Category Archives: Blogging

Some Things of Interest: 9/24/12 Ask Her Out Edition

Posted on September 24, 2012 by

Ask her out. If there is a girl whose charms have you enraptured, who has you tongue tied, whose golden locks or azure eyes hold you captive.  This is a mandate, mission, command, instructional pamphlet, and do it yourself manual. … Continue reading →

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Wednesday (Late) Recipe: Panzanella If You Have Never Had Traditional Panzanella, Otherwise, Bread Salad

Posted on September 19, 2012 by

Traditional Panzanella suffers from unfortunate maladies. A) despite looking like a perfectly good Scrabble word you only get seven tiles. At the very best you might find “PAN” hovering near a triple word score but ppppfffft! “LLA” is never going … Continue reading →

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P.O.E.T.S. Day: Dylan Th… Oh Dear Lord… Dylan Thomas

Posted on July 20, 2012 by

With sudden trepidation we take the Scottish P.O.E.T.S. Day tradition (Piss Off Early, Tomorrow’s Saturday). For the glory of an early weekend, we highlight a poet, preferably disreputable, degenerate, and debauched to serve as patron and toastee as we celebrate … Continue reading →

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SEC Media Days: And I Whiffed It

Posted on July 18, 2012 by

It would require a heady company of riffraff to make The North Jefferson News feel itself above the fray, but that’s apparently the case today. Every year the Wynfrey Hotel in Hoover hosts the SEC Media days so that real … Continue reading →

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mightstainyourshirt.com Ombudsman: As We Approach Post #100, A Retrospective Experience

Posted on May 4, 2012 by

I really never thought I’d get this far without a nipple slip. When I began, lo five months ago, I assumed I would be posting at least once a day with tiny links to funny things or funny links to … Continue reading →

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About my Avatar

Posted on April 10, 2012 by

I like my Avatar. It’s Willie Perry pictured in front of his car. By day, Willie was Willie Perry, manager of JF Day window distributors. By night and on weekends, he was Batman. In the late seventies and early eighties, … Continue reading →

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Take That, Bainbridge Scholars!

Posted on April 6, 2012 by

Confluent Kitchen made my day a few days back when she picked me to receive a Liebster Blog Award. Thank you Confluent Kitchen. I only wish I could send this right back. She makes her own cured salmon. She makes … Continue reading →

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From The Cookbook #5: Pan Bagna with Tuna, page 70

Posted on March 22, 2012 by

Sometimes the chef has to step out of the way and let the ingredients speak for themselves. When building a pan bagna, a traditional sandwich from Provencal, the ingredients must be given room to sing. Hard boiled egg, leeks, tomato, … Continue reading →

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