I want Maria's pizza. Right now.

I had a slice of something called thai chicken pizza. It wasn't half bad.

I don't have a One True Pizza but I do have very strong ideas about what should NOT be and how thick the crust should NOT be on a pizza I'm eating. I don't care how anybody else does their pizza. (also strong ideas about what should not be on a cheesesteak...lettuce? mayo?! peope are wack)

Okay lamest idea ever:

WE'LL COME TO YOU: Oscar producer Gil Cates announced Monday that some of this year's winners will not be invited on stage to accept their trophy. In an effort to bring the show in under 18 hours, the victors in some of the less-popular categories (read: anything containing the words "short," "mixing" or "Michael Moore") will receive their statue from a presenter parked in the audience.

It had peanut sauce on it.

mearaing.

What? You didn't follow Jon Stewart's advice to "Stay in school!"

No. I quit school because I met a hot guy and wanted to get married. Is this where I turn over my feminist card?

Secret message to Typo Boy:

(Zanesville is a tiny little place itself, so a suburb of it is a really small town.)

This is where I grew up. I cannot tell you how accurately you have encapsulated the area. And there is only one decent Chinese restaurant in town, Mark Pi's, but it is reasonably good. My sister worked there, so they still give me free stuff, years later.

Also, they got all excited because they put in a Golden Corral right by my church, so everyone goes there now. This is on topic because the Golden Corral serves brussels sprouts. It was odd for me because I moved there in seventh grade, from an area in northern Ohio where there was plenty of ethnic food available and good.

Nobody else read that, because now all you internet stalkers will know where I lived and go looking for my yearbook picture. And that is a bad, dangerous thing for you to do. Oh, wait, did I blackfont that?

I have nothing to say about the extensive scrotum conversation.

Happy Malasada Day (as the sign and Leonards proclaimed).

Yay, malasadas! I don't think I've ever seen the singular form of malasadas. There may be a reason for this. Mmmm...

Furthermore on the food coversation, I eat everything and anything. I am the opposite of a food snob. As a result, I like brussels sprouts and cabbage and sauerkraut and tomatoes and pretty much everything else that got mentioned except lima beans, and those I'm merely indifferent about.

Somebody in here said "anchovies". They could take it back, before it gets serious.

Anchovies I can deal with, but you people keep your olives away from my pizza.

Somebody in here said "anchovies". They could take it back, before it gets serious.

When combined with pineapple, the perfect topping for pizza.

(Cat person, loves dogs, but doggie smell gives me a sad headache, so until they come up with unscented pups, I'm sticking to my feline companions.)

I am not a Cat Person or a Dog Person. I am a Mammal Person. I've known great cats, fab dogs, evil bitter cats, seriously nasty-ass dogs, and everything in between. I've also owned rabbits, hamsters, guinea pigs and mice and have attained a state of nodding acquaintance with several horses, and my conclusion is that if it is furry and nurses its young, I am all for it.

Dogs have a particularly dogly glory that is utterly unlike that of cats, and cats have a marvelous tiny-brained eccentricity that dogs completely lack; I refuse to choose between them, except that I am slightly biased against large dogs, who tend to not live as long as their smaller brethren, which would suck horribly for me because, what with their being mammals and all, I would be certain to love them just as much as the longer-lived ones, only I'd get my heart broken on a more regular basis.

All that said, I don't much like Yorkies. But the one Yorkie I ever really knew was extremely nast, so I blame her thoroughly and remain determined to challenge my prejudice by making the acquaintance of another Yorkie at some point.

ION, I love tomatoes, have hated all the brussels sprouts I've had so far but admit that some of the recipes described upthread sound very tasty, especially Rio's crisp and buttery popcorn-with-vitamins thing, dislike baby peas and raw carrots and feel indifferent toward broccoli but will eat just about any other vegetable in just about any condition, and will even eat carrots and broccoli in their soup form.

The Gud robe sounds like a thing of splendor indeed.

And if ita's around, I can post the story of the New Orleans Victorian Thunderdome guy before I crawl back into the salt mines.