Here's to Ruth...

RUUUUUUTH.


Seriously though, we should get the whole family together to celebrate what she has created.

let's compare these freestyles on "westwood"

Someone was having an off day. But who?

Kid Cudi
Eminem
Lil Wayne

Sidebar!

HighDea

There's a website called highDEAS, which is self-explanatory. Here's tonight's. It's a practical one.

Cheese is good. But sometimes cheese goes bad, and that's bad.

You gotta freeze that cheese. But when you freeze slices of cheese they get separation anxiety and when you try to defrost them and they go immediately from frozen to a lot more melted cheese than you were planning on eating right now.

Not shredded cheese though. That shit crumbles right off when it's frozen. It's the cheese to freeze.

jake's new name

First thought of the day:

Jake's blog name should be Jake 'n Bake.

that is all.

Hairy

I propose a contest in which the winner is he who discovers the best facial hair the internet has to offer. I'll start off the bidding with this dandy.

first found song of the year

Here is the music video for the first song I listened to twice in a row this year.

Its hipster-rific. Waaaaay more than I had expected. In fact, I would suggest not even watching the video. Just listen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DK77hz_sYE&feature=related

This holiday I want some suggestions for music & internet-ertainment from yalls. And I want resolutions. Here's what I got:

Music discoveries that I be diggin at the end of the year: The Walkmen, The National, Brother Ali, Kid Cudi, Arcade Fire

Favorite way to be explorin new music at work: Grooveshark

Favorite 2010 item, or like, ever: item

Favorite 2010 movies I be favoritin: Inception, The Ghost Writer, Un Prophete, Winters Bone

Holiday movies I be lookin forward to addin to that listy: Black Swan, True Grit, The Fighter

Favorite new 2010 protein-dense jerky that tastes a little odd: Perky Jerky.

Massive 2010 love/hate relationship with a computer program: me & MATLAB

2011 Resolutions:
-get my sled on w/ my kids on
-keep thine Glenn Close, but thine Kyra Sedgwick Closer. Wakka wakka wakka.
-get on the optogenetics train
-and continue fussing around with viruses in the brain.
-continue trend of attending one, and only one, concert a year
-Clean. Clean everything.
-drag knuckles across pavement more often, much more often.
-Avenge...something...

Here is a working link to Bubb's last post...

Let's do some meth

I like this picture for a few reasons. First, it's pretty damn incredible to see what just a few years of meth is doing to these poor hillbilly bastards. The open sores, the shame and sadness in their eyes, it even seems to change the way the face is shaped. Second, these people were all pretty to ugly to begin with, so maybe a change in facial structure was part of the appeal to them, because, third, it actually made one of the girls a lot hotter.

sci fi adventure

This looks friggin stupid:


But this looks friggin cool:


And this looks friggin delicious:

Just cause

I can't believe I actually found this. I hate video posts but your not going to believe this one. We have a freeggin theme song!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7J_ax3s8-I

notice the greasy muscle painting in the background

I have been watching you

Howdy dewdy cuz'z,
I forgot about this thing a while ago. I thought that nobody could possibly still think this thing is worth their time, but au contraire. Luckily I didn't miss too much. Whipit is fecally fixed. Ksnake is, well...very silly. Cheese is, how do you say...photoey. What fun! A little background about myself: I ate collard greens and turkey meatballs tonight and it went straight to my head.

Warmest Regards,

Edwin

Halloween Ideas

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poop jokes

mountainous sounds alot like mount-anus

"a sweet-ass ride" can become "a sweet ass-ride" (or cool ass-car, or sweet ass-living, or mellow ass-life, or nice ass-view). This joke was stolen, then expanded on, from xkcd.com

I have been putting serious thought into getting a funny tattoo that I won't get sick of. This is very difficult. My best so far is: "(enter poop joke here)". This may have below it, a tiny stick figure with a giant pile of poop next to him. He may be giving the

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face. Still working on it.

Recent backpacking trip

The Manistee River in Central Michigan.

Jake jumping for the sake of jumping.

Insert caption here:

Jake hanging from a bridge for the sake of hanging from a bridge.

If three guys are gay in the woods do you post it on the internet?

Gramma's Beef Barley Soup

I want to apologize for going AWOL from the blog for so long. I only have my apparent abundance of latent gayness as an excuse. Rob gave me the equivalent of an email bitch slap and now here is the requested Gramma Ruth recipe for Beef Barley Soup. I also included a bonus recipe of hers for Meatloaf if you are so inclined.

Beef Barley Soup (quoted exactly as written followed by my additions)

1. Beef (drawing of a tiny circle within a larger circle here) round/ bone in middle
2. soup bones (3 about)
3. brown in a little olive oil
4. put in kettle with celery tops and onions, clove garlic and cook for 2 or 3 hours
5. strain (cut up meat and save)
6. add to broth 1 can beef broth and barley
7. cook 45 minutes or 1 hr. test barley
8. add carrots, celery, zucchini, corn, etc and 1 can diced tomatoes
9. cook just til done
   

Okay, this recipe is actually really good but it needs some splainin. This is for 8 servings.

• The tiny circle within a circle means eye of round, its a cut of meat.
• There are no measurements so I used my own, here they are:
• 4 lbs eye of round (or chuck) cut into 1 inch cubes
• 8 tbsp olive oil
• 8 cups beef stock (add to step 4)
• 3 medium carrots sliced (half for broth, half for soup at step 6)
• 3 ribs celery sliced (half for broth, half at step 6)
• 1 large onions diced
• 1 cup pearl barley
• 1 medium zucchini diced
• no corn, just seemed weird to me
• I also added 1 tsp worcestershire, 1 tsp soy sauce , salt and pepper to step 6
• pearl barley took an hour

Sorry for the long recipe, just thought you'd like to see the original.

Here's the meat loaf recipe. Never made it, mostly because I have my own kick ass recipe.

Meat Loaf (written exactly as she did)

• 1/2 # veal )
• 1/2 # pork } Or the mixture in the store
• 1/2 # beef )
• 3 beaten eggs
• 2 large onions----1/2 green pepper
• 4 c. crumbs (mostly bread)
• 3 c. milk
• 5 tsp salt--1/2 tsp pepper---2tbsp parsley
• 1/2 tsp dry mustard
• 1/4 tsp sage or poultry seasoning
• 1/4 tsp garlic salt
• 350 degrees--1hr---1 1/2 hr

So there you have it. Enjoy and will one of you Smith boys cut and paste this to your mom?

Matt:
Can you post that Grandma beef recipe you mentioned you love the other day? I forget what the dish was...stew? Brisket? Grandmabeef?

best online comic ever

www.xkcd.com

A webcomic of romance,
sarcasm, math, and language.

I also really enjoy garfield minus garfield.

links

I don't normally make a whole post just for a youtube link, but this is great.

So someone tried to creep into a window in the projects for some nonconsentual hanky-panky, and the local news covered it with a pretty amusing interview with the victims's brother. Here's the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPAeXI5rN9E&feature=search

Then, someone put it to some music, and now it is the number one most requested song on many music stations. Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMtZfW2z9dw

And while I'm at it, might as well throw out a link to a classic that this reminds me of: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nda_OSWeyn8&feature=search (that's right, the Alabama leprechaun)
(can't forget the music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZfyrIPw3wY&feature=search