My buddy Dave reminded me via his post that I wanted to acknowledge the 20th anniversary of Operation Mindcrime. 20 years ago May 3rd, Queensryche released arguably the best metal concept album ever, and one of the best metal albums period. At a time w…
Yahoo published a list of the top 25 hair metal bands. There was zero chance that I would let this pass without comment.
25. Winger – Best of and Winger should never be used in context together.
4. LA Guns – I would probably put them higher on the list…
Anvil of Stars is the sequel to The Forge of God. In Anvil, a group of 80 teenagers have been plucked from the survivors of earth’s destruction and tasked with hunting down and eliminating the creators of the robots that destroyed earth. They are guide…
How the hell did I make it to age 40 without ever reading The Earthsea Trilogy? Somebody should just take my geek card away. I feel so ashamed. Anyway, these are fantastic books. I mean, really, really fantastic books that should be on the same shelf w…
Every once in a while I read something on the Internet that actually turns out to be true. In this case, I am talking about Kris’ recipe for fudge.
We made it earlier today. It really is that good.
Andrea’s Fudge
Put chocolate chips, butter, and marshmallow cream in a large bowl. Set aside. In heavy dutch oven, bring milk and sugar to a boil over medium-high heat, stirring constantly until mixture comes to a full rolling boil. Continue stirring frequently for exactly 8 minutes. Pour hot mixture over ingredients in bowl. Stir until well mixed, then beat with an electric mixer until fudge begins to hold its shape. Beat in vanilla. Stir in nuts. Pour fudge into a buttered 13″ x 9″ pan and refrigerate until solid.
Note – boil the sugar milk in the smallest pan that you can. If it’s too thin it’ll burn.
Merry Christmas, Happy Saturnalia, Joyous Festivus, or whatever you may be celebrating this week.
I’m going to break up the Philly trip summary into several posts. This one is my impressions of the “stuff” we did while in Philadelphia.
Thursday
Traffic was a breeze headed north. We did F’burg to Philly in a little over 3 hours. We went straight to …
It was a little foggy this morning when we got to the show. And I’m not just talking about my head!
A nifty, narrated “day at a show” production may be forthcoming soon.
Inspired by this Doc Searls post listing all the cars he has owned.
81989 Plymouth Laser* – The twin to the Mitsubishi Eclipse. I bought this upon graduating from college in 89 and getting my first real job. By all accounts it should have been a solid …
Sixteen years ago
The USSR collapsed
And we said “I do”.
Until I started looking for inspiration for anniversary gifts this year, I had no idea that while we were saying I do, Gorbachev was tossed in jail in a coup that marked the end of the USSR. It…
