Peanut Butter and Chocolate

It is so good! Here is a poll about it! To crib a line from Stephen Colbert:

The French Guy at the Farmers Market

There’s this French guy who works at the farmers market by my house. He works at the apple stand. And he is French! I love him. He sells me apple cider and he calls me mademoiselle. Seriously. He’s like “Bonjour, mademoiselle!” “Good morning mademoiselle!” “You are here for ze apple cider, yes?” “Ah, thank you, mademoiselle! I will see you next week, no?” It makes me feel like I’m Belle from Beauty and the Beast in the beginning, when she’s walking through the village.

Babies Dressed As Star Wars Characters

Yesterday, I showed a bunch of adorable baby animal Halloween costumes. I don’t consider these to be Halloween costumes. No. These are just baby clothes. Because I definitely plan on naming my first son Han Solo, my first daughter will be Mon Mothma, and my next kid will be named Leiackbar. S/he will one day be an Admiral, hopefully.

I know Baby Chewie looks a little like he got kicked out of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, but… no, I got nothing. Baby Chewie just looks like he got kicked out of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. And turned into a plushie. But let’s not get into that in a discussion of babies.

You know, I am unemployed right now, so if you don’t want to get the whole costume, I’ll make you the wig. In exchange for money.

Ben, Revisited

So I loooooooooovvvvvvvvvve Ben from Ace of Cakes and that means I’m very happy to mention that he had a starring role on the Stanley Cup episode. Favorite episode! I can’t embed it, so here’s the link on youtube!

Baby Halloween Costumes

Halloween is nigh (ish) upon us, and if you (like me) don’t have your costume set upon, you need to get cracking. Since I don’t have mine decided, I’ve been looking at Halloween costumes for babies. Growing up, I think I only had one storebought costume (Supergirl, in case you’re wondering), and I’m pretty sure it was a) pajamas, and b) a hand-me-down. I wore the crap out of that outfit, as well as all ones that my mom either painstakingly or haphazardly made me. Once I got older and made my own costumes, I wore the crap out of them too, but that was more because I usually made them out of my own clothes or our dress-up chest, and I have always had a kind of… unusual fashion sense. In fact, just the other day, my mom “offered” to get me some clothes to wear to our Thanksgiving family reunion this year, because apparently I usually embarrass her with the clothes I choose. In the words of Stephanie “Step On Me” Tanner, how rude.

Anyway. Baby Halloween costumes. For the record, these are all adorable, but I do not condone prostitot costumes. Not kidding, I saw a baby showgirl costume. That’s disgusting, and also that baby kind of looks like Bat Boy. But don’t worry, parents and people who like adorable things, there are plenty of age appropriate and INSANELY CUTE costumes. Most of them are animals.

Ben from Ace of Cakes

Ashley and I watch a lot of Ace of Cakes. It’s enjoyable and about cake. Plus, Ashley has this totally false idea that Geof and Mary Alice are secretly in love. No. False. Not accurate. It is just totally not true, and here is the evidence: Ashley makes things up and there is no evidence to support her theory except other things that she makes up.

Now that that’s out of the way, let’s talk about the real hottest guy on the show: BEN. Soooooo cute. He looks like someone, but I don’t know who (if you have suggestions, please leave them in the comments and especially LEAVE PICTURES!). I feel like maybe it’s someone I went to college with, but I can’t figure out who it would be. But I love him even with his rooster hair and pedophile facial hair, and even though he totally wore a bandana on at least one occasion at work, which means it was filmed and is on the internet. Either way, he is totally cuter than Geof, and I mean Geof is really cute. Ben is like, dirtier or something, and therefore better. I mean, I don’t think dirtier is cuter. No way. He’s better because he’s so good with his hands. He works at Charm City Cakes because he’s such a good builder!

Although, I did discover while looking for Ben clips on youtube that Geof’s last name is MANTHORNE. That might make him a little hotter, sort of like how the most attractive actor from the Harry Potter movies is probably the guy who played Oliver Wood, because his name is Sean Biggerstaff.

Bitch Magazine

I haven’t written here in forever. I’m really not into my job right now, and as a result am spending much of my time working on my resume, writing cover letters, applying for jobs, and completely destressing by watching as much terrible television as possible. I’m about two weeks away from starting to watch the Hills. Lord beer me strength, I never want that to happen. Anyway, I decided to take just a few minutes to alert people who stumble here to what’s going on over at Bitch.

I first read Bitch, jeez, almost ten years ago. I think it was like 1999 or something. I had read Bust a few times before, mostly before it became a glossy, while their website was seldom updated, and it still retained a bit more of a strictly feminist edge. None of this fashion spread and knitting crap. I mean, I love love love knitting and other fiber arts. I really consider fiber arts my biggest and sometimes only talent. But I don’t consider embroidery to be a feminist act.
Bitch isn’t that kind of feminist magazine. Bitch is for women who want to be a feminist and want to read about feminist issues that are actually issues – not how to buy your own house, sandwiched between shoes and makeup. Bitch is like Ms. but skewed a bit younger. It’s intense and sometimes a little scary. And for someone who’s been consistently reading the magazine for almost ten years, their current situation is kind of intense and scary. A couple of years ago, Bitch’s distributor went bankrupt. It was kind of a huge thing for independent media. Punk Planet folded because of it. Bitch barely made it through. And now they’re struggling to come up with the printing costs for their next issue. They need $40,000 to print the issue. Bitch has, according to what I’ve read online, raised about $15,000 so far, but they need another $25,000 by October 15. If they don’t get it, they’re done. There goes a major source for feminist voices, one that can influence and inspire young women to announce themselves as feminists. If you have a few extra dollars (which I know is hard in the current economy), I totally suggest donating them to Bitch. It’s non-profit, tax-deductible, and a good cause. Or, well, I think so anyway.

Rock Band

This is not me playing Rock Band. I would totally take a picture of myself playing Rock Band, except I don’t look nearly as good or cool or like I’m having as much fun as these people. I sit cross-legged on the couch, holding the guitar controller vertically so it looks a little like a sitar, with my mouth open a little so that I get really concerned that I look like a total mouthbreather.