Merry Christmas!!!

It's Snowing! In Portland! ON CHRISTMAS!!

Mmm... gravy!

I find it a travesty that in the entire history of this blog (which claims to be all about the gravy), there has not been a single post that I can recally which is dedicated to the substance. THAT CHANGES NOW!

College has taught me the proper way to begin any important scholarly essay. It goes like this:

According to Wikipedia, "Gravy is a type of sauce, an old traditional English recipe, usually made from the juices that naturally run from meat or vegetables during cooking. Ready made cubes and powders can also be used as a substitute for natural meat or vegetable extracts. Canned gravys are also available. Gravy is commonly served with a roast dinner, Sunday roasts, meatloaf, rice, or with mashed or other popular types of potato dishes." FASCINATING.

You must end your introduction with the word "FASCINATING" or no one will know how important your Wikipedia quote is. It's very important. Are you paying attention? No, you're probably on another tab in Internet Explorer, looking for porn or maybe a wonderful pie recipie (porn). Or maybe how to spell the word "recipie." That's probably not right. Oh well, too lazy to fix that. Anyhoo, back to gravy.

GRAVY. And some meat, but who cares about that?

Gravy is a healthy animal byproduct! The internet tells me that there are 38 calories per cup of gravy, and that it is in fact a source of calcium, Vitamin A, and iron. We should just grind up animals and send them to third world nations in the form of gravy. World hunger: fixed! Now on to something more important, like what happens when you run out of ideas for an essay on gravy and Google "gravy disaster."

The answer to that ages-old riddle is that you get an article from the London Independent called "On the gravy train to disaster." Much to my chagrin, it's not about gravy, nor is it about trains. I think it's about rugby, but really I was too lazy to read it.

Okay, I think I'm done here. Really, there's not much to write about gravy. Oh well, I think I'll just post this now... ooh, there's this new thing where you can label your post for easy categorization. It's suggesting "scooters, vacation, fall." Sounds relevant to me! Thanks Blogspot!

On the subject of politics..

This was a cartoon from an old Newsweek magazine that I can't stop chuckling at.
Obama really does look like Tigger don't you think?

Empty Walls

Hey so I caught this video on VH1 this morning. Its the dude from System of a Down. I'm more of a Rage guy, but they're gone and I don't think System gets enough credit. Anyway, I just thought it was really interesting and possibly kind of exploitive. Serj is trying to create some controversy, and since I agree with him, I will help wholeheartedly.

The colors are amazing on the real video, so you should try to catch that.

Post script
Yeah, they're back

Post post script
'Empty walls' is either the most idiotic phrase ever, or the second most poetic. After 'cellar door' of course.

{Edit} Favorite part is definitely when the kids pull down Teddy Saddam

Booo tonsils!

It's true, Karolyn and her tonsils have had a falling out of sorts...(something about getting strep throat eight or nine times these past twelve months can do that...)

So, Karolyn is getting her tonsils removed tomorrow (Monday) around 7:30am and won't be waking up until around 3pm! W00t drug induced nap!

So keep her in your thoughts...especially since she can no longer speak in first person...