She doesn't post for 3 months and then BAM 2 in 1 day. Get overwhelmed, reader!
I made almond milk today, check it out!
After giving it a sneak peek taste, I can't complain. Its not bad at all. The recipe was so easy a front desk clerk could do it (har) and its my first real attempt at a pseudo-Raw lifestyle. Here's the recipe I used:
1 cup sprouted almonds 3 cups water 1 T organic honey
blend until smooth, strain and chill.
Hard stuff here. Now I'm left with a ton of pulp and no idea what I should do with it. I found a few online recipes about how to use the pulp to create a nut flour to use in cakes, etc but... since I don't have a dehydrator, this is becoming kind of a headache. Maybe I'll just throw it into a banana nut bread recipe I have with a few less walnuts and call it square. Woo! Banana Nut Bread.
Preface: I hate Kathie Lee Gifford. I always have. Its one of those natural things that will never change. When NBC brought her back to television, I wanted to start rioting in the Plaza outside 30 Rock. The woman is more of a train wreck than Britney Spears on a bad day, she just has less paparazzi following her around because she's Fucking Kathie Lee Gifford and who gives a shit about her?
Right now, I do.
In this final night of The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien, there's certainly quite a bit of buzz surrounding this entire mess incited by NBC affiliates dropping Jay Leno's 10pm show. As this ironically real life yet completely on screen drama comes to a close, it seems that the NBC cats have started to bare their claws... or at least started meowing so obnoxiously that I want to throw my shoe out the window at them.
I keep NBC on for background noise most of the time (since that's all its really good for). On the last hour of the Today Show this morning (which NBC really needs to work on reformatting by the way), Hoda and Kathie Lee opened their "Scoop" segment with a discussion about Conan's behavior on his show the last few days. This bit included calling Conan classless and suggesting that he reimburse the broadcasting company for the amount of NBC money he's been spending just because he can.
First and Foremost: Kathie Lee Gifford calling anyone classless is a joke. She's the most painted up excuse for white trash in this country. She sits on her soapbox inside Studio 1A and subjects all of America to her ignorant ramblings and judgements. Without her expensive makeup, wigs, jewelry and great lighting, you can imagine her in cutoff jeans and a halter top outside the trailer home with a cigarette in one hand yelling for Frank and the kids to come in for supper... or not to touch the dog there.
In this "time of cutbacks," Kathie Lee, how about you reimburse NBC for the amount of cash you regularly spend trying to look so good for the hour you're on TV. You publicly shunning Conan O'Brien isn't going to do anything for you in your career (which has needed plenty of help since the early years) so why bother? Why bother saying anything? Remember, Those in Glass Houses Shouldn't Throw Stones.
Also, using the last hour of the Today Show to suck up to your NBC Executives isn't exactly what they call graceful. So by being tactless you're guilty of doing the exact same thing you're accusing your late-night counterpart of doing: being classless.
Lets see how well your big, opinionated mouth reacts if they pulled you off the air for something that wasn't your fault, Kathie Lee. This is your boss' fault, not the employee's so how about keeping the lunchroom drama behind closed doors instead of in the open air.
All in all: I can't believe I was so infuriated by her asinine comments that I actually had to write a blog entry about them (especially since its been about 3 months since I last posted). I feel like a sheep because ringing up more controversy over the complete mismanagement of this catastrophe is me playing into her hand. Argh! Hey Kathie Lee, bake your own pie instead of trying to take a piece from the post primetime crew's.
This all said: I like Hoda Kotb. She deserves better.
Edit: PS I'm usually way more coherent but I was kinda pissed when I wrote this. Blegh
About a month ago, I'd never heard of Starbucks VIA. Ok, that's not true, I'd heard of it but I had no idea wtf it was. Like any internet junkie would say, "OMG GOOGLE SEARCH!"
Google linked me to a site called MyStarbucksIdea.com (I was learning all sorts of new things at this point). The thread I was directly linked to on the site instructed me to be 1 of the first 10 people to post "I need my Starbucks VIA" to get 20 free sticks in the mail.
Logic: Ok so I might not know what the hell it is but it says "FREE " & "STARBUCKS" in the same sentence. No brainer... duh I NEED it. Starbucks VIA could have been rat poison or a lobotomy or a sex change or a date with Marc-Andre Fleury for all I knew... good or bad, I HAD to have it.
So I clicked.
And I posted, "I need my Starbucks VIA!"
A week later, I got an email asking for contact info. Three weeks later: nothing! My initial high evaporated. I was sad & defeated.
UNTIL... ding dong. UPS Man at the door.
Oh! Why, thank you.
How do I use it? Oh, I use it while sitting in morning traffic on the Parkway East Inbound.
Speaking in basic terms here, if this game was a preview of anything that's going to happen at the ACC on 1/9/10, I can't EFFING WAIT.
Yeah, its THAT kind of anticipation.
Canada loves hockey. I love hockey. I also love Toronto. Toronto loves the Maple Leafs.
The Maple Leafs suck.
