Aimee, if being a better person, more people would do it ... and the world would be better for it.

In other news - literally - Fox News seems to have hit a new low. The Southern Poverty Law Center (huh?) reports and debunks it.

OK. It's stupid and vain, but it's always bothered me that, while I'm mentioned in Wikipedia's "Poetry Slam" entry (rebutting criticism from Harold Bloom in the "Slam and Academia" section), I didn't actually have an entry of my own. And while I know several other writers who've created their own entries, and see it as a sensible marketing tool, I just can't bring myself to write anything more than the basic information.

So I've come up with a solution. I've created a Wikipedia page for myself, and I'm asking you to flesh it out. Thankfully, I'm not overly concerned if what you add is true, so by all means, be creative! The only two rules are: A.) If it's hurtful to myself or others, I'll delete it, and B.) Don't make it so crazy that the Wikipedia editors shut it down. Or, if you're inclined, put true stuff. That works, too.

So there it is. Please contribute to my fictionalized history!

I'm asking you to flesh it out.

Looks like Xander, talks like Giles, smokes like Spike...

Looks like Xander, talks like Giles, smokes like Spike...

Heh. That would work best with a photo essay ...

Ok. Talked to Boss. He wants to research benefits. He's so awesome.

Wow, great! Good goin', Aims!

Ok. Talked to Boss. He wants to research benefits. He's so awesome.

"I'm sorry. It's not you, it's me. I just need more benefits than you have."

"Baby, please don't go. Give me one more chance! I promise I'll give you all the benefits you need."

I was perfectly happy without clafouti before I knew of its existence. Now that I've been to the wikipedia article I am drooling with want. Damn you bitches!

Clafoutis is super easy to make. So easy I apparently am able to recite the recipe from memory--a first! Of course, I have made two (cherry, with pits, and blueberry) in the last 24 hours:

2 tbls butter
2 cups fruit
4 eggs
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup heavy cream
1/2 cup 1% milk
1 tsp dark rum
1 tsp vanilla
3/4 cup flour
pinch salt

Preheat oven to 350. Melt butter in the oven in an 8x8 Pyrex pan. Whisk eggs and sugar together until pale and thick. Whisk in cream, milk, rum, and vanilla (I thought the vanilla taste was a little strong in the one I made for the Buffistas so I reduced it to 3/4 tsp in the blueberry one I made last night). Whisk in flour and salt. Take the baking dish out of the oven and add the melted butter to the batter, leaving enough to coat the bottom of the pan. Place fruit evenly in the bottom of the pan; pour the batter over the fruit. Bake for 40-45 minutes, turning once. The clafoutis may puff up a lot (especially the corners), but it settles back down once it cools.

ETA: Damn you, line breaks!

Clafouti is Teh Yum, and megan rocks for bringing it.

{{{Aims}}} You can doooo eeeet!

Vortex! That sucks! I should fly out there right now and make you Stephtinis.

Vortex, would you like to go somewhere after work and ... console yourself? I would aid and abet, of course.