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Kwame Harris and I Agree: Soy Sauce is Dangerous
I know from personal experience that soy sauce can ruin walls. And I know from personal experience that soy sauce can lead to bickering that ruins an otherwise nice evening with your loved ones. Apparently, I’m not the only one to have learned this lesson. According to the San Mateo Daily Journal, a dispute over…
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Girls Gone Wild in the OT
My parental guidance counselor, XFE is out of town for work this week, leaving Petunia and I to fend for ourselves once again. So, there’s been a lot of this: And this: And this: Actually, that last one is a big, fat, wishful creamy lie. Because even though XFE was also out of town for…
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We Need Some Rules Around this House
Petunia P. Cat better get her act together. (The ‘P’ is for Poe, obv. She’s actually got a hyphenated last name, but XFE doesn’t want his last name blasted out all over the blog. I think it’s because he’s worried he might get Catfished, or something. Sidenote to above sidenote: OBSESSED with that MTV show…
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Banjo Lovers Need Not Apply
Scene: 7 am on a Friday, getting ready for work. Television is on and tuned to a music video station in the master bedroom. I am in the bathroom putting on makeup. My gangsta-thug-sucka-free-rap-star boyfriend XFE walks into the master bedroom and snorts definitively. Me: What’s up? XFE: Banjo lovers. Me: What? Oh, Mumford & Sons?…
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All I Want for Christmas is World Peace. And a Gateau Basque.
So Christmas is always, in my experience, an emotional roller coaster. And I don’t like roller coasters. Or emotions, really. But what I do like is cake. Or, pie. Or, cookie/pie/cake hybrids. Which is why for Christmas this year, I made a Gateau Basque. Actually, we’re not very big on sweets in thePoeLog household. Neither…
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Post-Thanksgiving Turkey Coma Activities
I’m going to go out on a limb here and declare Thanksgiving my favorite holiday. Quite a controversial statement, I know. Hopefully, Olivier Martinez doesn’t come over and give me a turkey day whooping for uttering such a contrarian viewpoint. (In his defense, he’s French, so he probably doesn’t really respect the whole Thanksgiving dealio. Come…
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A Few Reason Autumn Blows (Including Blowing Leaves)
I know I’m in the minority on this one, but I do not like Fall, also known as the Season of Death and Decay, which precedes the Season of White Hell and Hibernation (snow). Here is a non-exhaustive list of things I hate about Fall (which just means there could be a part two at…
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They Don’t Call It Toons-a-Ween, That’s For Sure
Good thing I had all that Sandy-cation time off this week. It gave me time to work on a Halloween costume for Petunia. There were some strong contenders. My friend Taylor recommended this scuba cat, since my assistant seamstress XFE and I are into scuba diving. By the way, did you hear about this chic?…
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Thanks for the Days Off, Sandy
As you all know, thanks to the amazingly overblown non-stop SuperStormActionTeam coverage, Hurricane Sandy blew through the Eastern seaboard and gave us all a couple of days off. Which is all well and good. I mean, I’m not one to turn down a few days off from work, but it did promote a sort of forced…
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Thanks for the Memories, Glitsy: Porktober 2012
*Let me start by apologizing for the photos. I was very lackadaisical about taking pictures, so I stole the majority of these from other people, so there’s some variance in terms of size, especially. There was a crime at this weekend’s Porktober. A crime against humanity. Someone ate all of the mozzarella out of the…