#128- The joys of high fructose corn syrup

As wise man Fat Bastard once said, “I eat because I’m unhappy, and I’m unhappy because I eat.” My motto is somewhat the reverse of this in that eating makes me happy, and I’m happy in part because I eat. Nevertheless, I’m notorious for making food choices that might repulse the average human, [...]

#127-Two Four Six Eight…

Last time I visited home there were talks of a human pyramid to be performed for the good of the blog. Some felt the audience needed to read/see more human stunts.  Unfortunately I was surrounded by a lot of chicken shit losers.  I vowed to myself that the next time I had between 5-7 humans [...]

#126- Nirvana

I’m not much of a liquor drinker.  I’ll have a margarita on a somewhat regular basis, but generally I order beer or wine.  As we settled down to 99 Hanover, a restaurant/bar in Edinburgh, a cocktail sounded so refreshing. I asked our waitress to recommend one and she produced an absolute delight.
I had the *best [...]

#125: Fish cakes with a side of shorter life expectancy, please.

We ate lots of fried objects on our trip.  Emily justified this with the fact that we walked all day long everywhere- we only took one cab on the entire trip.  Perhaps it would be justifiable to me if I too weighed EIGHTY POUNDS.  I’m nice and roundish and weigh, well, more than eighty pounds. 
Among other [...]

#124- Swan Lake

While in Dublin, Emily and I took a stroll through the famous St. Stephen’s Green- a huge park located in the middle of the city.  It was really peaceful and beautiful and we had had an exhausting day of eating, shopping and eating, so we picked a spot near the water and sawed some logs. [...]

#123- Yes, that’s us in the outfield eating donuts and drinking coffee

The first thing Emily and I planned on this trip was a concert.  So, yes, we bought the concert ticket before we had our plane tickets.  The odd part was I did this for a group of which I wasn’t even a fan.  Yes, I’m fiscally responsible.  Why are you looking at me that way? [...]

#122- Advantage Cogsy

While in London,
I went to Wimbledon.
Emily and I packed a picnic lunch, took the 120 degree train to the Southfield stop, and planned to relax in a park to watch some tennis on the community big screen.  We stopped to ask a traffic guide for directions, and next thing you know we were heading to [...]

#121- R.I.P.

While in Glasgow, we took a day trip that involved seeing lots of the countryside and western highlands and some fishing villages.  One of the stops, the village of Luss, was an adorable quaint cutie-pie of a town, built around Loch Lomand.  Side note: did you know that Scotland has over 30,000 lochs (loch= lake [...]

#120- Melee

During our first stay in London, the Euro Cup was still going on, so we decided to grab some grub and then head to a pub for the Spain vs. Italy game. We had passed Little Italy on our walk, and every bar was overflowing with humans, so we were a bit nervous [...]

#119- Graham Cracker + Marshmellow+ Hershey’s + Natural Gas, anyone?

Jo came over tonight for dinner with Nick and I.  We ate pizzas and salad.  Post meal we were feeling particularly crazy, so:
I cooked a s’more on the stove top.
We enjoyed them on our balcony and they were as delicious as their more rustic counterparts that are traditionally made over a campfire. It was definitely [...]