Recent backpacking trip

The Manistee River in Central Michigan.

Jake jumping for the sake of jumping.

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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

observational humor

I've been coming to this site almost daily hoping that I would come up with something funny. Most of the time I start typing something about pooping then delete it. Rubb suggested I write down some observations and then type them all in at once. So far the only one I have is...

I find emptying your bowels and bladder, simultaneously, in one extravagent show of force to be amazingly satisfying.


sorry.

I will be adding a comment to this post which has much better ones that weren't written by me. I would suggest reading all of them if you have the time.

The Questions

In an effort to bring this party back to life, I am proposing a little question game. I'll start with the first question. Then, every time somone comes to the site, they answer the question and pose another one. Here we go.

What person would you most like to see humiliated, and what would you like to see them do?

Summer Adventure

Anyone got any summer adventure plans? Colorado trips? Backpacking? Anal clam-crams in Boston?

I got that travel bug. Also, that travelers stomach bug, which has had my poop looking like my turtle-water after not cleaning it for too long. brown, green, watery, turtle-infested... I'll be pooping in cups for this one for sure.

Nude Tayne

Let me share you two vids I'm addicted to:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmNeXu5xIDY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-x068o6Wtw4&feature=related

for kyle

I came acroos this photo. Not sure if its a hoax. supposed to be a true 3-d map of neurons, which seams impossible to me.


www.gearfuse.com/first-3d-map-of-the-brains-connections/

Oh, Inception, ohhhhhhhh my...

quick story

So, my car was stolen over the weekend. I have not heard from the police in 3 days. I assumed it would be found in glenwood, striped clean. They just called me and told me my car was found in el jabel, legally parked on the street in a subdivision, with no obvious damage, and the trunk was crammed full of camping equipment. Also, my check book was still in the center counsole.

Weird.

another linkery

http://www.manofest.com/Content/the-10-most-ridiculous-fight-scenes-in-movie-history.html

the second is my favorite, due to the surprise ending.

omg

http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2010/05/lord_jesus_christ_says_getting.html

creepiest youtube video

This may be the creepiest thing I've seen in a while.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkjyZHZhokM&feature=popular

another quote

Sorry if I snaped at you yesterday, I had waaaaay too many body fluids.



note a quote but thought of at work:

If I were to hit my car with a strap of leather, I would be whipping my whip. "Whipit, Jay Jay face!" is what they would say.

and now...

your sunday needs some whipit cream. in your va Jay Jay and Face too. awww yea.

I'm Brant and I'm a bicycle

I don't understand these new Microsoft commercials. You've seen 'em. A young and ethnically ambiguous individual says some garbage about Windows 7. He or she then bleats that they made a suggestion to Microsoft about some useless window function. Finally, the zombie says "garbage, garbage, garbage...and I'm a PC." I'm left feeling utterly dumbfounded at what just happened. I don't understand the relevance to anything regarding computers. "I'm a PC"...what the fuck does that mean? I'm Brant and I'm a bicycle. I wish there were a marketing expert on this blog to explain this corruption to me. How could any human identify with this? Are they sitting there shoveling pipping-hot shrimp scampi into there gullets thinking, "this guy is a pc, I identify with this, I will buy Windows 7"? This isn't reasonable. I am going to go throw my TV out of my window into traffic now.

I see postage in your future

May I have your addresses please? A note of warning: addresses posted here will be disseminated cousin-wide...

Help - Links - Need Em

I would like help finding a few sites that provide me with some funny, and not video-based...I will be enjoying the funny on my phone. All I have are the Onion, stuff white people like (so-so funny), and this little one: http://dontevenreply.com/top.php

Need em.

In refernce to my comment on Bubb's last post...