How Not To Eat: The Double Down

Ok, ok, I've bored you kids enough with biting political commentary and non-fiction books. It's time to talk about a universal topic: food.

I have a very strange relationship with food. You'd only need to take one look at me -- for those who can't see me through the internet box, I've whipped up this handy MS-Paint guide:

 -- to know that I, obviously, enjoy my foodstuffs, sometimes in mass quantities. I'm not particularly snobbish when it comes to food (because, honestly, someone who looks like me isn't going to be picky, is she?), but that comes less from my waistline and more from the massive variety of good (and bad) food in my immediate area; I know I don't talk about my hometown very often in these pages, but really, food is where a place like Eugene excels. It's all the small-time diners and food carts of the big city -- my personal favourite being "Off The Waffle," a roving cart that I can mostly find near campus -- but without all the overcrowded awfulness of, say, a New York hotdog stand. 

Tape-Delay Liveblog: UK Leaders' Debate (Round 2)

Fight! I did a running commentary of the first debate on my twitter feed (www.twitter.com/thecore28), but decided to move it over here so as not to completely bore/spam the bots and randoms who follow me. So, come with me to the magic world of SkyTV, with Gordon Brown, Nick Clegg, and David Cameron -- it's on! Entries are notated by time, so if you feel particularly nerdy, you can follow along at home. I wouldn't recommend it, but you're more than welcome to.

WARNING: What follows is highly charged (with observational wit! Bam!), non-biased, foreign political commentary. I'm guessing not many of you are going to read this, but if you do decide to hit the jump, you have been warned.

What I Actually Like (for now)

Off we go once more, to the magical world of things that don't suck!

3 Things I Dig (this go-round)

Well, so much for the bit about clothes -- I really have an idea for a post about fashion, but that'll have to be put on the proverbial back-burner while I continue my pursuit of the closest thing I get to normalcy, currently in the form of a Sunday "hey-look-what-I'm-into-this-week" blurb about, well, what I'm into. Yeah, yeah, I know, it's a bit late (unless you think a week is equal to about twelve days), but better late than never, right?

I'm actually getting into a lot of stuff as of late, but here's my three wonderful things this week:

Rage Against The (PS3) Machine: Madden NFL '08

'Hokay, so here's the deal:



Nah, just kidding. The real deal is this: reading back on some of my previous posts, I feel some sort of irrational need to assert the fact that, despite the fact that I'm constantly making SkyTV references, linking to the Guardian and so on, I am an American woman. American. Woman. I'm sorry if that upsets you, but it's true. I swear like an American (because Goddammit is the star-spangled curse), I definitely eat like an American, I work at friggin' Wal-Mart, and occasionally I like to ogle attractive men and get my hair done all purdy. And what's more American than Madden football?? Nothing. That's only one of three or four reasons why I decided to fire up the PS3 and play a few games in Superstar(!) mode. What happened next (with a little inspiration from here) is why I decided to fire up the rage engine and get my blog on. I do realize that this doesn't help the "woman" part of my "American Woman" argument, but my next instalment will doubtless be titled "Clothes: What are they good for, and what do they mean?"

Caution: What follows is extremely football-centric, and by football, I mean American Football(!). If you don't like football, or don't have the first clue about football, continue reading at your own peril.

3 Things I Dig (this week)

Back in the dark ages, when I had my very own MySpace page (mostly because everyone else had one and in high school I was the type to cave into peer pressure), I began this series of love/hate mini-rants in order to feel like I actually used my MySpace page. As it stands, I probably only published about four instalments, leaving the rest of my homepage barren and allowing my comment section to serve as a halfway house for migrant spammers. I've decided to reinstate the format (obviously), not only because it's an easy way out when I want to write without an actual topic in front of me, but also because I actually feel like this blog is becoming a bit of a downer -- sometimes a comic downer, granted, but altogether a bit too negative for the tastes of the literally several people who occasionally read this slop. Actually, the more I think about it, the more I don't really want to do the comically angry bit of this, considering that the rest of my blog experience is ranting like a Tea Party member after a particularly moving episode of Glenn Beck, railing against the things in life that make me want to move to Mars. So, in the interest of sanity, this I dig of thee: