The Godfather of Gangsta Rap: Stagolee

Inspired by this post, I took out the stand mixer and made my first-ever homemade pasta. Surprisingly easy!

They were ravioli, kinda. I started out doing what Micheal Ruhlman was doing in that link above, but soon switched to simple square ravioli - easier to handle. For filling, I defrosted some of John DeLucie's "white bolognese" sauce that I had made over Christmas, and cooked most of the liquid off. Parsnips, fennel, sage, veal and pork! very nice.

Wasn't sure what to do for a sauce, so I just made a standard red sauce.

Then I made French bread, which came out far too dense. It'll be good for French toast, though.

Makers Mark has changed its mind. They're not going to dilute their bourbon after all. Their customers beat em back.

A proposal to make Roadrunner the official rock song of Massachusetts.

Of course Rubio's statement was a dog-whistle.

Google 'Obama controls weather'. This has been a right wing chew toy for many months now. And comments about 'controlling the weather' are usually paired with something about Obama also being unable to hold back the tides.

The numbskulls who make up the 'conservative' base have been having a lot of fun pretending that their context-free paraphrases of things Obama and Pelosi have said in speeches were real quotes. This is third-rate AM talkshow fodder. But it's pretty widespread.

What's interesting is that Rubio is willing to give this kind stuff prime-time attention. This is the kind of nonsense that usually stays down in the muck: the stuff respectable a politician would be ashamed to associate with. But that's not Rubio, apparently.

Chubby Checker In A Twist Over The Chubby Checker

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Nic Cage as Everyone

...at The Quietus.

What Ockham really said