s pretty fucking close to the comic, nerdlinger, and the voice characterizations are better than i/you could have imagined; [...]
Tags: barry stigler, glynnis talken, image comics, julie the jungle queen, Michael Haley, mr. gone, mtv animated series, mtv oddities, richard mathes, sam kieth, the maxx, the only thing mtv never screwed up
Jun 05 2011
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see it with your ears here. and then: eyes down. bass up. oh yes, my f(r)iends. sumo-fat-ne-ess. …
Tags: 1933 king kong, bass, bass be thy god, deep medi, dynamic tension records, king kong, phatt spillage, surgeon's breaking the frame, thhump-thump-thump, v.i.v.e.k., v.i.v.e.k.-eyes down