Tonight, the Leafs did display some of the winning strategies of the Philadelphia Flyers but Jay Rosehill failed to back it up with some of the talent that is only afforded to players like Dan Carcillo and Scottie Hartnell. Even the fight Rosehill got into with Mike Rupp was pretty lack luster.
Honestly, the Canadian kid wearing the Crosby home jersey that was smacking the glass as Rupp went to the box may have hit something harder than Rosehill hit Rupp.
Speaking of the Flyers, I was too busy watching the Stanley Cup Champions embarrass Toronto but from what I understand, Chieftain Mike Richards offered up some extraordinary leadership skills by captaining the boys in orange to blowing a 2-0 lead over the Anaheim Ducks and then losing in a shootout 3-2.
Post game, the referee ensured that Ducks player, Ryan Whitney, had all his fingers. Scottie Hartnell was quoted as saying he only has a taste for French-Canadian defensemen.
"Side of Poutine please"
At least Scottie's got Don Cherry on his side. See?
Too bad Don Cherry is a big wiener.
Side note: I may be shunned for admitting this but I'm in the market for a Ron Hextall vintage t shirt. Its just because that son of a bitch was the meanest thing to hit the ice and I love watching him beat Potvin's ass on YouTube:
Watching Hextall sprint down the ice never gets old.
There's also this awesome video of the Flyers vs the Habs.
Personally, I still think its bullshit that Roy got a 5min pengalty for leaving the crease. Like there wasn't 400 other things to call out there, they call the goalie who's minding his own business on the other side of the ice but WHOOPS, I left the crease.
Stupid.
PS, I'm also looking for a Gary Roberts Calgary Flames vintage t so if anyone out there in internet land is reading this and knows where I could find one: need link, thx!
In conclusion: Toronto is 0-4. The Flyers defeat tonight brings the Penguins to #1 in the Atlantic AND East. Pens fans get a few days off until the next game against the Ottawa Senators on 10/12 at 7:30pm.
PPS, Quick thanks to FSN for giving us a post game, locker room glimpse of a shirtless Marc-Andre Fleury speaking French to the Canadian journalists. Yummy!
Update: Someone posted said post game interview with Fleury. Many thanks to @GhostWalker40 <3
To some of my friends still out in Las Vegas, this might seem pretty normal--a day to day event even. Here in Pittsburgh, QUITE the opposite! I was planning on using said $5 for a happy little trip to my favorite spot on 6th and Penn for today's Pumpkin Spice Latte #2 (thank you Patrice) but while I was on break, I noticed a group of housekeepers milling around the table pictured here:
Apparently, the hotel is selling off old furniture from our recent remodel. This piece was a total STEAL for $5... I took it as a sign! Gently used, the top is totally scratched so I'm planning on painting it to help the decorative design of the wood work "pop" a little more. I'm even thinking of finding some local sports headlines & pictures to glue to the surface then painting the rest black and gold.
My first Steelers game ever and what a great one it is. We're @ commercial break between 3rd & 4th quarters and the Steelers are up 28 - 7. Basically, the boys are kicking ass and I'm having a blast. Time for more football. :D
"After 30 years, Roman Polanski finally got nabbed"
I tweeted that 3 or 4 days ago. It's amazing to me what can happen in just that short amount of time... because now people like Martin Scorsese and Woody Allen are petitioning to free Roman Polanski. Whoopi Goldberg was even quoted as saying, "It wasn't rape rape."
He gave a 13 year old girl a Quaalude and wine. He then had non consensual sex with her while she protested the whole time. That, to me, sounds like the very definition of rape. In addition to all of the aforementioned, he pled GUILTY once he was caught and then when he didn't get the sentence he was promised, he fled the country and has been living in France since then.
So for 30 years, Mr. Polanski was living the high life on borrowed time. He was to receive a Lifetime Achievement award (or something) from the Zurich International Film Festival but now that he was picked up in Switzerland and thrown into prison, Hollywood types are furious and are signing what I'm sure is a strongly worded petition demanding the admitted child-rapist's release.
I'd expect this sort of behavior from Woody Allen. I mean, that guy divorced Mia Farrah and decided to marry his adopted daughter instead. Naturally he'd have automatic sympathy for an admitted sex offender since he's one himself. But Whoopi Goldberg? Really?!? I might be wrong here but doesn't she have a sort of women's empowerment/women's lib history?
Here's the actual conversation on the view so you can form your own opinion on what was said and who said it...
My opinion: Its disgusting. "Would I want my 13 year old having sex? Not necessarily..." seriously?! And then at 3:09 she says, "Where is the mother in this? Why is no one talking about that?"
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Oh ok, so its everyone's fault BUT Roman Polanski's. Its the mother's fault that Roman Polanski raped a 13 year old girl. I'm sure she was there holding a gun to his head, telling him to stick it in her.
Hollywood is known to be out there and crazy. But I think this is one issue that the "industry" should just shut the fuck up about and watch it play out in court instead. Thus far, all the Hollywood types that signed that petition just made themselves look like imbeciles... OR they're just trying to suck up to Scorsese and David Lynch to try and get into some of their newer films.
I'm so ashamed to have ever wanted to be involved in an "artform" like this.
