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May 26, 2005
Found Porn: When the Diapers Come Off
Things that are good:
· San Francisco.
· The annual Bay to Breakers race, where folks like to run in costume and, sometimes, naked.
· Boys with a blog who like to strip down to the altogether at the slightest provocation.
· Beer.
· The confluence of all these things near a working digital camera.
Things that are not good:
· View-obscuring black boxes.
Posted by kyle at 12:38 PM | Comments (5)
May 25, 2005
And there shall come... A SMOTHERING!
A week or so back, my faithful and tenacious aide-de-camp Jenny joined me on the latest adventure of Cake Club: the quest to create a Boston Cream Pie. This was ironic in two ways: first, since it is a cake that is clearly named "Pie," and B) the last Cake Club meeting produced a cheesecake, which is a cake in name only.
Because Jenny has enough cookbooks to reach from here to Tavern on the Green and back, she found one to try in The Joy of Cooking. It seemed simple enough, though the cake for the layers was to be made of "hot milk cake," which is something neither of us had tried before.
Nevertheless, we proceeded with our usual abandon (after eating two big-ass burritos), and ended up with something that, while it tasted good, really didn't taste great. The cake was a bit too eggy, and we clearly overdid it with the chocolate glaze. I guess we didn't have to use it all, but I think you'll agree when I say it's hard to resist once you start to drizzle. It's a slippery slope!
The best bit was most assuredly the custard in the middle, which turned out to be not so hard to make as we thought, though Jenny's arm got quite the workout whisking.
Once we're in the mood to repeat the experiment, I think we'll try the recipe I found in my new favorite cookbook, The King Arthur Flour Baker's Companion. Those mid-western types sure are kooky, but they know their way around an oven.
You can click here to see the pictures Jenny and Harold took of the events of the night. Yes, I have had a haircut since then.
Posted by kyle at 7:23 PM
May 11, 2005
An Offer I Couldn't Refuse
Two weeks ago, I had a rare non-holiday visit back to West Virginia to see my family. Specifically, my sister asked me to be the Godfather of her second child, Maxwell William. Finding babies only mildly interesting until Max's big sister Mandy hit the scene two years ago, I naturally leapt at the chance, as I am now crazy for babies. Or maybe just babies related to me. Whatever.
If you assume I'll go on about how wonderful and cute and fat and adorable and smart and happy and did I say cute Max and Mandy both are, then you are correct! I had a great time. Suddenly, visits back to my hometown aren't quite as boring as they sometimes are: sitting around and gabbing or watching TV takes on a whole new dimension when you've got a drooling smiler and a ball of energy who loves to sing and dance to draw your attention.
Click on over to my first-ever Shuttlerfly album to see the pictures. Keep in mind that the true greatness of these kids is hard to capture in a photo. You'll have to trust me when I say they are the best ever.
Posted by kyle at 3:46 PM | Comments (4)
May 5, 2005
Bottoms Up: A Preview
As regular visitors to these pages will know, I am a contributor to a regular feature on the Prism Comics website, Queer Eye on Comics. My latest offering is scheduled to show up on the site this coming Sunday, but you can get a sneak peek at it right now.
I wasn't sure I'd even have this one ready in time. I literally banged this baby out in like three hours on Tuesday night before Christopher came home. I think it's pretty funny, though, so it looks like I work well under pressure after all.
Welp, I'm off to build the Great Wall of China, if you'll exuse me.
Posted by kyle at 3:02 PM
May 4, 2005
The latest thing to piss me off
Do people realize what dicks they look like with these Bluetooth Headsets mounted in their ears 24/7? I mean come on... you're the manager of a Quizno's on Golden Gate and Van Ness. Who's calling you so constantly that you've got to have it on "just in case?"
I can admit they are a useful tool (when I worked for City CarShare, one of these babies would have really come in handy), but as a fashion accessory they fairly scream "Look at me, I could conceivably have lost millions in the dot com bust!"
PS: Don't be fooled by the fact that this picture has a woman wearing it. Only men use these. And look like dicks.
Posted by kyle at 4:33 PM | Comments (6)
The Lies behind the Truth, and the Truth behind those Lies that are behind that Truth
I was in my home state of West Virginia over the weekend, and all we heard about on the news (TV and radio to my dismay) was the story of that gal who was 'abducted' before her wedding. I want to celarly state that, to my sister, I mentioned that it sounded fishy to me and that she might have run off herself.
Naturally it turns out she did. I am king.
In a related story: Don Assmussen is totally awesome.
Posted by kyle at 2:30 PM