Revolting cookbook of the year award!

Y'all know me. You know I'm not a food snob. But come on, does anybody, even the lowest of the lowbrow, really want to eat Three Cheese Chilequiles, the ingredients for which consist of a pack of Keebler Cheese and Crackers, a pack of Cheetos, 5 packets of ketchup, a package of Nacho Cheese Doritos, and a small can of V8? Or a French Onion Soup made from Utz Onion Rings, hot water, and Cheetos? No. No, no, no.

What I learned today

Look at those guys. Aren't they sweet? Well, actually, no. These lions, who were brothers, were known as The Ghost and The Darkness (which was which, I cannot tell you), and they killed something like 135 railroad workers in Tsavo, in what is now Kenya, in 1898. They are also known as the man-eaters of Tsavo. Apparently it's typical for male lions of the region not to have manes. The lions' pelts now reside in the Field Museum in Chicago.

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What I learned today

Finally, a book for me! To wit:

"SAW ME COOKIN' EGGS, SHE THOUGHT I WAS BACK AT IT"
LYRIC FROM SONG: "STUNTIN' LIKE MY DADDY" ON ALBUM: LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON BY ARTIST: BIRDMAN AND LIL WAYNE

After spending the night with a woman, waking up in the morning, and making my way to the kitchen to prepare breakfast, I was seen standing in front of the stove by my female guest. Rather than investigating the situation to see that I was merely being a good host and cooking a meal for her and myself, she jumped to the conclusion that I was using the skillet in the manufacture of crack cocaine.

What I learned today

In the Little House books, "the character of Nellie [Oleson] was based on three different girls Laura knew in real life. One [Nellie Owens] was a storekeeper's daughter in Walnut Grove; the second [Genevieve Masters] was the first girl's school-yard rival, a spoiled girl from New York (and like the Nellie of the books, she wound up at a school in South Dakota a few years later). The third [Stella Gilbert] was a girl whose family homesteaded outside De Smet and for a while had competed with Laura for Almanzo's attention: she was the one who'd come along on the buggy rides until Laura finally made Almanzo choose, just as she did in These Happy Golden Years. The fact that Nellie wasn't any one person but rather a composite of three of the real Laura's antagonists' worst traits makes her even more terrifying, some kind of blond Frankenstein assembled from assorted bitch parts." ~ from the excellent forthcoming book The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie by Wendy McClure

Quote of the week

"Adapting material is like marrying a widow. You have to be very respectful of the late husband's memory, but at some point you've gotta fuck."

~ Guillermo del Toro