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Aug 17

Bachelor Pad 1-02: Pie Holes and Rhyme Fails

Only two episodes into ABC’s Bachelor Pad, and already, the tired old “sexy people in a house” story-telling formula is proving itself about as thin and obvious as the hairlines of the (we’re aging) bachelors during the epis (read full article)

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Aug 15

What’s My Line? Mystery Guests: Lucy & Desi

Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball never had much luck pulling the wool over the What’s My Line? panel when they appeared as the show’s Mystery Guests. For the handful of souls out there, aside from myself, who would be infuriated by a post rev (read full article)

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Aug 13

Tv Food and Photo – August 13

My cat weighs twenty pounds, so you can probably guess what he’s dreaming about. (read full article)

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Aug 12

Tv Food and Photo – August 12

Rivercliff Lake – Athens, Georgia (read full article)

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Aug 11

Tv Food and Photo – August 11

The plant I rescued from the dumpster finally gave me a thank-you note. (read full article)

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Aug 10

Break Out the Doxycycline! You’re in the Bachelor Pad

I have not watched more than a single episode of any of the past seasons of The Bachelor or The Bachelorette, so I come to ABC’s new Big Brother-Bachelor hybrid, Bachelor Pad completely free from bias against anyone in this entire group of swe (read full article)

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Aug 09

Tv Food and Photo – August 9

At the Dinner Table (read full article)

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Aug 09

Slow-Cooked Blueberry Cobbler

To celebrate my three-plus-hour visit to the dentist this past Friday, I present the absolute most sugary dessert I have made in months. Yes, I said three-plus-hour.   Actually it was even more than that because it had been so long since I had been (read full article)

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Aug 08

Tv Food and Photo

The view from my seat in the production control room. We were giving away a Life Cycle that hour. Explaining the cave people would be too much work. Draw your own story. (read full article)

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Aug 08

The Dark ‘n Stormy

Be very careful when you fix yourself a Dark ‘n Stormy.  Making it incorrectly could land your ass in the slammer. The drink is actually protected by a trademark owned by the Gosling family, makers of Gosling’s Black Seal Rum.  So tech (read full article)

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Aug 04

Chicken Stuffed with Gouda, Prosciutto and Pecans

Chicken is easy to abuse. It’s so simple to prepare, it’s good for you, it’s filling, it’s abundant, it’s inexpensive, and it takes a real genius to burn it. So, if you’re not careful, you’ll find yoursel (read full article)

Chicken, gouda, homemade, pecans, prosciutto

Aug 03

Athens Food and Drink, Day Four

By far, one of the best meals I had in Athens (aside from the grits that resulted from an over-the-stove cooking lesson from Mama Granberry) had to be at The Last Resort Grill. Round-the-clock busy, we had been deterred once already by an hour or so (read full article)

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Aug 01

Athens Food and Drink, Day Three

Over 1600 Waffle Houses grace this great nation of ours, mostly in the South. Their signs, plain and tall, beckon you from the interstate.  The melody to “Prop Me Next to the Jukebox if I Die” by Joe Diffie pings off the countertops. (read full article)

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Jul 30

Athens Food and Drink, Day Two, Part Two

Two things I will not soon forget about Athens, Georgia: 1.) The bats no one bothered to tell me about ahead of time. 2.) The downtown bars with great big wooden rocking chairs open to customers who enjoy a little soothing sway while they drink thems (read full article)

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Jul 25

Athens Food and Drink, Day Two

When you wake up in Los Angeles, you might be greeted by the L.A. Times at your doorstep, or some sushi delivery flyers, perhaps that morning’s Variety or Hollywood Reporter.  In Athens, Georgia, don’t be surprised if your west coast exp (read full article)

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Jul 23

Athens Food and Drink, Day One

Athens, Georgia is home to the University of Georgia and the Georgia Bulldogs. And in case you didn’t know that before arriving here, you quickly learn. If you want to increase your business, I’m told all you need to do is incorporat (read full article)

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Jul 22

Theme Song Graveyard: “Sweepstakes” (NBC 1979)

Greetings from Delta flight 101, seat 33C, 32,000 feet in the air and currently over Lubbock, Texas. I am a little less than two hours from destination Atlanta and my extended weekend with the Wild Granberries. I neglected to charge my laptop so I& (read full article)

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Jul 18

Chocolate Chip Cookies with Pine Nuts

It’s July in Hollywood.  The way you can tell is that everyone in town is tan… except me. Well, Robert Pattinson and me. MG is in Athens, Georgia visiting his family, and I’ll be joining him in a little less than a week.  I keep h (read full article)

Chocolate, cookies, homemade, pine nuts, powdered sugar

Jul 10

Listening To: “Change Partners” – Sinatra & Jobim

You have to select your Bossa Nova music very, very carefully.  The five or six truly great years of the period are far outnumbered by the decades of cheap synthetic knock-offs that wafted through elevator cars, hotel lobbies and dental offices for (read full article)

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Jul 10

“Am I Fat?” – July 2010

Is Z ready for swimsuit season? Thoughts? (read full article)

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