What Kind of Hipster Are You?

I think I fall into the "Accidental Hipster" category...

http://thoughtcatalog.com/2011/the-different-kinds-of-hipsters-there-are/

Farmers Market Dried Peaches

Every Thursday, the Century City Farmers Market brings all the suits together for fresh fruits and produce, as well as home-made tamales, samosas, and the world famous Hawaiian chicken.

One of my favorite stands is the dried fruits and nuts. This past week, I picked up some delicious sun dried apricots and peaches. After eating half pound of the delicious dried heaven, I brought the leftovers home and cooked up a lemon vinaigrette reduction. After cooking up the last of the pork chops, I put the dried peaches in the reduction, and let them simmer for about 15 minutes...and voila! Delicious mini pork chops with dried peaches in lemon vinaigrette reduction. As a side, I got some organic string beans and made my mother's famous soy vinegar string beans.

Wholfins and Ligers and Grolar Bears oh my!

Hybrid animals via Yahoo!

Zebroid!
Liger!
Savannah cat! (cross between domestic cat and wild feline)Wolphin!
Grolar Bear!
Beefalo!

George Costanza...fashion ICON?

haha via startfinish...

I bought too many pork chops...

...and I got sick of eating plain grilled chops... So I decided to experiment a little bit, reaching back to my Chinese roots. I took out the chops from the fridge and let them sit at room temp for about 15 min so the meat can tenderize and release the moisture. Then I marinated the chops with soy sauce, brown sugar, vinegar, and a tiny bit of lime and ginger. I heated up the wok with oil and diced garlic (very important, the Chinese begin every dish with garlic in oil). I threw in the chops and let them cook until about 70% done. Then I took them out and sliced the meat into strips (see picture), leaving the sauce in the wok. I then threw in the diced veggies (onions and peppers) and added a little bit more soy sauce. I put the meat back in and stirred until fully cooked, then finished off with a little secret ingredient...sesame oil. This took about 20min total to make. Not bad for a Monday night!

Kelly O'Donell is an Idiot

NBC reporter asks a black man if he felt uncomfortable at a tea party rally.

a real stay-cation!

Windscape creates real life moving environments that allows you to be in a different town/country/environment every day! Watch the video. Pretty damn cool!

Bacon Cone

Mmmm...bacon...cone...

Sustainable Cooking!

I was milling around in our office break room today, and the normal moronic CNN anchor was replaced by a fast talking, good looking young chef from DC. He was talking about how our current cultural obsession with eating healthy has caused a unsustainable consumption of fish such as salmon, tuna and even hoki. He suggested that we eat more plentiful and easily sustainable fish (and still good for us!) like anchovies and sardines. So I decided to make his cucumber with anchovies recipe. It turned out delicious. A wonderful start to our main course of porkchops and couscous.

Vanilla Dong

There's a lady at work and her name is Vanilla Dong. No joke. I know, I know...but c'mon! Vanilla Dong!!! hahahahahaha

This reminds me of an article that I read a year ago that brought out the teenage boy in all of us...

Teaboncs (sic)

The New York Times had a story about the demographic make up of Tea Party backers today.

The 18 percent of Americans who identify themselves as Tea Party supporters tend to be Republican, white, male, married and older than 45.

This was perhaps a response to the Daily News' recent article on Teabonics. "What is Teabonics?" you ask. Well, I would describe it as a mix between the urgency of needing to pee real bad and the blind rage of a drunken Kennedy brother...yeah.

My aunt and uncle are actually tea party-goers... :(

Porn for the Blind

From this to this...I am speechless.

an AWESOME new direction

No, not really...but I had a sudden impulse today, thanks to inspiration brought on by a fellow CMCer's blog, to start making more frequent posts on this blog. I will start writing down the interesting things I see/read during the day, and then post them. Hopefully that will keep the idea mill running...

I recently saw an interview with British comedian/actor Stephen Fry. He was talking about the show/book he did called "Stephen Fry in America", where he goes to all 50 states and experiences the country that he was almost a citizen. Besides the dry, deriding British humour and wit, he struck a chord with me when he made fun of how carelessly Americans use the word "AWESOME!" The Grand Canyon is AWESOME, the Lincoln Memorial is AWESOME, hamburgers are AWESOME, finding a seat on the subway is AWESOME, so on and so forth...

I've started paying more attention to how I use the expression, and let me tell you, it has been quite embarrassing and difficult. Today, I caught myself describing Tim's Cascade Potato Chips are AWESOME... :(

Ps. Actually, these ARE awesome!

Gimme dat Christian Side Hug!

Jesus never hugged like that!

I like how all the white kids are in the front and the black dudes are just kinda hangin in the background...real LEGIIIIIIIT.

the greatest car NEVER made...

"The Pontiac Stinger is almost as much a condo as a car!"

Power Solution

This may be one of the best inventions I have ever seen...

Oh this is vile...

*WARNING* Graphic image ahead...

Oh really? Pet airways!

I sat next to a lady who was flying with her puppy the other day. She informed me that she had to pay $200 each way, just so she could stuff the poor thing under the seat, and get nasty looks from passers by. I bet she's definitely checking this out...

Auto Spokescougars?!

The post is not too interesting, but the comments are HILARIOUS...

Douchebag Alert.

I usually don't like to post any "gossip" type links on this blog, but this one was just really hard to avoid.

Joey Fatone at the Grammys

"Oh what?! You want to see me do a Dancing With the Stars flashback?? Remember when I won?? Remember guys?? Guys..??"

Douche.