I just realized something. You know how the start of Daylight Saving Time has been moved up this year? It begins on March 11 - about three weeks earlier than before. March 11 is my birthday. We set our clocks forward on March 11. So... my birthday is only 23 hours long!

Fuckers.

When Daylight Saving Time ends and we set our clocks back an hour, I'm claiming that extra hour as my own. For birthday stuff. Just you wait.

So, I'm looking at a 15th century book of recipes.

My favorite, translated from Middle English by me so mistakes are all MINE:

Take calves' feet, clean and scaled. Soak them in wine and in a mixture of sweet broth that they might be tender. Take them up, lay them on a board. Pick away the bones, but keep some of the sinew. Hew them all together. Grind it then temper with the broth it makes. Do this in a pot.

I don't know why but I find the recipe incredibly charming. Disgusting, yet full of charm.

There are so many great recipes, including one for "Tarts of Flesh."

Snakes on a Barbie!

A psychotherapist psychotherapistizes Bush: Bush and the Psychology of Incompetent Decisions

Yeah, it's easy for a psychotherapist to make all sorts of judgments of Bush to fit an agenda, but I think this editorial paints a consistent and believable psychological portrait of Bush. It probably goes without saying that the implications are scary....

You should start celebrating the day before -- you know, when it's March 11th in Australia and then just keep going.

You should start celebrating the day before -- you know, when it's March 11th in Australia and then just keep going.

I totally should. Or take a vacation in a place that doesn't switch to DST on that day. Or I could just cross into a more Western timezone on my b-day and pick up an extra hour that way.

Why can't long distance travel be faster? I'm of a mood to gather friends and family together and let them have at it and yet there is a freaking contintent amidst all of us?

Why can't long distance travel be faster?

Because supersonic aircraft are not an economically viable means of transportation.

Too hard to know who'll be left to maintain the tree.

I'm pretty sure I'm not going to be floating away into the clouds, so I'll make sure the other heathens are informed should anything Left Behind-ish occur.

There are so many great recipes, including one for "Tarts of Flesh."

Joey Tribbiani would be pleased.

I'm pretty sure I'm not going to be floating away into the clouds, so I'll make sure the other heathens are informed should anything Left Behind-ish occur.

I'm sure I'll still be around too. We can hang out and do heathen stuff...

"We were once so close to heaven/Peter came out and gave us medals/declaring us the nicest of the damned" - TMBG.