I took a little inspiration from the movie (already owned a book) and have started going through and selectively making dishes from Mastering the Art of French Cooking. I’ll never make scrambled eggs again, only oeufs brouillés. Mushroom soup for one is out though.

Didn’t really look like things should be all that bad with the snow in the UK. I mean, it just kind of looked like last week here in Denver. Then I remembered this would be minus snow tires. Best of luck to all my UK friends.

Well, this is how I spent my first vacation in about 10 years. Got a great deal. Think I want to move to Cozumel.

The article by Woody Paige heaped a lot of blame on Denver fans for not showing up at the Monday night game. Don’t blame the fans. It’s not their fault. Blame Denver and the Broncos. Denver has cycling, skiing, freaking mountain climbing. Pittsburgh has, well, Pittsburgh. And the Steelers. Surely you can now appreciate the impact the city has on us, the unspoken bond that binds us, and the reason we own Monday night. You know why we’re glad when we win? It’s because we know we won’t be depressed all week because we lost. You can’t say that about Denver. Cripes, it’s probably going to be sunny all week!

Blame the Broncos too - not the team - the organization. We respect the team. But brace up. We don’t have cheerleaders. We don’t have a styrofoam headed mascot. We don’t have some total babe riding a horse dahntahn. We come to take care of business. Win football games. We don’t play Mcmann to the announcer’s Carson and shout out “in” “com” “plete” when the other team misses a pass. We don’t get all bent out of shape just because we got a first down. We don’t bleed black and gold. We make sure the other team bleeds whatever color they want to. And if they don’t we show some goddam respect, blame ourselves, and brace for a weeklong depression under a misty, dark, and unforgivingly cold sky.

OK, I don’t usually repost these things but this “Stormtroopers’ 9/11” made my day. Thanks, Sean.

I just have to get this off my chest. Don’t usually denigrate the NFL team of whatever hometown I end up living in. I usually cheer for them until they play the Steelers. Then we wipe them up with our Terrible Towels. I used to be an Eagles fan (growing up in Lancaster PA). Moving to Pittsburgh cemented the deal for me with the Steelers, though. I was a Redskins fan in DC and have been a Broncos fan in Denver. The latest controversy in Denver over Brandon Marshall and his antics has made everyone come down on him. And all the booing over Cutler’s return made me nostalgic for Philadelphia. Yeah, sure, those two guys have their issues but they were the best players Denver had. Think what you may about them but when it comes down to it, I’d probably act like that too when you have a little girl for a coach.

Just thought I’d put together a sign for the health care rally tonight: Nazi Alien Healthcare Reform.

I updated my Michael Bauer page since I realized that I hadn’t done so in a while. An unvarnished, unashamed attempt at topping the list for my name in Google. Doubt it will work.

Talking with my friend Bill is always an educational and enlightening experience (even if the man did drive a Porsche). I loved his analogy of how the right wing health care rabble rousers are the carpetbaggers of the 21st century. They are still exploiting poor white guys in this country by getting them to think that whatever they start with (health care, jobs, environment) they will always end up with some person of color prying their gun from their cold dead hands. Same in Reconstruction, same today. That’s why Glenn Beck is going on about health care being about restitution. Only difference this time is that the landowners are media moguls.

As much as it might satisfy you to feel the sickeningly sweet spray of the arterial blood of Glenn Beck wash over you like the cool splashing waters of a baptism, do not do it. Do not kill Glenn Beck. It will just play into their hands, giving them the gentle martyr they so fervently seek. As much as you want to do it, as much as you think it needs to be done, do not do it. It would be wrong. Do not plunge our country into civil war. For the love of god, please, don’t do it. Leave that to decision to the illegal immigrant alien communist Nazi death panelists.