Monthly Archives: May 2006

Cheese!

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This weekend is the second Seattle Cheese Festival, epicenter of which is the Pike Place Market!  You can gorge on more free samples than you can handle (be nice now, and buy liberally), sidle into the wine “garden” (read: “tent”), and/or treat yourself to a “Cheese Fest Best” plate at a slew of gourmet restaurants that are damn well worth visiting irregardless of curds or whey.  (Hint: Matt’s in the Market = double-plus-good…if you can find it.)

My favorites from last year were any/all of the breathtaking (in a good way) gen-yoo-ine Stiltons — some bigger than a tire — and, most definitely, the Three Sisters Farmstead Cheese out of Lindsay, CA.  Even the runners up were superlative.

Thank you, Stephen Colbert

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In case you missed it, witness truthiness in action at ThankYouStephenColbert.org. Whoops, The Man seems to have taken that one down.  Instead you might try these alternate links for Part 1 and Part 2.

Equally hilarious is the controversy over whether or not this was hilarious.  Based on some of the Letters to Editors I’ve seen in the last few days, seems like most people (at least those who aren’t card-carrying Nazis — hello Mary Matalin, joyless harpie) need a friggin’ laugh track to know what’s funny.

For me, at least, one of the funniest moments was not a Colbert joke but the fact that he was actually booed after cracking, “Thank you, China!  You make our Happy Meals possible.”  What?  Like that’s not completely true??  That the Washington press corps took offense at this really summed something up for me.  As I laughed.  Ruefully.

6-6-06: The National Day of Slayer

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Complete info at nationaldayofslayer.org

Official Statement on Participation

  • Listen to Slayer at full blast in your car.
  • Listen to Slayer at full blast in your home.
  • Listen to Slayer at full blast at your place of employment.
  • Listen to Slayer at full blast in any public place you prefer.DO NOT use headphones! The objective of this day is for everyone within earshot to understand that it is the National Day of Slayer. National holidays in America aren’t just about celebrating; they’re about forcing it upon non-participants.

    Taking that participation to a problematic level

  • Stage a “Slay-out.” Don’t go to work. Listen to Slayer.
  • Have a huge block party that clogs up a street in your neighborhood. Blast Slayer albums all evening. Get police cruisers and helicopters on the scene. Finish with a full-scale riot.
  • Spray paint Slayer logos on churches, synagogues, or cemeteries.
  • Play Slayer covers with your own band (since 99% of your riffs are stolen from Slayer anyway).
  • Kill the neighbor’s dog and blame it on Slayer.