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Herp Derp Lurk Giveaway

Posted on November 19, 2010 | 27 Comments

Good people, Megagood readers, lurkers, and stumblers. I have a treat for you.

I clearly don’t do giveaways. This is not a big decision that I have made from an ivory tower in the sky. It is mainly because, no one has ever proposed it to me.

Heh.

Don’t feel bad for me. I don’t really care. But I do want to give something to you all for sticking around here. I made it myself! Well, I found it in my closet, and then made the cover look silly.

So, I proudly present my first ever giveaway:

Ridiculous! It is a sketchbook with custom Herp Derp art by me.

Look! Shiny. I love you so much that I used the fancy gold pen and paint.

Yes, those are my fingerprints. Finger painting. For you. In gold.

Golllllllllld. You know you want it.

My favorite sketchbooks have graph paper in them. So that is what you get.

You have two options. Just leave a comment to enter into the giveaway, or don’t. If you are a lurker, and have never commented before, your comment will count for THREE entries. Have you ever had more incentive to de-lurk? Me thinks not.

Benton will draw a winner at noon on Tuesday the 23rd with his tiny little hands. Good luck!

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Tagged drawing, finger painting, giveaway, golllllld, googly eyes, herp derp, herp derp giveaway, ridiculous, sketchbook

Deliciously Horrifying

Posted on July 18, 2009 | 5 Comments

Cantaloupe is another summer treat that is no good unless it is eaten in season. There is nothing worse than eating a pale, dry, and tasteless melon in the dead of winter–except maybe eating a pale, mealy, tasteless tomato.

Out-of-season-over-traveled fruit and veggies give their in-season-locally-grown relatives a bad name. Who wouldn’t hate mushy pale peas or tough woodsy green beans? I swear that kids would be a whole lot more excited about eating fruits and veggies if they were eating them in season. The fact that you can call an irradiated apple that was shipped from another continent in January by the same name as one picked in August from just outside your town is sad. They taste nothing alike. If you had a blind taste test between the two, they would be categorized as different fruits entirely. Same goes for about a million other fruits and vegetables.

That being said, my summer cantaloupe is fantastic right now. Just as a fresh summer tomato should be eaten with salt while listening to Janis Joplin’s Summertime, a cantaloupe should be eaten without a fork with while listening to Miles Davis.

Delicious. Sweet. Juicey. Smells amazing.

Delicious. Sweet. Juicy. Smells amazing.

Want to make a perfectly delicious fruit instantly horrifying? Probably not. I did for some reason. That is the grossest mouth ever. Sorry.

Want to make an enticing piece of fruit instantly horrifying? Probably not. That is the grossest mouth ever. Sorry.

To insure that you don't have any nightmares abour Cantamouth, I will leave you with some pretty photos of my latest Dr. Seuss arrangement.

To ensure that you don't have any nightmares about Cantamouth, I will leave you with some pretty photos of my latest Dr. Seuss arrangement.

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Posted in Daily Picture

Tagged cantaloupe, Daily Picture, dr seuss flowers, flowers, food, fresh fruits and veggies, googly eyes, miles davis, photography, summer

I Always Feel Like…Somebody’s Watching Me

Posted on June 18, 2009 | 1 Comment

well, hello. we are so tiny. we heard that we were potatoes, but could easily be mistaken for grapes or radishes.

well, hello. we are so very tiny. we are potatoes, but could easily be mistaken for grapes or radishes.

hmmm. kind of creeped out now. something tells me that we aren't getting out of here alive.

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Tagged Daily Picture, farmer's market, googly eyes, photography, potatoes

Farmer’s Market!

Posted on May 25, 2009 | 1 Comment

I am way behind on my posts. Let’s see…Thursday was great because it was basically Friday. And during lunchtime I got to go to the Daley Plaza Farmer’s Market! It just opened, so most of the produce is limited to asparagus, mushrooms, and potatoes. There were a ton of herb starters, flowers, and veggie plants for those lucky enough to have a garden. I had to stop myself from climbing onto this basil and rolling around.

Oh yes, the bakery stands were tempting as always.

I fell in love with these ugly teeny tiny taters. I bought a few of each color for roasting.

Here is my bounty.

Oh my.

Roasting pan pre-oven. How pretty.

The final product. Just olive oil, butter, rosemary, italian herbs, garlic, salt, and pepper. The purple potatoes were HEAVEN.

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Posted in Chicago, Cooking/Baking, Daily Picture

Tagged basil, Chicago, chives, Daily Picture, daley plaza, farmer's market, fingerling potatoes, food, googly eyes, mushrooms, photography, roasted potatoes

Cloning Is Safe and Fun For Everyone

Posted on April 22, 2009 | Leave a comment

Do you have a gift for killing houseplants? Do your cats eat anything living in your house? Are you cheap, but appreciate things that grow and produce life-giving oxygen? If so, you may want to start a cloning program for houseplants. If you answered no to those questions, then you probably have lovely houseplants and would like some more.

Growing by the window in my living room is the queen plant, host plant, or “Mama Plant” as I call her. She is turning 5 this year and has already produced dozens of “babies” or “clones” that have grown up and live in other parts of the house. She and her family of ivy beauties are pretty much impossible to kill, and don’t ask for much. If you forget to water them, they will simply lay down in the pot and take a nap until they have a proper drink. Their resilience is inspiring.

Meet Mama Plant.

To start your cloning program, select your Mama Plant, and snip off a few of her tendrils. She will be just fine. Put the snippets of Mama in some bud vases or jars full of water and let them sit until they have grown roots. Then plant them in a new pot of soil and you have a cloned houseplant.