Indian food also almost always has butter unless you ask for it without.

For those fans of old-time newspapers and pulp stories, here's a site with scans of newspaper stories of mayhem, murder, and other scandalous stuff, mostly from the Chicago Tribune (so you'll see lots of weird spellings, courtesy of Colonel McCormick who was an advocate of spelling reform: "clew" for "clue," etc.).

Man, the second men's semi is a nailbiter - even with just the scores.

Almost done. Then I go back to work for 4 hours!

I can haz wireless internetz!

Moved in-ish, cats are loving their woodsy backyard, most of the gross stuff is cleaned (toilet, bathtub, washing machine(!)) and the primer is on the walls and I finally found the right shade of blue-green for the BR and LR walls. I think the kitchen and DR are going to be a deep mango and brilliant yellow-orange with the same buttery yellow I'm using in the other rooms to blend it.

Furniture is mostly fitting in the new smaller space, but some will have to go. Grrr.

Heating element in the dryer went kablooey, but at least the air dry gets the job done. And I'm a bit concerned that the hill behind (that the apartment/garage is actually built into) is already showing signs of erosion from even the first rain a couple of days ago. And it's still raining!

I knew I wanted to get rid of all the invasives, but I can't afford to replant them all, and their roots are the only meager things keeping that hill intact.

I am happy.

and Chinese food frequently has pork where you wouldn't expect it.

It's like the south and collard greens!

Also fish sauce can be ubiquitous.

Still, I bet the local SFistas on Yelp have scoped out which asian restaurants are vegan friendly.

Actually, the South is pretty upfront about the collard greens. Expect pork.

Expect pork.

This would be a good answer to that Actor's Studio question, What do you want to hear when you arrive at St. Peter's gate in Heaven?

So, if I have something screwed up in my TMJ joint in my jaw (preventing my teeth from lining up like they usually do when I close my mouth), who do I call? Oral surgeon? Dentist (and ask what oral surgeon they recommend)?

I think this is related to the TMJ surgery I had in '87....

Today, in hilarious official responses to lawsuits:

Activision's none too pleased about Double Fine Productions' heavy metal epic Brütal Legend having gone to EA. So it's suing the developer. What say you, Double Fine president Tim Schafer?

"Hey, if Activision liked it, then they should have put a ring on it," Schafer said. "Oh great, now Beyoncé is going to sue me too."