28 Sep 2012 5 Comments
in Humor, Observations, Starlets, Yoga Students & Quinoa (stories) Tags: bacon, clarified butter, food, ghee, humor, license plates, tofu, turkey bacon, yoga
A friend of mine at a design firm where I do contract work a couple days a week makes herself some turkey bacon every morning. You can smell it when you walk into the break room.
I began referring to it as “fakecon” (as in fake bacon), which she objected to. “It’s not fake, it’s turkey.”
Mmmmm.
As far as my knowledge goes, turkeys do not have a bacon cut. (If they did, Thanksgiving might’ve been a more memorable meal.) More
17 Sep 2012 15 Comments
in Food, Humor, Observations, Video Tags: car chase, chiles rellenos, food, humor, Le Creuset, los angeles, Mexican food, O.J. Simpson, police
I was in kitchen, making dinner, when my 8-year-old son yelled from the family room. “Dad, car chase!”
Here in Los Angeles, we have our share of high-speed car chases — if you’re old enough to remember the O.J. Simpson murders, you’ll recall we even have slow-speed car chases. We’ve got a lot of cars, a lot of freeways, and a fair percentage of people doing things they shouldn’t be. I typically don’t pay much attention — it seems prurient, like staring at a car wreck or a topless woman on a European beach. But once in awhile, I get sucked in. Which is what happened the other night, as I cooked chiles rellenos. More
11 Sep 2012 12 Comments
in Humor, Observations Tags: cooking, fish, food, haiku, humor, poems, poetry, SPAM
Although I have a Master’s degree in creative writing and have been published in various poetry journals, you wouldn’t know it from some of my poetry.
The other night I lay in bed wide awake at 2 a.m., thinking about a poem. I got up and went to the computer. Here’s the poem I wrote:
401K
You contribute
to your 401K
again
and again.
You watch
as your money
earns interest.
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Often, my silliest poems are about food. More
skinny girls & mayonnaise 