Purple is the color of royalty. Does turning your chicken purple make your meal Chicken a la King?
Last night I reached new heights in culinary capers. No dinners were ruined, for once, but I did manage to dye our chicken purple. Deep, vivid purple. Like a bruise. Actually, by the time I’d finished cooking the [...]
Archive > October 2008
Chicken: The Other Purple Meat
A Veritable Smorgasbord; or, Why America’s So Fat
If you’re like me, you can’t think of a fair — be it a county fair or the state fair — without thinking of that catchy little tune from the 1973 animated version of Charlotte’s Web:
A fair is a veritable smorgasbord orgasbord orgasbord
After the crowds have ceased
Each night when the lights go out
It can be [...]
Mythbusting
For those of you who may not have heard, I’m writing a new novel. It’s a romantic comedy set at my alma mater, Baylor University, and a fictional Methodist church in Waco — not, mind you, a fictionalized version of the Branch Davidian compound (although I’ll grant that would make for some fascinating reading, if [...]
Death of a Salesman
Long-term readers of this blog may recal that one evening last May, Mr. Burt and I lost two hours of our lives to a Kirby vacuum cleaner salesman. We didn’t willingly invite him into our home; I’d gotten a call from a neighborhood welcoming association saying that as new residents of the area (this should [...]
One man’s trash is another man’s…
…artwork.
I’m not sure if this is a practice in most of the country, or even in the state, but in my neighborhood, if you no longer want something, you set it on your curb, and chances are, it’ll disappear. No, it won’t be taken away by the weekly large refuse pickup, though we do have [...]