Check it out: Aussie food blog Tuna Ranch has a “remix” of Chopper’s Triple Chocolate Mousse Cake with metric measurements and ingredients substitutions for your local Woolies in Queensland. How cool is that?
My captors are deserting me for the weekend, yet again. This time, it’s all about wine. Free wine. And some thing called a Geek Dinner. Hah. Geek dinner. Can I tell you just how geeky they are? They have Lord of the Rings action figures above the TV. They’ve memorized the entire script of Wrath of Khan. Don’t even get me started on the gaming books.
So, apparently, this whole wine thing has something to do with marketing. Like I don’t know about marketing.
See? I’ve even made my own ad for this silly wine:
Let’s see those humans do better than that!
Oh, and since this is the one year anniversary of Weekend Cat Blogging, I’ve got a special treat over at You Tube. No, not me meowing. (Even though my meow is glorious.) It’s a small sample of just what I have to endure around here. Crumply paper. Dog. I don’t think I need to say more.
Check out more Weekend Cat Blogging at Eat Stuff!
After returning from Seattle, we took a week off to clean the crap out of the house (and yes, even the messy kitchen is clean!), but now we’re back. Back and posting again, only today I’ve gone to South Dakota. Well, not really. Read on.
A while back, the scrumptiously wacky Ayun Halliday, author of No Touch Monkey!, Job Hopper, and The Big Rumpus, dropped me a line and asked me if I’d be willing to host a day of her virtual tour for her newest book, Dirty Sugar Cookies: Culinary Observations, Questionable Taste. At first, I tried to pawn the duties off on The Cat, but Ayun wisely balked at that suggestion, knowing full well what sort of mincemeat an Angry Cat can make of her victims (even those who are interviewed at arm’s length). Good thing too because now I had a fun book to read and The Cat would have just turned it into 219 pages of crumply paper that once contained rompingly entertaining tales of a culinary life more ordinary.
Also there’s theater. Not so much in the book, but since I knew that Ayun was from a theater background and her husband Greg Kotis was a Tony Award winning playwright, I couldn’t not at least talk a little about theater. So, out with The Cat, and in with the interview.
But, you know me. I’m not content to simply conduct a virtual interview for book tour day #15 after witnessing all the recent and deleriously mouth-watering shared meals over at Dirty Sugar Cookies, no sir. Instead, I determined we should throw convention to the wind and meet halfway. So I got out an atlas and a ruler and we took a little trip.
On June 3rd we took a road trip to Seattle and indulged in a wee bit of geeky revelry. Here, at long last, is our trip report.
1. The party begins with a cheese sandwich.
It’s the beginning of February and we’re waist deep in The Great Cheese Sandwich Controversy of 2006. Chopper’s just grilled up this crazy tuna melt extravaganza, and I’m all set to blog on it, when I see this post over on Food Blog S’cool. Andrew of Spittoon is pointing us toward free wine from the Stormhoek Winery in South Africa. Free wine? Cool! How can I pass that up?
So, I head over to gapingvoid and the free wine blurb …. and get utterly sidetracked reading Hugh Macleod’s most excellent manifesto on How to Be Creative. Now that’s what I’m talking about, I think, and promptly rewrite my first cheese sannie post, pack my bags, and run off to the crazy land of Gastroblogia.
And then, I sign up for the free wine, because first of all, duh, free wine, and second of all, this whole Geek Dinner thing is just plain cool.
Now, where to go to find a bunch of geeks?
They tell us the second one is the cotton anniversary. We’re thinking of getting each other t-shirts or dish towels, but surely we can find something more exciting in cotton!