Speaking of Big Bang Theory. Did anyone see the closing credits splash screen this week? God bless DVR and pause. Here is what the 1 second splash screen said:
Chuck Lorre Productions, #378
I do not interact with Facebook, Twitter or any of the other social networking platforms. My reasoning is simple. Why in the world would I want to share my private thoughts and feelings with the world at large? What good could possibly come from me having a convenient outlet to express myself to millions of people? The more likely outcome is that in a misguided attempt to be funny or cute, I'd say something stupid and wind up getting publicly raked over the proverbial coals. Which is why I think the wiser path is to keep my opinions to myself. For example, if I were to feel moral outrage over an organization riddled with peeophiles expressing their moral outrage over contraception, I certainly wouldn't tweet about it. And the photographs I've taken of myself wearing nothing but oven mitts and a tiara will never be shared on a Facebook page.
BACONFEST?! OMG, WANT.
Oh, yeah. My friends and I started going 3 years ago. That year, they sold out 600 tickets in one day. Last year, they changed venues so they could allow in 1200 people. Sold out in 4 hours. They changed venues again this year (to the state fairgrounds!) so they could accomodate 4000 people. Sold out in 30 minutes.
It's a crazy day of a TON of bacon and silliness. Restaurants have booths with bacon appetizers, main dishes, and desserts. There are local, organic farms with bacon samples. There are booze companies with bacon bloody mary's and other cocktails.
By the end of the day, you have consumed a metric ton of bacon and are retaining so much water due to the salt, you won't pee for about 12 hours. Totally worth it.
Mmm, bacon fest. Which my iPhone we ta to make bacon FEAT. which I am sure there are feats of bacon at the fest! Those sound like delicious cupcakes. I introduced the roomie to Trophy cupcakes and she liked them better than Cupcake Royale (though the cake balls there have their place!).
Yikes, conversation has slowed down. C'mon west coasters.
Um. Ah.
By the end of the day, you have consumed a metric ton of bacon
Like that is a bad thing?
Full disclosure: At Genie's with Jilli, we will order a bacon Bloody Mary and then bacon benedict. The time she ordered something else, we got a side of bacon to split. I regret nothing. (She takes the celery from my drink in our exchange of garnish hostages. Celery is not my friend. An olive and cute peppers are.)
Like that is a bad thing?
Not at all.
At our first fest, we had eaten a ton of bacon and had made sure to drink a LOT of water. Around 7pm, I looked at my friends and said, "Ok, I know we're close friends so I can ask this. Have any of you pee'd since about noon?" The resounding answer was no.
The next morning, I asked, "Around 4 this morning, did any of you wake up and have to pee like a racehorse??" The resounding answer was yes.
The bacon-induced salt dam had finally broken and all the water we drank flushed out our systems!
Okay, I need to get up in about 4 hours so I should probably go to bed. See y'all on the flip side, with some salty bacon.
I think that much bacon would have adverse effects on the other end. Unless I ate 2x the bacon amount in fiber.
Crap. All this talk of bacon has me hungry now.
Being the sound guy I am, I have to say, a lot of the tv shows I watch seem to have more and more scenes where the folks are clearly wired for sound on radio mics... And the mics are clearly buried under too much clothing, and they didn't spend any time in post to try and brighten up the sound, so it's all muffled. C'mon people. For years they did this. What happened?
